1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.8.12 - 2024-06-06
6 This is a minor release with couple bugfixes affecting conflux and logging.
7 We also have the return of faravahar directory authority with new keys and
10 o Minor feature (dirauth):
11 - Add back faravahar with a new address and new keys. Closes 40689.
13 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
14 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 06, 2024.
16 o Minor features (geoip data):
17 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
18 retrieved on 2024/06/06.
20 o Minor bugfix (circuit):
21 - Remove a log_warn being triggered by a protocol violation that
22 already emits a protocol warning log. Fixes bug 40932; bugfix
25 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
26 - Avoid a potential hard assert (crash) when sending a cell on a
27 Conflux set. Fixes bug 40921; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
28 - Make sure we don't process a closed circuit when packaging data.
29 This lead to a non fatal BUG() spamming logs. Fixes bug 40908;
30 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
33 Changes in version 0.4.8.11 - 2024-04-10
34 This is a minor release mostly to upgrade the fallbackdir list.
35 Directory authorities running this version will now automatically
36 reject relays running the end of life 0.4.7.x version.
38 o Minor features (directory authorities):
39 - Reject 0.4.7.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40896.
40 - New IP address and keys for tor26.
41 - Allow BandwidthFiles "node_id" KeyValue without the dollar sign at
42 the start of the hexdigit, in order to easier database queries
43 combining Tor documents in which the relays fingerprint does not
44 include it. Fixes bug 40891; bugfix on 0.4.7 (all supported
47 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
48 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 10, 2024.
50 o Minor features (geoip data):
51 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
52 retrieved on 2024/04/10.
54 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
55 - Add a warning when publishing a vote or signatures to another
56 directory authority fails. Fixes bug 40910; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
59 Changes in version 0.4.8.10 - 2023-12-08
60 This is a security release fixing a high severity bug (TROVE-2023-007)
61 affecting Exit relays supporting Conflux. We strongly recommend to update as
64 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2023-007, exit):
65 - Improper error propagation from a safety check in conflux leg
66 linking led to a desynchronization of which legs were part of a
67 conflux set, ultimately causing a UAF and NULL pointer dereference
68 crash on Exit relays. Fixes bug 40897; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
70 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
71 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 08, 2023.
73 o Minor features (geoip data):
74 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
75 retrieved on 2023/12/08.
77 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, statistics):
78 - Correctly report statistics for client count over pluggable
79 transports. Fixes bug 40871; bugfix on 0.4.8.4.
82 Changes in version 0.4.8.9 - 2023-11-09
83 This is another security release fixing a high severity bug affecting onion
84 services which is tracked by TROVE-2023-006. We are also releasing a guard
85 major bugfix as well. If you are an onion service operator, we strongly
86 recommend to update as soon as possible.
88 o Major bugfixes (guard usage):
89 - When Tor excluded a guard due to temporary circuit restrictions,
90 it considered *additional* primary guards for potential usage by
91 that circuit. This could result in more than the specified number
92 of guards (currently 2) being used, long-term, by the tor client.
93 This could happen when a Guard was also selected as an Exit node,
94 but it was exacerbated by the Conflux guard restrictions. Both
95 instances have been fixed. Fixes bug 40876; bugfix
98 o Major bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2023-006):
99 - Fix a possible hard assert on a NULL pointer when recording a
100 failed rendezvous circuit on the service side for the MetricsPort.
101 Fixes bug 40883; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
103 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
104 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 09, 2023.
106 o Minor features (geoip data):
107 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
108 retrieved on 2023/11/09.
111 Changes in version 0.4.8.8 - 2023-11-03
112 We are releasing today a fix for a high security issue, TROVE-2023-004, that
113 is affecting relays. Also a few minor bugfixes detailed below. Please upgrade
114 as soon as posssible.
116 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2023-004, relay):
117 - Mitigate an issue when Tor compiled with OpenSSL can crash during
118 handshake with a remote relay. Fixes bug 40874; bugfix
121 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
122 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 03, 2023.
124 o Minor features (geoip data):
125 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
126 retrieved on 2023/11/03.
128 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
129 - Look at the network parameter "maxunmeasuredbw" with the correct
130 spelling. Fixes bug 40869; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
132 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards addon support):
133 - Count the conflux linked cell as valid when it is successfully
134 processed. This will quiet a spurious warn in the vanguards addon.
135 Fixes bug 40878; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
138 Changes in version 0.4.8.7 - 2023-09-25
139 This version fixes a single major bug in the Conflux subsystem on the client
140 side. See below for more information. The upcoming Tor Browser 13 stable will
143 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
144 - Fix an issue that prevented us from pre-building more conflux sets
145 after existing sets had been used. Fixes bug 40862; bugfix
148 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
149 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 25, 2023.
151 o Minor features (geoip data):
152 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
153 retrieved on 2023/09/25.
156 Changes in version 0.4.8.6 - 2023-09-18
157 This version contains an important fix for onion service regarding congestion
158 control and its reliability. Apart from that, unneeded BUG warnings have been
159 suppressed especially about a compression bomb seen on relays. We strongly
160 recommend, in particular onion service operators, to upgrade as soon as
161 possible to this latest stable.
163 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
164 - Fix a reliability issue where services were expiring their
165 introduction points every consensus update. This caused
166 connectivity issues for clients caching the old descriptor and
167 intro points. Bug reported and fixed by gitlab user
168 @hyunsoo.kim676. Fixes bug 40858; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
170 o Minor features (debugging, compression):
171 - Log the input and output buffer sizes when we detect a potential
172 compression bomb. Diagnostic for ticket 40739.
174 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
175 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 18, 2023.
177 o Minor features (geoip data):
178 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
179 retrieved on 2023/09/18.
181 o Minor bugfix (defensive programming):
182 - Disable multiple BUG warnings of a missing relay identity key when
183 starting an instance of Tor compiled without relay support. Fixes
184 bug 40848; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
186 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
187 - When reporting a pseudo-networkstatus as a bridge authority, or
188 answering "ns/purpose/*" controller requests, include accurate
189 published-on dates from our list of router descriptors. Fixes bug
190 40855; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
192 o Minor bugfixes (compression, zstd):
193 - Use less frightening language and lower the log-level of our run-
194 time ABI compatibility check message in our Zstd compression
195 subsystem. Fixes bug 40815; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
198 Changes in version 0.4.8.5 - 2023-08-30
199 Quick second release after the first stable few days ago fixing minor
200 annoying bugfixes creating log BUG stacktrace. We also fix BSD compilation
201 failures and PoW unit test.
203 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
204 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 30, 2023.
206 o Minor features (geoip data):
207 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
208 retrieved on 2023/08/30.
210 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, compilation):
211 - Fix compilation issue on NetBSD by avoiding an unnecessary
212 dependency on "huge" page mappings in Equi-X. Fixes bug 40843;
213 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
215 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, testing):
216 - Fix test failures in "crypto/hashx" and "slow/crypto/equix" on
217 x86_64 and aarch64 NetBSD hosts, by adding support for
218 PROT_MPROTECT() flags. Fixes bug 40844; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
220 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
221 - Demote a relay-side warn about too many legs to ProtocolWarn, as
222 there are conditions that it can briefly happen during set
223 construction. Also add additional set logging details for all
224 error cases. Fixes bug 40841; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
225 - Prevent non-fatal assert stacktrace caused by using conflux sets
226 during their teardown process. Fixes bug 40842; bugfix
230 Changes in version 0.4.8.4 - 2023-08-23
231 Finally, this is the very first stable release of the 0.4.8.x series making,
232 among other features, Proof-of-Work (prop#327) and Conflux (prop#329)
233 available to the entire network. Several new features and a lot of bugfixes
236 o Major feature (denial of service):
237 - Extend DoS protection to partially opened channels and known relays.
238 Because re-entry is not allowed anymore, we can apply DoS protections
239 onto known IP namely relays. Fixes bug 40821; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
241 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
242 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
243 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
244 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
245 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
246 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
248 o Major features (conflux):
249 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
250 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol. These
251 circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre- built conflux
252 pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used. When using conflux
253 circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency circuit to send data to
254 the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the client, it maximizes
255 throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits in a multiplexed fashion.
256 Alternatively, clients can request that the Exit optimize for latency
257 when transmitting to them, by setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX
258 latency'. Onion services are not currently supported, but will be in
259 arti. Many other future optimizations will also be possible using this
260 protocol. Closes ticket 40593.
262 o Major features (dirauth):
263 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with directory
264 authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they would continue to
265 upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to the hard-coded address in
266 the configuration. Now, if the directory authority is listed in the
267 consensus at a different address, they will direct queries to this new
268 address. Implements ticket 40705.
270 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
271 - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug
272 40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds additional
273 log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug 40834; bugfix on
276 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
277 - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux circuit
278 between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on the conflux
279 set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back- pointer when the
280 last leg is removed. Additional checks and log messages have been added
281 to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
283 o Major bugfixes (proof of work, onion service, hashx):
284 - Fix a very rare buffer overflow in hashx, specific to the dynamic
285 compiler on aarch64 platforms. Fixes bug 40833; bugfix on 0.4.8.2-alpha.
287 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
288 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the Stable or
289 Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in the L2 vanguard
290 list but never use them, and if all of our vanguards end up like this we
291 wouldn't have any middle nodes left to choose from so we would fail to
292 make onion-related circuits. Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
294 o Minor features (bridge):
295 - warn when a bridge is also configure to be an exit relay.
298 o Minor features (geoip data):
299 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
300 retrieved on 2023/08/23.
302 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
303 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 23, 2023.
305 o Minor features (testing):
306 - All Rust code is now linted (cargo clippy) as part of GitLab CI, and
307 existing warnings have been fixed. - Any unit tests written in Rust now
308 run as part of GitLab CI.
310 o Minor feature (CI):
311 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
313 o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
314 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
315 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
317 o Minor feature (compilation):
318 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
319 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
322 o Minor feature (cpuworker):
323 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
324 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
325 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
327 o Minor feature (lzma):
328 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
330 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
331 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
334 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
335 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
336 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
338 o Minor features (directory authorities):
339 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
340 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
341 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
342 Implements ticket 40753.
344 o Minor features (directory authority):
345 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
346 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
347 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
348 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
349 40130; implements proposal 275.
351 o Minor features (network documents):
352 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
353 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
354 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
355 the future. Part of ticket 40130.
357 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
358 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
360 o Minor features (geoip data):
361 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
362 retrieved on 2023/06/01.
364 o Minor features (hs, metrics):
365 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
366 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
367 durations. Part of ticket 40757.
369 o Minor features (metrics):
370 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
371 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
372 failures. Closes ticket 40755.
373 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
375 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
376 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
377 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
379 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
380 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
381 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
383 o Minor features (relay):
384 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
385 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
387 o Minor features (relays):
388 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
389 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
390 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
391 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
393 o Minor features (tests):
394 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
395 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
398 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
401 o Minor bugfix (FreeBSD, compilation):
402 - Fix compilation issue on FreeBSD by properly importing
403 sys/param.h. Fixes bug 40825; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
405 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
406 - Right after compression/decompression work is done, check for
407 errors. Before this, we would consider compression bomb before
408 that and then looking for errors leading to false positive on that
409 log warning. Fixes bug 40739; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch
412 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
413 - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change.
414 Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
416 o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn):
417 - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP
418 addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
420 o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
421 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
422 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
423 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
424 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
425 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
426 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
427 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
428 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
430 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
431 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
432 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
433 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
435 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
436 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
437 avoids inifinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
438 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
439 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
440 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
441 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
442 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
444 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
445 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
446 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
447 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
448 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
449 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
451 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
452 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
455 o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
456 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
457 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
458 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
459 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
460 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
462 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
463 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
464 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
466 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
467 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
468 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
469 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
470 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
472 o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
473 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
474 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
476 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
477 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
478 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
479 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
481 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
482 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
483 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
485 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
486 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
487 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
489 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
490 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
491 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
492 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
493 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
494 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
495 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
496 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
498 o Minor bugfixes (state file):
499 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
500 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
501 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
504 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
505 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
506 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
509 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
510 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
511 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
512 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
513 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
514 congestion control fix detailed below.
516 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
517 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
518 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
519 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
520 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
521 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
522 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
524 o Major bugfixes (relay):
525 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
526 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
527 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
528 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
529 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
530 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
533 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
534 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
535 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
536 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
537 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
539 o Minor feature (authority):
540 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
542 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
543 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
545 o Minor features (geoip data):
546 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
547 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
549 o Minor features (relays):
550 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
551 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
552 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
553 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
556 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
557 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
558 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
560 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
561 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
562 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
563 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
565 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
566 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
567 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
568 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
571 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
572 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
573 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
574 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
577 o Major bugfixes (relay):
578 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
579 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
580 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
581 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
582 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
583 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
586 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
587 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
588 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
589 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
590 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
592 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
593 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
595 o Minor features (geoip data):
596 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
597 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
600 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
601 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
602 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
605 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
606 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
607 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
608 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
609 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
611 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
612 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
615 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
616 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
618 o Minor features (geoip data):
619 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
620 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
622 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
623 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
624 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
627 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
628 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
629 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
630 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
632 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
633 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
635 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
636 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
637 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
639 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
640 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
641 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
642 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
643 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
645 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
646 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
647 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
648 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
649 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
652 o Major bugfixes (relay):
653 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
654 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
656 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
657 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
659 o Minor features (geoip data):
660 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
661 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
664 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
665 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
666 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
667 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
670 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
671 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
673 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
674 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
675 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
676 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
678 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
679 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
680 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
681 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
682 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
684 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
685 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
686 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
687 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
688 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
690 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
691 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
692 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
693 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
694 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
697 o Major bugfixes (relay):
698 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
699 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
701 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
702 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
703 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
704 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
705 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
706 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
708 o Minor feature (metrics):
709 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
712 o Minor feature (performance):
713 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
714 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
715 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
717 o Minor feature (relay):
718 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
720 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
721 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
722 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
723 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
725 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
726 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
727 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
728 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
729 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
731 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
732 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
733 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
734 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
735 are currently opened and how many were created.
736 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
737 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
738 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
739 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
740 - Related to ticket 40194.
742 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
743 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
745 o Minor features (geoip data):
746 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
747 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
749 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
750 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
751 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
753 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
754 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
755 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
756 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
757 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
758 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
759 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
760 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
761 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
762 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
763 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
765 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
766 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
767 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
770 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
771 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
772 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
775 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
776 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
777 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
778 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
779 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
780 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
781 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
783 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
784 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
785 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
788 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
789 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
790 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
791 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
794 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
795 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
796 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
797 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
798 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
801 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
802 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
803 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
804 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
807 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
808 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
809 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
810 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
811 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
814 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
815 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
816 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
817 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
820 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
821 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
822 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
823 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
824 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
827 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
828 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
829 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
830 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
831 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
834 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
835 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
837 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
838 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
839 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
840 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
841 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
842 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
843 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
844 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
845 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
848 o Major bugfixes (relay):
849 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
850 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
851 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
852 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
853 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
854 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
855 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
857 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
858 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
859 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
860 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
861 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
864 o Minor features (dirauth):
865 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
866 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
867 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
868 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
869 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
870 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
871 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
872 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
875 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
876 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
878 o Minor features (geoip data):
879 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
880 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
882 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
883 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
884 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
885 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
886 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
887 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
888 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
890 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
891 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
892 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
893 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
894 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
896 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
897 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
898 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
899 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
902 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
903 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
904 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
905 stability or safety purposes.
907 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
908 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
909 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
911 o Major bugfixes (relay):
912 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
913 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
914 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
915 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
916 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
917 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
918 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
920 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
921 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
923 o Minor features (geoip data):
924 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
925 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
927 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
928 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
929 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
931 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
932 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
933 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
934 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
935 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
936 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
938 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
939 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
940 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
941 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
942 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
944 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
945 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
946 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
947 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
949 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
950 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
951 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
952 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
953 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
955 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
956 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
957 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
959 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
960 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
961 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
962 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
963 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
964 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
966 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
967 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
968 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
969 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
972 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
973 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
974 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
975 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
976 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
978 o Major bugfixes (relay):
979 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
980 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
981 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
982 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
983 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
984 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
985 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
987 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
988 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
990 o Minor features (geoip data):
991 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
992 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
994 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
995 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
996 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
998 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
999 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1000 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1001 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1002 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1003 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1005 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
1006 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
1007 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
1008 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
1009 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1011 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1012 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
1013 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
1014 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
1016 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
1017 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
1018 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
1019 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
1020 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1022 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
1023 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
1024 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1026 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1027 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1028 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1029 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1030 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1031 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1033 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1034 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
1035 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
1036 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
1039 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
1040 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
1041 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
1042 should upgrade to this version.
1044 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
1045 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
1046 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
1047 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
1048 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
1049 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1051 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1052 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
1054 o Minor features (geoip data):
1055 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1056 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
1058 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1059 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
1060 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
1061 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
1063 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1064 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
1065 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
1066 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
1067 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1068 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
1069 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
1070 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
1071 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1073 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
1074 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
1075 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1078 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
1079 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series
1080 includes several major bugfixes from previous series and several features
1081 including one massive new one: congestion control.
1083 Congestion control, among other things, should improve traffic speed and
1084 stability on the network once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more
1085 details about it in proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
1087 Below are all the changes of the 0.4.7.x series:
1089 o Major features (congestion control):
1090 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
1091 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
1093 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
1094 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
1095 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
1096 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
1098 o Major features (directory authority):
1099 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
1100 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
1101 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
1102 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
1103 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
1104 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
1105 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
1106 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
1107 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
1109 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
1110 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
1111 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
1112 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
1113 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
1114 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
1115 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
1116 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
1117 40363; implements proposal 333.
1119 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
1120 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
1121 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
1122 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
1123 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1125 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1126 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
1127 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
1128 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
1129 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
1130 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
1131 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
1132 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
1135 o Major bugfixes (client):
1136 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
1137 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
1138 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
1139 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
1140 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
1141 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1143 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
1144 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
1145 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
1146 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1148 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
1149 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
1150 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
1151 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
1152 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
1153 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1155 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1156 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1157 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1158 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1159 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1160 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1161 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1163 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1164 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
1165 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
1166 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1167 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
1168 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
1169 and not the DNS server itself.
1170 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
1171 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
1172 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
1173 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1174 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1175 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1176 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1178 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1179 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
1180 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
1181 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
1184 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
1185 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
1186 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
1187 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
1188 Closes ticket 40476.
1189 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1190 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1192 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1193 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1194 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1197 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
1198 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
1199 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
1200 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
1202 o Minor features (compilation):
1203 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1204 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1205 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1206 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1209 o Minor features (control port):
1210 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
1211 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
1213 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1214 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
1216 o Minor features (fuzzing):
1217 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
1218 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
1219 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
1221 o Minor features (geoip data):
1222 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1223 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
1225 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
1226 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
1227 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
1228 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1229 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1230 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1231 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1233 o Minor features (portability):
1234 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
1235 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
1236 Closes ticket 40355.
1238 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1239 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1240 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1241 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1242 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1243 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1244 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1245 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1246 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1247 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1248 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1249 fix for ticket 40337.
1250 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1251 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1252 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1254 o Minor features (testing):
1255 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1256 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1259 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1260 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug
1261 40500; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1263 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1264 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1265 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1267 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
1268 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
1269 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
1270 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1272 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1273 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1274 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1277 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1278 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
1279 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
1280 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
1281 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
1282 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
1283 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
1284 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1286 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
1287 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
1288 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
1289 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
1292 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1293 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1294 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1295 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1297 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1298 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1299 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1300 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1301 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1304 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1305 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1306 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1307 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1308 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1309 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1310 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1311 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
1312 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1314 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1315 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
1316 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1318 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
1319 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down
1320 to info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix
1323 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1324 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1325 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1326 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1327 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1329 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1330 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1331 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1332 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1333 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1334 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1336 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1337 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1338 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1339 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1342 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
1343 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
1344 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1346 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1347 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1348 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1349 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1350 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1351 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1352 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1353 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1355 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1356 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1357 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1358 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1360 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1361 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1362 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1363 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1364 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
1365 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
1366 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
1367 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
1368 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1370 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1371 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1372 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1373 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1375 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
1376 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
1377 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
1378 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
1381 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
1382 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
1383 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
1384 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
1385 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1387 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1388 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1389 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1390 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1391 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1392 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1393 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1394 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1395 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1397 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
1398 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
1399 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
1400 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1402 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1403 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1404 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1405 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1407 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1408 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1409 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1410 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1411 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1412 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1413 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1414 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1415 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1417 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1418 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1419 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1420 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1421 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1422 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1424 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1425 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1426 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1427 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1428 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1430 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
1431 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
1432 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
1433 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
1434 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1436 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1437 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
1438 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
1439 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
1440 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1442 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1443 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1444 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1445 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1447 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1448 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1449 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1451 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1452 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1453 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1454 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1455 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1457 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1458 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1459 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1460 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1461 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1463 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1464 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1465 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1466 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1467 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1470 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1471 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1473 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1474 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1475 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
1476 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
1477 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
1478 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
1481 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1484 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1485 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1486 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1488 o Documentation (man, relay):
1489 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1490 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1492 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1493 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1494 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1498 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
1499 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
1500 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1502 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1503 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1505 o Minor features (geoip data):
1506 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1507 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1509 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1510 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1511 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1513 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1514 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1515 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1518 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1519 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1520 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1523 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1524 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1525 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1526 See below for more details.
1528 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1529 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1530 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1531 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1532 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1534 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1535 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1536 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1539 o Minor features (compilation):
1540 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1541 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1542 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1543 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1546 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1547 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1549 o Minor features (geoip data):
1550 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1551 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1553 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1554 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1555 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1556 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1557 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1559 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1560 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1561 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1562 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1563 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1565 o Documentation (man, relay):
1566 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1567 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1570 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1571 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1572 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1575 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1576 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1577 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1578 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1579 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1580 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1581 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1583 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1584 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1587 o Minor features (testing):
1588 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1589 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1590 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1591 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1592 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1593 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1594 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1595 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1596 fix for ticket 40337.
1597 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1598 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1599 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1601 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1602 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1603 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1604 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1605 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1606 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1607 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1608 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1610 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1611 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1612 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1614 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1615 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1616 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1617 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1618 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1621 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1622 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1623 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1624 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1625 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1626 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1629 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1630 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1631 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1632 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1633 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1634 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1635 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1638 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1639 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1640 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1641 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1642 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1644 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1645 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1646 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1647 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1649 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1650 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1651 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1652 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1654 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1655 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1658 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1659 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1660 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1661 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1662 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1664 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1665 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1666 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1667 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1668 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1669 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1670 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1671 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1672 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1673 fix for ticket 40337.
1674 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1675 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1676 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1678 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1679 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1680 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1682 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1683 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1684 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1685 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1686 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1687 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1689 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1690 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1691 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1692 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1693 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1696 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1697 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1698 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1699 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1700 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1702 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1703 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1704 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1705 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1706 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1707 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1710 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1711 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1712 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1713 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1714 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1715 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1716 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1719 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1720 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1721 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1722 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1723 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1725 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1726 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1727 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1728 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1730 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1731 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1732 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1733 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1735 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1736 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1739 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1740 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1741 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1742 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1743 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1747 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1748 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1749 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1750 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1751 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1753 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1754 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1755 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1756 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1757 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1758 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1759 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1762 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1763 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1765 o Minor features (geoip data):
1766 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1767 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1769 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1770 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1771 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1773 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1774 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
1775 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
1777 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1778 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1779 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1781 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1782 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
1783 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
1784 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1786 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1787 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1788 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1789 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1790 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1791 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1792 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1795 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1796 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1797 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1798 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1799 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1801 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1802 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1803 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1804 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1805 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1806 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1807 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1810 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1811 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1813 o Minor features (geoip data):
1814 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1815 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1817 o Minor features (testing):
1818 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
1819 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1821 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1822 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1823 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1825 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1826 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1827 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1829 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1830 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1831 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1832 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1833 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1834 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1835 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1837 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1838 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
1839 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1842 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1843 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1844 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1845 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1846 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1848 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1849 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1850 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1851 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1852 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1853 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1854 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1857 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1858 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1860 o Minor features (geoip data):
1861 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1862 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1864 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1865 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1866 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1868 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1869 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1870 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1873 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1874 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1875 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1876 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1877 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1879 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1880 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1881 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1882 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1883 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1884 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1886 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1887 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1888 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1892 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1893 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1894 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1895 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1896 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1899 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1900 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1901 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1902 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1904 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
1905 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1907 o Major bugfixes (security):
1908 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1909 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1910 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1911 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1912 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1913 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1915 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1916 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1917 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1918 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1919 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1920 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1921 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1922 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1924 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1925 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1926 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1927 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1928 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1929 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1930 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1931 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1932 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1933 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1934 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1935 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1936 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1937 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1938 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1940 o Major features (control port, onion services):
1941 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
1942 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
1943 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
1946 o Major features (directory authority):
1947 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
1948 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
1949 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
1950 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1952 o Major features (metrics):
1953 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
1954 documents. This information is controlled with the
1955 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
1956 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
1957 328; closes ticket 40222.
1959 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
1960 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
1961 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
1963 o Major features (statistics):
1964 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
1965 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
1966 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
1968 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
1969 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
1970 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
1971 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
1972 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
1973 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
1974 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
1975 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
1976 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
1977 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
1978 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
1979 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
1980 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
1981 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
1982 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
1983 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
1984 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1985 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
1986 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
1987 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
1990 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
1991 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
1992 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
1993 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1995 o Minor features (bridge):
1996 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1997 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1998 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
2000 o Minor features (build system):
2001 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
2002 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
2003 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2005 o Minor features (client):
2006 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
2007 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
2008 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
2009 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
2011 o Minor features (command line):
2012 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
2013 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
2016 o Minor features (command-line interface):
2017 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
2018 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
2019 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
2020 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
2021 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
2022 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
2023 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
2024 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
2025 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
2026 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2028 o Minor features (compatibility):
2029 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2030 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2031 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2034 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
2035 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
2036 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2038 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2039 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
2040 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
2041 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2042 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
2043 control over whether the client can become dormant from
2044 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2046 o Minor features (geoip data):
2047 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2048 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2050 o Minor features (logging):
2051 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
2052 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
2054 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
2055 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
2056 any). Closes ticket 40308.
2057 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
2058 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
2059 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2061 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
2062 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
2063 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
2064 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
2065 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
2067 o Minor features (onion services):
2068 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
2069 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
2071 o Minor features (performance, windows):
2072 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
2073 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
2074 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
2075 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2077 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2078 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
2079 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
2081 o Minor features (tests, portability):
2082 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
2083 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
2086 o Minor features (vote document):
2087 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
2088 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
2089 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
2091 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2092 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
2093 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
2094 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2096 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
2097 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
2098 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
2099 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
2102 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2103 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
2104 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
2105 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2107 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
2108 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
2109 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
2110 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
2111 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2113 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
2114 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2115 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2116 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2117 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2118 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2121 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
2122 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
2123 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
2124 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
2125 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
2126 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
2128 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2129 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
2130 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
2131 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
2132 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2134 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
2135 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
2136 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
2137 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
2138 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2140 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
2141 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
2142 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2144 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2145 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2146 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2149 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
2150 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
2151 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
2152 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2154 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2155 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
2156 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
2157 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2159 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
2160 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2161 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2164 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2165 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
2166 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
2167 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2170 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
2171 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
2172 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
2173 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
2174 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
2175 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
2176 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
2177 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
2178 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
2179 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
2182 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
2183 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
2184 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
2186 o Documentation (manual):
2187 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
2189 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
2190 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
2191 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
2192 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
2194 o Removed features (relay):
2195 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
2196 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
2197 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
2198 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
2199 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
2202 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
2203 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2204 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2205 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2206 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2208 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2209 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2210 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2211 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2212 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2213 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2214 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2216 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2217 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2218 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2219 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2220 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2221 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2222 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2223 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2225 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2226 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2227 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2228 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2229 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2230 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2231 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2232 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2233 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2234 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2235 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2236 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2237 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2238 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2239 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2241 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2242 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2243 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2244 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2247 o Minor features (geoip data):
2248 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2249 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2251 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2252 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2253 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2254 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2255 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2256 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2259 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2260 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2261 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2265 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
2266 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2267 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2268 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2269 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2271 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
2272 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
2273 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
2275 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2276 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2277 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2278 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2279 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2280 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2281 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2283 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2284 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2285 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2286 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2287 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2288 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2289 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2290 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2292 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2293 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2294 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2295 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2296 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2297 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2298 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2299 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2300 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2301 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2302 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2303 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2304 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2305 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2306 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2308 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2309 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2310 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2311 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2314 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2315 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2316 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2318 o Minor features (geoip data):
2319 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2320 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2322 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2323 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2324 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2325 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2327 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2328 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2329 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2332 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
2333 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
2334 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2335 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2336 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2338 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2339 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2340 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2341 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2342 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2343 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2344 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2346 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2347 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2348 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2349 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2350 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2351 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2352 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2353 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2355 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2356 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2357 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2358 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2359 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2360 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2361 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2362 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2363 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2364 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2365 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2366 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2367 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2368 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2369 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2371 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2372 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2373 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2375 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2376 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2377 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2378 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2381 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2382 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2383 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2385 o Minor features (geoip data):
2386 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2387 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2390 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
2391 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
2392 from the 0.4.6.x series.
2394 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2395 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2396 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2397 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2398 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2400 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2401 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2402 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2404 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2405 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2406 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2408 o Minor features (geoip data):
2409 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2410 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2412 o Minor features (onion services):
2413 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
2414 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
2415 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
2417 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2418 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2419 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2420 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2422 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2423 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2424 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2425 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2427 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2428 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2429 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2430 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2432 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2433 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2434 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2436 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
2437 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2438 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2439 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2441 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2442 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2443 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2444 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2446 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2447 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2448 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2452 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2453 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2454 in earlier versions of Tor.
2456 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2457 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2458 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2459 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2460 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2461 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2462 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2463 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2464 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2467 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2468 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2471 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2472 compatibility issue.
2474 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2475 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2476 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2477 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2478 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2479 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2480 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2481 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2482 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2485 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2486 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2487 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2488 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2489 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2490 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2491 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2492 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2495 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2496 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2497 Closes ticket 40309.
2500 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2501 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2502 in earlier versions of Tor.
2504 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2505 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2506 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2507 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2508 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2509 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2510 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2511 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2512 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2515 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2516 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2519 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2520 compatibility issue.
2522 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2523 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2524 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2525 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2526 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2527 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2528 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2529 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2530 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2533 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2534 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2535 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2536 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2537 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2538 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2539 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2540 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2543 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2544 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2545 Closes ticket 40309.
2548 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2549 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2552 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2553 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2554 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2555 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2556 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2557 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2558 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2559 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2560 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2563 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2564 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2567 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2568 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2570 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2571 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2572 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2573 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2574 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2575 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2576 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2577 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2578 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2581 o Minor features (geoip data):
2582 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2583 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2584 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2585 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2586 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2587 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2588 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2591 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2592 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2593 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2594 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2595 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2597 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2598 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2599 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2601 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2602 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2603 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2604 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2605 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2607 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2608 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2609 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2611 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2612 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2613 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2615 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2616 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2617 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2619 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2620 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2621 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2622 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2623 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2624 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2625 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2626 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2628 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2629 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2630 Closes ticket 40309.
2633 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2634 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2635 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2636 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2637 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2638 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2639 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2640 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2641 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2642 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2644 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2645 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2646 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2647 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2648 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2649 smaller features and bugfixes.
2651 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
2652 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2654 o Major features (build):
2655 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
2656 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
2657 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
2658 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
2659 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
2661 o Major features (metrics):
2662 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
2663 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
2664 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
2665 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
2666 information and security considerations.
2668 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
2669 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
2670 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
2671 Closes ticket 33233.
2672 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
2673 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
2674 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
2675 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
2676 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
2677 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
2678 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
2679 use. Closes ticket 33220.
2680 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
2681 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
2682 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
2683 Closes ticket 34067.
2685 o Major features (tracing):
2686 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
2687 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
2688 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
2689 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
2690 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
2692 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2693 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2694 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2695 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2696 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2698 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
2699 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
2700 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
2701 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
2702 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
2703 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
2704 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2706 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
2707 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
2708 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
2709 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
2710 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
2711 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
2713 o Minor features (address discovery):
2714 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
2715 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
2716 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
2717 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
2719 o Minor features (admin tools):
2720 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
2721 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
2722 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
2725 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2726 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2727 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2728 Closes ticket 40245.
2730 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2731 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
2732 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
2733 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
2734 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
2735 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
2737 o Minor features (build):
2738 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
2739 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
2740 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
2741 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
2742 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
2744 o Minor features (configuration):
2745 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
2746 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2747 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
2748 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
2749 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
2750 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2752 o Minor features (control port):
2753 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
2754 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
2755 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
2756 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
2758 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
2759 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
2760 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
2763 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
2764 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
2765 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
2766 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
2767 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
2768 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
2769 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2771 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2772 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
2773 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
2775 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2776 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
2777 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2778 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
2779 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
2780 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
2781 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
2782 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
2783 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
2784 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
2785 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
2787 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
2788 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
2789 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
2790 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
2792 o Minor features (documentation):
2793 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
2794 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
2795 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
2797 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
2798 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
2799 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
2800 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2802 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2803 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
2804 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
2806 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
2807 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
2808 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2810 o Minor features (logging):
2811 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
2812 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
2813 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
2814 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
2815 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
2816 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
2818 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
2819 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
2820 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
2821 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
2823 o Minor features (onion services):
2824 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
2825 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
2826 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2828 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2829 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
2830 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
2831 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
2832 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
2833 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
2835 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2836 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2837 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2838 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2839 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2841 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
2842 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
2843 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
2844 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
2845 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
2846 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
2847 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
2849 o Minor features (relay):
2850 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
2851 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
2852 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
2853 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
2854 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
2855 Closes ticket 34137.
2857 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
2858 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
2859 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
2862 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
2863 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
2864 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
2865 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
2866 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
2867 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
2868 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
2869 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
2870 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
2872 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
2873 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
2875 o Minor features (safety):
2876 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2877 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2880 o Minor features (specification update):
2881 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
2882 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
2883 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
2885 o Minor features (state management):
2886 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
2887 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
2888 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
2889 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
2890 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
2892 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
2893 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
2894 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
2895 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
2896 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
2898 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
2899 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
2900 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
2902 o Minor features (testing configuration):
2903 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
2904 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
2905 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
2906 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
2908 o Minor features (testing):
2909 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
2910 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2912 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2913 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
2914 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
2915 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
2917 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
2918 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
2919 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2920 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
2921 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
2922 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
2923 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
2924 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
2925 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2927 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2928 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2929 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2930 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2931 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2932 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2934 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2935 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2936 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2937 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2938 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
2939 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
2942 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2943 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2944 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2945 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2946 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2947 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2950 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2951 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
2952 when a stream is attached with the purpose
2953 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
2954 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2956 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2957 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2958 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2959 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2961 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2962 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2963 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2964 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2965 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2966 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2967 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2968 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2970 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2971 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2972 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2973 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
2974 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
2975 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
2976 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
2977 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
2980 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2981 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2982 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2983 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2985 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2986 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2987 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2988 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2989 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
2990 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
2991 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2993 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
2994 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
2995 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
2996 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
2997 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
2998 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3000 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
3001 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
3002 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3004 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
3005 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
3006 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3007 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
3008 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
3009 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
3010 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
3011 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3013 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3014 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
3015 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
3016 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
3017 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
3018 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
3019 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
3020 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
3021 Closes ticket 34200.
3022 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
3023 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
3024 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
3025 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
3026 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
3027 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
3028 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
3030 - Split implementation of several command line options from
3031 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
3032 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
3033 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
3034 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
3035 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
3038 o Deprecated features:
3039 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
3040 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
3041 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
3044 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
3045 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
3048 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
3049 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
3050 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
3051 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
3053 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
3054 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
3056 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
3057 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
3058 directory. Closes part of 40139.
3059 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
3060 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
3064 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
3065 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3067 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
3068 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
3069 31699; Patch by @bduszel
3071 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
3072 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
3073 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
3074 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
3075 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
3077 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
3078 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
3079 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
3080 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
3081 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
3083 o Documentation (manual page):
3084 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
3085 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
3086 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
3087 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
3089 o Documentation (tracing):
3090 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
3091 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
3093 o Removed features (controller):
3094 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
3095 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
3098 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
3099 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3100 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3101 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3102 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3104 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3105 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3106 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3107 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3108 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3111 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3112 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3113 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3114 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3117 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3118 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3119 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3120 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3122 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3123 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3124 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3125 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3126 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3128 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3129 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3130 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3131 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3132 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3133 weasel for diagnosing this.
3135 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3136 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3137 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3138 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3139 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3140 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3141 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3143 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3144 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3145 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3146 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3148 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3149 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3150 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3151 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3153 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3154 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3155 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3156 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3157 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3158 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3159 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3161 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3162 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3165 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
3166 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3167 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3168 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3169 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3171 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
3172 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
3174 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3175 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3176 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3177 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3178 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3181 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3182 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3183 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3184 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3185 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3187 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3188 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3189 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3190 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3193 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3194 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3195 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3196 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3198 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3199 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3200 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3201 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3202 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3204 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3205 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3206 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3207 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3208 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3209 weasel for diagnosing this.
3211 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3212 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3213 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3214 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3215 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3216 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3217 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3219 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3220 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3221 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3223 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3224 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3225 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3226 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3228 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3229 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3230 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3231 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3233 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3234 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3235 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3236 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3237 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3238 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3239 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3241 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3242 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3245 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
3246 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3247 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3248 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3249 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3251 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3252 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3253 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3254 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3255 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3258 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3259 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3260 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3261 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3262 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3264 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3265 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3266 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3267 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3270 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3271 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3272 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3273 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3275 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3276 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3277 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3278 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3279 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3281 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3282 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3283 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3284 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3285 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3286 weasel for diagnosing this.
3288 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3289 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3290 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3291 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3292 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3293 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3294 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3296 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3297 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3298 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3300 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3301 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3302 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3303 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3305 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3306 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3307 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3308 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3310 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3311 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3312 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3313 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3315 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3316 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3319 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
3320 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3321 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3322 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
3323 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
3324 intended for a different relay.
3326 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3327 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3328 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3329 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3330 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3331 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3332 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3334 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3335 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3336 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3337 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3338 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3339 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3340 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3341 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3342 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3343 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3344 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3346 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3347 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3348 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3349 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3350 closes ticket 40133.
3352 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3353 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3354 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3356 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3357 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3358 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3360 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3361 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3362 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3363 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3364 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3365 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3367 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3368 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3369 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3371 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3372 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3373 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3376 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3377 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3378 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3379 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3382 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
3383 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3384 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3385 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3386 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3388 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
3389 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
3390 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
3393 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3394 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3395 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3396 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3398 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3399 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3400 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3401 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3402 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3403 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3404 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3406 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3407 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3408 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3409 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3410 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3413 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3414 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3415 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3416 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3417 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3418 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3420 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3421 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3422 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3423 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3424 closes ticket 40133.
3426 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3427 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3428 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3429 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3431 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3432 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3433 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3435 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3436 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3437 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3439 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3440 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3441 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3442 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3443 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3445 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3446 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3447 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3449 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3450 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3451 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3452 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3453 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3454 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3455 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3457 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3458 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3459 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3462 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3463 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3464 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3465 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3466 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3467 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3470 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3471 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3472 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3473 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3475 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3476 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3477 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3478 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3480 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3481 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3482 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3484 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3485 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3488 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3489 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3490 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3491 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3492 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3493 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3494 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3497 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3498 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3499 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3500 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3501 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3503 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3504 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3505 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3506 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3508 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3509 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3510 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3511 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3512 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3513 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3514 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3516 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3517 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3518 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3519 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3520 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3523 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3524 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3525 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3526 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3527 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3528 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3530 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3531 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3532 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3533 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3535 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3536 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3537 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3538 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3539 closes ticket 40133.
3541 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3542 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3543 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3544 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3546 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3547 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3548 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3550 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3551 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3552 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3554 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3555 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3556 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3557 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3558 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3560 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3561 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3562 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3564 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3565 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3566 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3567 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3568 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3569 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3570 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3572 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3573 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3574 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3577 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3578 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3579 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3580 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3581 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3582 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3585 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3586 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3587 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3588 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3590 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3591 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3592 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3593 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3595 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3596 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3597 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3599 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3600 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3603 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3604 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3605 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3606 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3607 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3608 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3609 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3611 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3612 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3613 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3614 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3615 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3617 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3618 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3619 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3621 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
3622 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3624 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
3625 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
3626 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
3627 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
3628 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
3629 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
3630 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
3631 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
3632 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
3633 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
3635 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3636 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3637 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3638 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3640 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
3641 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
3642 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
3643 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
3644 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
3645 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
3646 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
3648 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
3650 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
3651 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
3652 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
3653 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
3655 o Major features (v3 onion services):
3656 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
3657 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
3658 Closes ticket 32709.
3660 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3661 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3662 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3663 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3664 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3667 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3668 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3669 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3670 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3671 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3672 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3674 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3675 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3676 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3677 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3678 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3680 o Minor features (security):
3681 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3682 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3683 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3684 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3685 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3687 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3688 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
3689 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
3690 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
3691 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
3694 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
3695 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
3696 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
3697 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
3698 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
3699 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
3700 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
3702 o Minor features (code safety):
3703 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
3704 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
3705 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
3706 Resolves issue 33788.
3708 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3709 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
3710 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
3711 Resolves ticket 32143.
3713 o Minor features (control port):
3714 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3715 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3716 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3717 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
3718 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
3719 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
3720 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3722 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3723 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
3724 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
3726 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3727 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3728 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3729 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3730 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3731 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3733 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3734 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
3735 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
3736 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
3737 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
3738 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
3739 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
3740 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
3742 o Minor features (directory authority):
3743 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
3744 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
3745 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
3746 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
3747 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
3749 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
3750 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
3751 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
3752 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
3754 o Minor features (directory):
3755 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
3756 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
3757 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
3760 o Minor features (entry guards):
3761 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
3762 Closes ticket 40001.
3764 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
3765 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
3766 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
3768 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
3769 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
3770 Closes ticket 33901.
3772 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
3773 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
3774 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
3775 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
3776 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
3777 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
3778 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
3780 o Minor features (logging):
3781 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
3782 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
3784 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
3785 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
3786 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
3787 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
3790 o Minor features (onion service v3):
3791 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
3792 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3794 o Minor features (python scripts):
3795 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
3796 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
3797 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
3798 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
3800 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
3801 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
3802 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
3803 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
3804 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
3805 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
3806 up from ticket 33316.
3807 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3808 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3809 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3811 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
3812 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
3813 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
3814 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3816 o Minor features (windows):
3817 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
3818 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
3820 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
3821 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
3822 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
3823 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3825 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
3826 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3827 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3828 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3829 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3831 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3832 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
3833 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
3834 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
3835 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
3836 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3838 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3839 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
3840 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
3841 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3843 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
3844 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
3845 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
3846 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
3847 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3849 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
3850 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
3851 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3853 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
3854 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
3855 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
3856 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
3857 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
3858 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3859 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
3860 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
3861 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
3862 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3864 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3865 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3866 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3867 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3868 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3870 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3871 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3872 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3873 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3876 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
3877 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
3878 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
3879 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
3880 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3881 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
3882 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3884 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
3885 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
3886 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3888 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
3889 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
3890 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3892 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
3893 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
3894 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3896 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3897 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
3898 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
3901 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
3902 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
3903 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
3906 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
3907 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3908 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3909 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3910 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3911 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3912 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3914 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
3915 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
3916 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
3917 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
3919 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
3920 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
3921 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
3922 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
3923 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
3926 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3927 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3928 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3929 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3930 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3931 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3934 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
3935 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
3936 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
3939 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3940 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3941 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3942 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3944 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3945 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
3946 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3947 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
3948 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3951 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
3952 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3953 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3955 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3956 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
3957 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
3958 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
3959 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3960 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
3961 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
3962 isolated in subsystems of their own.
3963 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
3964 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
3965 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
3966 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
3968 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
3969 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3970 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
3971 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
3973 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
3974 code. Closes ticket 33014.
3975 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
3976 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
3979 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3980 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3981 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3982 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
3983 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
3984 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3987 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3988 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3989 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3990 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3991 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3992 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3993 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
3994 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
3995 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
3996 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
3997 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3998 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
3999 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
4002 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
4003 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
4004 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
4005 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
4006 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
4007 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4008 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
4009 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
4011 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
4012 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4014 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4015 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4016 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4017 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
4018 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
4019 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
4020 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
4021 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
4022 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
4023 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
4024 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4025 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4027 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
4028 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
4031 o Documentation (manual page):
4032 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
4033 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4034 Google Season of Docs.
4035 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
4036 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
4037 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
4038 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4039 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
4040 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
4041 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
4042 Closes ticket 33778.
4045 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
4046 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
4047 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
4049 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4050 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4051 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4052 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4053 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4054 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4055 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4058 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4059 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4060 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4061 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4064 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4065 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4066 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4067 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4068 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4069 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4071 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4072 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4073 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4074 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4075 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4076 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4078 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4079 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4080 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4082 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4083 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4084 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4085 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4088 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4089 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4090 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4091 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4094 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4095 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4096 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4097 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4098 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4100 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4101 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4102 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4104 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4105 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4106 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4107 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4108 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4111 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4112 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4113 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4114 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4115 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4116 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4118 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4119 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4120 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4121 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4123 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4124 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4125 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4126 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4129 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4130 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4131 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4132 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4133 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4134 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4135 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4136 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4140 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
4141 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
4142 several that affect usability and portability.
4144 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4145 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4146 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4147 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4148 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4149 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4150 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4153 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4154 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4155 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4156 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4159 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4160 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4161 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4162 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4163 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4164 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4166 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
4167 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4168 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4169 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4170 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4172 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4173 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4174 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4175 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4177 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4178 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4179 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4180 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4181 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4182 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4184 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4185 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4186 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4188 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4189 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4190 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4191 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4194 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4195 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4196 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4197 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4200 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4201 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4202 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4203 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4204 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4205 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4208 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4209 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4210 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4212 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4213 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4214 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4215 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4217 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4218 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4219 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4220 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4221 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4224 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4225 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4226 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4227 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4228 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4229 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4231 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
4232 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4233 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4234 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4235 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4237 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4238 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4239 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4240 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4242 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4243 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4244 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4245 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4247 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4248 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4249 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4250 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4253 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4254 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4255 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4256 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4257 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4258 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4259 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4260 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4264 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
4265 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
4266 some affecting usability.
4268 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4269 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4270 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4271 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4272 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4273 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4274 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4277 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4278 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4279 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4280 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4283 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4284 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4285 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4287 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4288 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4289 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4290 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4293 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4294 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4295 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4297 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4298 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4299 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4300 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4302 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4303 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4304 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4305 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4307 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4308 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4309 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4311 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4312 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4313 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4314 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4315 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4317 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4318 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4319 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4321 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4322 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4323 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4324 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4326 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4327 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4331 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4332 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4333 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4334 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4335 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4336 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4339 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4340 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4341 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4342 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4343 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4345 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4346 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4347 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4350 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
4351 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4353 o New system requirements:
4354 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
4355 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
4356 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
4358 o Major features (build system):
4359 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
4360 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
4361 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
4362 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
4363 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
4365 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
4366 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
4367 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
4368 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
4369 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4371 o Major features (onion services):
4372 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
4373 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
4374 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
4375 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
4376 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
4377 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
4378 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
4380 o Major features (proxy):
4381 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
4382 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
4383 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
4384 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
4385 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
4386 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
4388 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4389 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4390 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4391 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4392 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4393 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4394 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4395 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4396 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4398 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4399 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4400 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4401 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4402 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4404 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4405 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4406 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4407 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4408 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4410 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
4411 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4412 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4413 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4414 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4415 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4417 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4418 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
4419 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
4420 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4422 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
4423 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
4424 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
4425 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
4426 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
4427 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4429 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
4430 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
4431 message. Closes ticket 31371.
4433 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
4434 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4435 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4436 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4437 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4439 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4440 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
4441 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
4442 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
4444 o Minor features (configuration validation):
4445 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
4446 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
4447 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
4448 Closes ticket 31241.
4450 o Minor features (configuration):
4451 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
4452 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
4454 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
4455 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
4456 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
4457 Implements ticket 32404.
4459 o Minor features (configure, build system):
4460 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
4461 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
4463 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4464 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
4465 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
4466 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4467 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4468 Closes ticket 33075.
4470 o Minor features (controller):
4471 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
4472 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
4473 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
4475 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
4476 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
4477 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
4478 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
4480 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4481 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
4482 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
4485 o Minor features (developer tools):
4486 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
4487 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
4488 Closes ticket 32772.
4489 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
4490 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
4491 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
4492 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
4493 target. Closes ticket 31919.
4494 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
4495 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
4496 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
4498 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
4499 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
4500 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
4501 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
4503 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4504 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4505 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4506 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4508 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4509 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4510 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4511 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4513 o Minor features (Doxygen):
4514 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
4515 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
4516 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
4518 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
4519 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
4520 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
4521 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
4522 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
4523 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
4524 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
4525 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
4527 o Minor features (git scripts):
4528 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
4529 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
4530 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
4531 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
4532 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
4533 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
4534 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
4535 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
4536 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
4537 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
4538 Closes ticket 32216.
4539 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
4540 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
4541 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
4542 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
4544 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
4545 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
4546 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
4547 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
4548 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
4549 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
4551 o Minor features (portability, android):
4552 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
4553 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
4554 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4556 o Minor features (relay modularity):
4557 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
4558 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
4559 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4560 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4561 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
4562 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
4563 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4564 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
4565 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
4567 o Minor features (release tools):
4568 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
4569 Closes ticket 32704.
4571 o Minor features (testing):
4572 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4573 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4574 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4575 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4576 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4577 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
4578 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
4579 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
4580 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
4581 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
4582 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
4584 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
4585 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
4586 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4588 o Minor features (usability):
4589 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4590 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4591 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4593 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4594 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4595 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4596 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4599 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4600 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4601 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4603 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4604 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
4605 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4607 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4608 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4609 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4610 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4611 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4612 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4615 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
4616 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
4617 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
4618 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4619 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
4620 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4621 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
4622 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
4623 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
4624 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
4625 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
4626 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
4627 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
4628 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4629 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
4630 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
4631 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
4632 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4634 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4635 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4638 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4639 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4640 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4641 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4643 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4644 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
4645 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
4648 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
4649 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
4650 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4652 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
4653 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
4654 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
4655 Closes ticket 32213.
4656 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4657 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
4658 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4660 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4661 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4662 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4663 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4664 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4667 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4668 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
4670 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
4671 Closes ticket 32216.
4673 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4674 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4675 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4676 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4677 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4678 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4680 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4681 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4682 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4683 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4684 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4685 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4686 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4687 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4689 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4690 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4691 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4692 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4694 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4695 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4696 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4697 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4699 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
4700 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
4701 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
4702 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4703 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
4704 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
4705 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
4706 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
4709 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4710 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4711 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4712 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4714 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4715 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4716 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4717 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4718 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4719 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4720 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4722 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
4723 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
4724 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
4725 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
4726 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4728 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4729 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
4730 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
4731 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
4734 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
4735 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
4736 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
4737 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
4738 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4740 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4741 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
4742 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
4743 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4745 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
4746 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4747 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4748 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4750 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
4751 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
4752 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4754 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4755 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
4756 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
4757 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
4759 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
4760 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4761 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
4762 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
4763 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
4764 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
4765 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4767 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
4768 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
4769 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
4770 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
4771 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
4773 o Deprecated features:
4774 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
4775 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
4776 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
4780 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
4781 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
4782 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
4783 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
4784 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
4785 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
4786 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
4787 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
4789 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
4790 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
4793 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
4794 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
4795 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
4796 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
4797 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
4798 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
4800 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
4801 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
4802 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
4803 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
4804 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
4807 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4808 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4809 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4810 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4811 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4813 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
4814 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
4816 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
4817 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
4818 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
4819 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
4820 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
4823 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
4824 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
4825 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
4827 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
4828 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
4829 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
4830 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
4831 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
4832 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
4833 Solves part of ticket 32339.
4834 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
4835 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
4836 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
4837 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
4838 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
4839 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
4840 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
4841 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
4842 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
4843 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
4845 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
4846 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
4848 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
4849 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
4850 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
4852 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4853 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
4854 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
4855 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
4856 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
4857 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
4859 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
4860 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
4861 Closes ticket 32163.
4862 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4864 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4866 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4867 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4868 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4870 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4871 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4872 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4873 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4874 Closes ticket 32304.
4875 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
4876 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
4877 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
4878 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
4879 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
4882 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
4883 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4885 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4888 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
4889 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
4890 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
4891 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4892 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
4893 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
4894 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
4895 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4897 o Documentation (manpage):
4898 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4899 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4900 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4901 Google Season of Docs.
4902 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4903 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4904 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
4905 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
4906 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4907 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4909 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4911 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
4912 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
4913 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
4915 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
4916 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
4917 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4919 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
4920 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4921 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4922 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4923 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4924 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4925 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4926 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4929 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
4930 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
4933 o Testing (Travis CI):
4934 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4935 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4936 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4938 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4939 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4940 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4941 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4942 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4945 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4946 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4947 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4948 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4949 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4950 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4951 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4952 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4953 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4954 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4955 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4956 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4958 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4959 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4960 as soon as packages are available.
4962 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4963 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4964 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4965 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4966 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4967 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4968 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4969 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4970 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4972 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4973 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4974 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4975 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4976 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4978 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4979 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4980 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4981 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4982 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4984 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4985 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4986 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4987 Closes ticket 33075.
4989 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4990 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4991 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4993 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4994 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4995 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4996 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4997 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5000 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5001 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5002 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5003 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5006 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5007 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5008 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5009 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5011 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5012 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5013 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5014 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5016 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5017 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5018 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5019 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5020 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5023 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
5024 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
5025 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
5026 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
5027 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
5028 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
5029 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
5030 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
5031 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
5032 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
5033 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
5034 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
5036 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5037 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5038 as soon as packages are available.
5040 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5041 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5042 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5043 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5044 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5045 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5046 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5047 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5048 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5050 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5051 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
5052 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
5053 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
5054 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
5056 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5057 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5058 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5060 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5061 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5062 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5063 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5064 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5067 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5068 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5069 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5070 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5073 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5074 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5075 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5076 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5078 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5079 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5080 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5081 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5083 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5084 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5085 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5086 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5087 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5090 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
5091 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
5092 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
5093 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
5094 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
5095 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
5096 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
5097 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
5098 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
5099 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
5100 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
5103 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5104 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5105 as soon as packages are available.
5107 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5108 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5109 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5110 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5111 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5112 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5113 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5114 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5115 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5117 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5118 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5119 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5120 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5121 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
5122 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5123 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5124 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5127 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5128 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5129 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5130 Closes ticket 33075.
5132 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5133 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5134 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5136 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5137 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5138 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5139 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5140 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5142 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5143 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5144 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5145 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5146 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5149 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5150 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5151 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5152 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5155 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5156 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5157 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5158 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5160 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5161 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5162 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5163 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5164 Closes ticket 32629.
5165 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5166 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5167 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5169 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5170 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5172 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5173 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5174 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5175 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5177 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5178 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5179 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5180 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5183 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
5184 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5185 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
5186 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
5187 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
5188 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
5190 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5191 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5192 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5193 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5194 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5195 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5196 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5197 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5199 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5200 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5201 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5203 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5204 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5205 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5206 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5208 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5209 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5210 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5211 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5213 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5214 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5215 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5216 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5217 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5218 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5221 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5222 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5223 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5225 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5226 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5227 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5228 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5229 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5230 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5231 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5232 Closes ticket 32629.
5234 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5235 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5238 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5239 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5240 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5241 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5242 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5243 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5245 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5246 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5247 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5248 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5249 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5250 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5251 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5252 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5254 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5255 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5256 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5258 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5259 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5260 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5261 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5262 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5264 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5265 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5266 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5268 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5269 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5270 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5271 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5272 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5273 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5274 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5275 Closes ticket 32629.
5277 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5278 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5281 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5282 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5283 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5284 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5285 bugs present in previous series.
5287 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5288 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5289 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5290 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5292 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
5293 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5295 o Major features (directory authorities):
5296 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5297 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5298 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5300 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
5301 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
5302 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
5303 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
5304 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
5305 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
5308 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5309 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5310 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
5311 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
5312 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
5313 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
5316 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
5317 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5318 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5319 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5320 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5321 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5322 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5323 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5324 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5326 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5327 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5328 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5329 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5331 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5332 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5333 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5334 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5335 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5336 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5337 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5338 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5340 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
5341 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5342 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5343 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5344 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5346 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5347 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5348 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5349 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5350 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5353 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
5354 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
5355 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
5356 Closes ticket 29669.
5358 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
5359 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
5360 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
5361 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
5362 Closes ticket 31779.
5364 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5365 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
5366 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
5367 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
5368 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
5369 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
5370 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
5371 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
5372 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
5373 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
5374 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
5375 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
5376 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
5377 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
5378 files. Closes ticket 31175.
5380 o Minor features (build system):
5381 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
5382 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
5383 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
5384 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
5385 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
5387 o Minor features (compilation):
5388 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
5389 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
5390 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
5392 o Minor features (configuration):
5393 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
5394 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
5395 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
5396 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
5398 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5399 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5400 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5401 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5402 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
5403 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
5404 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
5406 o Minor features (debugging):
5407 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
5408 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
5409 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
5410 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
5412 o Minor features (geoip):
5413 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5414 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5416 o Minor features (git hooks):
5417 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
5418 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
5419 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
5420 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
5421 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
5423 o Minor features (git scripts):
5424 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
5425 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
5426 push. Closes ticket 31314.
5427 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
5428 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
5429 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
5430 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
5431 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
5432 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
5433 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
5434 Closes ticket 31314.
5435 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
5436 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
5437 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
5438 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
5439 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
5440 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
5441 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
5442 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
5443 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
5445 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
5446 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
5447 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
5450 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
5451 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
5452 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
5454 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
5455 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
5456 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
5457 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
5458 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
5459 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
5460 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
5462 o Minor features (onion service v3):
5463 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
5464 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
5466 o Minor features (onion service):
5467 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
5468 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
5469 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
5470 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
5472 o Minor features (onion services v3):
5473 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
5474 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
5477 o Minor features (stem tests):
5478 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5479 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5482 o Minor features (testing):
5483 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
5484 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
5485 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
5486 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
5487 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
5488 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
5489 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
5490 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
5491 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
5492 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
5493 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
5494 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
5495 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
5496 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
5497 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
5499 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
5500 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5501 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5502 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5504 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5505 Closes ticket 31859.
5506 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5507 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5509 o Minor features (token bucket):
5510 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
5511 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
5513 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
5514 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
5515 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5517 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
5518 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
5519 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
5520 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5521 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
5522 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
5523 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
5524 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
5527 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5528 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
5529 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5530 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
5532 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
5533 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5534 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
5535 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
5536 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5537 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5538 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5540 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
5541 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
5542 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
5543 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
5544 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
5545 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
5547 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
5548 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5549 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5550 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5551 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5552 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5554 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5555 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
5556 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5558 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5559 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5560 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5561 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5562 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5564 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5565 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5566 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5568 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5569 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
5570 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
5571 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
5573 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
5574 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5575 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5576 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5578 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5579 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5580 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
5581 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5583 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
5584 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
5585 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
5586 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
5587 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
5588 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
5589 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
5590 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
5591 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
5592 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5594 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
5595 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5596 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5597 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5598 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5600 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5601 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
5602 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
5605 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5606 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
5607 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5609 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
5610 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
5611 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5612 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5613 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5614 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5615 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5616 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5617 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5618 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5619 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5620 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5623 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
5624 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5625 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5626 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5629 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
5630 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
5631 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
5632 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5634 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5635 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
5636 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
5637 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5638 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
5639 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5640 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
5641 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
5642 Closes ticket 31678.
5644 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5645 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5646 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5647 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5648 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5650 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5651 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
5652 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
5653 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
5654 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5655 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
5656 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
5657 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
5658 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
5661 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5662 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5663 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5664 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5665 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5666 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5667 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5668 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5669 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5670 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
5671 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5672 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5673 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5675 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
5676 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
5677 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
5679 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
5680 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5681 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5682 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5684 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
5685 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5686 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5687 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5688 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5691 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5692 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
5693 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
5696 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
5697 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
5698 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
5701 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
5702 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5703 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5705 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
5706 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
5707 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
5708 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
5709 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
5710 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5712 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
5713 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
5714 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
5715 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5718 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5719 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
5720 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
5721 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
5722 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5724 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5725 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
5726 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
5727 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
5728 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
5729 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5731 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
5732 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
5733 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
5734 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5736 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
5737 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5738 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5740 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5741 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5742 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5744 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5745 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5746 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5747 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5749 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5750 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5751 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5752 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
5753 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5755 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
5756 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
5757 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
5758 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5760 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
5761 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
5762 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
5763 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
5764 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5766 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
5767 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
5768 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
5769 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
5770 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
5773 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5774 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
5775 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
5777 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5778 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5779 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5780 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5781 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
5782 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
5785 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
5786 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5787 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5789 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
5790 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5791 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5794 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
5795 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5796 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5797 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5798 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5799 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5801 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5802 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
5803 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
5804 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
5805 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5807 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
5808 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5809 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5810 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5811 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5812 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5813 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5814 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5815 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5816 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5818 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5819 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
5820 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
5821 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
5822 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
5823 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
5824 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
5826 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
5830 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
5831 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5832 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
5833 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
5834 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
5835 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
5836 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
5837 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
5839 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5840 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5841 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
5842 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
5843 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
5844 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
5845 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
5846 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
5847 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
5848 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
5849 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5850 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5851 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5854 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
5855 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
5856 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
5857 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
5858 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
5859 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
5861 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
5865 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5866 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5867 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5868 Closes ticket 32500.
5869 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
5870 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
5871 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
5872 Closes ticket 30967.
5874 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
5875 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
5876 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
5877 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
5878 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
5879 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
5880 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
5881 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
5882 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
5883 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
5884 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
5885 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
5886 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
5887 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
5888 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
5889 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
5891 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5892 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
5893 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
5894 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
5895 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
5896 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
5897 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
5898 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
5899 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
5900 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
5902 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
5903 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
5904 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
5906 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
5907 Closes ticket 30806.
5908 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
5909 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
5912 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
5913 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
5914 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
5916 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
5917 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
5918 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5920 o Testing (continuous integration):
5921 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5922 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5923 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5924 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5925 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5926 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5927 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5928 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5929 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5932 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5933 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5934 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5935 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5937 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5938 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5939 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5940 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5942 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5943 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5944 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5945 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5947 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5948 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5949 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5950 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5951 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5952 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5953 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5954 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5956 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5957 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5958 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5959 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5960 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5962 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5963 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5964 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5965 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5966 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5969 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5970 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5971 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5972 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5974 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5975 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5976 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5978 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5979 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5980 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5982 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5983 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5984 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5985 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5986 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5987 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5989 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5990 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5991 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5992 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5994 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5995 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5996 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5997 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5998 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5999 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6000 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6001 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
6002 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
6003 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
6006 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6007 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
6008 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6009 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
6010 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6011 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6012 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6013 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6014 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6016 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6017 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6018 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6019 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6021 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6022 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6023 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6024 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6025 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6028 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6029 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
6030 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
6032 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6033 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6034 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6036 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6037 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6038 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6040 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6041 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6042 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6043 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6045 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6046 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6047 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6048 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6049 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6051 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6052 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
6053 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6055 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6056 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6057 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6060 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6061 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
6062 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
6064 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6065 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6066 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6067 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6069 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6070 Closes ticket 31859.
6071 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6072 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6074 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6075 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6076 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6077 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6078 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6079 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6080 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6081 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6082 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6083 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6085 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6086 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6087 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6088 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6089 Closes ticket 32500.
6092 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
6093 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
6094 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
6095 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
6096 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
6098 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
6099 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
6100 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
6101 support until 1 Feb 2022.
6103 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6104 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6107 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6108 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6109 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6110 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6111 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6112 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6113 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6114 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6115 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6116 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6117 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6119 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6120 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6121 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6122 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6123 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6124 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6126 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6127 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6128 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6129 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6130 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6133 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6134 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6135 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6136 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6137 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6139 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6140 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6141 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6142 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6145 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6146 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6147 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6148 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6149 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6150 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6151 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6152 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6154 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6155 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6156 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6157 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6158 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6160 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6161 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6162 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6163 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6164 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6167 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6168 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6169 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6171 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6172 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6173 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6176 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6177 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6178 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6180 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6181 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6182 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6183 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6185 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6186 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6187 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6188 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6189 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6191 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6192 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6193 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6195 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6196 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6197 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6200 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6201 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6202 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6204 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6205 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6206 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6208 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6209 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6210 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6212 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6213 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6214 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6217 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6218 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6219 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6220 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6221 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6222 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6224 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6225 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6226 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6227 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6228 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6230 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6231 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6232 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6235 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6236 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6237 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6239 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6240 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6241 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6242 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6244 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6245 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6246 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6247 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6249 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6250 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6251 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6252 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6254 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6255 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6256 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6257 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6259 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6260 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6261 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6262 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6263 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6264 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6265 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6267 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6268 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6269 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6270 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6272 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6273 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6274 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6275 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6277 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6278 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6279 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6282 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6283 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6284 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6285 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6286 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6287 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6288 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6290 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6291 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6292 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6293 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6296 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6297 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6298 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6299 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6300 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6302 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6303 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6304 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6305 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6306 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6308 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6309 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6310 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6313 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6314 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6315 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6316 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6317 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6319 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6320 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6321 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6322 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6324 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6325 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6326 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6327 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6328 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6331 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6332 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6333 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6336 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6337 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6338 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6339 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6341 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6342 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6343 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6344 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6346 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6347 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6348 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6349 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6351 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6352 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6353 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6354 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6357 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6358 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6359 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6360 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6361 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6362 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6365 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6366 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6367 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6369 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6370 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6371 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6373 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6374 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6375 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6376 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6378 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6379 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6380 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6382 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6383 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6384 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6385 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6386 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6388 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6389 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6390 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6393 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6394 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6395 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6396 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6397 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6398 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6399 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6400 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6401 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6402 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6404 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6405 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6406 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6407 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6409 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6410 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6411 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6412 Resolves issue 29702.
6414 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6415 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6417 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6418 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6419 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6420 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6423 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6424 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6425 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6426 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6428 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6429 Closes ticket 31859.
6430 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6431 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6433 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6434 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6435 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6436 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6437 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6438 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6439 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6440 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6441 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6442 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6444 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6445 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6446 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6447 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6448 Closes ticket 32500.
6451 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6452 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6453 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6456 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6457 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6460 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6461 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6462 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6463 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6464 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6465 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6466 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6467 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6468 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6469 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6470 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6472 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6473 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6474 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6475 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6476 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6477 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6479 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6480 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6481 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6482 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6483 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6484 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6486 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6487 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6488 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6489 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6490 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6493 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6494 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6495 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6496 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6497 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6499 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6500 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6501 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6502 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6505 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6506 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6507 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6508 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6509 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6511 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6512 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6513 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6514 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6515 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6518 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6519 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6520 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6521 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6522 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6523 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6524 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6525 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6527 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6528 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6529 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6530 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6531 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6534 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6535 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6536 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6538 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6539 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6540 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6543 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6544 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6545 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6546 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6548 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6549 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6550 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6553 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6554 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6555 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6557 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6558 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6559 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6560 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6562 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6563 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6564 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6565 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6566 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6568 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6569 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6570 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6572 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6573 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6574 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6575 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6577 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6578 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6579 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6582 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6583 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6584 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6585 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6586 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6587 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6588 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6589 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6590 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6591 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6592 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6593 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6594 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6597 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6598 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6599 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6600 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6601 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6603 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6604 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6605 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6607 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6608 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6609 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6611 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6612 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6613 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6615 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6616 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6617 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6620 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6621 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6622 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6624 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6625 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6626 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6627 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6628 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6629 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6631 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6632 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6633 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6634 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6635 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6637 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6638 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6639 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6642 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6643 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6644 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6646 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6647 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6648 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6650 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6651 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6652 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6653 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6655 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6656 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6657 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6658 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6660 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6661 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6662 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6663 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6665 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6666 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6667 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6668 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6670 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6671 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6672 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6673 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6674 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6675 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6676 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6678 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6679 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6680 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6681 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6683 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6684 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6685 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6686 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6688 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6689 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6690 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6693 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6694 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6695 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6696 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6697 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6698 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6699 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6701 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6702 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6703 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6704 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6707 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6708 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6709 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6710 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6711 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6713 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6714 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6715 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6717 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6718 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6719 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6720 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6721 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6722 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6723 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6724 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6725 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6726 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6727 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6729 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6730 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6731 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6732 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6733 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6735 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6736 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6737 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6740 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6741 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6742 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6743 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6744 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6746 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6747 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6748 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6749 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6751 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6752 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6753 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6754 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6755 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6758 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6759 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6760 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6763 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6764 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6765 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6766 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6768 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6769 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6770 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6771 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6773 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6774 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6775 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6777 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6778 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6779 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6780 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6782 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6783 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6784 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6785 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6788 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6789 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6790 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6791 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6792 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6793 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6796 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6797 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6798 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6799 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6801 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6802 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6803 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6805 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6806 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6807 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6809 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6810 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6811 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6812 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6813 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6814 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6815 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6817 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6818 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6819 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6822 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6823 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6824 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6825 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6826 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6827 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6828 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6829 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6831 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6832 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6833 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6834 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6835 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6836 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6839 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6840 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6841 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6842 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6843 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6845 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6846 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6847 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6848 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6849 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6850 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6851 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6852 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6854 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6855 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6856 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6859 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6860 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6861 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6862 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6863 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6864 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6865 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6866 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6867 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6868 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6870 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6871 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6872 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6873 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6874 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6875 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6877 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6878 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6879 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6880 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6882 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6883 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6884 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6885 Resolves issue 29702.
6887 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6888 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6890 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6891 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6892 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6893 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6896 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6897 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6898 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6899 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6901 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6902 Closes ticket 31859.
6903 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6904 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6906 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6907 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6908 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6909 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6910 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6911 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6912 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6913 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6914 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6915 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6917 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6918 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6919 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6920 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6921 Closes ticket 32500.
6924 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6925 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6926 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6927 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6930 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6931 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6932 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6933 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6934 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6935 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6936 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6937 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6938 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6940 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6941 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6942 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6945 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6946 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6947 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6949 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6950 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6951 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6952 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6953 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6955 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6956 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6957 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6959 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6960 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6961 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6962 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6964 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6965 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6966 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6967 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6970 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6971 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6972 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6973 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6974 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6976 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6977 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6978 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6981 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6982 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6983 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6985 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6986 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6987 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6988 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6989 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6990 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6992 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6993 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6994 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6995 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6996 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6997 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6998 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6999 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7000 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7001 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7003 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7004 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7005 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7006 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7009 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
7010 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
7011 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
7012 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
7013 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
7014 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
7015 bugfixes on earlier versions.
7017 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
7018 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
7019 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7020 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7022 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
7023 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7025 o Directory authority changes:
7026 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
7029 o Major features (circuit padding):
7030 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
7031 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
7032 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
7033 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
7034 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
7035 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
7036 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
7037 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
7038 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
7040 o Major features (code organization):
7041 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
7042 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
7043 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
7044 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
7047 o Major features (controller protocol):
7048 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
7049 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
7050 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
7051 Closes ticket 30091.
7053 o Major features (flow control):
7054 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
7055 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
7056 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
7057 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
7058 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
7059 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
7060 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
7062 o Major features (performance):
7063 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
7064 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
7065 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
7067 o Major features (performance, RNG):
7068 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
7069 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
7070 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
7071 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
7072 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
7073 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
7074 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
7075 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
7077 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7078 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
7079 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
7080 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
7081 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
7082 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
7083 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
7084 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
7085 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
7086 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
7087 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7089 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7090 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
7091 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
7093 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7094 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
7095 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
7096 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
7097 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7099 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
7100 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
7101 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
7102 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
7103 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7106 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
7107 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
7108 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
7109 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
7110 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
7112 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
7113 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
7114 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
7115 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
7118 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
7119 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
7120 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
7121 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
7122 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
7123 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
7126 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
7127 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
7128 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
7129 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
7131 o Minor features (circuit padding):
7132 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
7134 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
7135 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
7136 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
7137 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
7138 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7139 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
7140 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
7142 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
7143 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
7144 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
7146 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7147 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
7148 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
7149 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
7150 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
7152 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
7153 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
7155 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
7157 o Minor features (controller):
7158 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
7159 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
7160 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7162 o Minor features (debugging):
7163 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
7164 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
7165 can use format strings to include information for trouble
7166 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
7168 o Minor features (defense in depth):
7169 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
7170 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
7171 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
7172 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
7173 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
7174 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
7175 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
7176 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
7177 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
7179 o Minor features (developer tools):
7180 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
7181 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
7182 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
7183 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
7184 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
7186 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
7187 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
7189 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
7190 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
7192 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7193 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
7194 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
7195 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
7196 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
7198 o Minor features (geoip):
7199 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7200 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
7201 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7202 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
7204 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
7205 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
7206 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
7208 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
7209 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
7210 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
7211 addresses. Implements 26992.
7213 o Minor features (logging):
7214 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
7215 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
7216 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
7217 Closes ticket 30686.
7219 o Minor features (maintenance):
7220 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
7221 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
7222 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
7224 o Minor features (modularity):
7225 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
7226 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
7228 o Minor features (performance):
7229 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
7230 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
7231 Closes ticket 28837.
7233 o Minor features (testing):
7234 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7235 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7236 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7237 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7239 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7240 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7241 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7242 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
7243 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
7244 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
7245 Implements ticket 29732.
7246 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
7247 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
7249 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
7250 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
7252 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
7253 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
7254 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
7255 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
7256 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7257 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7259 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
7260 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
7261 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
7262 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7264 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
7265 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
7266 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7268 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7269 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
7270 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7271 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
7272 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
7273 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
7274 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7275 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
7276 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
7277 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7278 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
7279 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7280 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7281 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
7282 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7283 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
7284 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
7285 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7287 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7288 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7289 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7290 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7291 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7293 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7294 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7295 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7296 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7297 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7298 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7300 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7301 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7302 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
7305 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7306 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7307 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7309 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
7310 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
7311 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
7312 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7314 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7315 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7316 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7317 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7319 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7320 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7321 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7322 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7323 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7324 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
7325 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7327 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7328 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
7329 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
7330 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
7331 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7333 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
7334 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
7335 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
7336 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7338 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7339 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7340 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7343 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7344 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
7345 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
7346 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7347 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7348 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7350 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
7351 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7352 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7354 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7355 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
7356 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7357 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
7358 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
7359 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
7361 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
7362 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
7364 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7365 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
7366 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
7367 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
7368 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7369 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
7370 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
7373 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7374 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
7375 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
7377 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
7378 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
7381 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7382 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7383 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7384 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7386 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7387 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
7388 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
7389 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7390 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
7391 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
7392 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
7393 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
7395 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
7396 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
7397 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7398 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
7399 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
7400 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
7401 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7403 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
7404 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
7405 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
7406 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
7407 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
7408 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7410 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7411 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7412 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7413 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7416 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7417 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
7418 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
7419 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
7420 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7422 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7423 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
7424 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7426 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7427 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7428 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7429 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7430 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7431 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7434 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
7435 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
7436 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
7439 o Minor bugfixes (python):
7440 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
7441 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
7442 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7444 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7445 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
7446 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
7447 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
7448 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7450 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7451 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7452 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7453 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7455 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7456 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
7457 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
7458 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
7459 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7461 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7462 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
7463 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
7464 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7465 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
7466 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7467 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
7468 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7469 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
7470 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
7471 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
7472 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
7473 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7475 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7476 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
7477 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
7478 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
7479 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7481 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7482 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
7483 port. Implements ticket 30007.
7484 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
7485 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
7486 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
7487 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
7488 string to directory connection with or without compression.
7489 Resolves issue 28816.
7490 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
7491 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
7492 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
7493 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
7494 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
7495 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
7496 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
7497 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
7498 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
7499 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
7500 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
7501 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
7502 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
7503 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
7504 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
7505 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
7506 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7507 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
7508 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7509 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
7510 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
7511 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
7512 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
7513 Closes ticket 29894.
7514 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
7515 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
7516 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
7517 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
7520 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7521 Closes ticket 30630.
7522 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
7523 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
7527 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
7528 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
7529 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
7530 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
7534 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7535 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7536 Resolves issue 29702.
7538 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7539 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
7540 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
7541 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
7542 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
7543 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
7544 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
7545 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
7546 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
7547 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
7548 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
7551 o Testing (chutney):
7552 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
7553 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
7554 Closes ticket 27251.
7556 o Testing (continuous integration):
7557 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
7558 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7559 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
7560 Closes ticket 30694.
7563 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
7564 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
7565 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
7566 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
7567 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
7568 long-term maintainability.
7570 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
7571 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
7572 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7573 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7575 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
7576 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7578 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
7579 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
7580 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
7581 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
7582 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
7583 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
7585 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
7586 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
7588 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
7589 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
7592 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
7593 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
7594 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
7595 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
7596 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
7597 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
7598 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
7599 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
7600 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
7603 o Major features (circuit padding):
7604 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
7605 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
7606 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
7607 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
7608 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
7609 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
7610 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
7611 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
7614 o Major features (refactoring):
7615 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
7616 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
7617 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
7618 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
7621 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7622 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7623 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7624 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7625 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7626 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7627 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7628 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7630 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7631 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7632 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7633 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7634 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7636 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
7637 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
7638 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
7639 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
7640 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
7641 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7643 o Minor features (address selection):
7644 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
7645 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
7646 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
7647 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
7648 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
7649 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
7650 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7652 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
7653 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
7654 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
7655 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
7656 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
7658 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
7659 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
7660 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
7663 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
7664 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
7665 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
7666 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
7667 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
7670 o Minor features (compilation):
7671 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7672 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7673 Patches from "Mangix".
7675 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7676 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
7677 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
7679 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
7681 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
7682 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
7683 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
7685 o Minor features (controller):
7686 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
7687 Implements ticket 28843.
7689 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7690 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
7691 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
7692 release. Closes ticket 27761.
7693 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
7694 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
7695 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
7697 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
7698 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
7699 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
7701 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7702 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
7703 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
7706 o Minor features (directory authority):
7707 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
7708 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
7709 Closes ticket 26698.
7710 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
7711 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
7712 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
7713 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
7716 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
7717 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
7718 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
7719 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
7720 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
7721 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
7722 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
7724 o Minor features (dormant mode):
7725 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
7726 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
7727 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
7728 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
7729 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
7730 background. Closes ticket 29357.
7732 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7733 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
7734 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
7736 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
7737 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
7738 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
7739 Closes ticket 28518.
7741 o Minor features (geoip):
7742 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7743 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
7745 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
7746 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
7747 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
7748 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
7750 o Minor features (IPv6):
7751 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
7752 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
7753 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
7754 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
7755 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
7756 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7757 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
7758 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
7759 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
7760 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7762 o Minor features (log messages):
7763 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
7764 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
7767 o Minor features (memory usage):
7768 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
7769 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
7770 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
7771 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
7772 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
7774 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
7775 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
7776 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
7777 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
7779 o Minor features (parsing):
7780 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
7781 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
7782 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
7784 o Minor features (performance):
7785 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
7786 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
7787 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
7788 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
7790 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
7791 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
7792 Closes ticket 28852.
7793 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
7794 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
7795 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
7796 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
7797 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
7798 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
7800 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
7801 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
7802 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
7803 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
7804 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
7806 o Minor features (process management):
7807 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
7808 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
7809 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
7810 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
7811 module. Closes ticket 28847.
7813 o Minor features (relay):
7814 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
7815 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
7816 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
7818 o Minor features (required protocols):
7819 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
7820 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
7821 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
7822 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
7823 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
7824 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
7825 297; closes ticket 27735.
7827 o Minor features (testing):
7828 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7830 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
7831 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
7832 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
7833 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
7836 o Minor bugfixes (security):
7837 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
7838 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
7839 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
7840 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
7841 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
7842 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
7843 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
7844 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
7846 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
7847 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
7848 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
7849 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7851 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
7852 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
7853 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
7854 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
7855 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
7857 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
7858 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
7859 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7861 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
7862 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7863 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7864 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7866 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7867 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
7868 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
7871 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
7872 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
7873 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7874 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7875 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7878 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7879 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
7880 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7881 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7882 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7883 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7885 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
7886 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7887 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7889 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7890 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
7891 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
7892 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7894 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
7895 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
7896 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
7897 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
7898 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
7900 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7901 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7902 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7903 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7905 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7906 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
7907 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
7908 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
7909 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
7910 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
7911 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7913 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7914 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7915 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7916 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7919 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7920 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
7921 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
7922 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
7923 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7924 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
7925 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
7926 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
7927 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7928 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
7929 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7930 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
7931 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7932 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7933 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7934 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7935 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7936 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7937 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7938 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7939 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7940 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7942 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7943 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
7944 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
7945 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7946 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
7947 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7949 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7950 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7951 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7952 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7953 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7955 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7956 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
7957 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
7958 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7960 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
7961 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7962 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7963 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7964 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7965 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7967 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7968 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7969 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7971 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7972 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7973 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7975 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7976 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7977 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7978 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7980 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
7981 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
7982 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
7983 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7985 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7986 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
7987 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
7988 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
7989 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7991 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7992 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
7993 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7995 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7996 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
7997 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
7998 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
7999 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
8002 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
8003 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
8004 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
8005 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
8006 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
8007 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
8008 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
8010 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
8011 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
8012 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
8015 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8016 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
8017 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
8018 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8019 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
8020 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
8022 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
8023 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
8024 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
8025 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
8026 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
8027 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
8028 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8029 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8030 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8031 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8032 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8034 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
8035 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
8036 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
8037 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8039 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
8040 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
8041 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
8042 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
8043 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
8044 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
8045 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
8046 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8048 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
8049 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8050 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8051 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8052 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8054 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
8055 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
8056 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
8057 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
8058 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
8059 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8061 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8062 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
8063 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
8064 Resolves issue 28816.
8065 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
8066 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
8067 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
8068 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
8069 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
8071 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
8072 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
8073 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
8074 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
8075 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
8076 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
8077 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
8078 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
8082 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
8083 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
8084 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
8085 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
8086 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
8087 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
8088 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
8089 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
8090 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
8092 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
8095 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
8096 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
8097 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
8098 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
8099 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
8100 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
8101 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
8102 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
8105 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
8107 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
8108 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
8110 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
8111 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
8112 code from client and service into one function. Closes
8115 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8116 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
8118 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
8119 Resolves ticket 28006.
8120 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
8121 Resolves ticket 28012.
8122 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
8123 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
8124 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
8125 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
8129 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
8130 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
8131 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
8134 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8135 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8136 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8138 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8139 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8140 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8141 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8142 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8143 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8144 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8145 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8147 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8148 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8149 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8150 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8151 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8153 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8154 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8155 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8156 Patches from "Mangix".
8158 o Minor features (geoip):
8159 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8160 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8162 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8163 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8166 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8167 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8168 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8169 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8170 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8171 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8173 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8174 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8175 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8176 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8179 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8180 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8181 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8182 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8184 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8185 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8186 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8189 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8190 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8191 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8192 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8194 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8195 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8196 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8197 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8199 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8200 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8201 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8202 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8203 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8204 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8206 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8207 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8208 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8209 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8210 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8212 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8213 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8214 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8215 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8216 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8218 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8219 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8220 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8222 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8223 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8224 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8226 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8227 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8228 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8229 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8231 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8232 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8233 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8235 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8236 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8237 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8238 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8239 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8242 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8243 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8244 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8245 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8246 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8249 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8250 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8251 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8252 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8253 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8255 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8256 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8257 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8258 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8259 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8260 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8261 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8262 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8264 o Minor features (geoip):
8265 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8266 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8268 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8269 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8270 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8271 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8273 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8274 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8275 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8276 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8277 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8280 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8281 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8282 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8283 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8285 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8286 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8287 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8288 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8290 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8291 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8292 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8293 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8294 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8295 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8296 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8297 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8299 o Minor features (geoip):
8300 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8301 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8303 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8304 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8305 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8306 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8308 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8309 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8310 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8311 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8312 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8315 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
8316 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8317 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
8318 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
8319 to this version, or to a later series.
8321 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
8322 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
8323 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
8324 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
8325 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
8326 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8328 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8329 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8330 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8331 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8332 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8335 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8336 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8337 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8338 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8340 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8341 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8342 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8343 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8344 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8345 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8346 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8347 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8349 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8350 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8351 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8352 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8354 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8355 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8356 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8357 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8358 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8360 o Minor features (geoip):
8361 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8362 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8364 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8365 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8366 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8367 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8368 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8369 Closes ticket 28973.
8371 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8372 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8373 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8374 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8376 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8377 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8378 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8381 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8382 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8383 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8385 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8386 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8387 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8388 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8390 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8391 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8392 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8393 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8395 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8396 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8397 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8398 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8399 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8400 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8403 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8404 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8405 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8408 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8409 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8410 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8411 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8412 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8414 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8415 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8416 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8417 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8418 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8420 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8421 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8422 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8423 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8424 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8425 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8427 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8428 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
8429 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
8432 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8433 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8434 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8436 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8437 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8438 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8440 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8441 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8442 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8445 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8446 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8447 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8448 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8449 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8450 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8451 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8452 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8454 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8455 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8456 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8457 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8459 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8460 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8461 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8462 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8463 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8464 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8465 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8466 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8467 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8468 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8470 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8471 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8472 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8473 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8474 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8475 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8477 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8478 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8479 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8480 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8481 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8483 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8484 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8485 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8488 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
8489 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8490 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
8491 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
8494 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
8495 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
8496 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
8499 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8500 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8501 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8502 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8503 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8506 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8507 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8508 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8509 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8510 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8511 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8512 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8514 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8515 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8516 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8519 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8520 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8521 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8522 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8523 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8526 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8527 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8528 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8529 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8530 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8532 o Minor features (geoip):
8533 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8534 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8536 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8537 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8538 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8539 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8540 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8541 Closes ticket 28973.
8543 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8544 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8545 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8546 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8548 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8549 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8550 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8551 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8552 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8555 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8556 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8557 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8558 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8560 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8561 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8562 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8564 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8565 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8566 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8567 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8569 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8570 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8571 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8572 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8573 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8574 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8577 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8578 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8579 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8581 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8582 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8583 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8584 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8585 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8587 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8588 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8589 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8590 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8591 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8592 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8594 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8595 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8596 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8597 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8599 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8600 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8601 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8604 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
8605 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8606 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
8607 affecting directory caches.
8609 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
8610 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
8611 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
8612 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
8613 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
8614 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
8615 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
8616 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
8618 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
8619 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
8620 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
8621 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
8622 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
8623 so it will recognize them.
8625 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
8626 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
8627 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
8628 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
8629 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
8630 with the latest stable release.)
8632 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
8633 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8635 o Major features (bootstrap):
8636 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
8637 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
8638 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
8639 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
8641 o Major features (new code layout):
8642 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
8643 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
8644 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
8645 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
8646 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
8647 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
8648 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
8650 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
8651 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
8652 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
8654 o Major features (onion services v3):
8655 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
8656 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
8657 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
8658 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
8659 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
8660 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
8661 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
8662 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
8663 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
8664 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
8665 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
8666 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
8667 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
8668 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
8669 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
8670 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
8671 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
8672 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
8674 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
8675 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
8676 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
8677 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
8678 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
8679 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
8681 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
8682 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
8683 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
8684 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
8685 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
8686 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
8687 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
8689 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
8690 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
8691 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
8692 (if present), and restart Tor.
8694 o Major features (relay, UI change):
8695 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
8696 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
8697 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
8698 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
8699 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8700 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
8701 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
8703 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8704 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8705 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8707 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
8708 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
8709 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
8710 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
8711 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
8712 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8714 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8715 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
8716 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
8717 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
8720 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
8721 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
8722 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
8723 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
8724 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8726 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
8727 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8728 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8729 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8730 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8732 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
8733 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
8734 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
8735 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
8736 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
8737 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
8739 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
8740 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8741 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8742 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8743 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8746 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
8747 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
8748 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
8749 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
8750 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
8751 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
8753 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8754 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8755 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8756 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8757 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8759 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8760 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8761 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8762 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8763 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8764 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8766 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
8767 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8768 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8769 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8771 o Minor features (admin tools):
8772 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
8773 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
8776 o Minor features (build):
8777 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
8778 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
8779 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
8780 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
8782 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
8783 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
8784 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
8785 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
8786 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
8788 o Minor features (code layout):
8789 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
8790 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
8791 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
8792 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
8795 o Minor features (compilation):
8796 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
8797 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
8798 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
8799 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
8800 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
8801 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
8804 o Minor features (config):
8805 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
8808 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8809 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
8811 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
8812 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
8813 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8814 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8815 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8816 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
8817 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
8819 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8820 Implements ticket 27252.
8821 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8822 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8823 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8824 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8825 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8826 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8827 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8828 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8829 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8831 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
8832 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8833 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8835 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
8836 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
8838 o Minor features (controller):
8839 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
8840 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
8841 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
8842 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
8843 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8844 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8845 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8846 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8848 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
8849 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
8850 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
8851 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
8853 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8854 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
8855 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
8856 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8858 o Minor features (development):
8859 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
8860 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
8862 o Minor features (directory authority):
8863 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
8864 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
8865 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
8866 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
8868 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
8869 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
8872 o Minor features (embedding API):
8873 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
8874 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
8875 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
8876 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
8877 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
8878 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
8881 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8882 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8883 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8884 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8885 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8887 o Minor features (geoip):
8888 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8889 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8891 o Minor features (memory management):
8892 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
8893 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
8896 o Minor features (memory usage):
8897 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
8898 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
8899 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
8901 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
8902 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8903 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8904 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8905 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8906 Closes ticket 28973.
8908 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
8909 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
8910 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
8912 o Minor features (performance):
8913 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
8914 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
8915 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
8916 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
8917 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
8918 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
8919 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
8920 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
8921 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
8922 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
8924 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
8925 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
8926 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
8927 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
8929 o Minor features (testing):
8930 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
8931 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
8933 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
8934 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
8935 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
8937 o Minor features (UI):
8938 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
8939 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
8940 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
8941 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
8942 Closes ticket 26703.
8944 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
8945 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8946 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8947 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8948 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8950 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8951 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8952 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8953 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8954 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8957 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8958 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
8959 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
8960 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8962 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8963 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
8964 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
8965 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8966 - Use time_t for all values in
8967 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
8968 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
8969 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8971 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
8972 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
8973 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
8974 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
8975 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
8978 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
8979 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
8980 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
8981 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
8982 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
8983 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8985 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
8986 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
8987 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
8988 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8990 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
8991 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8992 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8995 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8996 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8997 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8998 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9000 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9001 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
9002 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
9005 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
9006 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
9007 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
9008 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
9009 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
9011 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
9012 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9013 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9014 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9015 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9018 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9019 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9020 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9021 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9022 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9023 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9024 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9025 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9026 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9027 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9028 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9029 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9030 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9032 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9033 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9034 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9036 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9037 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
9038 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
9039 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
9040 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
9043 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9044 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
9045 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
9046 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
9047 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
9049 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
9050 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9051 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9053 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
9054 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9055 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9056 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9057 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9058 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9061 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
9062 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9063 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9066 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
9067 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
9068 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
9069 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
9070 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9072 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9073 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
9074 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
9077 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9078 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
9079 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
9081 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
9082 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
9083 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
9084 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
9085 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
9086 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
9088 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
9089 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
9090 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
9091 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
9092 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9094 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9095 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9096 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9097 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
9098 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9100 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
9101 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9102 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9104 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
9105 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
9106 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
9107 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
9110 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9111 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9112 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9113 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9114 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9115 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9116 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
9117 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
9118 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
9120 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
9121 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
9123 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9124 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9125 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9126 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9127 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9128 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9129 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9130 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9131 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9132 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9133 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9135 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
9136 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
9137 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
9138 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9140 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
9141 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
9142 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
9143 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
9144 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
9146 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
9147 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
9148 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
9149 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
9151 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
9152 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9153 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9156 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
9157 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
9159 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9160 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9161 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9162 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9163 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9164 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9165 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9166 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9167 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9168 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9170 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
9171 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
9172 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
9173 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
9174 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9176 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9177 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9178 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9179 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9181 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9182 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
9183 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
9184 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
9185 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
9186 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9187 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9188 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
9189 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
9190 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9192 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9193 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
9194 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
9195 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9196 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9197 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9198 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9199 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9200 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9202 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
9203 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
9204 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9205 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
9206 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9207 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9208 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9209 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9210 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9211 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9212 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
9213 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
9214 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9215 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
9216 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9218 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9219 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
9220 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
9221 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
9222 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
9223 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
9224 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
9225 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
9227 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
9228 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9229 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9230 reported by Keifer Bly.
9232 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9233 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9234 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9236 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
9237 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
9238 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
9239 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
9240 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
9241 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
9242 Closes ticket 27814.
9243 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
9244 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
9245 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
9246 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
9247 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
9248 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
9249 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
9250 Closes ticket 27799.
9251 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
9252 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
9253 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
9254 directory within the top-level src directory.
9255 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
9256 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
9257 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
9258 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
9259 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
9260 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
9261 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
9262 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
9263 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
9264 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
9265 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
9266 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
9267 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
9268 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
9269 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
9270 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
9271 Closes ticket 21349.
9272 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
9273 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
9274 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
9275 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
9276 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
9277 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
9278 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
9280 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
9281 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
9282 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
9285 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
9286 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
9287 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
9288 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
9289 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
9290 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
9291 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
9292 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
9293 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
9296 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
9297 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
9298 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
9299 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
9300 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
9301 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
9302 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
9303 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
9304 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
9305 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
9306 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
9307 Closes ticket 26367.
9310 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9311 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9313 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9314 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9315 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9316 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9317 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9318 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9319 Closes ticket 19566.
9321 o Documentation (onion services):
9322 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9323 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9324 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9325 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9326 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9327 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9328 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9329 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9332 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9333 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9334 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9335 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9336 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9338 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9339 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9340 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9342 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9343 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9344 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9345 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9346 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9348 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9349 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9350 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9351 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9352 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9355 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9356 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9357 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9358 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9360 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9361 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9362 Implements ticket 27252.
9363 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9364 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9365 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9366 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9367 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9368 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9369 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9371 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9372 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9373 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9374 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9376 o Minor features (geoip):
9377 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9378 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9380 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9381 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9382 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9383 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9384 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9386 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9387 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9388 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9389 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9390 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9393 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9394 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9395 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9398 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9399 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9400 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9401 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9402 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9404 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9405 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9406 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9408 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9409 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9410 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9412 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9413 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9414 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9415 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9417 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9418 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9419 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9421 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9422 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9423 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9426 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9427 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9428 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9430 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9431 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9432 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9435 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9436 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9437 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9438 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9439 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9441 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9442 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9443 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9444 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9445 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9446 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9448 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9449 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9450 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9453 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9454 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9455 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9456 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9457 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9458 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9459 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9460 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9462 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9463 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9464 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9465 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9467 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9468 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9469 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9470 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9471 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9473 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9474 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9475 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9476 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9477 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9478 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9480 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9481 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9482 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9483 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9484 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9485 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9487 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9488 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9489 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9490 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9493 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9494 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9495 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9496 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9497 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9500 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
9501 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
9503 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9504 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9505 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9506 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9508 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9509 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9511 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9512 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9513 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9514 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9516 o Minor features (geoip):
9517 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9518 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9520 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9521 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9522 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9523 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9525 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9526 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9527 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9528 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9529 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9530 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9531 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9532 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9535 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9536 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9537 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9538 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9540 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9541 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9542 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9543 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9545 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9546 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9547 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9548 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9550 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9551 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9552 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9553 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9554 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9556 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9557 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9558 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9561 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9562 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9563 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9564 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9565 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9567 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9568 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9569 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9572 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9573 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9574 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9575 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9577 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9578 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9579 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9581 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9582 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9583 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9586 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9587 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9588 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9589 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9590 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9592 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9593 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9594 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9597 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
9598 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9600 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9601 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9602 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9603 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9605 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9606 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9608 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9609 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9610 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9611 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9613 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9614 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9617 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9618 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9619 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9620 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9622 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9623 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9624 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9625 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9627 o Minor features (geoip):
9628 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9629 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9631 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9632 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9633 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9634 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9635 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9636 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9637 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9639 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9640 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9641 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9642 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9643 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9644 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9645 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9646 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9649 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9650 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9651 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9652 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9654 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9655 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9656 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9657 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9659 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9660 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9661 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9662 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9663 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9665 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9666 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9667 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9668 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9669 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9671 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9672 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9673 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9676 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9677 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9678 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9679 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9680 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9682 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9683 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9684 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9687 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9688 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9689 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9692 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9693 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9694 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9697 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9698 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9700 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9701 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9702 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9703 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9705 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9706 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9707 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9708 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9710 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9711 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9712 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9714 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9715 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9716 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9717 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9718 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9719 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9720 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9723 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9724 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
9725 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
9726 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
9727 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9729 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9730 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9731 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9732 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9733 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9735 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9736 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9737 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9740 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
9741 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9743 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9744 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9745 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9746 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9748 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9749 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9750 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9751 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9753 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9754 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9755 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9757 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9758 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9759 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9760 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9762 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9763 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9766 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9767 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9768 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9769 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9771 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9772 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9773 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9774 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9776 o Minor features (geoip):
9777 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9778 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9780 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9781 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9782 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9783 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9784 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9785 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9786 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9788 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9789 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9790 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9791 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9792 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9793 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9794 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9795 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9798 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9799 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9800 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9801 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9803 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9804 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9805 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9806 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9808 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9809 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9810 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9811 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9812 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9814 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9815 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9816 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9817 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9818 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9820 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9821 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9822 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9825 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9826 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9827 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9828 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9830 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9831 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9832 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9833 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9834 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9836 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9837 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9838 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9841 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9842 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9843 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9846 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9847 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9848 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9851 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9852 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9853 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9854 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9856 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9857 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9858 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9861 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9862 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9864 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9865 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9866 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9867 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9868 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9869 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9870 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9872 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9873 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9874 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9875 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9876 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9878 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9879 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9880 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9881 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9883 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9884 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9885 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9887 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9888 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9889 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9890 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9891 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9892 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9893 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9896 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9897 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9898 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9899 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9900 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9902 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9903 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9904 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9905 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9906 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9908 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9909 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9910 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9913 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
9914 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9915 compilation and portability fixes.
9917 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
9918 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
9919 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
9920 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
9921 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
9922 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
9923 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
9924 our anti-denial-of-service code.
9926 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
9927 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9929 o New system requirements:
9930 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
9931 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
9932 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
9933 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
9935 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
9936 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
9937 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
9938 To disable the module, the configure option
9939 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
9940 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
9942 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
9943 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
9944 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
9945 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
9946 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
9947 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
9948 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
9949 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
9950 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
9951 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
9952 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
9954 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
9955 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
9956 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
9957 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
9958 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
9959 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
9960 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
9961 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
9962 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
9963 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
9964 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
9965 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
9966 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
9967 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
9968 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
9969 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
9970 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
9971 Tor's uptime (26009).
9973 o Minor features (accounting):
9974 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
9975 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
9976 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
9977 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
9979 o Minor features (bug workaround):
9980 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9981 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9982 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9984 o Minor features (code quality):
9985 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
9986 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
9987 Closes ticket 25024.
9989 o Minor features (compatibility):
9990 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9991 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9992 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9993 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
9994 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
9995 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
9997 o Minor features (compilation):
9998 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9999 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10000 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10001 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10002 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10003 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10004 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10005 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10008 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
10009 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
10010 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
10011 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
10012 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
10013 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
10015 o Minor features (configuration):
10016 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
10017 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
10018 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
10019 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
10020 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
10022 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10023 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
10024 Implements ticket 27449.
10025 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
10026 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
10028 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
10029 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10031 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10032 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10033 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
10034 Implements ticket 27275.
10035 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10036 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10037 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
10038 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
10039 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
10041 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
10042 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10045 o Minor features (control port):
10046 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
10047 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
10048 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
10049 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10050 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
10051 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
10052 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
10053 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
10054 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
10055 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
10057 o Minor features (controller):
10058 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10059 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10060 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10062 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10063 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
10064 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
10065 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
10066 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10067 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10068 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10070 o Minor features (directory authority):
10071 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
10072 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
10073 Closes ticket 23909.
10075 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
10076 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
10077 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
10078 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
10080 o Minor features (entry guards):
10081 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
10082 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
10084 o Minor features (geoip):
10085 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10086 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10088 o Minor features (performance):
10089 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
10090 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
10091 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
10092 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
10094 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
10095 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
10097 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
10098 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
10100 o Minor features (testing):
10101 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
10102 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
10103 more deterministic.
10104 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
10105 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
10106 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
10107 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
10108 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
10109 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
10111 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
10112 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
10113 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
10114 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
10115 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10117 o Minor features (unit tests):
10118 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
10119 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
10120 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
10123 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
10124 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
10125 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
10126 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
10127 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
10128 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
10130 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10131 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
10132 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
10133 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
10135 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
10136 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
10137 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10138 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
10139 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
10141 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10142 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10143 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10144 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10145 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10146 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10147 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10148 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10150 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10151 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10152 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10153 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10154 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
10155 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
10156 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10157 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
10158 Closes ticket 26245.
10159 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
10160 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
10161 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10163 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
10164 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10165 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10166 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10168 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10169 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10170 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10171 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10172 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10174 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
10175 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
10176 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
10177 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
10178 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10179 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
10180 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
10181 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10182 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
10183 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
10184 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
10185 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10187 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
10188 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
10189 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
10192 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10193 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10194 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10197 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
10198 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
10199 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10200 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
10201 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
10202 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
10205 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
10206 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
10207 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
10208 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
10209 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
10210 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
10211 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
10213 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
10214 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10215 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10216 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10218 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10219 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10220 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10221 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10222 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10224 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10225 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10226 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10229 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10230 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10231 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10233 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10234 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10236 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
10237 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
10238 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
10239 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
10240 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10242 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10243 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10244 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10246 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10247 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10248 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10249 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
10250 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
10253 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
10254 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
10255 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
10256 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10258 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10259 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
10260 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
10261 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
10262 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
10263 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
10264 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
10266 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10267 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10269 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10270 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10271 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10272 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10273 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10275 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10276 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10277 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10278 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10279 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10281 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
10282 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
10283 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
10284 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10286 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
10287 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
10288 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
10289 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
10292 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10293 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10294 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10295 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
10296 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
10297 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
10298 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
10299 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10300 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
10301 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
10303 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
10304 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
10305 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10306 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
10307 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
10308 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
10309 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
10311 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
10312 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
10313 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
10314 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
10315 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
10317 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
10318 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
10319 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
10322 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
10323 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
10324 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
10325 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
10326 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10328 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
10329 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10330 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10331 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10332 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10333 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10334 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10337 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10338 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10339 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10340 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10341 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10343 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10344 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10345 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10346 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10347 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10349 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
10350 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
10351 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
10352 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
10353 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
10354 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10356 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
10357 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10358 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10360 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10361 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
10362 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
10363 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
10364 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
10365 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
10366 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
10367 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
10369 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
10370 confusing we renamed some functions and
10371 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
10372 router_should_check_reachability() and
10373 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
10374 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
10375 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
10376 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
10377 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
10379 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
10380 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
10382 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
10383 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
10384 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10385 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
10386 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
10387 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
10388 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
10389 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
10390 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
10391 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
10392 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
10393 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
10394 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
10395 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
10396 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
10397 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10398 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
10399 Closes ticket 25766.
10400 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
10401 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
10402 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
10403 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
10404 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
10405 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10406 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
10407 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
10408 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
10409 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
10410 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10411 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
10412 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
10413 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
10415 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
10416 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
10417 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
10418 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
10419 before. Closes ticket 26016.
10420 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
10421 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
10422 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
10423 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
10425 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
10426 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
10427 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
10428 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10430 o Deprecated features:
10431 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
10432 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
10433 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
10434 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
10435 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
10436 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
10438 o Removed features:
10439 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
10440 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
10441 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
10442 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
10443 24378 and proposal 290.
10444 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
10445 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
10446 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
10447 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
10448 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
10449 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
10450 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
10451 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
10452 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
10453 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
10454 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
10455 their local router. Closes 25409.
10456 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
10457 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
10458 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
10459 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
10460 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
10461 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
10462 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
10463 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
10464 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
10465 Closes ticket 25268.
10468 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
10469 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10470 bridge relays should upgrade.
10472 o Directory authority changes:
10473 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10474 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10475 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10478 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
10479 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10480 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10483 o Directory authority changes:
10484 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10485 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10486 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10488 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10489 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10490 Closes ticket 26343.
10492 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10493 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10494 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10495 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10496 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10498 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10499 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10500 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10502 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10503 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10504 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10505 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10507 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10508 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10509 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10511 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10512 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10513 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10514 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10515 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10516 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10518 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10519 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10520 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10521 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10523 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10524 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10525 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10528 o Minor features (geoip):
10529 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10530 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10532 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10533 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10534 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10535 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10536 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10538 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10539 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10540 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10542 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10543 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10544 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10545 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10546 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10547 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10548 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10549 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10552 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10553 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10554 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10555 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10556 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10557 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10559 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10560 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10561 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10562 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10563 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10565 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10566 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10567 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10568 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10569 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10571 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10572 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10573 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10576 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10577 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10578 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10580 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10581 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10582 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10583 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10585 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10586 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10587 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10588 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10589 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10590 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10591 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10593 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10594 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10595 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10596 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10599 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10600 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10601 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10603 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10604 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10605 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10607 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10608 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10609 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10610 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10613 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10614 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10615 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10616 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10618 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10619 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10620 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10622 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10623 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10624 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10627 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
10628 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10629 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10632 o Directory authority changes:
10633 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10634 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10635 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10637 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10638 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10639 Closes ticket 26343.
10641 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10642 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10643 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10644 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10645 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10647 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10648 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10649 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10650 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10652 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10653 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10654 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10655 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10656 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10657 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10659 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10660 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10661 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10664 o Minor features (geoip):
10665 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10666 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10668 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10669 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10670 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10671 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10672 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10674 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10675 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10676 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10678 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10679 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10680 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10681 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10684 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10685 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10686 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10687 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10688 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10689 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10691 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10692 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10693 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10694 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10695 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10697 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10698 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10699 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10702 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10703 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10704 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10706 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10707 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10708 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10709 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10711 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10712 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10713 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10715 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10716 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10717 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10720 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
10721 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10722 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
10724 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10725 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10726 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10727 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10729 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10730 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10731 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10734 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10735 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10736 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10739 o Minor features (geoip):
10740 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10741 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10743 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10744 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10745 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10746 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10748 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10749 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
10750 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
10751 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
10752 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
10755 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10756 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10757 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10758 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10759 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10761 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10762 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10763 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10764 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10766 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10767 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10768 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10770 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10771 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10772 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10773 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10776 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10777 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10778 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10779 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10781 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10782 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10783 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10784 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10785 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10786 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10787 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10788 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10792 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
10793 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10794 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
10796 o Directory authority changes:
10797 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10798 Closes ticket 26343.
10800 o Minor features (geoip):
10801 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10802 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10804 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10805 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10806 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10807 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10808 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10809 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10811 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10812 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10813 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10815 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10816 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10817 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10818 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10819 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10821 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10822 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10823 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10825 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10826 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10827 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10828 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10829 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10830 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10833 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
10834 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
10835 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10837 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
10838 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
10839 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
10840 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
10841 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
10842 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
10844 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
10845 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10847 o New system requirements:
10848 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
10849 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
10851 o Major features (embedding):
10852 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
10853 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
10854 Closes ticket 23684.
10855 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
10856 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
10857 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
10858 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
10859 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
10860 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
10862 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
10863 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
10864 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
10865 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
10867 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
10868 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
10869 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
10870 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
10871 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
10873 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
10874 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
10877 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
10878 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
10879 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
10880 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
10881 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
10882 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
10883 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
10885 o Major features (onion services):
10886 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
10887 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
10888 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
10889 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
10890 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
10892 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
10893 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
10894 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
10895 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
10896 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
10897 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10899 o Major features (relay):
10900 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
10901 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
10902 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
10903 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
10904 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10906 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
10907 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
10908 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
10909 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
10910 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
10911 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
10912 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
10913 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
10915 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10916 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10917 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10918 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10919 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10921 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
10922 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10923 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10924 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10925 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10927 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10928 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10929 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10930 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10932 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
10933 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
10934 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
10935 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
10936 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
10937 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
10938 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
10939 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10941 o Major bugfixes (networking):
10942 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
10943 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
10944 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
10946 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10947 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10948 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10950 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
10951 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
10952 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
10953 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
10954 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
10955 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
10956 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
10958 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10959 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
10960 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
10961 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
10962 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10964 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10965 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10966 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
10969 o Minor features (cleanup):
10970 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
10971 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
10973 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10974 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
10975 Closes ticket 26006.
10977 o Minor features (config options):
10978 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
10979 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
10980 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
10983 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10984 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10985 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10987 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10988 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10989 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10990 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10991 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10992 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10994 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10995 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
10996 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
10997 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
10998 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
10999 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
11000 once. Part of ticket 24337.
11001 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
11002 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
11003 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
11005 o Minor features (directory authority):
11006 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
11007 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
11009 o Minor features (embedding):
11010 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
11011 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
11012 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
11013 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
11014 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
11015 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
11016 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
11017 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
11018 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
11019 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
11020 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
11021 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
11022 Closes ticket 23848.
11023 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
11024 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
11025 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
11027 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
11028 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
11029 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
11030 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
11031 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
11032 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
11033 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
11034 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
11037 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
11038 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
11039 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
11040 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
11041 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
11042 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
11043 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
11045 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
11046 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
11047 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
11048 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
11049 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
11050 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
11051 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
11052 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
11053 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
11054 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
11055 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
11056 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
11058 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
11059 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
11060 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
11062 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
11063 Implements ticket 24791.
11065 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
11066 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
11067 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
11068 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
11069 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
11070 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
11072 o Minor features (geoip):
11073 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
11074 database. Closes ticket 26104.
11076 o Minor features (heartbeat):
11077 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
11078 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
11081 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
11082 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
11083 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
11084 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
11085 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
11087 o Minor features (IPv6):
11088 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
11089 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
11090 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
11091 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
11092 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
11095 o Minor features (log messages):
11096 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
11097 information about memory usage from the different compression
11098 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
11099 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
11100 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
11101 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
11102 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
11104 o Minor features (logging):
11105 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
11106 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
11107 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
11110 o Minor features (performance):
11111 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
11112 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
11113 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
11114 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
11116 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
11117 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
11118 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
11119 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
11120 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
11121 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
11122 Implements ticket 24374.
11124 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
11125 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
11126 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
11127 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
11128 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
11130 o Minor features (performance, windows):
11131 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
11132 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
11133 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
11136 o Minor features (sandbox):
11137 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11138 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11139 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11141 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
11142 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
11143 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
11144 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
11145 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
11147 o Minor features (testing):
11148 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
11151 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
11152 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
11153 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
11154 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
11155 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
11156 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
11157 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
11158 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
11159 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
11161 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
11162 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
11163 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
11164 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
11165 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
11166 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
11167 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11168 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
11169 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
11172 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11173 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11174 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11175 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11177 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
11178 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
11179 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11181 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
11182 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
11183 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
11184 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
11185 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11187 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11188 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11189 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11192 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11193 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11194 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11195 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11197 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11198 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
11199 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
11200 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11201 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
11202 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
11203 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11205 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11206 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
11207 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
11208 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11210 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11211 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11212 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11213 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11214 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11216 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
11217 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
11218 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
11219 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
11222 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11223 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11224 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11225 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11226 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11228 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11229 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11230 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11231 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11232 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11235 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
11236 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
11237 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
11238 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
11239 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
11241 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11242 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
11243 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
11246 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
11247 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
11248 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
11250 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
11251 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11252 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
11253 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
11254 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
11256 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
11257 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11258 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
11259 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11261 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
11262 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
11263 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11264 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
11265 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
11266 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11268 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11269 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
11270 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
11271 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11273 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11274 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11275 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11277 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11278 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
11279 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
11280 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11282 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
11283 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
11284 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
11285 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
11288 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11289 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
11290 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
11291 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
11292 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11293 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
11296 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
11297 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
11298 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
11299 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11301 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11302 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
11303 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
11305 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11306 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
11307 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
11308 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
11309 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
11310 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11312 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11313 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11314 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11315 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11316 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11317 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11318 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11320 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11321 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
11322 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
11323 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
11325 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11326 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
11327 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
11328 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
11329 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
11331 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
11332 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
11333 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
11334 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
11335 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
11336 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11338 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
11339 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
11340 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
11341 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
11342 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
11343 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11344 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
11345 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
11346 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
11347 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
11348 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
11349 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11351 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11352 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11353 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11355 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
11356 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
11357 would call the Rust implementation of
11358 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
11359 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
11360 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
11361 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
11362 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11364 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
11365 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
11366 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
11367 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
11369 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11370 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11371 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11372 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11374 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
11375 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11377 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
11378 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
11379 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
11380 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
11381 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
11382 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11384 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11385 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11386 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11387 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
11388 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
11390 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
11392 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
11393 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
11394 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
11396 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
11398 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
11399 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
11400 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
11401 "aruna1234" and teor.
11402 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
11403 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
11404 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
11405 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
11407 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
11408 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
11409 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
11410 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
11411 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
11412 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
11413 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
11414 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
11415 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
11416 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
11418 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
11419 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
11422 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
11424 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
11425 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
11426 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
11427 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
11429 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
11430 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
11431 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
11432 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
11434 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
11435 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
11436 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
11437 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
11438 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
11440 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
11441 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
11442 adding very little except for unit test.
11444 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
11445 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
11446 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
11447 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
11449 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
11450 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
11451 const. Implements ticket 24489.
11453 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11454 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11455 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11457 o Documentation (man page):
11458 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
11459 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
11462 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
11463 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
11464 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
11468 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
11469 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
11472 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11473 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11475 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11476 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11478 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11481 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11482 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
11483 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11485 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
11486 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
11487 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
11488 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
11491 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11492 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11493 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11494 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11497 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11498 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11499 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11500 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11501 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11502 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11503 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11504 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11505 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11506 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11507 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11508 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11509 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11511 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11512 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11513 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11515 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11516 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11517 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11518 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11519 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11520 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11521 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11523 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11524 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11525 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11527 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11528 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11529 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11530 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11531 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11532 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11533 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11535 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11536 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11537 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11538 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11540 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11541 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11542 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11543 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11545 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11546 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11547 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11548 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11549 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11550 Closes ticket 24978.
11552 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11553 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11554 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11555 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11556 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11557 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11558 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11559 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11560 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11562 o Minor features (geoip):
11563 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11566 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11567 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11568 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11569 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11570 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11572 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11573 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11574 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11575 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11576 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11578 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11579 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11580 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11581 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11582 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11585 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11586 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11587 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11588 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11589 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11590 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11591 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11592 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11593 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11594 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11595 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11598 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
11599 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11600 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11602 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11603 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11604 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11607 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11608 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11609 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11610 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11611 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11612 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11613 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11615 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11616 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11617 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11618 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11619 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11620 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11621 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11622 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11623 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11626 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11627 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11628 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11629 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11630 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11631 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11633 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11634 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11635 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11636 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11638 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
11639 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11640 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11641 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11642 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11645 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11646 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11647 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11648 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11649 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11650 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11652 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11653 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11654 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11655 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11656 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11657 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11658 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11659 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11660 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11661 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11662 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11663 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11665 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11666 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11667 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11668 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11670 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11671 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11672 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11673 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11675 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11676 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11677 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11678 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11681 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
11682 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11683 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11684 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11685 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11687 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11688 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11690 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11691 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11693 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11694 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11695 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11698 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
11699 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11700 later Tor releases.
11702 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11703 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11705 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11706 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11708 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11711 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11712 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
11713 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11715 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11716 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11717 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11718 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11721 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
11722 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11723 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11724 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11725 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11726 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11727 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11728 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11729 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11730 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11731 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11732 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11733 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11735 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11736 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11737 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11738 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11739 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11740 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11741 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11742 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11743 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11745 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
11746 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11747 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11748 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11749 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11750 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11751 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11753 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11754 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11755 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11756 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11758 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
11759 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11760 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11761 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11762 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11763 Closes ticket 24978.
11765 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
11766 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11767 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11768 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11770 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11771 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11772 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11773 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11774 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11775 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11776 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11777 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11778 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11780 o Minor features (geoip):
11781 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11784 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11785 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11786 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11788 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
11789 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11790 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11791 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11792 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11794 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
11795 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11796 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11797 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11798 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11800 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11801 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11802 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11803 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11804 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11807 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11808 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11809 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11811 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11812 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11813 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11816 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11817 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11818 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11819 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11820 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11821 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11822 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11824 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11825 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11826 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11827 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11828 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11831 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11832 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11833 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11834 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11835 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11836 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11838 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11839 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11840 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11841 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11843 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11844 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11845 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11846 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11847 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11848 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11849 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11850 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11851 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11852 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11853 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11854 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11856 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11857 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11858 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11859 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11862 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11863 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11864 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11865 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11866 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11868 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11869 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11871 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11872 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11875 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
11876 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
11877 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
11880 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11881 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11883 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
11884 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
11885 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
11886 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
11887 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
11888 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
11891 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11892 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11894 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11897 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
11898 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11899 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11900 the DoS mitigations.)
11902 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11903 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11904 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11905 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11908 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11909 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11910 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
11911 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11913 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11914 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11915 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11916 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11917 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11918 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11919 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11920 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11921 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11922 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11923 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11924 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11925 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11927 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11928 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11929 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11930 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11931 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11932 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11933 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11934 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
11935 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
11936 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
11937 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11939 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11940 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11941 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11943 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11944 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11945 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11946 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11947 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11948 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11949 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11951 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11952 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
11953 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
11954 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11956 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11957 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11958 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11959 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11961 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11962 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11963 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11964 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11965 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11966 Closes ticket 24978.
11968 o Minor features (geoip):
11969 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11972 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11973 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
11974 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
11977 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11978 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11979 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11980 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11981 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11983 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11984 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11985 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11986 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11987 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11988 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11989 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11991 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11992 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11993 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11994 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11995 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11997 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11998 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
11999 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
12000 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12002 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12003 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
12004 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
12005 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
12006 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12008 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12009 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12010 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12011 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12013 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12014 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12015 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12016 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12018 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12019 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12020 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12021 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12023 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12024 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12026 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12027 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12029 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12030 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
12031 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
12033 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12034 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
12035 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
12036 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
12037 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12039 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12040 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12041 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12043 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
12044 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
12045 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
12049 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
12050 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
12052 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
12053 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
12054 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
12055 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
12056 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
12057 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
12059 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
12060 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
12061 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
12062 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
12063 with the 0.2.9 series.
12065 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
12066 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12068 o Directory authority changes:
12069 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12070 Closes ticket 23910.
12071 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12072 Closes ticket 23592.
12073 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12074 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12075 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12076 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12077 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12080 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
12081 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
12082 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
12083 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
12084 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
12085 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
12088 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
12089 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
12091 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
12094 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
12097 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
12099 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
12101 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
12103 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
12104 they are 56 characters long, as in
12105 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
12107 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
12108 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
12109 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
12110 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
12111 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
12114 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
12115 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
12116 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
12117 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
12118 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
12119 options. For more information, see our blog post at
12120 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
12122 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
12123 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
12124 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
12125 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
12126 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
12127 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
12128 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
12129 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
12130 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
12131 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
12132 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
12133 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
12135 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
12136 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
12137 more information, see the design paper at
12138 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
12139 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
12140 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
12141 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
12143 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
12144 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12145 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12146 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12147 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12148 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12149 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12150 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12152 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
12153 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12154 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12155 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12158 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
12159 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12160 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12161 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12162 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12163 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12164 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12165 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12166 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12167 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12168 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12169 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12172 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
12173 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12174 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12175 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12176 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12177 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12178 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12179 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12180 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12182 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12183 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12184 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12185 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12186 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12187 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12188 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12189 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12190 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12191 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
12192 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
12195 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
12196 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
12197 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
12198 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
12199 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
12200 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
12201 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12203 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
12204 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12205 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12206 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12207 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12208 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12211 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
12212 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12213 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12214 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12216 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
12217 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
12218 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
12219 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
12221 o Minor features (bridge):
12222 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
12223 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
12224 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
12225 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
12226 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
12227 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
12228 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
12229 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
12230 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
12231 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
12232 related to ticket 23080.
12234 o Minor features (bug detection):
12235 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
12236 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
12237 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
12239 o Minor features (build, compilation):
12240 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
12241 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
12242 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
12243 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
12244 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
12245 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
12246 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
12247 Closes ticket 23643.
12249 o Minor features (client):
12250 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
12251 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
12252 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
12253 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
12254 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
12255 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
12256 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
12257 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
12258 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
12259 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
12260 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
12261 Resolves ticket 23670.
12263 o Minor features (command line):
12264 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
12265 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
12266 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
12268 o Minor features (control port):
12269 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
12270 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
12271 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
12273 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
12274 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
12276 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
12277 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
12278 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
12279 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
12280 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
12281 Closes ticket 23237.
12282 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
12283 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12285 o Minor features (development support):
12286 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
12287 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
12288 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
12289 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
12290 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
12291 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
12293 o Minor features (directory authority):
12294 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
12295 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
12296 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
12297 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
12299 o Minor features (ed25519):
12300 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
12301 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
12302 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
12304 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
12305 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
12306 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
12308 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12309 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12310 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12311 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12312 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12313 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12314 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12315 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12316 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12318 o Minor features (geoip):
12319 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12322 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
12323 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
12324 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
12325 another program, regardless of the settings of
12326 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
12327 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
12328 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
12330 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12331 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12332 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12334 o Minor features (logging):
12335 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
12337 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
12338 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
12340 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
12341 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
12342 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
12343 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
12344 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
12345 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
12346 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
12347 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
12348 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
12349 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
12351 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
12352 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
12354 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
12355 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
12356 the circuit identifier(s).
12357 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
12358 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
12360 o Minor features (portability):
12361 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
12362 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
12364 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
12365 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
12366 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
12367 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
12369 o Minor features (relay):
12370 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
12371 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
12372 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
12373 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
12374 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
12375 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
12376 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
12377 results. Closes ticket 22731.
12379 o Minor features (relay statistics):
12380 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12381 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12382 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12384 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
12385 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
12386 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
12387 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
12388 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
12390 o Minor features (robustness):
12391 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
12392 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
12394 o Minor features (startup, safety):
12395 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
12396 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
12399 o Minor features (static analysis):
12400 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
12401 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
12404 o Minor features (testing):
12405 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
12406 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
12407 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
12408 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
12410 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
12411 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
12412 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
12413 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
12414 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
12416 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12417 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12418 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12419 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12420 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12423 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12424 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
12425 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
12428 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
12429 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
12430 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
12431 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
12432 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12433 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
12434 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
12435 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
12436 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12437 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
12438 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
12439 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
12440 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12442 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
12443 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
12444 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
12445 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12447 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
12448 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12449 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12450 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12451 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
12452 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
12453 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
12454 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
12455 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12456 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12457 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12458 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
12459 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
12460 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12461 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
12462 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12463 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12465 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
12466 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
12467 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
12468 Coverity as CID 1415728.
12470 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12471 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
12472 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
12473 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12475 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
12476 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
12477 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
12478 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
12479 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
12480 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
12481 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
12482 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12484 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12485 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
12486 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
12487 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
12488 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12489 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
12490 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
12491 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12492 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
12493 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
12494 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
12495 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
12496 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
12497 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
12500 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12501 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12502 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12505 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
12506 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
12507 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
12508 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12510 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12511 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12512 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12515 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
12516 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
12517 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
12518 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12520 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
12521 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12522 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12523 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12524 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12525 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12526 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12527 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12528 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12531 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12532 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
12533 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
12534 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
12535 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12537 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
12538 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
12539 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
12540 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
12541 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
12542 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
12544 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
12545 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
12548 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12549 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
12550 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12551 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
12552 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
12553 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12555 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
12556 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
12557 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
12558 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12560 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
12561 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12562 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12563 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12564 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12565 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12567 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
12568 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
12569 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
12570 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
12571 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
12572 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
12573 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
12576 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
12577 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
12578 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
12579 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12581 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12582 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
12583 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
12584 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
12585 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12586 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
12587 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
12588 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12589 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
12590 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
12592 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
12593 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
12594 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
12596 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
12597 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
12598 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
12600 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
12601 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12602 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
12603 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
12604 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
12605 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
12607 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
12608 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12609 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12610 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12611 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12612 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12614 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
12615 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
12616 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12618 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12619 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12620 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12621 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12622 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12625 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12626 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12627 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12628 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12629 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12630 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12632 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12633 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
12634 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
12635 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
12636 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12637 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12638 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12640 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
12641 only fetch the service descriptor once.
12642 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12643 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12644 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12645 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
12646 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
12647 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
12648 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12650 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12651 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12652 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12653 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12654 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12655 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12656 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12657 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12658 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12659 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12660 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12661 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12663 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12664 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
12665 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12666 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12667 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12668 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12671 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12672 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
12673 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
12674 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
12675 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12676 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12677 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12678 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12679 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12680 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12681 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12682 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12684 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12685 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
12686 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12687 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
12688 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
12689 Closes ticket 24109.
12690 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
12691 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12692 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
12693 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
12695 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12696 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12698 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
12699 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
12700 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
12701 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
12702 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
12703 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
12704 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
12705 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12706 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
12707 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
12708 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12710 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
12711 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
12712 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
12713 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12715 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12716 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
12717 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
12719 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
12720 function from the general code to handle channel state
12721 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
12722 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
12723 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
12724 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
12725 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
12726 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
12727 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
12728 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
12730 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
12731 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
12733 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
12734 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
12735 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
12736 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
12737 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12738 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
12739 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
12740 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
12741 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
12742 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
12743 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
12744 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
12746 o Deprecated features:
12747 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
12748 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
12749 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
12750 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
12751 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
12752 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
12756 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
12757 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
12758 section. Closes ticket 24254.
12759 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
12760 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
12761 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
12762 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
12763 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
12764 Closes ticket 18736.
12765 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
12766 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
12767 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
12768 Closes ticket 15645.
12769 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
12770 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
12771 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
12772 file. Closes ticket 21148.
12774 o Removed features:
12775 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
12776 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
12777 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
12778 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
12779 Closes ticket 21031.
12780 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
12781 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
12784 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
12785 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
12786 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
12787 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
12789 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12790 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12791 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12792 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12793 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12794 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12795 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12796 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12797 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12798 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12799 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12801 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12802 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12803 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12804 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12805 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12806 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12807 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12810 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12811 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12812 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12813 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12814 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12816 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12817 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12818 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12819 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12820 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12821 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12822 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12823 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12824 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12826 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12827 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12828 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12829 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12830 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12831 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12834 o Minor features (bridge):
12835 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12836 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12837 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12838 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12841 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12842 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12845 o Minor features (geoip):
12846 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12849 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12850 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12851 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12852 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12853 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12855 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12856 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12857 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12859 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12860 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12861 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12862 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12863 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12864 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12866 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12867 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12868 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12871 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12872 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12873 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12874 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12875 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12878 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
12879 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12880 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12881 to another of the releases coming out today.
12883 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12884 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12885 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12887 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12888 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12889 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12890 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12891 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12892 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12893 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12894 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12895 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12896 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12897 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12899 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12900 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12901 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12902 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12903 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12904 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12905 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12908 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12909 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12910 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12911 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12912 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12914 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12915 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12916 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12917 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12918 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12919 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12920 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12921 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12922 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12924 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12925 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12926 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12927 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12928 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12929 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12932 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12933 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12934 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12935 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12936 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12937 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12939 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12940 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12941 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12942 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12943 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12946 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12947 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12950 o Minor features (geoip):
12951 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12954 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12955 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12956 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12957 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12958 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12960 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12961 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12962 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12964 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12965 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12966 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12967 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12968 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12969 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12971 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12972 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12973 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12974 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12975 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12977 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12978 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12979 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12982 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
12983 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12984 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12985 to another of the releases coming out today.
12987 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12988 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12989 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12990 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12991 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12992 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12995 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12996 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12997 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12998 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12999 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13000 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13001 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13002 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13003 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13004 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13005 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13007 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13008 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13009 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13010 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13011 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13012 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13013 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13016 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13017 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13018 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13019 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13020 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13022 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13023 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13024 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13025 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13026 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13027 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13029 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13030 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13031 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13032 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13033 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13036 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13037 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13040 o Minor features (geoip):
13041 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13044 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13045 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13046 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13047 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13048 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13049 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13051 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13052 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13053 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13054 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13055 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13057 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13058 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13059 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13061 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13062 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13063 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13064 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13065 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13066 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13068 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13069 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13070 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13071 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13072 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13074 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13075 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13076 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13079 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
13080 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13081 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13082 to another of the releases coming out today.
13084 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13085 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
13086 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13088 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13089 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13090 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13091 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13092 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13093 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13094 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13095 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13096 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13097 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13098 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13099 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13100 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13101 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13102 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13105 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13106 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13107 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13108 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13109 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13111 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13112 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
13113 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
13114 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
13115 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
13118 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13119 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13120 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13121 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13122 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13125 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13126 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13129 o Minor features (geoip):
13130 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13133 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13134 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13135 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13138 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
13139 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13140 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13141 to another of the releases coming out today.
13143 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13144 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13145 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13147 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13148 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13149 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13150 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13151 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13152 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13153 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13154 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13155 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13156 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13157 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13158 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13159 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13160 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13161 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13164 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13165 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13166 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13167 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13168 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13169 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13171 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13172 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13173 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13174 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13175 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13178 o Minor features (geoip):
13179 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13183 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
13184 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13185 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13187 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13188 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13189 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13191 o Directory authority changes:
13192 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13193 Closes ticket 23910.
13194 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13195 Closes ticket 23592.
13197 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13198 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13199 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13200 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13201 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13203 o Minor features (geoip):
13204 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13207 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13208 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13209 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13210 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13211 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13212 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13213 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13214 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13215 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13217 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13218 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13219 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13220 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13221 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13222 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13223 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13224 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13225 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13228 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
13229 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13230 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13231 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13233 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13234 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13235 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13237 o Directory authority changes:
13238 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13239 Closes ticket 23910.
13240 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13241 Closes ticket 23592.
13243 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13244 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13245 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13246 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13248 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13249 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13250 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13251 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13252 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13254 o Minor features (geoip):
13255 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13259 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
13260 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13261 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13262 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13264 o Directory authority changes:
13265 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13266 Closes ticket 23910.
13267 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13268 Closes ticket 23592.
13270 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13271 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13272 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13273 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13275 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13276 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13277 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13278 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13279 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13281 o Minor features (geoip):
13282 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13285 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13286 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13287 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13288 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13289 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13290 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13291 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13292 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13295 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13296 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13297 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13299 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13300 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13301 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13302 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13303 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13304 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13305 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13308 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
13309 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13310 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13311 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13313 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13314 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13315 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13317 o Directory authority changes:
13318 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13319 Closes ticket 23910.
13320 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13321 Closes ticket 23592.
13323 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13324 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13325 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13326 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13328 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13329 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13330 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13331 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13332 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13334 o Minor features (geoip):
13335 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13338 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13339 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13340 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13341 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13342 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13343 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13344 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13345 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13348 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13349 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13350 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13351 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13353 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13354 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13355 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13357 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13358 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13359 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13360 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13361 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13362 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13363 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13366 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
13367 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13368 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
13369 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
13370 a new directory authority, Bastet.
13372 o Directory authority changes:
13373 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13374 Closes ticket 23910.
13375 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13376 Closes ticket 23592.
13378 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13379 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13380 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13381 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13383 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13384 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13385 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13386 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13387 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13389 o Minor features (geoip):
13390 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13393 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13394 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
13395 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13396 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
13398 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13399 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
13400 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
13403 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13404 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
13405 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
13407 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13408 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13409 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13410 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13412 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13413 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13414 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13416 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13417 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
13418 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
13422 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
13423 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13426 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13427 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13428 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13429 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13431 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13432 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
13433 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
13434 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
13436 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13437 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13438 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13439 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13440 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13443 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13446 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13447 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13448 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13451 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13452 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13453 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13454 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13455 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13456 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13457 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13458 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13459 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13461 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13462 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13463 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13464 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13465 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13466 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13467 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13468 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13469 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13472 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
13473 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13476 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13477 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13478 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13479 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13481 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13482 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13483 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13484 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13485 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13486 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13487 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13489 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13490 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13491 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13492 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13494 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13495 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13496 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13498 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13499 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13500 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13501 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13503 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13504 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13505 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13506 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13507 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13509 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13510 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13511 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13512 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13514 o Minor features (geoip):
13515 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13518 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13519 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13520 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13521 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13523 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13524 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13525 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13526 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
13527 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13528 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
13529 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
13530 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13532 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13533 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
13534 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13536 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13537 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13538 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13541 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13542 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13543 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13544 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
13545 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13547 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13548 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13549 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13550 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13551 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13552 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13554 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13555 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13556 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13557 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13558 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13559 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13560 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13561 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13562 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13564 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13565 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13566 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13567 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13569 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13570 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13571 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13573 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13574 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13575 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13576 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13577 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13579 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13580 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13581 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13584 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13585 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13586 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13587 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13588 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13590 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13591 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13592 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13593 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13594 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13595 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13596 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13597 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13598 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13601 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
13602 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
13605 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13606 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13607 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13608 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13610 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13611 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13612 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13613 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13616 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13619 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13620 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13621 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13623 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13624 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13625 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13626 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13627 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13629 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13630 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13631 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13632 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13634 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13635 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13636 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13638 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13639 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13640 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13641 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13644 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
13645 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13647 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
13648 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
13649 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
13650 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
13651 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
13652 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
13653 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
13655 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
13656 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
13657 disabled. For more information, see
13658 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13660 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13661 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13662 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13663 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13664 with the 0.2.9 series.
13666 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
13667 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13669 o New dependencies:
13670 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
13671 pkg-config tool at build time.
13673 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
13674 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
13675 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
13676 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13677 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
13679 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
13680 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13681 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13682 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13683 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13684 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13685 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13686 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13687 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13689 o Major features (directory protocol):
13690 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
13691 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
13692 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
13693 now request these documents when available. When both client and
13694 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
13695 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
13696 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
13697 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
13698 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
13699 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
13700 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
13701 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
13702 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
13703 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
13704 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
13705 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
13706 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
13708 o Major features (experimental):
13709 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
13710 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
13711 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
13712 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
13713 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
13714 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
13715 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
13717 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
13718 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
13719 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
13720 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
13721 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
13722 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
13725 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
13726 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
13727 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
13728 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
13729 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
13730 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
13731 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
13732 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
13733 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
13734 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
13735 multiples of 10000.
13737 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13738 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13739 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13740 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13741 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13742 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13743 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13746 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
13747 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13748 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13749 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13750 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13751 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13753 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
13754 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
13755 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
13756 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
13757 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
13758 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
13759 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
13760 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
13761 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13762 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
13763 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
13764 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
13765 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
13766 Otherwise it is at info.
13768 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13769 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13770 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13771 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13772 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13773 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13774 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13776 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
13777 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13778 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13779 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13781 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
13782 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13783 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13784 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13785 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13787 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
13788 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13789 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13790 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13791 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13792 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13793 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13796 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
13797 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13798 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13799 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13800 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13801 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13802 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13803 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13804 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13805 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13806 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13807 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13808 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13811 o Minor features (security, windows):
13812 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13813 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13814 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13815 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13816 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13818 o Minor features (bridge authority):
13819 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
13820 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
13822 o Minor features (code style):
13823 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13824 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13825 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13827 o Minor features (config options):
13828 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
13829 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
13830 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
13831 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
13832 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
13833 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
13834 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
13835 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
13837 o Minor features (controller):
13838 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
13839 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
13841 o Minor features (defaults):
13842 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
13843 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
13844 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
13845 can. Closes ticket 21407.
13846 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
13847 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
13848 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
13849 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
13850 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
13851 Closes ticket 21641.
13853 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13854 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
13855 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
13856 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
13859 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13860 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
13861 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
13862 attempt for bug 23105.
13863 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
13864 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
13865 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
13866 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
13867 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
13868 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
13869 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
13871 o Minor features (directory authority):
13872 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
13873 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
13874 Closes ticket 22348.
13876 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
13877 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
13878 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
13879 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
13880 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
13883 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13884 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
13885 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
13886 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13887 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13888 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13889 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13891 o Minor features (geoip):
13892 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13895 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
13896 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
13897 introduction points than specified in
13898 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
13899 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
13900 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
13901 21594; closes ticket 21622.
13902 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
13903 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
13904 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
13905 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
13907 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13908 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
13909 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
13910 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
13911 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
13912 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
13913 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
13914 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
13915 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
13916 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
13918 o Minor features (logging):
13919 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
13920 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
13921 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
13922 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
13925 o Minor features (performance):
13926 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
13927 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
13929 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
13930 speed some controller functions.
13932 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
13933 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
13934 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
13935 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
13937 o Minor features (relay, performance):
13938 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
13939 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
13940 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
13941 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
13942 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
13945 o Minor features (safety):
13946 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
13947 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
13948 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
13951 o Minor features (testing):
13952 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
13954 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
13955 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
13956 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
13957 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
13958 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
13959 on. Closes ticket 21439.
13960 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
13961 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
13962 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
13963 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
13964 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
13965 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
13966 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
13967 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
13968 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
13969 21507. Partially implements 21470.
13971 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
13972 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13973 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13974 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13976 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13977 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
13978 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
13979 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
13982 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
13983 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
13984 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13985 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13986 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13987 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13988 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13989 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13992 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13993 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13994 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13996 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13997 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
13998 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
13999 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
14000 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
14001 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
14003 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14004 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14005 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14007 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
14008 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
14009 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
14010 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
14011 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
14012 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
14013 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14014 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
14015 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
14016 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
14017 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
14018 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
14019 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
14020 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
14022 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14023 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
14024 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14025 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
14026 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14027 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
14028 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14029 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
14030 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
14031 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
14032 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
14033 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14035 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14036 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14037 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14039 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
14040 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14041 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14042 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14043 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14044 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14046 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
14047 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
14048 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
14049 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
14050 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14051 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14052 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14053 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14054 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14055 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14056 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14057 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14059 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14060 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14061 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14062 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14063 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14064 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14065 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14066 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14068 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14069 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14070 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14071 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
14072 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
14073 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
14075 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
14076 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
14077 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
14080 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
14081 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
14082 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
14083 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
14084 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
14086 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14087 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
14088 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14089 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
14090 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
14091 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14092 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
14093 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14094 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
14095 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
14096 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14098 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
14099 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
14100 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
14101 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14103 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14104 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
14105 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
14106 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
14107 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
14108 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
14109 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
14110 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
14111 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
14112 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
14113 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14114 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
14115 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
14116 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14118 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
14119 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14120 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14121 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14122 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14123 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14124 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14126 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14127 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14128 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14129 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14130 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14131 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14132 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14134 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14135 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
14136 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
14137 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
14138 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
14139 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
14140 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
14141 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
14142 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
14143 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
14144 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14145 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
14146 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
14148 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
14149 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
14150 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
14151 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
14153 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
14154 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
14155 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
14157 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
14158 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
14159 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
14160 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14162 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14163 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
14164 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
14165 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14167 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14168 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
14169 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14170 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14171 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14172 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14173 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
14174 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
14175 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
14177 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
14178 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
14179 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
14180 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
14181 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
14182 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
14183 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
14186 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
14187 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
14188 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
14189 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
14190 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
14191 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
14193 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14194 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14195 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14196 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
14197 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
14198 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14199 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
14200 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14201 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
14202 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
14203 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
14204 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
14205 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14206 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14207 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
14208 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
14211 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
14212 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14213 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14214 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14215 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14217 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
14218 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14219 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14220 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14221 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14222 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14223 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14225 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
14226 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
14227 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14229 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14230 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
14231 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
14232 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
14233 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
14234 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
14235 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
14236 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
14237 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
14238 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
14239 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
14240 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
14242 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
14243 Resolves ticket 22213.
14244 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
14245 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
14246 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
14247 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
14248 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
14249 types. Closes ticket 21651.
14250 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
14251 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
14254 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
14256 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
14257 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
14259 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
14260 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
14261 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
14263 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
14265 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
14266 Closes ticket 21873.
14267 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
14268 Closes ticket 21151.
14269 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
14270 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
14272 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
14273 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14274 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
14275 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
14277 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
14278 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
14279 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14280 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
14281 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
14282 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
14283 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
14284 default behavior is now unavailable.
14285 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
14286 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
14287 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
14288 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
14289 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
14290 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
14291 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
14293 o Removed features (tools):
14294 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
14295 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
14296 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
14297 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
14298 required. Closes ticket 21842.
14301 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
14302 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
14303 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
14304 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
14306 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14307 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14308 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14309 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14310 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14311 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14312 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14313 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14314 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14316 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14317 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14318 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14319 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14321 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14322 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14323 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14324 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14325 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14327 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14328 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14331 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14332 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14333 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14334 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14336 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14337 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
14338 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14339 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
14340 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14341 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
14342 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
14343 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
14346 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14347 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14348 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14351 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14352 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14353 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14354 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14355 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14356 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14358 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14359 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14360 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14361 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14363 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14364 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14365 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14367 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
14368 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14369 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14372 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
14373 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
14374 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
14375 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
14376 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
14379 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
14382 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14383 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
14384 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
14385 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
14386 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
14387 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
14389 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14390 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14391 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14392 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14394 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14395 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
14396 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
14397 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14399 o Minor features (geoip):
14400 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14403 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14404 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14405 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14406 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14407 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14409 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14410 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14411 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14412 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14413 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14415 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14416 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14417 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14418 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14419 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14420 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14421 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14422 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14423 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14426 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
14427 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
14428 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14429 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14430 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
14432 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
14433 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14434 bugfixes described below.
14436 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14437 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14438 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
14439 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
14440 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14441 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14442 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14443 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14446 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14447 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14448 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14449 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14450 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14451 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14452 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14455 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14456 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
14457 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
14458 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
14459 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
14460 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
14461 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
14462 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14463 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
14464 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
14465 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
14466 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
14467 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
14470 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14471 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
14472 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
14475 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14476 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14477 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14478 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14479 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14481 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14482 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14483 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14485 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14486 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14487 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14489 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14490 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14491 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14492 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14493 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14494 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14495 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14497 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
14499 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14500 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14501 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14504 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
14505 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14506 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14507 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14508 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14509 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14511 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
14512 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14513 bugfixes described below.
14515 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14516 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14517 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14518 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14519 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14522 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14523 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14524 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14525 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14526 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14527 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14528 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14531 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14532 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14533 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14534 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14535 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14537 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14538 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
14539 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14540 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14541 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14542 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14543 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14545 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
14546 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14547 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14548 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14549 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14551 o Minor features (geoip):
14552 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14555 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
14556 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14557 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14558 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14560 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14561 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14562 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14564 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14565 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14566 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14567 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14568 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14571 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
14572 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14573 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14574 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14575 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14577 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
14578 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14579 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14580 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14581 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14582 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14584 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14585 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14586 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14587 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14590 o Minor features (geoip):
14591 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14594 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14595 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14596 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14597 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14598 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14600 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14601 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14602 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14604 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
14605 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14606 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14607 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14608 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14609 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14611 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14612 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14613 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14614 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14617 o Minor features (geoip):
14618 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14621 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14622 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14623 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14626 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
14627 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14628 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14629 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14630 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14631 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14633 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14634 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14635 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14636 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14639 o Minor features (geoip):
14640 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14643 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14644 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14645 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14647 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
14648 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14649 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14650 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14651 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14652 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14654 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14655 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14656 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14657 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14660 o Minor features (geoip):
14661 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14664 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14665 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14666 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14668 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
14669 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14670 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14671 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14672 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14673 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14675 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14676 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14677 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14678 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14681 o Minor features (geoip):
14682 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14685 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14686 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14687 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14690 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
14691 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
14692 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
14693 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
14694 clients are not affected.
14696 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
14697 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
14698 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
14699 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
14700 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
14701 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14704 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14707 o Minor features (future-proofing):
14708 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
14709 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14710 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14711 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14712 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14713 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14715 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14716 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14717 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14718 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14719 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14723 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
14724 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
14726 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
14727 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
14728 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
14729 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
14730 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
14731 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
14734 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
14735 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
14737 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
14738 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
14739 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
14740 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
14741 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
14743 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
14744 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
14746 o Major features (directory authority, security):
14747 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
14748 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
14749 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
14751 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
14752 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
14753 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
14754 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
14755 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
14758 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
14759 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
14760 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
14761 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
14762 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
14763 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
14764 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
14765 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
14768 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
14769 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
14770 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
14771 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
14772 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
14773 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
14774 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
14775 15056; part of proposal 220.
14776 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
14777 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
14778 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
14779 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
14780 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
14781 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
14782 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
14783 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
14784 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
14787 o Major features (security):
14788 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
14789 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
14790 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
14791 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
14792 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
14793 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
14795 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
14796 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14797 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14798 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14799 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14800 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14801 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14802 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14803 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14804 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14805 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14807 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
14808 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14809 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14810 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14812 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
14813 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14814 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14815 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14818 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
14819 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
14820 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14822 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
14823 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14824 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14825 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14826 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14827 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14828 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14830 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
14831 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14832 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14833 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14834 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14835 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14836 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14837 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
14838 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
14839 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
14840 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
14841 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
14842 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
14843 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
14844 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
14846 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14847 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
14848 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
14849 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
14850 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14852 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
14853 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14854 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14855 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
14856 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14857 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14858 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14860 o Minor feature (client):
14861 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
14862 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
14864 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
14865 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
14866 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
14867 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
14869 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
14870 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
14871 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
14873 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
14874 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
14875 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
14876 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
14877 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
14879 o Minor features (controller):
14880 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
14881 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
14882 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
14883 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
14886 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
14887 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
14888 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
14889 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
14890 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
14891 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
14892 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
14893 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
14894 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
14895 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
14897 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
14898 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
14899 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
14902 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14903 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14904 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14906 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14907 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14908 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14910 o Minor features (directory authority):
14911 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
14912 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
14913 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
14914 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
14915 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
14917 o Minor features (directory cache):
14918 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
14919 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
14922 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
14923 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
14924 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
14925 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
14927 o Minor features (entry guards):
14928 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
14929 break regression tests.
14930 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
14931 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
14933 o Minor features (fallback directories):
14934 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
14935 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
14936 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
14937 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
14938 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
14939 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
14940 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
14941 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
14942 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
14943 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
14944 Closes ticket 20539.
14945 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
14946 Closes ticket 20822.
14947 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
14949 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
14950 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
14951 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
14952 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
14953 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
14955 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
14956 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
14957 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
14958 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
14959 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
14962 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
14963 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
14964 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
14965 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
14967 o Minor features (geoip):
14968 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14971 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
14972 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14975 o Minor features (infrastructure):
14976 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
14977 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
14979 o Minor features (linting):
14980 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
14981 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
14983 o Minor features (logging):
14984 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
14985 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
14987 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
14988 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14989 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14991 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14992 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14994 o Minor features (relay):
14995 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
14996 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
14997 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
14998 Written by Michael Sonntag.
15000 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
15001 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
15002 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
15005 o Minor features (testing):
15006 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
15007 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
15008 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
15010 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
15011 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
15012 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
15013 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
15014 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
15015 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
15016 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
15017 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
15018 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15020 o Minor bugfix (logging):
15021 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
15022 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
15023 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
15024 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
15027 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
15028 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
15029 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
15030 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
15032 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15033 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
15034 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
15037 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
15038 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
15039 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
15041 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15042 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
15043 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
15044 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15045 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
15046 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
15047 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
15049 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15050 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15051 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15053 o Minor bugfixes (config):
15054 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
15055 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
15056 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
15057 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15059 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15060 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
15061 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15062 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
15063 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
15064 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
15066 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
15067 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
15068 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
15069 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
15070 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
15071 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
15072 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
15075 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
15076 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
15077 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
15078 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
15079 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
15081 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
15082 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
15083 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
15084 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15086 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
15087 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
15088 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
15089 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
15090 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15092 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
15093 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
15094 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
15095 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
15096 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15098 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
15099 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
15100 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
15101 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15102 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
15103 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
15104 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
15107 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
15108 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
15109 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
15110 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
15111 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15112 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
15113 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
15114 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
15115 on all recent tor versions.
15117 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15118 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
15119 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
15121 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
15122 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
15123 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15125 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15126 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
15127 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
15128 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
15129 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15130 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
15131 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15132 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
15133 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15135 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15136 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
15137 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
15138 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
15139 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15140 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
15141 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
15142 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15143 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
15144 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
15145 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
15148 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15149 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
15150 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
15151 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15152 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
15153 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
15154 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
15155 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15156 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
15157 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
15158 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
15161 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
15162 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
15163 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15164 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
15165 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
15166 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
15167 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
15168 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
15170 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
15171 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
15172 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
15175 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
15176 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
15177 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15179 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15180 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
15181 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
15182 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
15185 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
15186 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15187 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15188 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15190 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15191 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15193 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15194 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
15195 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
15197 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
15198 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
15199 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
15200 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
15202 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15203 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
15204 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
15205 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
15206 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15207 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
15208 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
15209 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15211 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
15212 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15213 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15214 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15215 Patch by "junglefowl".
15217 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15218 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
15219 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
15220 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
15221 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
15223 o Minor bugfixes (util):
15224 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
15225 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
15226 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
15227 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
15229 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
15230 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
15231 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
15234 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
15235 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
15236 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
15237 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
15239 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15240 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
15241 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
15242 Closes ticket 19858.
15243 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
15244 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
15245 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
15246 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
15247 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
15248 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
15249 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
15250 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
15251 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
15252 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
15253 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15254 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
15255 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
15256 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
15257 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
15258 redundant with the similar structures used in the
15259 channel abstraction.
15260 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
15261 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
15262 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
15263 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15264 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
15265 replaced with code automatically generated by the
15268 o Documentation (formatting):
15269 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
15270 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
15272 o Documentation (man page):
15273 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
15274 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
15277 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
15278 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
15280 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
15281 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
15282 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
15284 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
15285 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
15286 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
15287 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15288 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
15289 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
15290 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
15291 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
15292 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
15293 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
15295 o Removed features:
15296 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
15297 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
15298 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
15300 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
15301 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
15302 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
15305 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
15306 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
15307 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
15309 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
15310 from "overcaffeinated".
15311 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
15312 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
15315 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
15316 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
15317 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
15318 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15319 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
15322 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15323 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
15324 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15326 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15327 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15328 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15329 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15330 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15331 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15332 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15334 o Minor features (geoip):
15335 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15339 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
15340 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15341 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
15342 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15345 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15346 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15347 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15349 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15350 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15352 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15353 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15354 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15356 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15357 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15358 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15361 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15362 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15363 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15364 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15365 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15366 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15367 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15368 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15369 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15371 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15372 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15373 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15374 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15375 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15376 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15377 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15378 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15379 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15380 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15381 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15382 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15383 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15385 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15386 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15387 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15388 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15389 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15391 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15392 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15393 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15395 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15396 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15397 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15398 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15399 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15400 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15401 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15404 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15405 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15406 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15407 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15408 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15409 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15410 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15412 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15413 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15414 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15415 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15418 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15419 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15420 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15421 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15423 o Minor features (geoip):
15424 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15428 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
15429 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15430 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
15431 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15434 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15435 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15436 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15438 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15439 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15441 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15442 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15443 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15445 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15446 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15447 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15450 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15451 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15452 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15453 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15454 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15455 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15456 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15457 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15458 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15460 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15461 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15462 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15463 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15464 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15465 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15466 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15467 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15468 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15470 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15471 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15472 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15473 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15474 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15476 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15477 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15478 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15479 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15480 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15483 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15484 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15485 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15486 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15487 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15489 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15490 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15491 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15493 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15494 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15495 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15496 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15497 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15498 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15501 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15502 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15503 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15504 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15505 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15506 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15507 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15510 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15511 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15512 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15513 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15514 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15515 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15516 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15518 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15519 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15520 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15521 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15524 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15525 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15526 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15527 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15529 o Minor features (geoip):
15530 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15533 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15534 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15535 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15538 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
15539 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15540 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
15541 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15544 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15545 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
15546 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15548 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15549 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15551 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15552 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15553 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15555 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15556 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15557 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15560 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15561 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15562 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15563 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15564 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15565 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15566 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15567 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15568 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15570 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15571 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15572 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15573 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15574 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15575 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15576 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15577 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15578 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15580 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15581 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15582 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15583 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15584 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15586 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15587 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15588 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15589 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15590 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15593 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15594 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15595 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15596 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15597 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15599 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15600 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15601 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15603 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15604 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15605 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15606 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15607 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15608 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15611 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15612 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15613 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15614 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15615 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15616 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15617 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15620 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15621 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15622 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15623 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15624 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15625 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15626 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15628 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15629 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15630 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15631 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15634 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15635 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15636 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15637 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15639 o Minor features (geoip):
15640 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15643 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15644 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15645 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15647 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
15648 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15649 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15650 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15651 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15652 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15654 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15655 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15656 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15660 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
15661 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15662 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
15663 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15666 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
15667 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15668 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15670 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15671 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15673 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15674 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15675 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15677 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15678 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15679 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15682 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15683 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15684 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15685 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15686 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15687 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15688 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15689 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15690 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15692 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15693 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15694 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15695 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15696 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15697 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15698 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15699 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15700 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15702 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15703 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15704 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15705 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15706 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15709 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15710 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15711 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15712 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15713 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15715 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15716 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15717 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15719 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15720 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15721 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15722 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15723 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15724 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15727 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15728 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15729 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15730 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15731 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15732 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15733 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15736 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15737 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15738 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15739 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15740 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15741 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15742 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15744 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15745 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15746 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15747 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15750 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15751 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15752 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15753 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15755 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15756 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15757 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15758 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15760 o Minor features (geoip):
15761 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15764 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15765 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15766 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15768 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15769 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15770 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15774 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
15775 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
15776 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
15777 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
15779 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
15780 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
15781 least January of 2020.
15783 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15784 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15785 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15786 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15789 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15790 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15791 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15792 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15793 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15794 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15795 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15797 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15798 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15799 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15800 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15801 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15802 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15803 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15805 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15806 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15807 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15809 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15810 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15811 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15813 o Minor features (geoip):
15814 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15817 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15818 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15819 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15821 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15822 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15824 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15825 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15826 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15828 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15829 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15830 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15831 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15832 Patch by "junglefowl".
15835 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
15836 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15837 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15838 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15839 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15840 version should upgrade.
15842 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15843 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15845 o Major bugfixes (security):
15846 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15847 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15848 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15849 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15850 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15851 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15853 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15854 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15855 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15856 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15857 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15858 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15859 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15860 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15861 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15862 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15863 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15865 o Minor features (geoip):
15866 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15869 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15870 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15871 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15872 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15874 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15875 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15878 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
15879 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
15880 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15881 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15882 become available for their systems.
15884 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
15887 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
15888 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
15890 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15891 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15892 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15893 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15894 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15895 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15896 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15897 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15898 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15900 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15901 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15902 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15903 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15904 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15906 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
15907 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15911 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
15912 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
15914 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
15915 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
15916 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
15917 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
15918 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
15919 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
15920 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
15921 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
15923 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
15925 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
15926 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15927 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15928 become available for their systems.
15930 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
15931 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
15933 o New system requirements:
15934 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
15935 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
15936 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
15937 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
15938 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
15939 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
15940 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
15941 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
15942 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
15943 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
15944 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
15946 o Deprecated features:
15947 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
15948 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
15949 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
15950 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
15951 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
15952 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
15953 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
15954 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
15955 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
15956 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
15957 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15958 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15959 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
15960 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
15961 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
15962 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
15963 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
15964 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
15965 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
15966 and TransListenAddress.
15968 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15969 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15970 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15971 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15972 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15973 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15974 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15975 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15976 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15978 o Major features (build, hardening):
15979 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
15980 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
15981 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
15982 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
15983 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
15984 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
15985 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
15986 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
15987 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
15989 o Major features (circuit building, security):
15990 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
15991 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
15992 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
15994 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
15995 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
15997 o Major features (compilation):
15998 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
15999 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
16000 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
16001 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
16003 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
16004 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
16005 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
16007 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
16008 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
16009 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
16010 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
16011 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
16012 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
16013 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
16014 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
16016 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
16017 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
16018 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
16019 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
16020 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
16021 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
16022 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
16024 o Major features (resource management):
16025 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
16026 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
16027 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
16028 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
16029 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
16030 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
16032 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
16033 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
16034 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
16035 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
16036 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
16037 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
16038 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
16039 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
16040 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
16041 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
16042 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
16044 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
16045 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
16046 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
16047 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
16048 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
16049 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
16050 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
16051 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
16052 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
16053 part of proposal 264.
16055 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
16056 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
16057 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
16058 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
16060 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
16061 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
16062 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
16063 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
16064 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
16065 download, stop waiting for certificates.
16066 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
16067 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
16068 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
16070 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
16071 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
16072 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
16074 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
16075 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
16076 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
16077 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
16078 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
16079 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
16080 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16082 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16083 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
16084 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
16085 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
16086 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
16087 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
16088 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
16089 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
16090 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
16091 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16093 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
16094 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
16095 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
16096 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
16097 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
16098 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16100 o Minor features (port flags):
16101 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
16102 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
16103 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
16104 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
16105 18693; patch by "teor".
16107 o Minor features (build, hardening):
16108 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
16109 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
16110 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
16111 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
16112 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
16113 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
16114 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
16115 Closes ticket 18895.
16117 o Minor features (client, directory):
16118 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
16119 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
16120 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
16123 o Minor features (code safety):
16124 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
16125 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
16126 patch from "U+039b".
16128 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
16129 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
16132 o Minor features (config):
16133 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
16134 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
16136 o Minor features (controller):
16137 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
16138 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
16139 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
16140 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
16141 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
16142 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
16143 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
16144 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
16146 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
16147 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
16148 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
16151 o Minor features (directory authority):
16152 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
16153 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
16154 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
16155 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
16156 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
16157 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
16158 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
16159 Implements ticket 18624.
16160 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
16161 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
16162 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
16165 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
16166 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
16167 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
16168 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
16169 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
16171 o Minor features (hidden service):
16172 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
16173 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
16174 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
16177 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
16178 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
16179 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
16180 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
16181 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
16182 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
16183 Closes ticket 18365.
16184 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
16185 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
16186 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
16187 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
16189 o Minor features (logging):
16190 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
16191 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
16192 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
16193 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
16194 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16195 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
16196 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
16197 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
16198 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
16199 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
16201 o Minor features (performance):
16202 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
16203 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
16204 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
16205 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
16206 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
16207 Closes ticket 18815.
16209 o Minor features (relay, usability):
16210 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
16211 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
16212 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
16213 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
16216 o Minor features (security, TLS):
16217 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
16218 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
16219 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
16220 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
16222 o Minor features (testing):
16223 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
16224 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
16225 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
16226 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
16227 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
16228 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
16229 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
16230 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
16231 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
16232 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
16234 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
16235 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
16236 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
16237 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
16238 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
16239 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
16240 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
16242 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
16243 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
16244 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
16245 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
16246 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
16247 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
16248 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
16249 assertion as a test failure.
16250 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
16252 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
16253 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
16254 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
16255 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
16256 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
16257 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
16258 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
16259 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
16260 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
16262 o Minor features (Tor2web):
16263 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
16264 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
16265 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
16267 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16268 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
16269 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
16270 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
16271 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
16273 o Minor features (user interface):
16274 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
16275 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
16276 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
16277 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
16280 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
16281 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
16282 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
16283 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
16286 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
16287 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
16288 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
16289 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
16290 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
16291 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
16293 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16294 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
16295 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
16296 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16298 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
16299 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
16300 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
16301 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
16302 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
16304 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
16305 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
16306 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
16307 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
16308 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
16310 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16311 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
16312 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
16313 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
16314 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16316 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
16317 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
16318 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16320 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
16321 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
16322 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16324 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
16325 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
16326 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
16329 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
16330 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
16331 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16333 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16334 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
16335 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
16337 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
16338 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
16339 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16340 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
16341 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
16342 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
16343 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
16344 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16346 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16347 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
16348 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
16349 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
16351 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16352 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
16353 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
16354 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16355 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
16356 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
16357 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
16358 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16359 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
16360 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
16362 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
16363 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
16364 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
16365 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16367 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
16368 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
16369 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
16370 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
16373 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
16374 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
16375 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
16376 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
16378 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
16379 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
16382 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16383 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
16384 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
16385 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
16387 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
16388 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
16390 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
16391 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
16392 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16393 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
16394 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
16396 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
16397 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
16398 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16400 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
16401 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
16402 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
16404 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16405 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
16406 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
16407 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
16408 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
16409 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16411 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16412 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
16413 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
16415 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
16416 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16417 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
16418 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
16419 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
16420 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
16421 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
16423 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16424 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
16425 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16426 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
16427 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16428 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
16429 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16430 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
16431 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
16432 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
16433 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
16434 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
16435 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16436 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
16437 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
16440 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
16441 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
16442 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
16443 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
16444 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
16445 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16447 o Minor bugfixes (options):
16448 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
16449 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
16451 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
16452 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
16453 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16456 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16457 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
16458 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16459 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
16460 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
16461 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16463 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16464 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
16465 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
16466 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
16467 patch from "cypherpunks".
16468 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
16469 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16470 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
16471 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16472 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
16473 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
16474 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
16475 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
16476 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16477 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
16478 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
16480 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
16481 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
16483 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
16484 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
16485 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16486 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
16487 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
16490 o Minor bugfixes (time):
16491 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
16492 bugfix on all released tor versions.
16493 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
16494 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
16495 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
16496 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16498 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
16499 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
16500 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
16501 19678. Patch by teor.
16503 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16504 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
16505 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
16506 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
16507 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
16509 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
16510 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16512 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16513 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
16515 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
16516 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16517 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
16518 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
16521 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
16522 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
16523 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
16524 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
16525 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
16526 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
16527 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
16528 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
16529 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
16530 tickets 19287 and 19290.
16531 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
16532 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16533 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
16534 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
16535 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16536 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
16537 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
16538 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
16540 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
16541 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
16542 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
16543 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
16546 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
16547 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
16549 o Removed features:
16550 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
16551 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
16552 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
16553 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
16554 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
16555 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
16556 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
16559 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
16560 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
16561 command-line options to enable them.
16562 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
16563 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
16566 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
16567 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
16568 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
16569 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
16572 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16573 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
16574 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
16575 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
16576 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
16577 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
16580 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16581 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16582 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16585 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
16586 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
16587 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
16588 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
16590 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16591 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
16592 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
16593 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16596 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16597 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
16598 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
16599 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16602 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
16603 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
16604 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
16607 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16608 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16609 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16611 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16612 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16613 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16615 o Minor features (geoip):
16616 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16620 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
16621 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
16622 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
16623 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
16624 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
16627 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16628 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16629 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16630 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16631 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16632 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16633 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16634 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16635 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16637 o Minor features (geoip):
16638 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16642 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
16643 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
16644 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
16645 who select public relays as their bridges.
16647 o Major bugfixes (crash):
16648 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16649 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16650 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16651 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16652 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16654 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
16655 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16656 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16657 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16658 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16661 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16662 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
16663 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16665 o Minor features (geoip):
16666 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16670 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
16671 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
16672 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
16673 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16674 encouraged to upgrade.
16676 o Directory authority changes:
16677 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16678 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16680 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
16681 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16682 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16683 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16684 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16685 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16687 o Minor features (geoip):
16688 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16691 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16692 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16693 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16696 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16697 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16698 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16699 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16702 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
16704 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16706 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
16707 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
16708 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
16709 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
16710 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
16711 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16713 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
16715 o New system requirements:
16716 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
16717 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
16718 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
16720 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
16721 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
16722 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
16723 longer runs with, these versions.
16724 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
16725 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
16726 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
16727 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
16728 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
16730 o Directory authority changes:
16731 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16732 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16734 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16736 o Major features (directory system):
16737 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
16738 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
16739 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
16740 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
16741 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
16742 gsathya, and karsten.
16743 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
16744 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
16745 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
16746 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
16747 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
16749 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
16750 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
16751 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
16752 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
16753 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
16754 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
16755 mikeperry and teor.
16757 o Major features (security, Linux):
16758 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
16759 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
16760 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
16761 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
16762 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
16764 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
16765 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
16766 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
16767 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
16768 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
16769 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
16770 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
16772 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
16773 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
16776 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
16777 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16778 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16780 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
16781 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
16782 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
16783 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
16784 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
16786 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
16787 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
16788 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
16789 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16790 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
16791 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
16792 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
16793 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
16794 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
16795 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16797 o Major bugfixes (key management):
16798 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16799 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16800 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16801 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16802 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16803 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16806 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
16807 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16808 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16809 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16810 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16812 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
16813 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
16814 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
16815 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
16816 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
16817 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
16818 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
16819 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
16820 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16822 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
16823 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16824 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16825 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16826 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16828 o Major bugfixes (testing):
16829 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
16830 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16832 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
16833 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
16834 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
16835 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16837 o Minor features (accounting):
16838 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
16839 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
16840 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
16841 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
16843 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
16844 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16845 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16846 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16847 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
16848 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
16849 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
16852 o Minor features (build):
16853 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
16854 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
16855 Steven Chamberlain.
16856 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
16857 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
16858 patch from "cypherpunks".
16859 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16860 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
16861 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
16862 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
16863 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
16864 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
16865 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16866 Patch from intrigeri.
16868 o Minor features (clients):
16869 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
16870 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
16871 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
16873 o Minor features (controller):
16874 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
16875 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
16876 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
16878 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
16879 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
16880 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
16881 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
16882 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
16884 o Minor features (crypto):
16885 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
16886 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
16888 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
16889 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
16890 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16891 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
16892 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
16894 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
16895 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
16896 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
16897 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
16899 o Minor features (directory downloads):
16900 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
16901 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
16902 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
16903 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
16904 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
16905 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
16906 17864; patch by teor.
16908 o Minor features (geoip):
16909 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16912 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
16913 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
16914 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
16915 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
16916 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
16918 o Minor features (IPv6):
16919 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
16920 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
16921 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
16922 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
16923 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
16924 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
16925 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
16926 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
16927 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
16928 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
16929 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
16930 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
16932 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
16933 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
16934 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
16935 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
16936 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
16937 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
16938 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
16939 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
16940 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
16941 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16943 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16944 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
16945 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
16946 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
16947 while fixing 18548.
16949 o Minor features (logging):
16950 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
16951 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
16952 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
16953 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
16956 o Minor features (portability):
16957 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
16958 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
16960 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
16961 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
16962 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
16963 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
16964 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
16966 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
16967 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
16968 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
16969 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
16970 Resolves ticket 17951.
16972 o Minor features (replay cache):
16973 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
16974 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
16976 o Minor features (robustness):
16977 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
16978 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
16979 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
16981 o Minor features (security, clock):
16982 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
16983 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
16984 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
16985 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
16987 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
16988 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
16989 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
16990 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
16991 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
16992 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
16994 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
16995 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16996 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16997 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16999 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
17000 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
17001 Implements ticket 17026.
17002 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
17003 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
17004 Implements feature 17986.
17005 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
17006 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
17007 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
17009 o Minor features (security, RNG):
17010 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
17011 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
17012 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
17013 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
17014 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
17015 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
17016 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
17017 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
17018 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
17019 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
17022 o Minor features (security, win32):
17023 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
17024 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
17027 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
17028 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
17029 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
17030 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
17031 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
17032 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
17033 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
17036 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
17037 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
17038 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
17039 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
17040 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17041 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
17042 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
17043 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
17044 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
17045 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
17046 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17047 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
17048 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
17049 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17051 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
17052 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
17053 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
17054 from "unixninja92".
17056 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
17057 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
17058 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
17061 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
17062 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
17063 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17065 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17066 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
17067 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
17068 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17069 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
17070 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
17072 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
17073 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
17075 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
17076 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
17077 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
17078 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
17079 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
17081 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
17082 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17083 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
17084 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
17085 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17086 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
17088 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
17089 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
17090 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
17091 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
17092 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17093 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
17094 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
17095 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17096 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
17097 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17098 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
17100 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
17101 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
17104 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
17105 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
17106 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
17107 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
17108 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17110 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17111 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
17112 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
17113 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
17114 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
17115 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17116 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
17117 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
17119 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
17121 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
17122 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
17123 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
17125 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
17126 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
17127 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17129 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17130 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
17131 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17133 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
17134 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
17135 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
17136 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
17138 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
17139 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
17140 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
17141 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
17142 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17144 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
17145 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
17146 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
17148 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
17149 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
17150 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
17151 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
17152 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
17153 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17154 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
17155 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
17156 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
17158 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
17159 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
17160 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
17161 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
17164 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
17165 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
17166 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
17167 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
17168 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17170 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17171 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
17172 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
17173 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
17174 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
17175 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
17176 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
17177 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
17179 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
17180 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
17181 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
17182 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
17183 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
17184 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
17185 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
17186 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
17187 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
17190 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
17191 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
17192 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
17193 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17195 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
17196 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
17197 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
17199 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17200 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
17201 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17203 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17204 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
17205 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
17206 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
17207 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
17208 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
17209 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
17210 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17211 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
17212 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
17213 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17214 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
17215 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
17216 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17217 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
17218 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17219 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
17220 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
17221 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
17223 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17224 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
17225 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
17226 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
17227 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
17229 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
17230 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17231 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
17232 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
17233 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
17234 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
17235 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
17236 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
17237 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
17238 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17239 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
17240 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
17243 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
17244 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
17245 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
17246 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
17248 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
17249 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17250 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
17253 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17254 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
17255 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
17256 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17258 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
17259 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
17260 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
17261 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
17262 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
17263 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
17266 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
17267 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
17268 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
17269 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
17271 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17272 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
17273 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
17274 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
17275 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
17276 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
17277 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
17278 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
17279 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17281 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
17282 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
17283 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
17284 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
17285 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
17287 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
17288 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
17289 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
17290 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
17292 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17293 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
17294 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
17295 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17296 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
17297 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
17298 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
17299 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
17301 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
17302 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17304 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
17305 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
17306 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
17309 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17310 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
17311 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
17312 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
17314 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
17315 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
17316 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17317 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
17318 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
17319 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17320 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
17321 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
17322 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
17323 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
17324 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17325 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
17326 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
17327 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
17328 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
17329 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17331 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
17332 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
17333 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
17334 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17335 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
17336 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
17337 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
17339 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
17340 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
17341 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
17342 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
17344 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17345 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
17346 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
17348 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
17349 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
17350 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
17351 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
17353 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
17354 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
17355 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
17356 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
17357 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
17358 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
17359 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
17360 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
17361 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
17362 17744. Patch from zerosion.
17363 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
17364 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
17365 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
17366 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
17367 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
17368 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
17369 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
17370 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
17371 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
17372 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
17373 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
17374 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
17378 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
17379 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
17380 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
17381 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
17382 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
17383 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
17384 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
17385 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
17386 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
17387 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
17388 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
17389 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
17391 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
17392 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
17394 o Removed features:
17395 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
17396 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
17397 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
17398 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
17399 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
17400 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
17401 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
17402 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
17405 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
17406 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
17407 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
17408 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
17409 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
17410 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
17411 portion of ticket 16831.
17412 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
17414 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
17415 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17416 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
17417 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
17418 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
17420 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
17421 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
17422 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
17423 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
17426 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
17427 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
17428 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
17430 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17431 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17432 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17433 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17434 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17435 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17438 o Minor features (geoip):
17439 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17442 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17443 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
17444 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
17445 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
17446 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17447 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17449 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17450 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
17451 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
17452 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
17453 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
17454 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
17455 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
17456 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17457 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
17458 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17461 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
17462 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
17463 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
17464 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
17465 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
17466 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
17467 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
17468 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
17469 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
17470 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
17471 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
17472 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
17473 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
17474 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
17475 that would make him proud.
17477 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
17479 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
17480 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
17481 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
17482 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
17483 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
17484 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
17485 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
17487 o New system requirements:
17488 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
17489 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
17491 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
17492 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
17493 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
17494 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
17495 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
17496 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
17497 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
17498 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
17499 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
17500 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
17501 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
17502 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
17503 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
17505 o Major features (controller):
17506 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
17507 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
17509 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
17510 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
17511 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
17512 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
17513 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
17514 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
17515 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
17517 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
17518 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
17519 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
17520 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
17521 key). Closes ticket 13642.
17522 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
17523 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
17524 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
17525 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
17526 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
17527 Implements part of ticket 12498.
17528 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
17529 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17530 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
17531 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
17532 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17533 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
17534 part of ticket 12498.
17535 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
17536 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
17538 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
17539 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
17540 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
17541 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
17542 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
17543 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
17544 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
17545 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
17546 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
17549 o Major features (ECC performance):
17550 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
17551 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
17553 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
17554 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
17555 available. Implements ticket 16535.
17556 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
17557 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
17558 Implements ticket 16467.
17559 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
17560 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
17561 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
17562 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
17564 o Major features (Hidden services):
17565 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
17566 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
17567 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
17568 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
17569 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
17570 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
17571 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
17572 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
17573 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
17574 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
17575 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
17576 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
17578 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
17579 introduction points, which used to change the number of
17580 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
17581 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
17583 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
17584 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
17585 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
17586 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
17587 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
17588 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
17590 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
17591 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17592 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
17593 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
17594 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
17595 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
17597 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17598 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17599 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17600 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17601 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17602 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17603 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17604 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17607 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17608 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17609 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17610 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17612 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
17613 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
17614 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
17615 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
17616 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
17617 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
17620 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
17621 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
17622 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17624 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
17625 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
17626 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
17627 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
17628 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
17629 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
17631 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
17632 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17633 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17634 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17635 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17638 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17639 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17640 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17641 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17642 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17643 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17644 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17645 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17648 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
17649 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
17650 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
17651 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
17653 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
17654 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
17655 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
17656 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17657 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
17658 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
17659 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
17662 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
17663 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
17664 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
17665 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
17666 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
17667 own. Implements feature 15482.
17668 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
17669 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
17671 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
17672 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
17673 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
17674 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
17675 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
17677 o Minor features (command-line interface):
17678 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
17679 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17680 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
17681 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
17683 o Minor features (compilation):
17684 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
17685 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
17686 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
17687 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
17688 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
17690 o Minor features (control protocol):
17691 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
17692 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
17694 o Minor features (controller):
17695 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
17696 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
17697 present. Implements ticket 14840.
17698 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
17699 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
17700 Closes ticket 14845.
17701 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
17702 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
17703 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
17705 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17706 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
17707 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
17708 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
17709 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
17710 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
17712 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
17713 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17714 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17715 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17716 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
17717 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
17718 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17720 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
17721 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17722 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17723 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17725 o Minor features (geoip):
17726 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17729 o Minor features (hidden services):
17730 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
17731 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
17732 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
17733 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
17735 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
17736 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
17737 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
17739 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
17740 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
17741 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
17742 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
17743 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
17744 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
17745 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
17746 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
17748 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
17749 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
17750 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
17751 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
17752 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
17753 Closes ticket 15745.
17755 o Minor features (logging):
17756 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
17757 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
17760 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
17761 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
17762 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
17763 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
17765 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
17766 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
17767 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
17768 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
17769 Resolves ticket 15435.
17771 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
17772 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
17773 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
17774 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17775 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
17776 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
17777 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
17778 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17779 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
17780 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
17781 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
17782 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
17783 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
17784 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
17785 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
17786 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
17787 Related to ticket 16069.
17789 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
17790 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
17791 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
17793 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
17794 stderr, not stdout.
17795 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
17796 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
17797 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
17800 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17801 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17802 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17803 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
17804 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
17806 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
17807 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17808 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17809 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17811 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
17812 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
17813 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
17814 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
17815 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
17816 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
17817 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
17818 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17820 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17821 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
17822 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
17823 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17825 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17826 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
17827 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
17829 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
17830 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
17831 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
17833 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
17834 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
17835 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
17836 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17838 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
17839 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17840 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17841 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17842 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17843 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17845 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17846 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17847 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17849 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
17850 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17852 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17853 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
17854 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17855 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
17856 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17857 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
17858 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
17859 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
17861 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
17862 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17863 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17864 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17866 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
17867 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17868 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17870 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
17871 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
17872 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
17875 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17876 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
17877 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
17878 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
17879 recent enough Clang.
17881 o Minor bugfixes (network):
17882 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
17883 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
17884 unsuitable for public communications.
17886 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
17887 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
17888 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
17889 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
17891 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17892 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
17893 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17894 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
17895 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
17897 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
17898 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
17900 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17901 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
17902 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
17903 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
17904 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
17906 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
17907 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17908 from "cypherpunks".
17909 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
17910 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
17913 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
17914 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
17915 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
17916 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
17917 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
17919 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17920 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
17921 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
17922 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
17923 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
17924 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
17926 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
17927 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
17928 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
17929 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17931 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
17932 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
17933 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
17934 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
17935 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
17936 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
17937 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
17938 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
17940 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
17941 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17942 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17944 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17945 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
17946 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
17947 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
17948 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
17949 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
17950 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
17951 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
17952 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
17953 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
17954 function. Closes ticket 16763.
17955 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
17956 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
17958 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
17959 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
17960 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
17961 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
17962 haven't supported that in ages.
17963 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
17964 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
17965 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
17966 suite of other microdesc functions.
17967 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
17968 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
17969 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
17970 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
17971 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
17972 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
17973 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
17974 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
17975 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
17976 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
17977 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
17978 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
17979 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
17980 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
17981 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
17982 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
17984 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
17985 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
17989 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
17990 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
17991 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
17993 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
17994 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17995 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
17996 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
17997 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
17998 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
17999 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
18000 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
18001 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
18002 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
18004 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
18006 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
18007 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
18008 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
18009 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
18010 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
18011 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
18012 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
18013 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
18014 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
18015 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
18016 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
18017 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
18018 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
18020 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
18021 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18024 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
18025 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
18026 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
18027 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
18028 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
18029 Closes ticket 14922.
18030 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
18031 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
18032 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
18033 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
18034 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
18035 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
18036 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
18037 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
18038 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
18039 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
18040 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
18041 Closes ticket 13338.
18043 o Removed features:
18044 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
18045 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
18046 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
18047 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
18048 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
18049 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
18050 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
18051 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
18052 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
18053 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
18054 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
18055 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
18056 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
18057 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
18058 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
18061 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
18062 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
18063 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
18064 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
18065 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
18066 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
18067 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
18068 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
18069 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
18070 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
18071 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
18073 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
18074 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
18075 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
18076 Closes ticket 15817.
18077 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
18078 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
18079 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
18080 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
18081 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
18082 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
18083 network before we begin.
18084 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
18085 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
18086 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
18087 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
18088 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
18089 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
18091 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
18092 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
18094 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
18095 default as a part of "make check".
18096 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
18097 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
18098 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
18099 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
18100 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
18101 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
18102 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
18103 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
18104 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
18105 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
18106 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
18107 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
18108 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
18109 files. Closes ticket 15180.
18110 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
18111 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
18112 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
18113 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
18114 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
18115 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
18116 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
18117 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
18118 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
18119 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
18120 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
18121 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
18122 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
18123 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
18124 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
18125 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
18126 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
18128 - Set the severity correctly when testing
18129 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
18130 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
18131 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
18132 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
18134 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
18135 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
18136 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
18137 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
18138 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
18139 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
18141 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
18142 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
18143 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
18144 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
18145 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
18146 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
18147 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
18148 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
18151 o Major bugfixes (stability):
18152 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
18153 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
18154 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
18155 by "cypherpunks_backup".
18156 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
18157 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
18158 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
18161 o Minor features (geoip):
18162 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18163 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18165 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
18166 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
18167 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
18168 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
18169 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
18170 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
18172 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18173 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
18174 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
18175 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
18178 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
18179 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
18180 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
18181 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
18182 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
18184 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
18185 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
18186 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
18187 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
18188 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
18191 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
18192 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
18193 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
18194 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
18195 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
18196 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
18197 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
18199 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18200 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
18201 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
18202 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
18204 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18205 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
18206 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
18207 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
18208 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
18209 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
18212 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
18213 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
18214 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18217 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
18218 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
18219 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
18220 authorities should upgrade.
18222 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18223 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
18224 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
18225 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
18228 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18229 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18230 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18233 o Minor features (geoip):
18234 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18235 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18239 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
18240 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
18241 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
18242 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
18243 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18245 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
18246 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18248 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18249 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18250 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18251 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18252 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18253 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18254 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18256 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18257 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18258 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18259 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18260 Resolves ticket 15515.
18261 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
18262 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
18263 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
18267 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
18268 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18269 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18270 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18271 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18273 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18274 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18276 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18277 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18278 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18279 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18280 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18281 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18282 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18284 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18285 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18286 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18287 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18288 Resolves ticket 15515.
18291 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
18292 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18293 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18294 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18295 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18297 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18298 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18300 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18301 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18302 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18303 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18304 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18305 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18306 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18308 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18309 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18310 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18311 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18312 Resolves ticket 15515.
18315 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
18316 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
18318 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
18319 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
18320 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
18321 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
18322 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
18323 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
18324 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
18325 bugs should be addressed.
18327 o New compiler and system requirements:
18328 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
18329 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
18330 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
18331 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
18333 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
18334 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
18335 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
18336 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
18337 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
18338 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
18339 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
18340 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
18341 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
18343 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
18344 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
18345 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
18346 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
18347 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
18348 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
18349 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
18351 o Directory authority changes:
18352 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18353 closes ticket 14487.
18354 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18355 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18356 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18358 o Major features (bridges):
18359 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
18360 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
18361 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
18364 o Major features (changed defaults):
18365 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
18366 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
18367 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
18368 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
18369 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
18370 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
18372 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
18373 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
18374 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
18375 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
18378 o Major features (directory system):
18379 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
18380 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
18381 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
18382 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
18383 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
18384 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
18385 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
18386 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
18387 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
18388 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
18389 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
18390 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
18391 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
18392 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
18393 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
18394 227. Closes ticket 10395.
18396 o Major features (guards):
18397 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
18398 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
18399 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
18400 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
18401 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
18403 o Major features (hidden services):
18404 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
18405 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
18406 Closes ticket 13667.
18407 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
18408 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
18409 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
18410 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
18411 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
18412 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
18413 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
18414 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
18415 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
18416 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
18417 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
18419 o Major features (performance):
18420 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
18421 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
18422 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
18423 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
18424 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
18425 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
18426 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
18427 Implements ticket 9682.
18429 o Major features (relay):
18430 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
18431 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
18432 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
18433 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
18434 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
18435 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
18436 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
18437 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
18439 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
18440 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
18441 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
18442 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
18443 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
18444 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
18445 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
18448 o Major features (sample torrc):
18449 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
18450 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
18451 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
18452 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
18453 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
18454 generally useful "sample torrc".
18456 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
18457 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
18458 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
18459 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
18460 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
18461 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
18463 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
18464 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
18465 Implements ticket 11485.
18467 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
18468 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
18469 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
18470 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
18471 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
18472 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
18475 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18476 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18477 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18480 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18481 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
18482 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18484 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
18485 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
18486 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
18487 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
18488 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18490 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18491 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18492 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18493 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18495 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
18496 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
18497 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
18500 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18501 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
18502 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
18503 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
18504 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
18505 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
18507 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18508 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18509 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18510 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18512 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
18513 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
18514 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
18515 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
18516 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
18517 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
18518 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
18520 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18521 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
18522 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
18523 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
18524 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
18525 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18527 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18528 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18529 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
18530 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18531 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18532 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18533 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18534 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18536 o Minor features (build):
18537 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
18538 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
18539 Resolves ticket 13037.
18541 o Minor features (client):
18542 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
18543 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
18544 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
18545 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
18547 o Minor features (client):
18548 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
18549 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
18550 Resolves ticket 13315.
18552 o Minor features (controller):
18553 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
18554 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
18556 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
18557 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
18559 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
18560 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
18561 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
18562 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18563 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18564 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18565 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
18566 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
18567 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
18569 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
18570 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
18571 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
18572 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
18573 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
18574 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
18575 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
18576 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
18577 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
18578 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
18580 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18581 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
18582 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
18583 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
18584 argument more than once.
18585 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
18586 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
18587 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
18588 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
18589 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
18590 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
18592 o Minor features (geoip):
18593 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18594 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18597 o Minor features (guard nodes):
18598 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
18599 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
18600 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
18602 o Minor features (heartbeat):
18603 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
18604 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
18605 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
18606 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
18608 o Minor features (hidden service):
18609 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
18610 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
18611 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
18612 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
18613 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
18614 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
18615 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
18616 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
18617 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
18618 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
18619 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
18620 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
18621 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
18622 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
18624 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
18625 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
18626 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
18628 o Minor features (interface):
18629 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
18630 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
18631 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
18633 o Minor features (logging):
18634 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
18635 Resolves ticket 6852.
18636 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
18637 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
18638 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
18640 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
18641 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
18642 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
18643 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
18644 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
18645 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
18646 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
18647 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
18648 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
18649 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
18650 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
18651 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
18654 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
18655 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
18656 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
18657 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
18659 o Minor features (relay):
18660 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
18661 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
18662 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
18664 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
18665 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
18666 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
18667 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
18668 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
18669 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
18670 document. Implements feature 10427.
18672 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
18673 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
18674 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
18675 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
18677 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
18678 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
18679 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
18680 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
18681 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
18682 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
18684 o Minor features (stability):
18685 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
18686 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
18689 o Minor features (systemd):
18690 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
18691 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
18692 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
18693 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18694 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
18695 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18697 o Minor features (testing networks):
18698 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
18699 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
18700 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
18701 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
18702 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
18704 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
18705 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
18706 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
18707 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
18708 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
18709 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
18711 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
18712 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
18713 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
18714 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
18715 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
18717 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
18718 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
18719 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
18720 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
18721 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
18723 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
18724 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
18725 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
18726 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
18727 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
18730 o Minor features (validation):
18731 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
18732 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
18733 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
18734 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
18735 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
18736 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
18737 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
18738 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
18739 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
18740 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
18741 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
18744 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
18745 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
18746 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
18747 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18749 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18750 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
18751 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
18752 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18754 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
18755 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
18756 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
18758 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
18759 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
18760 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
18762 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
18763 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18764 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
18765 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
18766 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18767 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
18768 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18770 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
18771 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
18772 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
18773 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18774 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
18775 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
18776 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
18777 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
18778 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
18780 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18781 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
18782 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
18783 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18784 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
18785 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18786 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
18787 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
18788 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
18790 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18791 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18792 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18793 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18794 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18795 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18796 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
18797 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
18799 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
18800 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
18801 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
18804 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
18805 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
18806 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
18807 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
18808 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18810 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
18811 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
18812 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
18813 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18814 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
18815 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
18816 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
18817 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18819 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
18820 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
18821 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
18822 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
18823 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18825 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
18826 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
18827 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
18828 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
18829 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
18831 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
18832 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
18833 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18835 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
18836 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
18837 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
18838 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
18839 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
18841 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
18842 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
18843 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
18845 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18846 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
18848 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
18849 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
18850 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
18851 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
18853 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
18854 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
18856 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
18857 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
18858 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
18859 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
18860 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
18861 Addresses ticket 14188.
18862 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18863 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18864 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18865 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
18866 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
18867 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
18868 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
18869 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18870 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
18871 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
18872 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
18875 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18876 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
18877 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
18878 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
18879 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
18880 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18882 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18883 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
18884 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
18885 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
18886 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
18888 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18889 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18890 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18891 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18892 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18893 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
18894 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
18895 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18896 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
18897 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18898 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18899 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18900 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18901 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
18902 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
18903 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18905 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18906 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
18907 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
18908 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18909 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
18910 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
18911 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
18912 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
18915 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
18916 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
18917 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
18918 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
18919 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
18920 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18921 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
18922 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
18923 state, and key files.
18924 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
18925 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
18928 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18929 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
18930 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
18931 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
18932 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18933 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
18934 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
18935 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18936 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
18937 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
18938 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
18939 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
18940 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18941 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
18942 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
18943 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
18944 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
18945 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
18948 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18949 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
18950 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18951 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
18952 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
18953 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
18954 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
18955 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
18956 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
18957 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18959 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18960 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
18961 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18962 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
18963 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
18964 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
18966 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
18967 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18969 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
18970 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
18971 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
18972 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
18973 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18975 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
18976 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
18977 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
18978 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
18979 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
18980 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18982 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18983 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
18984 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
18986 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
18987 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
18988 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18990 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18991 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18992 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18993 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18994 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18996 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
18997 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
18998 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
19001 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
19002 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
19003 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19004 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
19005 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
19008 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
19009 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
19010 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
19011 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
19014 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
19015 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
19016 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
19019 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19020 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19021 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19023 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
19024 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
19025 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
19026 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
19027 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
19030 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
19031 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
19032 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19033 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
19034 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
19035 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
19037 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
19038 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
19039 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
19040 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
19041 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
19042 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
19044 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
19045 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
19046 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
19047 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
19048 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19049 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
19050 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
19051 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
19052 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
19053 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
19054 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
19055 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
19056 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
19057 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
19058 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
19059 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
19060 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
19061 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
19062 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
19063 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19064 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
19065 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
19066 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
19067 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
19068 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
19069 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
19070 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
19071 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19072 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
19073 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
19074 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
19075 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
19077 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
19078 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
19079 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
19080 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
19081 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19083 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19084 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
19085 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
19086 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
19087 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
19088 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19089 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
19090 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
19091 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19093 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
19094 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
19095 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
19097 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
19098 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
19099 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
19102 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
19103 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
19104 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
19105 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
19108 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
19109 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
19110 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19112 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19113 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
19114 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
19116 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
19117 Resolves ticket 12205.
19118 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
19119 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
19120 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
19121 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
19123 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
19124 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
19125 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
19127 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
19128 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
19130 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
19131 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
19132 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
19133 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
19134 or_options_t structure.
19135 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
19136 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
19137 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
19138 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
19139 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
19140 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
19141 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
19142 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
19144 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
19145 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
19147 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
19149 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
19150 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
19151 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
19152 with a function instead.
19153 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
19154 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
19155 Closes ticket 13172.
19156 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
19157 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
19158 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
19159 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
19160 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
19161 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
19162 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
19163 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
19164 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
19165 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
19166 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
19167 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
19171 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
19172 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
19173 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
19174 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
19176 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
19177 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
19178 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
19179 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19180 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
19181 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19182 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
19183 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
19184 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
19185 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
19186 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
19187 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
19188 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
19189 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
19190 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
19191 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
19192 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
19193 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
19195 o Distribution (systemd):
19196 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
19197 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
19198 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
19199 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
19200 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
19202 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
19203 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
19205 o Downgraded warnings:
19206 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
19207 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
19210 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
19211 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
19212 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
19215 o Removed features (directory authorities):
19216 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
19217 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
19218 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
19219 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
19220 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
19221 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
19222 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
19223 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
19224 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
19226 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
19227 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
19228 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
19229 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
19232 o Removed features:
19233 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
19234 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
19235 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
19236 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
19237 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
19239 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
19240 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
19241 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
19242 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
19243 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
19244 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
19245 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
19246 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
19247 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
19249 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
19250 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
19252 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
19253 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
19254 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
19255 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
19256 anymore, and ignore it.
19258 o Removed platform support:
19259 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
19260 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
19261 Closes ticket 11446.
19263 o Testing (test-network.sh):
19264 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
19265 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
19267 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
19269 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
19270 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
19271 Partially implements ticket 13161.
19274 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
19275 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
19276 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
19277 (existing behavior).
19278 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
19279 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
19280 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
19281 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
19282 Closes ticket 14107.
19283 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
19284 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19285 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
19286 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
19288 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
19289 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
19290 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
19291 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
19292 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
19293 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
19295 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
19297 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
19298 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
19299 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
19300 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
19301 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
19302 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
19303 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
19304 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
19305 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
19306 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
19307 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
19308 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
19310 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
19311 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
19312 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
19314 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
19315 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19317 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
19318 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
19319 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
19321 o Directory authority changes:
19322 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19323 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19324 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19325 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19326 closes ticket 14487.
19328 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19329 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19330 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19333 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19334 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19335 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19336 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19337 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19338 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19339 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19340 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19342 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19343 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19344 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19345 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19347 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19348 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19349 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19350 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19352 o Minor features (controller):
19353 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19354 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19355 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19357 o Minor features (geoip):
19358 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19359 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19362 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19363 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19364 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19365 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19366 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19367 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19369 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19370 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19371 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19372 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19374 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19375 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19376 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19377 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19378 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19379 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19380 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19381 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19383 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19384 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19385 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19387 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19388 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19389 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19390 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19391 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19395 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
19396 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
19397 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
19400 o Directory authority changes:
19401 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19402 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19403 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19404 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19405 closes ticket 14487.
19407 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
19408 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19409 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19410 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19412 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
19413 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19414 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19415 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19416 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19417 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19418 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19419 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19421 o Minor features (geoip):
19422 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19423 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19426 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
19427 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19429 It adds several new security features, including improved
19430 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
19431 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
19432 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
19433 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
19434 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
19435 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
19436 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
19437 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
19438 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
19439 and features mentioned below.
19441 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
19442 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
19444 o Major features (security):
19445 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
19446 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
19447 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
19448 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
19449 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
19450 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
19451 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
19452 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19453 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19454 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19456 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
19457 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
19458 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
19459 streams attached to each circuit.
19461 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
19462 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
19463 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
19464 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
19465 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
19466 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
19467 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
19468 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
19469 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
19470 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
19471 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
19472 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
19473 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
19475 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
19476 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
19477 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
19478 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
19480 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
19481 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
19482 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
19483 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
19484 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
19485 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
19487 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
19488 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
19489 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
19490 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
19491 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
19492 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
19493 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
19494 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
19497 o Major features (controller):
19498 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
19499 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
19500 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
19501 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
19502 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
19503 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
19505 o Major features (relay performance):
19506 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
19507 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
19508 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
19509 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
19510 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
19511 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
19512 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
19513 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
19514 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
19515 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
19517 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
19518 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
19519 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
19520 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
19521 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
19522 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
19523 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
19524 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
19525 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
19526 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
19528 o Major features (testing networks):
19529 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
19530 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
19531 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
19532 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
19533 Implements ticket 8530.
19535 o Major features (other):
19536 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
19537 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
19538 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
19539 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
19540 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
19541 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
19543 o Deprecated versions:
19544 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
19545 attention for some while.
19547 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19548 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
19549 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
19551 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
19552 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
19553 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
19554 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
19555 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
19556 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
19557 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
19558 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
19559 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
19560 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
19561 router's identity is not forgeable.
19563 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
19564 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19565 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
19566 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19568 o Major bugfixes (client):
19569 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
19570 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
19571 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
19572 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
19573 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
19574 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
19575 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
19576 to build circuits".
19578 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
19579 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
19580 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
19581 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
19584 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19585 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
19586 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
19587 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
19588 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
19589 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
19590 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19592 o Major bugfixes (relay):
19593 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
19594 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19595 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19596 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
19597 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
19598 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
19599 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19600 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
19601 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
19602 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
19603 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19604 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
19605 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
19606 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
19607 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
19608 bugfix on every version of Tor.
19610 o Minor features (security):
19611 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
19612 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
19613 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
19614 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
19616 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
19617 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
19618 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
19619 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
19620 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
19621 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
19622 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
19624 o Minor features (security, memory management):
19625 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
19626 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
19627 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
19628 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
19629 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
19630 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
19632 o Minor features (bridge client):
19633 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
19634 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
19635 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
19637 o Minor features (bridge):
19638 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
19639 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
19641 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19642 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
19643 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
19644 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
19645 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
19646 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
19647 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
19648 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
19649 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
19650 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
19651 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
19652 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
19653 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
19654 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
19655 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
19657 o Minor features (build):
19658 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
19659 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
19660 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
19661 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
19662 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
19663 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
19664 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
19665 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
19666 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
19667 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
19668 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
19669 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
19670 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
19671 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
19672 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
19675 o Minor features (client):
19676 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
19677 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
19678 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
19679 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
19681 o Minor features (config options and command line):
19682 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
19683 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
19684 Implements ticket 10060.
19685 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
19686 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
19687 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
19689 o Minor features (config options):
19690 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
19691 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
19692 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
19693 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
19694 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
19695 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
19696 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
19697 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
19698 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
19699 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
19700 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
19701 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
19702 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
19703 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
19704 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
19705 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
19706 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
19709 o Minor features (controller):
19710 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
19711 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
19713 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
19714 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
19715 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
19716 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
19717 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
19718 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
19719 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
19720 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
19722 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
19723 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
19724 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
19726 o Minor features (diagnostic):
19727 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
19728 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
19729 help diagnose bug 7164.
19730 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
19731 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
19732 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
19733 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
19734 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
19736 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
19737 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
19738 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
19739 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
19740 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
19741 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
19742 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
19743 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
19744 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
19745 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
19746 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
19747 still referenced by a live node_t object.
19748 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
19749 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
19750 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19752 o Minor features (geoip):
19753 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19756 o Minor features (interface):
19757 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
19758 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
19759 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
19760 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
19762 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
19763 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
19764 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
19766 o Minor features (log messages):
19767 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
19768 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
19769 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
19770 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
19771 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
19772 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
19773 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
19774 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
19776 o Minor features (log verbosity):
19777 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
19778 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
19779 Resolves ticket 5286.
19780 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
19781 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
19782 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
19783 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
19784 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
19785 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
19787 o Minor features (performance):
19788 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
19789 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
19790 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
19791 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
19792 Closes ticket 8109.
19794 o Minor features (relay):
19795 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
19796 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
19797 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
19799 o Minor features (testing):
19800 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
19801 the unit test scripts.
19802 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
19803 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
19804 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
19805 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
19807 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
19808 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
19809 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
19810 10267; patch from "yurivict".
19811 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
19812 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
19813 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
19814 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
19815 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
19816 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
19818 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
19819 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
19820 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
19821 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19823 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19824 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
19825 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
19826 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19827 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
19828 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
19829 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
19830 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
19831 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
19832 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
19834 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
19835 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
19836 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
19838 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
19839 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
19840 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
19841 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
19842 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19844 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19845 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
19846 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
19847 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
19848 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19849 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
19850 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
19851 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
19852 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19853 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
19854 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
19855 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
19857 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
19858 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
19859 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
19860 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
19861 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
19862 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19863 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
19864 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
19865 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19866 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
19867 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
19868 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19870 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
19871 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
19872 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
19873 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
19875 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
19876 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
19877 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
19878 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
19881 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
19882 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
19883 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
19884 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19885 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
19886 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
19889 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
19890 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
19891 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
19892 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
19893 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
19895 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
19896 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
19897 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
19900 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19901 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
19902 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
19903 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
19904 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
19905 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
19906 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
19907 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
19908 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
19909 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
19911 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
19912 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
19913 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
19914 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
19915 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
19917 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
19918 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19920 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19921 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
19922 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
19923 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
19924 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
19925 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
19926 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
19927 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
19928 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
19929 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19930 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
19931 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
19932 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
19934 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
19935 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
19936 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
19937 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
19938 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
19939 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
19940 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
19941 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
19942 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
19943 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
19944 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
19945 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
19946 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
19948 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
19949 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
19950 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
19952 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
19953 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
19954 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
19955 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
19956 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
19957 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
19959 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
19960 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
19961 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
19962 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19963 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
19964 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
19965 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
19966 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
19967 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
19968 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19970 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19971 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
19972 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19974 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
19975 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
19976 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
19977 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
19978 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19980 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19981 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
19982 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
19983 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19984 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
19985 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
19986 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
19987 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19988 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
19989 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
19990 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
19991 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
19992 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
19993 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
19995 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19996 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
19997 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
19998 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
19999 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
20000 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
20001 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
20002 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
20003 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
20005 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
20006 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
20007 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
20008 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
20009 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
20010 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
20011 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
20013 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
20014 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
20016 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
20017 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
20018 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
20019 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
20021 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
20022 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
20023 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
20024 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20025 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
20026 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
20027 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
20028 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
20029 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
20030 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
20031 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
20032 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
20033 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
20034 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
20035 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
20036 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
20037 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
20039 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
20040 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
20041 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
20042 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
20043 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
20044 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
20045 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
20046 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
20049 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
20050 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
20051 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
20052 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
20053 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
20054 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
20055 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20056 Reported by "mr-4".
20057 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
20058 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
20059 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
20060 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20062 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
20063 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
20064 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
20065 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
20066 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
20067 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
20068 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
20069 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
20070 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20071 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
20072 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
20073 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
20075 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
20076 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
20077 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
20079 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
20080 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
20081 early. Fixes bug 10081.
20083 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
20084 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
20085 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
20086 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
20089 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
20090 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
20091 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
20092 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
20095 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
20096 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
20097 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
20098 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
20100 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
20101 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
20102 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20104 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
20105 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
20106 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
20107 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
20108 versions. Found by "skruffy".
20109 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
20110 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
20111 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
20114 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
20115 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
20116 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
20117 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
20118 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
20119 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
20120 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
20121 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
20122 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20123 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
20124 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
20126 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20127 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
20128 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
20129 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
20130 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
20132 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
20133 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
20134 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
20135 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
20138 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
20139 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
20140 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20141 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
20142 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
20143 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
20144 should never have affected anyone in practice.
20146 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20147 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
20148 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
20149 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
20150 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
20151 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
20152 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
20153 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
20154 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
20155 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
20156 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
20157 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
20158 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
20159 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
20160 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
20161 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
20162 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20163 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
20164 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
20165 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
20166 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
20167 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
20168 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
20169 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
20171 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
20172 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
20173 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
20174 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
20175 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20176 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
20177 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
20178 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
20179 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
20181 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
20182 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
20185 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
20186 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
20188 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
20190 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
20191 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
20192 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
20193 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
20194 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
20195 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
20197 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
20198 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
20200 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
20201 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
20202 caches don't get confused.
20203 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
20204 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20205 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
20206 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
20207 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
20208 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
20209 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
20210 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
20211 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
20212 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
20213 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
20214 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
20215 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
20216 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
20217 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20218 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
20219 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
20220 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20223 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
20224 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
20225 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
20226 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
20227 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
20229 o Removed code and features:
20230 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
20231 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
20232 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
20233 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
20234 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
20235 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
20237 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
20238 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
20239 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
20240 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
20241 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
20242 part of a fix for bug 10841.
20243 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
20244 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
20245 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
20246 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
20247 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
20248 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
20250 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
20251 Resolves ticket 11070.
20252 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
20253 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
20254 the rest of bug 10841.
20255 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
20256 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
20257 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
20258 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
20260 o Test infrastructure:
20261 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
20262 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
20263 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
20264 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
20265 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
20266 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
20267 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
20268 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
20269 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
20270 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
20272 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
20273 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
20274 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
20275 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
20276 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
20277 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
20278 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
20279 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
20280 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
20281 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
20282 invoking the other functions it calls.
20285 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
20286 Patch from Dana Koch.
20287 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
20288 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
20289 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
20290 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
20292 o Distribution (systemd):
20293 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
20294 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
20295 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
20296 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
20297 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
20298 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
20299 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
20300 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
20301 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
20302 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
20303 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
20304 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
20305 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20309 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
20310 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20311 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20312 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20313 (which does affect Tor).
20315 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20316 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20317 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20318 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20320 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20321 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20322 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20323 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20326 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
20327 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20328 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20329 the directory authorities.
20332 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20333 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20334 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20335 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20336 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20337 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20338 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20339 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20340 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20341 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20342 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20343 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20345 o Directory authority changes:
20346 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20348 o Minor features (geoip):
20349 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20353 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
20354 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
20355 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
20356 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
20359 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
20360 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
20361 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
20362 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
20363 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
20364 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
20365 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20366 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20367 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20368 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20371 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20372 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20373 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20374 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20375 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20376 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20377 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20378 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20382 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20383 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20384 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20385 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20386 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20387 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20388 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20389 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20390 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20391 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
20392 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
20393 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
20394 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
20397 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20401 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
20402 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
20403 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
20404 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
20405 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
20406 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
20407 of RAM, and several others.
20409 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20410 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
20411 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
20412 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
20413 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
20415 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
20416 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20417 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20418 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20421 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20422 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
20423 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
20424 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
20425 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
20426 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
20427 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20428 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
20429 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
20430 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
20431 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
20432 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
20433 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
20434 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
20435 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
20436 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
20437 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
20438 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
20439 Resolves ticket 11438.
20441 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
20442 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
20443 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
20444 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
20445 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20446 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20448 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20449 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
20450 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20452 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20453 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
20454 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20456 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20457 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
20458 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
20459 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20461 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20462 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
20463 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
20465 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20466 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
20467 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20470 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
20471 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
20472 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
20473 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
20476 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20477 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
20478 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
20479 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
20481 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20482 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
20483 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
20484 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20486 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20487 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
20488 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
20492 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
20493 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
20494 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
20495 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
20497 o Major features (client security):
20498 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
20499 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
20500 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
20501 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
20502 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
20503 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
20506 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
20507 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
20508 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
20509 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20511 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20512 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
20513 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
20514 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
20515 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
20518 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
20519 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
20521 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
20522 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
20523 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
20524 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
20525 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
20526 GeoLite2 Country database.
20529 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
20530 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
20531 bugfix on every released Tor.
20532 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
20533 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
20534 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
20535 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20536 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
20537 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
20538 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
20539 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
20540 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
20541 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20542 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
20543 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
20544 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20545 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
20546 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20548 o Documentation fixes:
20549 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
20550 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
20553 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
20554 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
20555 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
20556 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
20557 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
20558 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
20559 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
20561 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
20562 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
20565 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
20566 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
20567 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
20568 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
20569 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
20570 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
20571 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
20572 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
20574 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
20575 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20576 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
20577 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
20578 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
20579 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20582 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
20583 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20584 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
20585 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
20586 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
20589 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
20590 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
20591 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
20592 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
20593 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
20594 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
20595 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
20596 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
20598 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
20599 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
20600 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
20601 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
20602 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
20603 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
20604 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
20605 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
20606 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
20607 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
20608 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
20609 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
20610 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
20611 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
20612 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
20613 security, and privacy fixes.
20615 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
20616 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
20617 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
20618 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
20619 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
20620 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
20621 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
20622 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
20623 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
20624 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
20625 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
20627 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
20628 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
20629 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
20631 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
20633 o Major features (better link encryption):
20634 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
20635 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
20636 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
20637 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
20638 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
20639 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
20642 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
20643 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
20644 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
20645 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
20647 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
20649 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
20650 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
20651 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
20652 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
20653 them to solve bug 6033.)
20655 o Major features (relay performance):
20656 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
20657 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
20658 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
20659 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
20660 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
20661 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
20662 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
20663 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
20664 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
20665 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
20666 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
20667 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
20668 Implements ticket 9574.
20670 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
20671 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
20672 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
20673 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
20674 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
20675 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
20676 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
20677 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
20678 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
20679 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
20680 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
20681 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
20682 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
20683 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
20684 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
20685 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
20687 o Major features (use of guards):
20688 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
20689 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
20690 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
20691 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
20692 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
20693 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
20694 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
20695 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
20696 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
20697 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
20698 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
20699 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
20700 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
20701 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20703 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
20704 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
20705 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
20706 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
20708 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
20709 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
20712 o Major features (geoip database):
20713 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
20714 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
20715 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
20716 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
20717 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
20718 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
20720 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
20722 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20724 o Major features (IPv6):
20725 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
20726 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
20727 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
20728 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
20729 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
20730 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
20731 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
20732 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
20733 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
20734 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
20735 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
20736 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
20737 revised in proposal 208.
20738 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
20739 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
20740 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
20742 o Major features (directory authorities):
20743 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
20744 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
20746 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
20747 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
20748 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
20749 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
20750 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
20751 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
20752 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
20753 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
20754 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
20755 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
20756 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
20758 o Major features (build and portability):
20759 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
20760 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
20761 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
20762 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
20763 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
20764 fixes by Jim Meyering.
20765 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
20766 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
20767 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
20768 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
20769 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
20770 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
20772 o Security features:
20773 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
20774 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
20775 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
20776 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
20777 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
20778 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
20779 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
20780 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
20781 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
20784 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
20785 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
20786 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
20787 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
20788 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
20789 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
20790 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
20791 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
20792 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20793 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
20794 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
20795 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
20796 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
20797 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
20798 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20799 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
20800 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
20801 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20803 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
20804 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
20805 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
20806 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
20808 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
20809 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
20810 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
20812 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
20813 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
20814 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20815 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
20816 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
20817 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20818 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
20819 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
20820 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
20822 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
20823 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20825 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
20826 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20827 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
20828 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
20829 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
20830 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
20831 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
20832 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
20833 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
20834 last time we raised it).
20835 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
20836 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
20837 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
20839 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20840 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
20841 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
20842 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
20843 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
20844 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
20845 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
20846 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20847 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
20848 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
20849 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
20850 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
20851 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20853 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
20854 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
20855 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
20856 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
20857 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
20858 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
20859 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
20860 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
20861 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20862 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
20863 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
20864 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
20865 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
20867 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
20868 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
20869 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
20870 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
20871 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
20872 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
20873 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
20874 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
20875 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20877 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
20878 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
20879 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
20880 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
20881 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
20882 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
20883 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
20884 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
20885 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
20886 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
20887 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
20888 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
20889 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
20890 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
20891 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
20892 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
20893 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
20896 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
20897 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
20898 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
20899 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20901 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
20902 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
20903 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
20904 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
20906 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
20907 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
20908 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
20909 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
20910 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
20911 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
20914 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
20915 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
20916 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
20917 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
20918 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
20919 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
20920 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20922 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
20923 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
20924 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
20925 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20927 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20928 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
20929 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
20930 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
20931 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20932 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
20933 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
20934 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20936 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
20937 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
20938 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20940 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
20941 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
20942 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20944 o Internal abstraction features:
20945 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
20946 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
20947 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
20948 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
20949 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
20950 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
20951 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
20952 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
20953 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
20954 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
20955 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
20956 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
20957 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
20958 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
20959 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
20960 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
20961 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
20963 o New build requirements:
20964 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
20965 strongly recommended.
20966 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
20967 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
20968 from a source distribution.)
20970 o Minor features (protocol):
20971 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
20972 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
20974 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
20975 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
20976 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
20977 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
20978 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
20979 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
20980 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
20981 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
20982 closes ticket 7199.
20983 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20984 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20986 o Minor features (security):
20987 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
20988 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
20989 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
20990 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
20991 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
20992 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
20993 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
20994 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
20995 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20997 o Minor features (control protocol):
20998 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
21000 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
21001 Implements ticket 4971.
21002 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
21003 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
21004 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
21005 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
21006 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
21008 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
21009 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
21011 o Minor features (path selection):
21012 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
21013 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
21014 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
21015 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
21016 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
21017 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
21018 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
21019 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
21020 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
21021 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
21022 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
21023 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
21024 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
21025 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
21027 o Minor features (hidden services):
21028 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
21029 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
21030 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
21031 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
21032 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
21033 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
21034 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
21035 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
21036 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
21037 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
21038 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
21039 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
21040 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
21042 o Minor features (clients):
21043 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
21044 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
21045 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
21046 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
21047 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
21048 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
21049 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
21050 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
21051 the ORPort and the DirPort.
21053 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
21054 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
21055 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
21056 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
21057 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
21058 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
21059 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
21060 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
21061 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
21062 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
21063 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
21064 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
21065 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
21066 Implements part of proposal 222.
21068 o Minor features (bridges):
21069 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
21070 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
21071 bugs 1913 and 1992.
21072 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
21073 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
21074 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
21075 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
21076 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
21077 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
21078 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
21079 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
21080 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
21081 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
21082 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
21084 o Minor features (relays):
21085 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
21086 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
21088 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
21089 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
21090 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
21091 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
21092 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
21093 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
21094 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
21095 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
21096 connect to the wrong addresses.
21097 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
21098 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
21099 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
21100 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
21103 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
21104 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
21105 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
21106 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
21107 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
21108 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
21110 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21111 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
21112 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
21113 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
21115 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
21116 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
21117 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
21118 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
21119 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
21120 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
21122 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
21123 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
21124 Implements ticket 8151.
21125 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
21126 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
21127 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
21128 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
21130 o Minor features (path bias detection):
21131 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
21132 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
21133 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
21134 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
21135 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
21136 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
21137 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
21138 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
21139 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
21140 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
21141 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
21142 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
21143 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
21144 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
21145 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
21146 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
21147 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
21148 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
21149 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
21150 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
21151 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
21152 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
21153 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
21154 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
21155 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
21156 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
21157 detection capability loss.
21159 o Minor features (build):
21160 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
21161 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
21162 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
21164 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
21165 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
21166 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21168 o Build improvements (autotools):
21169 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
21170 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
21171 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
21173 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
21174 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
21175 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
21176 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
21178 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
21179 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
21180 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
21181 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
21182 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
21183 than to perform erroneously.
21184 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
21186 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
21187 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
21188 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
21190 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
21191 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
21192 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
21193 hard-to-track-down errors.
21194 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
21195 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
21196 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
21197 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
21198 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
21199 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
21200 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
21201 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21202 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
21203 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
21204 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
21206 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
21207 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
21208 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
21209 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
21210 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
21211 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
21212 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
21213 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
21214 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
21215 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
21217 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
21218 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
21219 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
21220 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
21221 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
21222 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
21223 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
21224 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
21225 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
21226 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
21227 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
21228 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
21229 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
21231 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
21232 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
21233 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
21234 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
21235 or at least make it more diagnosable.
21236 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
21237 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
21238 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
21239 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
21241 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
21242 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
21243 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
21244 part of ticket 6736.
21245 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
21246 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
21247 Resolves ticket 6758.
21248 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
21249 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
21250 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
21251 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21252 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
21253 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
21254 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
21256 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
21257 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
21258 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
21259 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21261 o Minor features (testing):
21262 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
21263 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
21265 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
21266 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
21267 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
21270 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
21271 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
21273 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
21274 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
21275 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
21276 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
21277 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
21278 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
21279 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
21280 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
21281 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
21282 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
21283 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
21284 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
21285 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
21286 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
21287 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
21288 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
21289 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
21291 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
21292 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
21293 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
21294 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
21295 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
21296 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
21297 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
21298 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
21299 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
21300 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
21301 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
21302 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
21303 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
21304 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
21305 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
21306 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
21307 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
21308 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21309 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
21310 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
21313 o Minor fixes (config options):
21314 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
21315 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
21316 or we just won't work.)
21317 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
21318 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
21319 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21320 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
21321 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
21322 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21323 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
21324 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21325 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
21326 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
21327 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
21328 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21329 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
21330 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
21331 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
21332 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21333 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
21334 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
21335 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
21337 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
21338 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
21339 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
21341 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
21342 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
21343 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
21344 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
21346 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
21347 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
21348 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
21349 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
21350 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
21351 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21352 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21353 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21354 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21355 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21356 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21357 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
21358 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
21359 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
21360 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
21361 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
21364 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
21365 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
21366 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
21367 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
21368 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
21369 Should help resolve bug 8235.
21370 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
21371 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
21372 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
21373 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21374 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
21375 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
21376 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
21377 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
21378 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
21379 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
21380 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21382 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21383 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
21384 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
21385 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
21386 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
21387 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21388 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21389 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21391 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21392 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
21393 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
21394 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
21396 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
21397 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
21398 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
21399 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
21400 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
21402 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21403 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
21404 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
21405 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21406 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
21407 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21409 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
21410 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
21411 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21412 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
21413 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21414 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
21415 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21416 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
21417 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
21419 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21420 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
21421 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
21422 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
21423 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21424 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
21425 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
21426 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
21427 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
21428 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
21429 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
21430 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
21432 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
21433 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
21434 this is CID 718634.
21435 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21436 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21437 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21438 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21440 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
21441 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
21443 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
21444 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
21445 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
21446 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
21447 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
21448 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
21449 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
21450 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21451 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
21452 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
21453 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
21454 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21455 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
21456 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
21457 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21458 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
21459 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
21460 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
21462 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
21463 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
21464 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
21465 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
21466 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21467 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
21468 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
21469 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
21470 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
21471 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21472 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
21473 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
21474 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
21477 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
21478 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
21479 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
21480 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
21481 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
21483 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
21484 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21485 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
21486 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
21487 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
21488 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21489 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
21490 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
21491 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
21494 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21495 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
21496 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21497 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21499 o Documentation fixes:
21500 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
21501 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
21502 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
21503 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
21504 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
21505 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
21506 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
21508 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
21509 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
21510 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
21511 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
21512 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
21513 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
21514 message is logged at notice, not at info.
21515 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21516 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21517 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21518 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21519 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21520 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21522 o Removed features:
21523 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
21524 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
21525 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
21527 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
21528 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
21529 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
21530 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
21531 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
21532 compatibility code.
21535 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
21536 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
21538 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
21539 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
21541 o Code simplification:
21542 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
21543 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
21544 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
21545 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
21547 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
21548 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
21550 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
21551 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
21552 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
21553 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
21554 present the same extensions.)
21555 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
21557 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
21558 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
21559 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
21560 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
21562 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
21563 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
21564 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
21565 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
21568 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
21570 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
21571 and the different handshakes it supports.
21572 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
21573 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
21574 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
21575 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
21577 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
21578 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
21579 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
21580 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
21581 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
21582 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
21583 testable, and a little less fragile too.
21584 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
21585 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
21586 Implements ticket 5529.
21587 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
21588 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
21589 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
21592 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
21593 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
21594 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
21595 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
21596 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
21597 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21598 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
21599 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
21600 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
21601 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
21602 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
21603 any encoding is overkill.
21604 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
21605 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21606 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
21607 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
21608 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
21609 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
21610 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
21611 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
21612 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
21615 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
21616 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
21617 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
21618 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
21619 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
21620 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
21621 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
21622 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
21624 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
21625 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
21626 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
21627 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
21628 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
21629 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
21630 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
21631 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
21632 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
21633 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
21634 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
21636 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
21637 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
21638 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
21639 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
21640 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
21641 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
21642 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
21643 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
21644 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
21645 describes microdescriptors.
21647 o Major features (build hardening):
21648 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
21650 o Major features (relay scaling):
21651 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
21652 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
21653 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
21654 much faster than other AES implementations.
21655 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
21656 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
21657 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
21658 Resolves ticket 4526.
21659 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
21660 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
21662 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
21663 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
21664 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
21665 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
21667 o Major features (blocking resistance):
21668 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
21670 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
21671 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
21672 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
21673 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
21674 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
21675 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
21676 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
21677 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
21678 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
21679 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
21680 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
21681 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
21682 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
21683 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
21684 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
21685 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
21686 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
21687 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
21688 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
21690 o Major features (pluggable transports):
21691 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
21692 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
21693 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
21694 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
21696 o Major features (DoS resistance):
21697 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
21698 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
21699 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
21700 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
21701 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
21702 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
21703 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
21704 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
21705 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
21706 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
21707 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
21709 o Major features (hidden services):
21710 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
21711 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
21712 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
21714 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
21715 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
21716 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
21717 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
21718 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
21719 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
21721 o Major features (IPv6):
21722 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
21723 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
21724 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
21725 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
21726 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
21728 o Major features (directory authorities):
21729 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
21730 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
21731 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
21732 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
21733 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
21734 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
21735 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
21736 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
21737 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
21738 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
21740 o Major features (performance):
21741 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
21742 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
21743 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
21744 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
21745 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
21746 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
21747 side of Proposal 174.
21748 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
21749 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
21750 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
21751 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
21752 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
21753 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
21754 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
21755 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
21756 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
21757 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
21758 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
21759 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
21761 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
21762 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
21763 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
21764 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
21765 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
21768 o Major features (relays):
21769 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
21770 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
21771 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
21772 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
21773 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
21774 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
21775 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
21777 o Major features (stream isolation):
21778 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
21779 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
21780 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
21781 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
21782 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
21783 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
21784 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
21785 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
21786 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
21787 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
21788 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
21789 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
21790 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
21791 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
21793 o Major features (bufferevents):
21794 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
21795 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
21796 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
21797 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
21798 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
21799 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
21800 zero-copy transports where available.
21801 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
21802 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
21803 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
21804 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
21805 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
21806 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
21808 o Major features (path selection):
21809 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
21810 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
21811 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
21812 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
21815 o Major features (port forwarding):
21816 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
21817 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
21818 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
21819 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
21820 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
21821 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
21823 o Major features (logging):
21824 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
21825 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
21826 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
21827 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
21828 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
21829 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
21830 Implements enhancement 1668.
21832 o Major features (other):
21833 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
21834 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
21835 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
21836 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
21837 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
21838 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
21839 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
21840 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
21841 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
21842 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
21843 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
21844 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
21845 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
21846 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
21847 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
21848 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
21849 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
21850 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
21851 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
21852 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
21854 o New directory authorities:
21855 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21856 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21858 o Security/privacy fixes:
21859 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
21860 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
21861 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21862 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
21863 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
21864 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
21865 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21866 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
21867 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
21868 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
21869 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
21870 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
21871 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
21872 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
21873 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
21874 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21875 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21876 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21877 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21878 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21879 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21880 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21881 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21882 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21883 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21884 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21885 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21886 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21887 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21888 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21889 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21891 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
21892 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
21893 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
21894 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
21895 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21896 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21897 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21898 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21899 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
21900 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
21901 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
21902 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
21903 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21904 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21907 o Major bugfixes (clients):
21908 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
21909 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
21910 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
21911 which introduced predicted ports.
21912 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
21913 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
21914 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
21915 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
21916 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
21917 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
21918 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21919 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
21920 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
21922 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
21923 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
21924 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
21925 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
21926 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
21927 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
21929 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
21930 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
21931 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
21932 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
21933 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21934 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
21935 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
21936 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
21937 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
21938 documents entirely.
21940 o Major bugfixes (relays):
21941 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
21942 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
21943 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
21944 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
21945 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
21946 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
21947 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
21948 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
21949 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
21950 immensely in tracking this bug down.
21951 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21952 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21953 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21954 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
21955 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
21956 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
21957 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21959 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21960 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
21961 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
21962 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
21963 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
21964 cells were introduced.
21965 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
21966 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
21967 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
21968 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
21970 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21971 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
21972 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
21973 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
21974 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
21975 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
21976 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
21977 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
21978 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
21979 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
21980 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
21981 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
21982 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
21983 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
21984 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
21985 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
21986 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
21987 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
21988 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
21989 Fixes part of bug 3825.
21991 o Changes to default torrc file:
21992 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
21993 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
21995 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
21996 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
21997 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
21999 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
22000 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
22001 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
22003 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22004 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
22005 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
22006 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
22007 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
22008 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
22009 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
22010 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
22011 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
22012 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
22013 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
22014 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
22015 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
22016 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
22017 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
22018 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
22021 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
22022 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
22023 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
22024 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
22025 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
22026 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
22027 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
22028 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
22029 sure. Closes bug 5139.
22030 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
22031 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
22032 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
22033 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
22034 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
22036 o Minor features (IPv6):
22037 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
22038 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
22039 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
22040 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
22041 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
22042 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
22044 o Minor features (hidden services):
22045 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
22046 Required by fix for bug 3460.
22047 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
22048 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
22049 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
22050 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
22051 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
22052 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
22053 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
22054 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
22055 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
22057 o Minor features (relays):
22058 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
22059 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
22060 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
22061 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
22062 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
22063 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
22064 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
22065 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
22066 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22067 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
22068 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
22071 o Minor features (new config options):
22072 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
22073 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
22074 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
22075 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
22076 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
22077 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
22078 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
22079 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
22080 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
22081 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
22082 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
22083 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
22085 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
22086 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
22087 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
22088 Implements issue 933.
22089 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
22090 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
22091 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
22092 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
22093 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
22094 implements ticket 3439.
22095 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
22096 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
22097 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
22098 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
22099 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
22100 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
22101 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
22102 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
22104 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
22105 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
22106 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
22107 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
22108 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
22109 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
22110 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
22111 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
22112 appending to the list.
22113 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
22114 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
22115 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
22116 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
22119 o Minor features (controller, new events):
22120 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
22121 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
22122 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
22123 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
22124 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
22125 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
22127 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
22128 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
22129 circuit-status' control-port command.
22130 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
22131 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
22132 user. Implements ticket 1692.
22133 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
22134 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
22135 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
22137 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
22138 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
22139 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
22140 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
22141 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
22142 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
22143 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
22144 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
22145 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
22147 o Minor features (controller, other):
22148 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
22149 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
22150 part of ticket 3457.
22151 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
22152 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
22153 file. Resolves bug 1101.
22154 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
22155 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
22157 o Minor features (log messages):
22158 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
22159 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
22160 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
22161 please let us know about it.
22162 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
22163 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
22164 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
22165 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
22166 Resolves ticket 2474.
22167 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
22168 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
22170 o Minor features (other):
22171 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
22172 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
22173 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
22174 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
22176 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
22177 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
22178 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
22179 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
22180 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
22181 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
22182 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
22184 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
22185 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
22186 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
22187 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
22188 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
22190 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
22191 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
22192 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
22193 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
22194 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
22195 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
22196 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22197 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
22198 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22199 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
22200 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
22201 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
22202 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
22203 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
22204 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
22205 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
22208 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
22209 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
22210 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
22211 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
22212 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
22213 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
22214 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22215 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
22216 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
22218 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
22219 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
22220 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
22221 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
22222 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
22223 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
22224 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22225 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
22226 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
22227 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22229 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
22230 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
22231 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22232 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
22233 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
22234 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
22235 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22236 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
22237 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
22239 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
22240 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
22241 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
22242 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
22243 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
22244 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
22245 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
22246 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
22247 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
22249 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22250 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
22251 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
22252 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
22253 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
22254 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
22255 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
22257 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
22258 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
22259 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
22260 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
22262 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22263 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
22264 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
22265 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22266 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
22267 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
22268 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
22269 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
22270 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
22271 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
22272 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
22273 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
22276 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
22277 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
22278 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22279 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
22280 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
22281 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
22283 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
22284 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
22285 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22286 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
22287 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
22288 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
22289 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22290 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
22291 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
22292 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
22293 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
22294 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
22295 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
22296 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
22297 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
22299 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
22300 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
22301 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
22302 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
22303 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
22304 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
22306 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
22307 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
22308 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
22309 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
22310 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
22311 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
22312 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
22313 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
22314 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
22315 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
22316 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
22317 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
22318 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
22319 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
22320 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22322 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
22323 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
22324 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
22325 be disabled using the new
22326 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
22327 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22328 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
22329 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
22330 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
22331 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
22332 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
22334 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
22335 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
22336 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
22337 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22338 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
22339 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
22340 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
22342 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
22343 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
22344 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
22345 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
22346 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22347 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
22348 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
22349 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
22351 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
22352 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
22353 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
22354 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22355 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
22356 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
22357 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22358 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22360 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22361 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
22362 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
22363 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
22364 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
22365 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
22366 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
22367 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
22369 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
22370 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
22371 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
22372 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
22374 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
22375 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
22376 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
22378 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
22379 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
22381 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
22382 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
22383 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
22384 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
22385 case for flushing marked connections.
22386 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
22387 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
22388 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
22389 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
22390 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
22391 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22392 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
22393 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
22394 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
22395 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22397 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22398 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
22399 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
22400 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
22401 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
22402 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
22403 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
22404 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
22405 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
22406 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
22407 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
22409 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
22410 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22411 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
22412 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
22413 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22415 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
22416 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
22417 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
22418 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
22419 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22420 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
22421 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
22422 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
22423 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
22424 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
22425 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
22426 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
22427 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
22428 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
22429 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
22430 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
22432 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
22433 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
22434 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
22435 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22436 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
22437 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
22438 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22439 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
22440 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22441 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
22442 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
22443 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
22444 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
22445 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
22446 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
22447 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
22448 Implements ticket 3264.
22449 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
22451 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
22452 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
22453 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
22454 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
22455 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
22456 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
22458 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
22459 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
22460 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22461 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
22462 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
22463 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22464 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
22465 them from the other auths.
22466 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
22467 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
22468 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
22469 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22470 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
22471 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
22472 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
22473 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
22477 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
22478 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
22479 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
22481 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
22482 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
22483 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
22484 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
22485 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
22486 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
22487 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
22488 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
22490 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
22491 ./src/test/bench binary.
22492 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
22493 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
22494 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
22495 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
22498 o Build improvements:
22499 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
22500 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
22501 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
22502 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
22503 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
22504 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
22505 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
22506 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22507 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
22508 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
22509 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
22510 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
22511 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
22512 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
22513 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
22514 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
22515 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
22516 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
22517 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
22518 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
22519 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
22521 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
22523 o Build requirements:
22524 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
22525 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
22526 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
22527 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
22528 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
22529 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
22530 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
22531 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
22532 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
22533 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
22534 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
22535 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
22536 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
22538 o Build fixes (compile/link):
22539 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
22540 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
22542 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
22543 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
22544 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
22545 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
22546 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
22547 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
22548 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22549 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
22550 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22552 o Build fixes (other):
22553 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
22554 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
22556 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
22557 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
22558 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
22559 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22560 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
22561 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
22562 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
22563 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
22565 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
22566 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
22569 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
22570 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
22571 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
22572 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
22573 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
22574 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
22575 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
22576 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22578 o Code refactoring (safety):
22579 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
22580 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
22581 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
22582 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
22583 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
22584 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
22585 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
22586 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
22587 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
22588 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
22589 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
22590 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
22592 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
22593 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
22594 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
22595 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
22596 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
22597 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
22598 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
22599 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
22600 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
22601 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
22602 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
22603 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
22604 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
22605 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
22606 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
22607 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
22608 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
22609 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
22611 o Code refactoring (separate):
22612 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
22613 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
22614 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
22616 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
22617 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
22620 o Code refactoring (name changes):
22621 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
22622 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
22623 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
22624 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
22625 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
22626 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
22627 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
22629 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
22630 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
22631 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
22632 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
22633 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
22634 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
22635 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
22636 invalid value, rather than just -1.
22637 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
22638 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
22639 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
22641 o Code refactoring (other):
22642 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
22643 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
22645 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
22646 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
22647 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
22648 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
22649 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
22650 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
22651 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
22652 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
22653 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
22654 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
22655 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
22656 our library structure used to force them to link it.
22658 o Removed features and files:
22659 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
22660 it would be a bad idea to start.
22661 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
22663 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
22664 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
22665 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
22666 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
22667 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
22668 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
22669 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
22670 are no longer in use as relays.
22671 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
22672 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
22673 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
22674 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
22675 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
22676 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
22680 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
22681 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
22682 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
22684 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
22685 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
22687 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
22688 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
22689 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
22691 o Documentation fixes:
22692 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
22693 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
22694 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
22695 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
22696 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
22697 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
22698 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
22699 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
22702 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
22703 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
22707 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22708 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
22709 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22710 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
22711 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
22712 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
22713 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
22717 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
22718 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
22719 attack that could in theory leak path information.
22722 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
22723 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
22724 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22725 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
22726 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
22727 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
22728 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
22729 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
22730 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
22731 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
22732 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
22733 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
22734 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
22735 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22738 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
22739 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22740 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22744 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22745 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22746 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22747 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22748 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22749 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22750 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22751 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22752 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22753 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22754 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22757 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22758 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22761 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22762 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22765 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
22766 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
22767 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
22768 and fixes several crash bugs.
22770 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
22771 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
22772 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
22773 those packages and upgrade anyway.
22775 o Directory authority changes:
22776 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22777 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22781 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22782 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22783 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22784 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22785 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22786 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22787 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22788 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22789 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22790 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22791 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22792 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22793 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22794 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22795 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22796 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22797 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22798 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22799 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22800 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22801 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22802 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22803 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22804 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22805 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22806 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22807 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
22810 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22811 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22812 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22813 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22815 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22816 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22818 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22819 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22820 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22821 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22822 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22823 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22824 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22825 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22828 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22829 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22830 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22831 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22832 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22833 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22834 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22835 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22836 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22837 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22838 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22839 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22840 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22841 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22842 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22843 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22844 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22845 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22846 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22847 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22848 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22849 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22850 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22851 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22852 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22853 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22854 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22855 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22856 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22857 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22858 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22859 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22860 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22861 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22862 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22863 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22864 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22865 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22866 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22867 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22868 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
22869 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22870 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22871 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22872 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22873 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22875 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22876 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22877 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22878 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22879 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22880 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22881 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22882 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22883 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22884 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22885 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22886 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22887 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22888 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22889 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22892 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22893 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22894 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22895 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22897 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22900 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22901 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22902 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22903 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22904 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22905 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22906 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22909 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
22910 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
22911 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
22913 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
22914 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
22915 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
22916 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
22917 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
22918 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
22919 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
22920 (which Tor does not do by default).
22922 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
22923 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
22924 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
22925 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
22926 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
22928 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
22929 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
22930 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
22933 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
22934 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
22935 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
22936 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
22937 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22939 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
22940 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
22943 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22944 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22945 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22946 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22947 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
22948 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
22949 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
22950 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
22952 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
22953 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
22954 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
22955 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
22956 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
22957 close based on processing a cell on it.
22958 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22959 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22960 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22961 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22962 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
22963 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
22964 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22965 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
22966 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
22967 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
22968 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
22969 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
22970 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
22971 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
22972 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
22975 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
22976 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
22977 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
22978 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
22979 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
22980 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
22981 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
22983 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
22984 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
22985 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
22986 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
22987 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
22988 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22989 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
22990 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
22991 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22992 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
22993 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
22994 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
22995 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
22996 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22997 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
22998 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
22999 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
23000 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
23001 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23002 Reported by "troll_un".
23003 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
23004 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23005 Reported by "troll_un".
23006 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
23007 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
23008 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
23009 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
23012 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
23013 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
23014 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
23015 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
23016 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
23017 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
23018 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
23019 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
23020 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
23021 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
23022 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23024 o Packaging changes:
23025 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
23026 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
23029 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
23030 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
23031 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
23032 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
23033 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
23035 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
23036 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
23038 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23039 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
23040 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
23041 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
23042 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23043 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
23044 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
23045 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
23046 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
23049 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23052 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
23053 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
23054 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
23056 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
23057 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
23058 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
23059 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
23060 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
23061 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
23062 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
23063 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
23064 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
23065 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
23066 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
23067 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
23068 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
23070 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
23071 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
23072 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
23073 currently connected to them.
23075 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
23076 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
23077 remain; see for example proposal 188.
23079 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
23080 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23081 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23082 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23083 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23084 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23085 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23086 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23087 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23088 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23089 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23090 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
23091 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
23092 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
23093 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
23094 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
23095 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
23096 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
23099 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
23100 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
23101 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
23102 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
23103 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
23104 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
23105 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
23106 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23107 when bridges were introduced.
23108 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23109 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23110 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23111 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23112 Found by "frosty_un".
23115 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
23116 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
23118 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
23119 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
23120 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
23121 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
23122 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
23123 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
23124 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
23127 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
23128 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
23129 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
23130 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
23131 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
23132 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
23133 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
23134 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
23135 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
23136 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
23137 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
23138 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
23139 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
23140 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
23141 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
23142 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
23143 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
23144 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
23146 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
23147 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
23148 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
23149 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23150 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
23151 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
23152 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
23153 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
23154 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
23155 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
23156 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
23157 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23160 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
23161 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
23162 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
23163 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23166 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
23167 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
23168 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
23169 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
23170 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
23172 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23173 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23174 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23175 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23176 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23177 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23178 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23179 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23180 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23181 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23183 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23184 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23185 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23186 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23187 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23188 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23189 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23190 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23191 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23192 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23193 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23194 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23195 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23196 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23197 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23198 Found by "frosty_un".
23199 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23200 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23201 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23202 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23203 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23204 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23205 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23206 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23207 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23208 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23209 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
23210 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23211 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23212 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23213 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23214 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23215 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23216 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23217 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23219 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23220 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23221 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23222 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23223 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23224 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23225 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23226 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23228 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23229 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
23230 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23231 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23232 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23233 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23234 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23235 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23236 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23237 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23238 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23239 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23241 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23242 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23243 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23244 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23245 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
23246 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23247 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23248 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23249 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23251 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23253 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23254 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23255 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23256 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23257 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23258 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23259 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23260 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23262 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
23263 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
23264 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
23265 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
23266 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23268 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23269 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23270 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23271 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
23272 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23275 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
23276 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
23277 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
23278 reachable from Iran again.
23281 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
23282 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
23283 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23285 o Minor features (security):
23286 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
23287 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
23288 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
23289 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
23290 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
23291 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
23292 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
23293 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
23294 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
23295 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
23298 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23299 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23300 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
23301 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
23302 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
23303 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
23304 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
23305 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
23306 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23308 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
23309 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
23310 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
23311 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
23312 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
23313 raised by bug 3898.
23314 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
23315 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
23316 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
23317 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
23318 fixes part of bug 2442.
23319 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
23320 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
23321 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
23323 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
23324 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
23325 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
23326 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
23327 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23330 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
23331 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23332 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
23333 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
23334 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
23335 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
23338 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
23339 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
23340 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
23341 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
23342 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
23343 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
23344 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
23345 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
23346 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
23347 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
23349 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
23350 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
23351 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
23352 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
23353 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
23354 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
23355 many many other features and bugfixes.
23357 o Major features (client performance):
23358 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
23359 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
23360 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
23361 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
23362 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
23363 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
23365 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
23366 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
23367 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
23368 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
23369 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
23370 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
23371 the first implementation of this feature.
23373 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
23374 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
23375 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
23376 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
23377 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
23378 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
23379 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
23380 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
23381 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
23382 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
23383 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
23384 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
23385 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
23386 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
23387 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
23388 file. Implements ticket 1296.
23390 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
23391 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
23392 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
23393 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
23394 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
23395 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
23396 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
23397 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
23398 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
23399 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
23400 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
23401 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
23402 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
23403 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
23404 they first get the Guard flag.
23405 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
23406 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
23407 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
23408 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
23409 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
23410 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
23411 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
23412 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
23414 o Major features (relays control their load better):
23415 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
23416 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
23417 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
23418 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
23419 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
23420 based on a variant of proposal 163.
23421 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
23422 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
23423 but never per-conn write limits.
23424 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
23425 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
23426 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
23427 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
23429 o Major features (controllers):
23430 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
23431 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
23432 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
23433 contributions to the network.
23434 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
23435 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
23436 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
23438 o Major features (directory authorities):
23439 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
23440 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
23441 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
23443 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
23444 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
23445 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
23446 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
23447 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
23448 download consensus + microdescriptors".
23449 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
23450 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
23451 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
23452 hash algorithm in the future.
23453 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
23454 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
23455 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
23457 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
23458 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
23459 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
23460 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
23461 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
23462 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
23463 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
23464 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
23465 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
23466 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
23467 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
23468 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
23469 connections to directory servers.
23470 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
23471 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
23472 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
23473 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
23474 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
23475 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
23476 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
23477 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
23478 information, or fetch directory information.
23479 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
23480 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
23481 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
23482 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
23483 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
23485 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
23486 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
23487 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
23488 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
23489 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
23490 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
23491 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
23492 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
23493 the network changes.
23494 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
23495 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
23497 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
23498 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
23499 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
23500 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
23501 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
23502 unless you really want your Tor to break.
23503 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
23504 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
23505 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
23506 - When StrictNodes is 1:
23507 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
23508 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
23509 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
23510 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
23511 reachability self-tests.
23512 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
23513 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
23514 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
23515 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
23516 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
23518 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
23519 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23520 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
23522 o Major features (misc):
23523 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
23524 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
23525 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
23526 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
23527 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
23528 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
23529 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
23530 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
23531 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
23532 part of ticket 3076.
23533 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
23534 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
23535 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
23537 o Code security improvements:
23538 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23539 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23540 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23541 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23542 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23543 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23544 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
23545 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
23546 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
23547 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23548 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
23549 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
23550 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
23551 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
23552 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
23553 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
23554 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23555 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
23556 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
23557 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
23558 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
23559 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
23560 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
23561 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
23562 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
23563 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
23564 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
23565 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
23567 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23568 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
23569 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
23570 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
23571 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
23572 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
23573 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
23574 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23575 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23576 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23577 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23578 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23579 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23581 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
23582 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
23583 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
23585 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
23586 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
23588 o Major bugfixes (stability):
23589 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23590 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23591 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23592 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23593 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23594 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
23595 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
23596 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
23597 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
23598 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
23599 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
23600 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
23601 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
23602 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
23603 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
23604 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
23606 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
23607 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
23608 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
23610 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
23611 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
23612 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
23613 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
23614 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
23615 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
23616 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
23617 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
23618 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
23619 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
23620 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
23621 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
23622 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
23623 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
23624 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
23625 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23626 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
23627 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23628 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23630 o Privacy fixes (clients):
23631 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23632 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23633 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23634 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23635 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23636 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23637 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
23638 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
23639 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
23641 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
23642 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
23643 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
23644 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
23645 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
23646 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
23647 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
23648 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
23649 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
23650 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
23652 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
23653 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23654 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23655 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23656 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
23657 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
23658 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23659 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23660 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23661 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23662 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23663 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23664 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23666 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
23667 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
23668 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
23669 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
23670 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
23671 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
23672 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
23673 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
23674 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
23675 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23677 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
23678 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
23679 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
23680 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
23681 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
23682 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
23683 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
23685 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
23686 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
23687 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
23688 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
23689 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
23690 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
23691 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
23692 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
23693 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
23694 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
23695 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
23696 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
23697 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
23698 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
23699 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
23701 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
23702 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
23703 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
23704 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
23705 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
23706 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
23707 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
23709 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
23710 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
23711 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
23712 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
23713 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
23714 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
23715 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
23716 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
23718 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
23719 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
23720 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
23721 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
23722 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
23723 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
23724 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
23725 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
23726 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
23727 the longest-lived bug prize.
23728 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
23729 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
23730 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
23731 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
23732 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
23733 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
23734 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
23735 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
23736 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
23737 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
23739 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
23740 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
23741 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
23742 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
23743 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
23744 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
23747 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23748 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
23749 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
23750 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
23751 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
23752 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
23753 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
23754 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
23755 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
23756 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
23757 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
23758 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23759 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
23760 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
23761 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
23762 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
23763 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
23764 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
23765 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
23766 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
23767 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
23768 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
23769 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
23770 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
23771 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
23772 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
23774 o Major bugfixes (misc):
23775 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
23776 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
23777 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23778 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
23779 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
23780 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
23781 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
23782 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
23784 o Minor features (relays):
23785 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
23786 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
23787 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
23788 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
23789 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
23790 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
23791 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
23792 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
23794 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
23795 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
23796 Resolves ticket 3252.
23797 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
23798 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
23800 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
23801 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
23802 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
23803 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
23804 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
23806 o Minor features (network statistics):
23807 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
23808 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
23809 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
23810 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
23811 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
23812 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
23813 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
23814 measure download times.
23815 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23816 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
23818 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
23819 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
23820 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23821 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
23823 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
23824 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
23825 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
23827 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
23828 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
23829 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
23830 Implements ticket 2432.
23831 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
23832 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
23833 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
23834 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
23835 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
23836 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
23837 Implements enhancement 1790.
23838 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
23839 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
23841 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
23842 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
23843 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
23844 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
23845 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
23846 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
23847 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
23849 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23851 o Minor features (clients):
23852 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
23853 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
23854 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
23855 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
23857 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
23858 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
23859 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
23860 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
23861 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
23862 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
23863 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
23864 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
23866 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
23867 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
23868 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
23869 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
23870 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
23871 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
23872 SSL handshake issues.
23874 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23875 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
23876 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
23877 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
23878 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
23879 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
23880 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
23881 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
23882 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
23883 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
23884 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
23885 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
23886 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
23887 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
23888 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
23889 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
23890 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
23891 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
23892 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
23893 hour of their uptime.
23894 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
23895 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
23896 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
23897 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
23899 o Minor features (hidden services):
23900 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
23901 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
23902 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
23903 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
23904 Required by fix for bug 3000.
23905 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
23906 by fix for bug 3000.
23907 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
23908 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
23909 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
23910 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
23911 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
23913 o Minor features (controller interface):
23914 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
23915 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
23916 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
23917 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
23918 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
23919 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
23920 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
23921 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
23922 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
23923 over our stored history.
23924 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
23925 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
23926 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
23928 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
23929 to the circuit build timeout.
23930 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
23931 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
23932 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
23934 o Minor features (controller protocol):
23935 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
23936 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
23937 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
23939 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
23940 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
23941 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
23942 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
23943 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
23944 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
23945 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
23946 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
23947 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
23948 arguments we do not recognize.
23950 o Minor features (more useful logging):
23951 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
23952 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
23953 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
23954 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
23955 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
23956 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
23957 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
23958 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
23959 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
23960 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
23961 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
23962 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
23963 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
23964 got suppressed since the last warning.
23965 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
23966 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
23967 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
23968 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
23969 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
23970 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
23971 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
23973 o Minor features (log domains):
23974 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
23975 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
23976 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
23978 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
23979 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
23981 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
23982 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
23983 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
23985 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
23986 during the TLS handshake.
23988 o Minor features (build process):
23989 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
23990 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
23991 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
23993 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
23994 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
23995 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
23997 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
23998 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
23999 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
24000 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
24001 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
24002 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
24004 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
24005 source files Tor was built with.
24006 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
24007 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
24008 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
24009 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
24010 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
24011 speeds up the build considerably.
24013 o Minor features (options / torrc):
24014 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
24015 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
24016 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
24017 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
24018 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
24019 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
24020 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
24021 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
24022 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
24023 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
24024 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
24025 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
24026 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
24027 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
24028 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
24029 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
24030 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
24031 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
24032 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
24033 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
24034 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
24035 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
24036 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
24037 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
24038 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
24039 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
24040 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
24042 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
24043 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
24044 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
24047 o Minor features (unit tests):
24048 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
24049 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
24050 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
24051 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
24052 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
24053 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
24055 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
24056 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
24059 o Minor features (misc):
24060 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
24061 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
24062 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
24063 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
24065 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
24066 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
24067 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
24068 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
24069 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
24071 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
24072 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
24073 open() without checking it.
24074 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
24075 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
24076 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
24077 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
24079 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24080 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
24081 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
24082 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
24083 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
24084 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
24085 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
24086 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
24087 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
24088 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
24089 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
24090 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
24091 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
24092 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
24093 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
24094 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
24095 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
24096 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
24097 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
24098 based on the time during which we were active and not in
24099 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
24100 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
24101 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
24102 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
24103 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24104 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
24105 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
24106 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
24108 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
24109 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
24110 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
24111 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
24113 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24114 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
24115 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
24116 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
24117 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
24119 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
24120 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
24121 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24122 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
24123 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
24124 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
24125 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
24126 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
24127 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
24128 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
24129 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
24130 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
24131 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
24133 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24134 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
24135 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
24136 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
24137 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
24138 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
24139 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
24140 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
24141 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
24142 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
24143 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
24144 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
24145 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
24146 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
24147 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
24148 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
24149 two-hop circuits are actually created.
24150 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
24151 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
24152 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
24153 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
24155 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24156 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
24157 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
24158 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
24159 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
24160 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
24161 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
24162 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
24163 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
24165 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
24166 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
24167 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
24168 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
24169 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
24170 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
24171 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
24172 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
24173 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
24174 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
24175 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
24176 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
24177 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
24180 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24181 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
24182 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
24183 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
24184 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24185 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
24186 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
24187 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
24188 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
24189 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
24190 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
24192 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
24193 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
24195 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
24196 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
24197 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
24198 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
24199 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24200 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
24201 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
24202 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
24204 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
24205 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
24206 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
24207 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24208 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
24209 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
24210 discovered by katmagic.
24211 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
24212 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
24214 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
24215 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24216 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
24217 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
24218 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
24219 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
24220 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
24221 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
24222 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
24224 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
24225 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
24227 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
24228 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
24230 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
24231 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
24233 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
24234 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
24235 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
24236 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24237 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
24238 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
24239 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
24240 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
24241 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
24242 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
24243 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
24244 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
24245 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
24246 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
24247 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
24249 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
24250 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
24251 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
24252 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
24253 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
24254 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
24255 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
24256 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
24257 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
24259 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
24260 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24261 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24263 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
24264 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
24265 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
24266 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
24268 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
24269 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
24270 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
24271 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
24272 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24273 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
24274 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
24276 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24277 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
24278 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
24279 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24280 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
24281 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
24283 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
24284 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
24285 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
24286 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
24287 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
24288 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
24289 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
24290 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24291 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
24293 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
24294 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
24295 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24296 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
24297 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24298 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
24299 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
24300 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
24301 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
24302 control-spec.txt said they were.
24304 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24305 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
24306 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
24308 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
24309 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24310 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
24311 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
24312 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
24314 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
24315 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
24317 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
24318 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
24319 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
24320 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
24321 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
24322 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
24323 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
24325 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
24326 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
24327 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
24328 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24329 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
24330 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
24331 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
24332 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
24335 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
24336 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24337 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24338 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24339 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24340 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24341 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24342 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24343 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24344 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24345 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24346 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24347 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24348 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24349 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
24351 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
24352 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
24353 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
24354 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
24355 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
24356 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24357 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
24359 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
24360 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
24363 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24364 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
24365 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
24366 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
24367 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24368 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24369 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
24370 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
24371 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
24372 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
24373 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
24374 fixes part of bug 3407.
24375 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24376 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
24377 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
24378 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
24379 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
24380 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
24381 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
24382 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
24383 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
24384 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
24386 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
24387 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
24388 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
24389 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
24390 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
24391 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
24392 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
24393 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24394 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
24395 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
24396 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
24397 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24398 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
24399 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
24400 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24401 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
24402 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24404 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
24405 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
24406 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
24407 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
24408 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
24409 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
24410 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24411 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
24412 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
24413 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
24414 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
24415 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
24417 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
24418 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
24419 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
24420 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
24421 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
24423 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
24424 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
24425 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
24426 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
24428 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
24429 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
24430 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
24431 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
24432 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
24433 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
24434 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
24435 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
24436 structures and defines in or.h for now.
24437 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
24439 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
24440 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
24441 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
24442 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
24443 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
24444 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
24445 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
24446 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
24448 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
24449 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
24450 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
24452 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24453 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
24454 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
24455 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
24456 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
24457 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
24458 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
24459 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
24460 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
24461 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
24463 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
24465 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
24466 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
24467 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
24468 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
24469 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
24470 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
24471 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
24472 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
24473 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
24474 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
24476 o Documentation changes:
24477 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
24478 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
24480 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
24481 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
24482 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
24483 what should go in a patch.
24484 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
24486 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
24487 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
24488 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
24489 projects directory in svn.
24491 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
24492 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
24493 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
24494 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
24495 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
24496 hidden service usage.
24497 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
24498 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
24499 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
24500 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
24501 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
24504 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
24505 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
24506 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
24507 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
24508 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
24511 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
24512 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
24513 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
24514 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
24515 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
24516 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24517 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24518 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
24519 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
24520 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
24521 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
24522 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
24523 via application-level web tricks.
24524 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
24525 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
24526 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
24527 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
24528 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
24529 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
24530 send a body too). Since only server versions before
24531 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
24532 keep the workaround in place.
24533 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
24534 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
24535 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
24536 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
24537 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
24538 want to do it differently.
24539 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
24540 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
24541 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
24544 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
24545 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
24546 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
24547 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
24548 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
24549 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
24552 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24553 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
24554 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
24555 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
24556 the rest of bug 1074.
24557 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
24558 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24559 Found by "piebeer".
24560 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
24561 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
24562 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
24563 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
24564 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
24565 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
24566 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24569 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
24571 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24574 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
24575 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
24576 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
24577 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
24578 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
24579 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
24580 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
24581 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
24582 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
24583 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
24584 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24586 o Packaging changes:
24587 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
24588 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
24589 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
24590 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
24591 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
24592 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
24595 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
24596 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
24597 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
24598 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
24599 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
24601 o Major bugfixes (security):
24602 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
24603 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
24604 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
24606 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
24607 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
24608 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
24609 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
24610 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
24611 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
24612 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
24613 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
24615 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24616 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
24617 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
24618 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
24619 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
24620 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
24621 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
24622 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
24623 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
24624 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
24625 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
24626 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
24627 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
24628 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
24631 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24632 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
24633 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
24634 bug reported by doorss.
24635 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
24636 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
24637 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24638 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
24639 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
24641 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
24642 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
24643 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
24644 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
24645 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24648 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24649 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
24652 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
24653 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
24654 Automake 1.7 or later.
24655 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
24656 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
24657 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
24658 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
24661 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
24662 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
24663 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
24664 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
24668 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
24669 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
24670 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
24671 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
24673 o Directory authority changes:
24674 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
24677 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24680 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
24681 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
24682 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
24683 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
24684 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
24687 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
24688 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
24689 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
24690 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
24691 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24692 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
24693 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
24694 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
24695 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
24696 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24697 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
24698 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
24699 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
24700 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
24701 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
24702 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
24703 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
24704 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24705 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
24706 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
24707 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
24708 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
24709 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
24712 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
24713 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
24714 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
24715 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
24717 o New directory authorities:
24718 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
24722 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
24723 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
24724 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
24726 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
24727 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24728 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
24729 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
24730 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
24731 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
24733 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
24734 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
24735 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
24738 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
24739 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
24740 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
24741 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
24742 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
24743 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
24744 Patch from mingw-san.
24747 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
24748 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
24749 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
24750 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
24751 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
24752 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
24755 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
24756 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
24757 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
24758 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
24759 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
24761 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
24762 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
24765 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
24766 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
24767 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
24768 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
24769 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
24770 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
24771 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
24772 their directory fetches over TLS).
24773 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
24774 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
24775 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
24776 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
24777 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
24778 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
24779 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
24780 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
24783 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
24784 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
24788 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
24789 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24790 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
24791 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
24792 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
24793 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
24794 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24797 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
24798 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
24799 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
24800 several minor potential security bugs.
24803 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
24804 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
24805 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
24806 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
24807 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
24808 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
24809 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
24812 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
24813 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
24815 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
24816 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
24817 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
24818 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
24821 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
24822 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
24826 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
24827 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
24828 customized patches to run/build.
24831 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
24832 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
24833 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
24836 o Major bugfixes (performance):
24837 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
24838 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
24839 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
24840 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
24841 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
24842 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
24843 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
24846 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
24847 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
24848 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
24849 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
24850 libraries in a security patch.
24851 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
24852 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
24853 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
24854 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
24858 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
24859 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
24862 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
24863 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
24864 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
24865 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
24866 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
24869 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
24870 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
24871 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
24872 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
24873 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
24875 o Directory authority changes:
24876 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
24880 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
24881 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
24882 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24885 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
24886 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
24887 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
24888 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
24889 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
24892 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
24893 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
24894 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
24895 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
24896 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
24897 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
24898 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
24901 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
24902 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
24903 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24904 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
24905 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
24906 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
24908 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
24909 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
24912 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
24913 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
24914 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
24915 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24917 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
24918 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
24920 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
24921 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
24922 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
24923 in the Vidalia Settings window.
24926 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24927 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24928 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24929 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24930 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24932 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24933 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24935 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
24936 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
24937 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
24940 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24941 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24942 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24944 o New directory authorities:
24945 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24947 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24950 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
24951 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24953 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24954 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24955 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24956 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24957 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24958 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24959 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24960 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24961 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24962 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24963 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24964 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24965 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24966 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24967 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24968 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24969 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24971 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24972 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24973 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
24975 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24976 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24980 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24981 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24982 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24983 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24984 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24987 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
24988 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
24992 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
24993 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
24994 part of patch provided by "optimist".
24997 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
24998 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
24999 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
25000 and confuse fewer users.
25003 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
25004 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
25005 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
25006 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
25007 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
25008 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
25009 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
25012 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
25013 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
25014 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
25015 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
25016 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
25017 other features and bug fixes.
25019 o Major features (clients):
25020 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
25021 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
25022 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
25023 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
25025 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
25026 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
25027 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
25028 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
25029 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
25030 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
25031 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
25032 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
25033 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
25034 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
25036 o Major features (relays):
25037 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
25038 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
25039 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
25040 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
25041 data. Found by Jacob.
25042 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
25043 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
25044 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
25045 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
25047 o Major features (hidden services):
25048 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
25049 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
25050 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
25051 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
25052 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
25053 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
25054 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
25055 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
25056 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
25057 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
25058 lookups more reliable.
25060 o Major features (path selection):
25061 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
25062 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
25063 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
25064 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
25065 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
25067 o Major features (misc):
25068 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
25069 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
25071 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
25072 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
25073 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
25074 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
25075 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
25076 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
25078 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
25079 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
25080 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
25081 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
25083 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
25086 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
25087 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
25088 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
25089 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
25090 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
25091 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
25092 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
25093 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
25094 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
25095 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
25096 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
25097 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
25098 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
25099 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
25100 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
25101 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
25102 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
25103 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
25104 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
25105 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
25106 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25107 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
25108 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
25109 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
25110 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
25111 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
25112 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
25113 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
25114 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
25115 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
25116 Implements proposal 148.
25118 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25119 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
25120 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
25121 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
25122 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
25123 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
25125 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
25126 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
25127 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
25128 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
25129 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
25130 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25131 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
25132 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25133 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
25135 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
25136 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
25137 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
25138 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
25140 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
25141 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
25142 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
25143 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
25144 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
25145 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
25146 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
25147 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
25148 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25150 o Major bugfixes (clients):
25151 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
25152 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
25153 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
25154 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
25155 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
25156 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
25157 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
25158 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
25159 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
25160 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
25161 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
25162 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
25163 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
25164 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
25165 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
25168 o Major bugfixes (relays):
25169 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
25170 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
25171 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
25172 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
25173 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
25174 patch by Sebastian.
25175 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25176 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25177 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25178 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
25179 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
25180 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
25181 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
25182 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
25183 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
25184 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
25187 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25188 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
25189 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
25190 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
25191 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
25192 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
25194 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
25195 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
25196 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
25197 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
25198 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
25199 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
25200 on a typical directory cache.
25201 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
25202 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
25203 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
25204 and may reduce fragmentation.
25206 o New/changed config options:
25207 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
25208 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
25209 Suggested by Lucky Green.
25210 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
25211 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
25212 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
25213 locked down these days.
25214 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
25215 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25216 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
25217 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
25218 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
25219 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
25220 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
25221 output to messages of warning and error severity.
25222 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
25223 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
25224 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
25225 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
25226 directory requests we should expect to see.
25227 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
25228 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
25229 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
25230 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
25231 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
25232 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
25233 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
25235 o Minor features (relays):
25236 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
25237 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
25238 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
25239 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
25240 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
25242 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
25243 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
25244 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
25245 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
25246 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
25247 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
25248 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
25249 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
25250 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
25251 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
25252 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
25253 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
25254 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
25256 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25257 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
25258 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
25259 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
25260 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
25261 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
25262 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
25263 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
25264 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
25265 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
25266 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
25268 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
25269 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
25270 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
25271 fingerprints with or without space.
25273 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
25274 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
25275 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
25276 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
25277 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
25278 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
25279 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
25280 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
25281 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
25283 o Minor features (bridges):
25284 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
25285 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
25287 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
25288 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
25291 o Minor features (hidden services):
25292 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
25293 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
25294 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
25295 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
25296 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
25297 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
25298 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
25299 faster after restart.
25300 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
25301 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
25303 o Minor features (build and packaging):
25304 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
25306 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
25307 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
25309 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
25310 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
25311 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
25312 entirely. Patch from coderman.
25313 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
25314 are built without support for deprecated functions.
25315 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
25316 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
25317 system to do it for us.
25318 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
25319 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
25320 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
25321 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
25322 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
25323 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
25324 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
25325 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
25326 the letter of C99's alias rules.
25327 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
25328 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
25329 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
25330 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
25331 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
25332 with log.h on Android.
25333 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
25334 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
25336 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
25337 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
25338 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
25339 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
25341 o Minor features (controllers):
25342 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
25343 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
25344 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
25345 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
25346 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
25347 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
25348 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
25349 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
25350 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
25351 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
25353 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
25354 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
25355 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
25356 been fetched and validated.
25357 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
25358 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
25360 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
25362 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
25363 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
25364 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
25365 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
25366 partway through and wants to catch up.
25367 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
25369 o Minor features (tools):
25370 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
25371 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
25372 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
25373 people find host:port too confusing.
25374 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
25375 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
25377 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
25378 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
25379 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25380 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
25381 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
25382 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
25383 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
25384 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
25385 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
25387 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
25388 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
25389 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
25390 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
25391 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
25393 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
25394 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
25395 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
25397 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
25398 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25399 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
25400 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
25401 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
25402 have already been marked for close.
25403 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
25404 memory performance during directory parsing.
25406 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25407 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
25408 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
25409 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
25410 done that for a long time.
25411 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
25412 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
25413 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
25414 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
25415 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
25416 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
25417 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
25418 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
25419 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25420 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
25421 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
25422 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
25423 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
25424 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
25425 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
25426 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
25427 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
25428 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
25429 because of a pending download.
25430 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
25431 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
25432 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
25433 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
25434 bug 820, reported by seeess.
25436 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
25437 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
25438 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
25439 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
25440 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
25441 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
25442 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
25443 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
25444 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
25446 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25447 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
25449 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
25450 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
25451 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25452 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
25453 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
25454 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
25455 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
25456 of 0. Suggested by lark.
25457 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
25458 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
25459 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
25460 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
25461 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
25463 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
25464 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
25465 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
25467 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
25468 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
25470 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
25471 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
25472 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
25473 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
25474 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
25475 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
25476 rest, and don't automatically fail.
25477 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
25478 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
25479 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
25480 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
25481 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
25482 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25484 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25485 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
25486 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
25487 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
25488 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
25489 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
25490 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
25492 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
25493 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25495 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25496 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
25497 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
25498 Workaround for bug 1024.
25499 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
25500 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
25501 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
25502 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
25503 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
25504 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
25505 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
25506 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
25509 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
25510 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
25513 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
25514 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
25515 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
25516 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
25517 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
25518 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
25519 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
25521 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
25522 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
25523 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
25524 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
25525 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
25526 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
25527 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
25528 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
25531 o Deprecated and removed features:
25532 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
25533 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
25534 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
25536 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
25538 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
25539 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25540 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
25541 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
25542 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
25543 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
25544 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
25545 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
25546 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
25547 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
25548 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
25549 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
25550 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
25551 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
25554 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25555 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
25556 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
25557 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
25558 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
25560 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
25561 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
25562 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
25563 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
25564 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
25565 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
25566 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
25567 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
25568 actual mistakes we're making here.
25569 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
25570 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
25571 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
25572 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
25573 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
25574 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
25575 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
25576 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
25577 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
25578 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
25579 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
25580 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
25581 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
25582 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
25583 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
25586 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
25588 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
25589 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
25590 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
25591 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
25592 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
25595 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
25596 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
25597 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
25598 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
25599 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
25600 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
25601 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
25602 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
25603 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
25604 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
25607 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
25608 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
25609 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
25610 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
25611 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
25612 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
25613 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
25614 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
25617 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
25618 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
25619 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
25620 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
25621 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
25623 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
25624 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
25625 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
25626 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
25629 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
25630 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25631 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
25632 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
25633 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
25634 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
25635 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
25636 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
25639 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
25640 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
25641 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
25642 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
25645 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
25646 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
25647 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
25648 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
25650 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
25651 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
25652 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
25655 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
25656 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
25659 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
25660 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
25661 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
25662 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
25663 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
25664 reported by "wood".
25665 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
25666 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
25667 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
25668 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
25669 identify a connection.
25670 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
25671 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
25672 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
25673 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
25674 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
25675 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
25676 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25677 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
25678 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
25679 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
25681 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
25682 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
25683 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
25684 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
25685 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
25686 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
25687 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
25690 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
25691 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
25693 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
25694 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
25695 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
25696 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
25697 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
25698 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
25699 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25700 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
25702 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
25703 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
25704 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
25705 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
25706 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
25707 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
25708 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
25709 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
25710 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
25711 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
25712 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
25713 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
25714 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
25715 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
25716 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25717 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
25718 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
25719 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25720 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
25721 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
25722 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
25723 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
25724 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
25725 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
25726 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
25727 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
25728 840. Patch from rovv.
25729 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
25730 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
25731 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
25733 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
25734 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
25735 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
25736 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
25737 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
25738 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
25739 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
25741 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25742 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
25743 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
25746 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
25747 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
25749 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
25750 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
25751 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
25752 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
25753 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
25754 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
25755 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
25756 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
25757 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
25759 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
25761 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
25762 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
25766 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
25767 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
25768 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
25769 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
25770 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
25771 variety of other issues.
25774 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
25775 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
25776 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
25777 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
25778 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
25779 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
25780 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
25781 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
25782 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
25783 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
25784 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
25785 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
25788 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
25789 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25791 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25792 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
25793 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
25794 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
25795 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
25796 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
25797 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25798 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
25799 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
25800 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
25801 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
25802 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
25803 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
25804 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
25805 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
25809 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
25810 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
25811 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
25812 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
25813 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
25814 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
25815 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
25816 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
25817 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
25818 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
25819 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
25820 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
25821 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25822 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25823 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
25824 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25825 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25826 list. It has been gone for many months.
25827 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25828 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
25829 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25832 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25833 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
25834 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
25837 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
25838 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
25839 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
25840 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25843 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25844 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25845 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25846 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25847 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25848 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25850 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25851 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25852 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25853 pointed out by rovv.
25856 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25857 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25858 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25859 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25860 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
25861 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
25862 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25863 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25864 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25865 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25866 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25867 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
25868 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
25869 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25870 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25871 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25872 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25873 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25874 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
25875 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
25876 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25879 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
25880 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
25881 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
25882 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
25883 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
25884 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
25885 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
25887 o New v3 directory design:
25888 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
25889 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
25890 network status document rather than each publishing their own
25891 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
25892 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
25893 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
25894 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
25896 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
25897 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
25898 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
25899 dannenberg (run by CCC).
25900 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
25901 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
25902 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
25903 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
25904 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
25905 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
25906 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
25907 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
25908 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
25909 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
25911 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
25912 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
25913 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
25914 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
25915 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
25916 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
25917 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
25918 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
25919 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
25920 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
25921 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
25922 certain censored countries by default again.
25923 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
25924 Tor's x509 certificates.
25926 o Implement bridge relays:
25927 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
25928 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
25929 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
25930 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
25931 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
25932 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
25933 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
25934 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
25935 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
25936 rather than "v2,v3".
25937 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
25938 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
25939 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
25940 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
25941 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
25942 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
25943 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
25944 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
25945 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
25946 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
25947 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
25949 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
25950 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
25951 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
25952 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
25953 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
25954 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
25955 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
25956 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
25957 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
25958 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
25959 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
25960 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
25961 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
25962 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
25963 bridges are functioning.
25964 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
25965 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
25966 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
25967 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
25968 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
25969 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
25970 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
25971 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
25972 knows that password. Unset by default.
25973 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
25974 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
25975 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
25976 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
25977 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
25978 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
25979 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
25980 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
25981 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
25982 and bridges@torproject.org.
25984 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
25985 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
25986 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
25987 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
25988 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
25989 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
25990 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
25991 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
25992 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
25993 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
25994 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
25995 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
25996 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
25997 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
25998 longer a completely silly thing to do.
26000 o Major features (relay usability):
26001 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
26002 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
26003 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
26004 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
26005 proposal 111 for details.
26006 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
26007 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
26008 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
26009 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
26011 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
26012 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
26013 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
26015 o Major features (directory authorities):
26016 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
26017 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
26018 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
26019 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
26020 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
26021 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
26022 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
26023 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
26024 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
26025 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
26026 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
26027 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
26028 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
26030 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
26031 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
26032 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
26033 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
26034 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
26035 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
26036 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
26037 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
26038 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
26039 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
26040 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
26041 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
26042 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
26043 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
26044 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
26045 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
26046 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
26047 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
26048 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
26049 general, controller, or bridge.
26051 o Major features (other):
26052 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
26053 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
26054 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
26055 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
26056 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
26057 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
26058 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
26059 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
26060 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
26061 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
26062 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
26063 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
26064 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
26065 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
26068 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
26069 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
26070 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
26072 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
26073 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
26074 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
26075 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
26076 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
26077 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
26078 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
26079 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
26080 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
26081 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
26082 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
26084 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
26085 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
26087 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
26088 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
26089 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
26090 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
26092 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
26093 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
26094 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
26095 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
26096 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
26098 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
26099 address maps to an internal address space.
26100 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
26101 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
26102 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
26103 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
26104 complements proposal 107.
26105 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
26106 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
26107 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
26108 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
26109 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
26110 reported by taranis and lodger.
26111 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
26112 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
26113 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
26114 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
26115 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
26116 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
26117 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
26118 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
26119 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
26120 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
26121 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
26122 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
26123 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
26125 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
26126 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
26128 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
26129 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
26130 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
26131 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
26132 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
26133 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
26134 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
26136 o Major bugfixes (other):
26137 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
26138 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
26139 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
26141 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
26142 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
26143 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
26144 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
26145 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
26146 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
26147 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
26148 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
26149 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
26150 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
26151 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
26152 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
26153 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
26154 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
26155 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
26156 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
26157 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
26158 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
26159 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
26161 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
26162 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
26163 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
26164 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
26165 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
26166 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
26167 eat all of our bandwidth.
26168 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
26169 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
26170 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
26171 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
26172 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
26173 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
26174 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
26175 bug 688, reported by mfr.
26176 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
26177 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
26178 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
26179 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
26181 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
26182 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
26183 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
26184 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
26185 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
26186 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
26187 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
26188 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
26189 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
26190 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
26191 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
26192 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
26194 o Performance improvements (memory):
26195 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
26196 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
26197 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
26198 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
26199 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
26200 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
26201 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
26202 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
26203 memory fragmentation.
26204 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
26205 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
26206 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
26207 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
26208 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
26210 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
26211 of them were actually distinct.
26212 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
26214 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
26215 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
26216 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
26217 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
26218 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
26219 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
26220 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
26221 performance-intensive.
26222 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
26223 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
26224 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
26225 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
26226 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
26229 o Performance improvements (socket management):
26230 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
26231 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
26232 our allocated connection limit.
26233 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
26234 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
26235 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
26236 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
26237 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
26239 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
26240 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
26242 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
26243 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
26244 is interested in a given message.
26245 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
26246 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
26247 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
26248 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
26249 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
26251 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
26252 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
26253 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
26255 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
26256 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
26257 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
26258 they are the same).
26259 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
26260 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
26261 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
26262 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
26265 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
26266 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
26267 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
26268 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
26269 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
26270 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
26271 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
26273 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
26274 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
26275 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
26276 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
26277 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
26278 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
26279 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
26280 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
26281 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
26282 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
26283 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
26284 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
26285 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
26288 o Changed config option behavior (features):
26289 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
26290 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
26291 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
26292 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
26293 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
26294 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
26295 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
26296 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
26297 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
26298 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
26299 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
26300 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
26301 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
26302 and are reaching it.
26303 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
26304 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
26305 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
26306 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
26308 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
26309 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
26310 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
26311 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
26312 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
26313 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
26314 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
26315 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
26316 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
26318 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
26319 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
26320 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
26321 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
26322 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
26323 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
26324 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
26325 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
26327 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
26328 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
26330 o New config options:
26331 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
26332 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
26333 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
26334 running a test network on a single host.
26335 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
26336 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
26337 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
26338 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
26339 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
26340 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
26341 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
26342 the approved-routers file.
26343 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
26344 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
26345 v2 directory information.
26347 o Minor features (other):
26348 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
26349 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
26350 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
26351 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
26352 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
26353 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
26355 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
26356 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
26357 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
26358 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
26359 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
26360 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
26361 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
26363 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
26364 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
26365 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
26367 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
26368 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
26369 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
26370 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
26371 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
26373 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
26374 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
26375 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
26376 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
26377 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
26378 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
26379 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
26381 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
26382 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
26383 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
26384 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
26385 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
26386 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
26387 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
26388 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
26389 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
26392 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26393 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
26394 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
26396 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
26397 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
26398 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
26399 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
26400 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
26401 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
26403 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
26404 bandwidthburst values.
26405 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
26406 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
26407 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
26408 to mark all our entry points down.
26409 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
26410 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
26411 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
26412 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
26413 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
26415 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
26416 more often than they are allowed to appear.
26417 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
26418 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26419 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
26420 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
26421 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
26422 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
26423 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
26425 o Controller features:
26426 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
26427 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
26428 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
26429 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
26430 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
26431 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
26433 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
26434 multiple controller passwords.
26435 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
26436 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
26437 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
26438 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
26440 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
26441 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
26442 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
26443 cookie authentication file, and config option
26444 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
26445 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
26446 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26447 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
26449 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
26450 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
26451 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
26452 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
26453 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
26454 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
26455 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
26457 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
26458 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
26460 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
26461 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
26462 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
26463 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
26464 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
26465 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
26466 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
26467 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
26468 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
26469 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
26470 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
26471 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
26472 report the value as a "minimum skew."
26474 o Controller bugfixes:
26475 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
26476 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
26477 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
26478 processes can't run us out of memory.
26479 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
26480 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
26481 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
26483 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
26484 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
26485 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
26486 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
26487 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
26488 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
26489 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
26490 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
26491 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
26492 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
26493 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
26494 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
26495 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
26496 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
26497 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
26499 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
26500 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
26502 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
26503 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
26504 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
26505 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
26506 WARN-severity events.
26508 o Portability / building / compiling:
26509 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
26510 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
26511 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
26512 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
26513 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
26514 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
26515 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
26516 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
26517 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
26518 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
26519 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
26520 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
26521 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
26523 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
26524 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
26525 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
26526 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
26527 Use this version consistently in log messages.
26528 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
26529 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26530 partial results on small file reads.
26531 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
26532 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
26533 a directory. Fix from lodger.
26534 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
26535 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
26536 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
26538 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
26539 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
26540 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
26541 logging for the unit tests.
26542 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
26543 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
26545 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
26546 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
26548 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
26549 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
26550 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
26551 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
26554 o Logging improvements:
26555 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
26556 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
26557 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
26558 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
26559 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
26560 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
26561 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
26563 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
26564 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
26565 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
26566 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
26567 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
26568 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
26569 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
26570 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
26571 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
26572 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
26573 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
26574 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
26575 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26576 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
26577 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
26578 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
26579 Good in combination with --hash-password.
26580 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
26581 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
26583 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
26584 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
26585 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
26586 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
26588 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
26589 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
26590 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
26591 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
26592 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
26594 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
26595 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
26596 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
26597 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
26598 makes the log messages nicer.
26599 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
26600 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
26602 o Contributed scripts and tools:
26603 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
26604 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
26606 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
26607 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
26608 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
26609 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
26610 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
26611 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
26612 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
26613 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
26614 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
26615 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
26617 o Newly deprecated features:
26618 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
26619 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
26620 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
26621 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
26623 o Removed features:
26624 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
26625 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
26626 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
26627 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
26628 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
26630 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
26631 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
26632 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
26633 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
26634 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
26635 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
26636 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
26637 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
26639 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
26640 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
26641 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
26642 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
26643 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
26644 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
26646 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
26647 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
26648 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
26649 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
26650 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
26651 patch from Karsten Loesing.
26652 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
26653 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
26654 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
26655 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
26656 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
26657 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
26658 code), this assumption no longer holds.
26659 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
26663 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
26664 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
26665 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
26666 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
26669 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
26670 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
26671 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
26672 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
26673 on network address.
26676 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
26677 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
26678 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
26679 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
26680 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
26681 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
26682 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
26683 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
26684 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
26685 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
26686 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
26687 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
26690 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
26691 rebuild our server descriptor.
26692 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
26693 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
26694 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
26695 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
26696 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
26697 nonstandard integer types.
26698 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
26699 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
26700 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
26701 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
26702 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
26704 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
26705 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
26706 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
26707 when they receive them.
26708 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
26709 This includes some 64-bit systems.
26710 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
26711 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
26712 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
26713 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
26714 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
26715 router_get_by_hexdigest().
26716 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
26717 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
26721 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
26722 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
26723 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
26724 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
26725 lists for a few hours each day.
26727 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26728 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
26729 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
26730 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
26731 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
26732 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26733 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
26734 rend_process_relay_cell().
26736 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26737 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
26738 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
26739 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
26740 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
26741 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
26742 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
26743 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
26745 o Major bugfixes (other):
26746 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
26747 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
26748 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
26749 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
26750 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
26751 circuit cannibalization).
26752 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
26753 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
26754 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
26755 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
26756 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
26757 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
26760 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
26761 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
26763 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
26764 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
26765 absent. Resolves bug 467.
26766 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
26767 a way to trigger this remotely.)
26768 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
26769 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
26770 were reporting the dir port.)
26771 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
26772 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
26773 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
26774 the future. Fixes bug 434.
26775 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
26777 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
26778 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
26779 the onion key from getting rotated.
26780 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
26781 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
26782 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
26783 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
26784 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
26785 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
26786 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26789 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
26790 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
26791 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
26792 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
26793 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
26796 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
26797 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
26800 o Major bugfixes (security):
26801 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
26802 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
26803 become more of a headache than it's worth.
26805 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
26806 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
26807 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
26809 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
26810 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
26811 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
26812 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
26813 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
26814 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
26816 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
26817 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
26818 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26819 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
26820 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
26822 o Minor features (controller):
26823 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26824 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26825 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26826 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26828 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26829 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
26830 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
26831 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
26832 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
26833 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
26834 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
26835 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
26837 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26838 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
26839 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
26840 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
26841 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
26842 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
26843 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
26844 if we ran off the end of the list.
26845 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26846 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26847 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26848 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26849 every time we change any piece of our config.
26850 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26851 encourage people using them to stop.
26852 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
26854 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26855 servers to choose a circuit.
26856 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26857 unparseable piece of it.
26860 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
26861 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
26862 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
26863 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
26864 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
26865 TorK, etc. Or worse.
26867 o Major security fixes:
26868 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26869 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26872 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
26873 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
26874 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
26875 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
26877 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
26878 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
26880 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26881 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
26882 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
26883 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
26884 routerlist while inserting a new router.
26885 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
26886 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
26888 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
26889 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
26890 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
26892 o Major bugfixes (security):
26893 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
26895 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
26896 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
26897 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
26898 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
26899 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
26900 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
26901 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
26902 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
26903 guard list unless we need to.
26905 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
26906 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
26907 don't get overused as guards.
26909 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26910 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
26911 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
26912 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
26913 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
26915 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26916 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
26917 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
26920 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26921 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26922 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
26923 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
26924 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
26925 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
26926 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
26927 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
26930 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
26931 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
26932 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
26933 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
26935 o Directory authority changes:
26936 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
26937 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
26938 or use hidden services.
26940 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26941 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
26942 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
26943 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
26944 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
26945 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
26946 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
26947 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
26948 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
26951 o Major bugfixes (security):
26952 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
26953 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
26954 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
26956 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
26957 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
26958 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
26959 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
26960 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
26961 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
26962 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
26963 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
26964 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
26965 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
26968 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
26969 purpose=controller.
26970 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
26971 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
26973 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
26974 having a hard time downloading.
26975 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26976 partial results on small file reads.
26977 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
26978 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
26979 the gaps in the store get very large.
26982 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
26983 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
26985 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
26986 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
26989 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
26990 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
26991 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
26992 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
26993 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
26994 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
26996 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
26997 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
26998 free speech on the Internet.
27000 o Major features, client performance:
27001 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
27002 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
27003 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
27004 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
27005 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
27006 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
27007 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
27008 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
27009 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
27010 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
27011 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
27012 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
27013 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
27014 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
27015 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
27017 o Major features, client functionality:
27018 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
27019 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
27020 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
27021 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
27022 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
27023 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
27024 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
27025 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
27026 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
27027 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
27028 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
27029 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
27030 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
27032 o Major features, servers:
27033 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
27034 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
27035 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
27036 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
27037 authenticated, so use with care.
27038 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
27039 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
27040 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
27042 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
27043 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
27044 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
27045 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
27046 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
27047 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
27049 o Improvements on DNS support:
27050 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
27051 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
27052 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
27053 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
27054 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
27055 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
27056 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
27057 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
27058 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
27059 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
27060 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
27061 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
27062 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
27063 lets you turn it off.
27064 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
27065 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
27066 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
27067 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
27068 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
27069 useful to the network.
27070 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
27071 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
27072 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
27073 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
27074 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
27075 our tests for DNS hijacking.
27077 o Improvements on reachability testing:
27078 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
27079 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
27080 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
27081 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
27082 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
27083 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
27084 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
27085 if their identity keys are as expected.
27086 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
27087 chews through many circuits before giving up.
27088 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
27089 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
27090 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
27091 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
27092 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
27093 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
27094 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
27095 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
27096 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
27097 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
27098 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
27099 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
27101 o Improvements on rate limiting:
27102 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
27103 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
27104 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
27105 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
27106 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
27108 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
27109 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
27110 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
27111 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
27112 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
27113 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
27114 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
27115 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
27117 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
27118 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
27120 o Major features, NT services:
27121 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
27122 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
27123 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
27124 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
27125 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
27126 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
27127 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
27129 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
27130 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
27131 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
27133 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
27134 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
27135 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
27137 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
27138 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
27140 o Directory authority improvements:
27141 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
27143 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
27144 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
27145 too much load to the exit nodes.
27146 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
27147 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
27148 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
27149 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
27150 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
27151 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
27152 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
27153 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
27154 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
27155 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
27156 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
27157 broken. Not used yet.
27158 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
27159 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
27160 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
27161 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
27162 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
27163 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
27164 non-versioning dirservers.
27165 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
27166 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
27167 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
27169 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
27170 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
27171 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
27172 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
27174 o Directory mirrors and clients:
27175 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
27176 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
27177 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
27178 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
27179 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
27180 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
27181 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
27182 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
27183 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
27184 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
27185 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
27186 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
27187 routers for even longer.
27188 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
27189 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
27190 caching HTTP proxies.
27191 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
27192 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
27193 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
27194 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
27196 o Major fixes, crashes:
27197 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
27198 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
27199 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
27200 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
27202 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
27203 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
27204 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
27205 stream is detached.
27206 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
27207 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
27208 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
27209 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
27210 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
27211 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
27212 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
27213 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
27214 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
27215 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
27217 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
27218 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
27219 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
27220 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
27221 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
27222 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
27223 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
27224 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
27225 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
27226 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
27227 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
27228 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
27229 could return an unnamed server instead.
27230 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
27231 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
27232 a more attractive target for compromise.)
27233 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
27234 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
27235 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
27236 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
27238 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
27239 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
27241 o Major fixes, other:
27242 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
27243 uptime in the descriptor.
27244 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
27245 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
27246 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
27247 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
27248 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
27249 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
27250 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
27251 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
27252 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
27253 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
27254 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
27255 our DirPort now, etc.
27256 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
27257 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
27258 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
27260 o New config options or behaviors:
27261 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
27262 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
27263 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
27264 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
27265 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
27266 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
27267 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
27268 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
27269 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
27270 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
27271 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
27272 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
27274 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
27275 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
27276 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
27277 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
27278 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
27280 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
27281 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
27282 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
27283 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
27284 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
27285 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
27286 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
27287 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
27288 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
27289 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
27290 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
27291 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
27292 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
27293 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
27294 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
27295 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
27296 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
27297 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
27298 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
27299 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
27300 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
27301 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
27302 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
27303 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
27304 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
27305 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
27306 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
27307 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
27308 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
27309 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
27311 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
27312 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
27313 your ORPort is set.
27316 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
27317 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
27319 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
27320 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
27321 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
27322 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
27324 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
27325 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
27326 whether the config options are bad or good.
27327 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
27328 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
27329 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
27330 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
27331 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
27332 result more than once.
27333 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
27334 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
27335 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
27336 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
27337 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
27338 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
27339 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
27340 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
27341 before we check for libevent.
27342 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
27343 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
27344 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
27345 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
27346 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
27347 recommendation system saner.)
27348 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
27349 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
27350 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
27351 now universal binaries.
27352 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
27353 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
27355 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
27357 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
27358 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
27359 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
27360 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
27361 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
27362 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
27364 o Minor features, controller:
27365 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
27366 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
27367 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
27369 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
27370 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27371 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
27372 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
27373 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
27374 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
27375 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
27377 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
27378 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
27379 connected or resolved cell.
27380 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
27381 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
27382 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
27383 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
27384 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
27385 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
27386 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
27388 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
27389 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
27390 entry guard status as it changes.
27391 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
27392 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
27393 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
27394 watching for STREAM events.
27395 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
27396 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
27397 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
27398 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
27400 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
27401 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
27402 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
27403 working much like those for circuit events.
27404 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
27405 about the current status of a router.
27406 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
27407 a router's status has changed.
27408 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
27409 can tell which events and features are supported.
27410 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
27411 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
27412 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
27413 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
27414 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
27415 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
27416 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
27417 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
27418 for more information.
27419 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
27420 best guess to the user.
27421 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
27422 descriptor has changed.
27423 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
27424 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
27425 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
27427 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
27428 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
27429 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
27430 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
27431 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
27432 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
27433 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
27434 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
27435 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
27436 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
27437 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
27439 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
27440 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
27442 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
27443 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
27444 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
27446 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
27447 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
27448 the controller from learning about current events.
27449 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
27450 reported by Mike Perry.
27451 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
27452 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
27453 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
27454 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
27455 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
27456 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
27457 long nicknames where appropriate.
27458 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
27459 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
27461 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
27462 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
27463 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
27464 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
27465 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
27467 o Minor features, code performance:
27468 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
27469 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
27470 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
27472 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
27473 some profiles, but not others.)
27474 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
27475 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
27476 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
27477 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
27478 operations, for profiling.
27479 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
27480 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
27481 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
27482 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
27483 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
27484 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
27485 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
27486 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
27488 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
27489 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
27490 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
27491 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
27492 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
27493 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
27494 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
27495 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
27496 family lists conveniently.
27498 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
27499 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
27500 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
27501 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
27502 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
27503 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
27504 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
27505 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
27506 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
27507 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
27508 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
27509 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
27510 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
27511 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
27512 of it), is not therefore "up".
27514 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
27515 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
27516 what version a router is running.
27517 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
27518 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
27519 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
27520 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
27522 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
27523 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
27524 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
27525 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
27526 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
27529 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
27530 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
27531 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
27533 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
27534 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
27536 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
27537 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
27538 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
27539 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
27540 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
27541 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
27542 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
27543 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
27544 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
27545 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
27547 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
27548 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
27549 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
27550 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
27551 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
27552 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
27553 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
27554 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
27555 get one we don't recognize.
27558 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
27559 o Security bugfixes:
27560 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
27561 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
27562 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
27563 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
27567 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
27568 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
27569 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
27572 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
27574 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
27575 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
27576 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27577 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
27578 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
27579 its circuits on demand.
27580 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
27581 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
27582 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
27583 connections more stable on average.
27584 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
27585 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
27586 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
27588 o Security bugfixes:
27589 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
27590 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
27593 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
27595 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
27596 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
27597 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
27598 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
27599 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
27600 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
27601 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
27602 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
27605 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
27607 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
27608 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
27609 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
27610 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
27611 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
27612 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
27613 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
27614 it can't resolve its hostname.
27615 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
27616 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
27617 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27620 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
27621 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
27622 "extendcircuit" request.
27623 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
27624 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
27625 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
27626 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
27628 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
27629 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
27630 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
27632 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
27633 methods: these are known to be buggy.
27634 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
27635 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
27636 we don't recognize.
27639 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
27641 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
27642 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
27643 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
27644 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
27645 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
27646 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
27647 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
27648 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
27649 test reachability, so you won't publish.
27652 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
27653 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
27654 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
27655 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
27656 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
27658 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
27659 own server descriptor yet.
27662 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
27664 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
27665 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
27666 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
27667 make sure to test via one of these.
27668 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
27669 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
27670 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
27671 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
27672 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
27674 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
27675 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
27676 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
27679 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
27680 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
27681 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
27682 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
27683 directory authority.
27684 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
27685 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
27686 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
27687 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
27690 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
27691 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
27692 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
27694 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
27695 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
27696 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
27697 current guards when picking a new guard.
27698 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
27699 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
27700 when we had more than one pending.
27701 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
27702 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
27703 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
27704 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
27705 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
27706 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
27707 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
27708 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
27709 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
27710 debug the reachability problems better.
27712 o Log / documentation fixes:
27713 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
27714 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
27715 about protocol violations by others.
27716 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
27717 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
27718 about what happened to our old torrc.
27721 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
27722 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
27723 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
27724 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
27725 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
27726 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
27728 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
27729 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
27730 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
27731 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
27732 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
27733 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
27734 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
27735 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
27736 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
27737 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
27738 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
27739 on malicious huge inputs.
27741 o Security fixes, major:
27742 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
27743 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
27744 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
27745 misreading their logs.
27746 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
27747 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
27748 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
27749 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
27750 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
27751 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
27752 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
27753 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
27754 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
27755 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
27756 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
27757 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
27758 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
27759 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
27761 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
27762 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
27763 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
27764 firewall options forbid.
27765 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
27766 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
27767 can only proxy to certain destinations.
27768 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
27769 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
27770 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
27772 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
27773 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
27774 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
27775 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
27776 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
27777 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
27778 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
27779 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
27780 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
27781 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
27782 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
27783 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
27784 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
27786 o Security fixes, minor:
27787 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
27788 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
27790 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
27791 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
27792 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
27793 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
27794 if we've not heard of a server.
27795 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
27796 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
27797 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
27798 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
27799 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
27800 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
27801 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
27802 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
27803 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
27804 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
27805 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
27806 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
27807 aids some statistical attacks.
27808 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
27809 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
27810 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
27811 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
27812 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
27813 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
27814 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
27815 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
27818 o Packaging improvements:
27819 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
27820 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
27821 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
27822 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
27823 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
27824 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
27826 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
27827 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
27828 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
27829 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
27830 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
27831 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
27833 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
27834 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
27835 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
27837 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
27838 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
27839 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
27840 They are useless now.
27841 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
27842 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
27843 is reachable by you.
27844 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
27847 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
27848 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
27849 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
27850 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
27851 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
27852 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
27853 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
27854 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
27855 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
27856 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
27857 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
27858 and isolating attacks better.
27859 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
27860 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
27861 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
27862 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
27863 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
27864 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
27865 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
27866 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
27867 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
27868 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
27869 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
27871 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
27872 can answer v2 directory requests too.
27873 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
27874 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
27875 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
27876 mirrors still cache and serve it).
27877 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
27878 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
27879 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
27880 for clients and for servers.
27881 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
27882 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
27883 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
27884 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
27885 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
27886 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
27887 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
27888 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
27889 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
27890 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
27891 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
27893 o Other directory improvements:
27894 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
27895 fifth authoritative directory servers.
27896 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
27897 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
27898 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
27899 to hang up on them.
27900 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
27901 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
27902 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
27903 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
27904 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
27905 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
27907 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
27908 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
27909 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
27910 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
27911 connections more reliable.
27912 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
27913 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
27914 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
27915 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
27916 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
27917 we fail to connect).
27918 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
27920 o Controller protocol improvements:
27921 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
27922 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
27923 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
27924 applications without caring how our protocol works.
27925 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
27926 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
27927 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
27928 many bytes we've used in this time period.
27929 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
27930 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
27931 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
27932 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
27933 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
27934 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
27935 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
27936 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
27937 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
27938 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
27939 or "signal reload".
27940 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
27941 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
27942 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
27943 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
27944 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
27945 a router in its role as directory authority.
27946 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
27947 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
27948 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
27949 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
27950 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
27951 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
27952 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
27953 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
27954 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
27955 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
27956 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
27957 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
27958 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
27959 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
27960 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
27961 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
27962 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
27963 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
27965 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
27966 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
27967 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
27968 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
27969 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
27970 just tell them to go read their logs.
27972 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
27973 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
27974 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
27975 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
27976 try to be a bit more fair.
27977 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
27978 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
27979 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
27980 and we're using a default DirPort.
27981 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
27982 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
27983 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
27984 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
27985 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
27986 services faster on the service end.
27987 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
27989 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
27990 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
27991 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
27992 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
27993 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
27994 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
27995 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
27996 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
27997 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
27998 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
27999 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
28000 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
28001 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
28002 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
28003 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
28004 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
28005 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
28006 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
28007 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
28008 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
28009 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
28010 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
28011 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
28012 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
28013 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
28015 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
28016 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
28017 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
28018 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
28019 so we can be backward-compatible.
28020 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
28021 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
28022 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
28023 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
28024 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
28025 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
28026 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
28027 initial descriptor forever.
28028 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
28029 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
28030 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
28031 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
28032 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
28033 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
28034 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
28035 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
28036 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
28037 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
28038 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
28039 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
28040 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
28041 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
28042 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
28043 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
28044 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
28045 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
28046 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
28047 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
28048 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
28049 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
28050 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
28051 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
28052 ports that have changed.
28053 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
28054 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
28055 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
28056 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
28057 connections once a week.
28058 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
28059 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
28060 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
28061 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
28062 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
28063 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
28064 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
28065 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
28066 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
28067 able to discover them.
28068 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
28069 want to make it an NT service.
28070 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
28071 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
28072 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
28073 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
28074 memory leaks better.
28075 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
28076 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
28077 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
28078 statistics are now uint64_t's.
28079 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
28080 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
28081 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
28082 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
28083 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
28084 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
28085 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
28086 default ulimit -n is 1024.
28087 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
28088 and its existence is confusing some users.
28090 o Config option fixes:
28091 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
28092 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
28093 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
28094 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
28095 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
28096 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
28097 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
28098 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
28099 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
28101 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
28102 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
28103 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
28104 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
28105 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
28106 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
28107 it would silently ignore the 6668.
28108 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
28109 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
28110 silently resetting it to its default.
28111 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
28112 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
28113 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
28114 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
28115 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
28116 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
28117 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
28118 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
28119 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
28120 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
28121 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
28122 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
28123 Address config option.
28124 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
28125 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
28127 o Config option features:
28128 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
28129 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
28130 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
28131 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
28132 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
28134 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
28135 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
28136 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
28137 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
28138 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
28139 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
28140 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
28141 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
28142 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
28143 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
28144 in at least some cases.)
28145 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
28146 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
28147 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
28148 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
28149 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
28150 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
28151 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
28152 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
28153 even if we know they're jerks.
28154 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
28155 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
28156 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
28157 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
28158 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
28159 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
28160 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
28161 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
28162 because older Tors do not understand it.
28163 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
28164 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
28165 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
28166 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
28167 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
28168 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
28169 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
28170 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
28171 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
28172 unattached before we fail it?
28173 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
28174 at least this many seconds ago.
28175 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
28176 at least this many seconds ago.
28177 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
28178 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
28180 o Improved and clearer log messages:
28181 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
28182 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
28183 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
28185 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
28186 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
28187 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
28188 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
28189 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
28190 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
28191 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
28192 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
28193 temporarily unreachable.
28194 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
28195 Windows-style errno back.
28196 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
28197 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
28199 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
28200 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
28201 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
28202 exactly for this case.
28203 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
28204 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
28205 don't warn twice about the same name.
28206 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
28208 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
28209 it was self-testing that told us so.
28210 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
28211 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
28212 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
28213 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
28214 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
28215 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
28216 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
28217 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
28218 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
28219 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
28220 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
28221 established a circuit.
28222 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
28223 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
28224 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
28225 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
28226 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
28227 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
28228 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
28229 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
28230 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
28231 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
28232 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
28233 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
28234 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
28235 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
28236 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
28237 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
28238 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
28239 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
28240 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
28241 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
28242 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
28243 testing for reachability.
28244 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
28245 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
28247 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
28250 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
28251 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28252 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
28253 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
28255 o Other important bugfixes:
28256 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
28257 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
28258 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
28259 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
28261 o Backported features:
28262 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
28263 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
28264 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
28265 without getting overloaded.
28266 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
28267 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
28268 503's whenever they feel busy.
28269 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
28270 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
28271 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
28272 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
28273 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
28276 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
28277 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28278 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
28279 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
28280 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
28281 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
28282 too -- so detect and avoid this.
28283 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
28285 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
28286 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
28287 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
28288 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
28289 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
28290 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
28291 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
28292 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
28293 rendezvous circuits.
28294 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
28296 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28297 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
28298 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
28299 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
28300 advertising it because of hibernation.
28301 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
28302 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
28303 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
28304 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
28305 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
28306 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
28307 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
28308 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
28309 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
28310 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
28311 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
28312 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
28313 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
28314 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
28315 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
28318 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
28319 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28320 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
28321 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
28322 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
28323 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
28324 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
28325 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
28326 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
28327 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
28328 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
28329 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
28330 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
28331 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
28332 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
28335 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
28336 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28337 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
28339 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
28340 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
28343 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
28344 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28345 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
28346 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
28347 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
28348 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
28349 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
28351 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
28352 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
28356 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
28357 o New directory servers:
28358 - tor26 has changed IP address.
28360 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28361 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
28362 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
28363 pthreads libraries.
28364 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
28365 claims its dirport is 0.
28366 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
28367 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
28371 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
28372 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28373 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
28374 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
28375 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
28376 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
28377 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
28378 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
28381 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
28383 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
28384 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
28385 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
28386 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
28387 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
28388 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
28389 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
28390 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
28391 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
28393 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
28394 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
28396 o Assert / crash bugs:
28397 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28398 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28399 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28401 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28402 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
28403 TLS errors better in other situations too.
28404 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
28405 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
28408 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
28409 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
28410 duplicate ram over time.
28411 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
28412 reentry and threadsafeness.
28413 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
28414 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
28415 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
28417 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
28418 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
28419 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
28420 point at your Tor server.
28421 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
28423 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
28424 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
28427 o Protocol correctness:
28428 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
28429 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
28430 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
28431 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
28432 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
28433 to abandon partially built circuits.
28434 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
28435 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
28436 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
28437 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
28438 descriptors we just dropped.
28439 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
28440 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
28441 and to take errno into account where possible.
28442 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
28443 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
28444 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
28445 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
28447 o Robustness improvements:
28448 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
28449 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
28450 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
28452 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
28453 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
28454 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
28455 that will want high uptime circuits.
28456 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
28457 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
28458 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
28459 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
28460 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
28461 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
28462 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
28463 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
28464 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
28465 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
28466 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
28467 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
28468 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
28469 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
28470 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
28471 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
28472 for google.com" problem.
28473 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
28474 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
28475 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
28476 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
28477 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
28480 o Reachability testing.
28481 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
28482 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
28483 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
28484 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
28485 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
28486 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
28487 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
28488 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
28489 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
28490 already connected to them.
28491 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
28495 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
28496 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
28497 nickname+key are allowed.
28498 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
28499 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
28500 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
28501 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
28502 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
28503 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
28504 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
28505 have quite wrong clocks).
28506 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
28507 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
28508 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
28509 their descriptors are being rejected.
28511 o Efficiency improvements:
28512 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
28513 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
28514 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
28515 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
28516 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
28517 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
28518 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
28519 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
28520 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
28521 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
28523 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
28524 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
28525 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
28526 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
28527 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
28528 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
28529 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
28530 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
28531 of CPU time plus memory.
28532 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
28533 directory every time you regenerate it.
28534 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
28535 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
28536 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
28537 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
28538 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
28539 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
28540 lowercase when you first see them.
28543 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
28544 hidden services better.
28545 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
28546 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
28547 when we try to launch one.
28548 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
28549 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
28550 attempts to build a circuit.
28551 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
28552 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
28553 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
28554 normal web requests.
28557 - More Tor controller support. See
28558 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
28559 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
28560 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
28561 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
28562 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
28563 to make it easier to write controllers.
28564 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
28565 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
28566 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
28567 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
28568 new log event types.
28570 o New config options/defaults:
28571 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
28572 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
28573 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
28574 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
28575 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
28577 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
28579 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
28580 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
28581 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
28582 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
28583 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
28585 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
28586 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
28587 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
28588 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
28589 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
28590 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
28591 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
28592 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
28593 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
28594 required exit node for certain sites.
28595 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
28596 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
28597 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
28598 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
28599 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
28600 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
28601 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
28602 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
28603 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
28605 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
28606 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
28607 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
28608 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
28609 private-IP addresses.
28610 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
28611 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
28612 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
28613 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
28614 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
28615 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
28616 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
28617 is valid without actually launching Tor.
28619 o Logging improvements:
28620 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
28621 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
28622 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
28623 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
28625 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
28626 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
28627 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
28628 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
28629 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
28630 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
28631 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
28632 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
28633 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
28635 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
28637 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
28638 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
28639 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
28640 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
28641 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
28642 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
28644 o New contrib scripts:
28645 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
28646 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
28648 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
28649 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
28650 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
28651 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
28652 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
28653 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
28655 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
28656 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
28657 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
28658 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
28662 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
28663 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
28664 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
28665 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
28666 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
28667 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
28668 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
28670 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
28671 something more reasonable when first installing.
28672 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
28673 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
28674 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
28675 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
28677 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
28678 artificially capped at 500kB.
28679 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
28681 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
28682 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
28683 they could use instead.
28684 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
28685 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
28686 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
28687 the user asks you to.
28690 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
28691 rather than just rejecting it.
28692 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
28693 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
28694 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
28695 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
28696 rather than just "success" or "failure".
28697 - A more sane version numbering system. See
28698 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
28699 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
28700 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
28701 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
28702 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
28703 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
28705 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
28706 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
28707 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
28708 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
28710 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
28711 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
28713 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
28714 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
28715 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
28716 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
28718 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
28719 whether the server is hibernating.
28722 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
28723 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
28724 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28725 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28726 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28730 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
28731 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28732 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28733 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
28734 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
28737 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
28738 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28739 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
28740 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
28741 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
28742 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
28743 busy for more than 100 seconds.
28746 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
28747 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28748 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
28749 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
28750 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
28751 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
28752 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
28753 creating actual system users.
28754 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
28755 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
28759 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
28760 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
28761 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
28762 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
28763 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
28764 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
28765 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
28766 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
28767 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
28768 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
28769 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
28770 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
28771 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
28772 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
28773 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
28775 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
28776 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
28777 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
28778 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
28779 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
28780 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
28781 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
28782 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
28783 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
28784 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
28785 existing torrc files.
28786 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
28789 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
28790 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28791 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
28792 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
28793 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
28794 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
28795 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
28796 the win32 SYSTEM account.
28797 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
28798 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
28799 file descriptors available.
28800 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
28801 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
28802 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
28805 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
28806 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28807 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
28808 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
28810 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
28811 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
28812 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
28813 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
28814 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
28816 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
28817 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
28818 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
28819 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
28820 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
28821 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
28822 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
28823 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
28824 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
28825 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
28826 800kB/s of capacity.
28827 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
28830 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
28831 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28832 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
28833 need as much processor time.
28834 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
28835 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
28836 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
28837 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
28838 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
28839 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
28840 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
28841 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
28842 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
28843 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
28844 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
28845 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
28847 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
28848 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
28849 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
28850 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
28851 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
28852 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
28853 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
28856 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
28857 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
28858 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
28860 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
28861 style address, then we'd crash.
28862 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
28863 a dirserver is broken.
28864 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
28866 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
28867 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
28868 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
28870 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
28871 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
28872 name out of the warning/assert messages.
28873 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
28874 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
28875 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
28877 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
28878 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
28879 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
28881 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
28883 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
28884 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
28885 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
28886 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
28887 values at once couldn't work.
28888 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
28889 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
28890 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
28891 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
28892 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
28893 they can handle any number of routers.
28894 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
28895 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
28896 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
28897 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
28898 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
28899 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
28900 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
28901 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
28902 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
28905 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
28906 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28907 - Make hibernation actually work.
28908 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
28909 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
28910 don't use the stream status code.
28913 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
28914 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
28915 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
28916 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
28917 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
28918 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
28919 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
28920 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
28921 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
28922 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
28923 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
28924 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
28927 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
28928 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
28929 win32 socket errors better.
28930 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
28931 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
28932 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
28933 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
28935 - Make unit tests work on win32.
28937 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
28938 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
28939 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
28940 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
28941 right after sending the begin cell.
28942 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
28943 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
28944 exit nodes too. Oops.
28945 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
28946 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
28947 the user would get no response.
28948 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
28949 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
28950 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
28952 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
28953 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
28954 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
28955 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
28956 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
28958 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
28959 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
28960 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
28961 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
28962 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
28963 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
28964 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
28965 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
28966 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
28967 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
28968 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
28970 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
28971 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
28972 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
28973 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
28974 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
28975 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
28976 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
28977 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
28978 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
28979 so we don't see those messages days later.
28980 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
28981 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
28983 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
28984 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
28985 they ran out of file descriptors.
28986 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
28987 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
28988 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
28989 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
28991 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
28992 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
28993 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
28994 the ones we find in directories.)
28995 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
28996 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
28997 if you don't want it open.
28998 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
28999 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
29000 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
29001 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
29002 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
29003 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
29005 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
29006 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
29008 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
29010 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
29011 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
29013 o Features (circuits and streams):
29014 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
29015 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
29016 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
29017 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
29018 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
29019 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
29020 the user knows which one it's talking about.
29021 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
29022 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
29023 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
29024 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
29025 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
29026 from Geoff Goodell.
29027 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
29029 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
29030 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
29031 to fill the last cell completely.
29032 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
29033 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
29035 o Features (bandwidth):
29036 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
29037 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
29038 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
29039 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
29040 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
29041 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
29042 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
29043 your billing cycle starts on.
29044 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
29045 hibernation properties by
29046 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
29047 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
29048 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
29049 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
29050 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
29052 o Features (directories):
29053 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
29054 nickname to its identity key.
29055 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
29056 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
29057 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
29058 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
29059 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
29061 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
29062 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
29064 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
29065 will be able to get a directory.
29066 - Http proxy support
29067 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
29068 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
29069 be routed through this host.
29070 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
29071 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
29072 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
29073 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
29074 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
29075 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
29077 o Features (packages and install):
29078 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
29079 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
29080 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
29081 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
29082 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
29083 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
29084 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
29085 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
29086 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
29087 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
29090 o Features (ui controller):
29091 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
29092 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
29093 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
29094 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
29095 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
29096 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
29097 with the control port.
29098 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
29099 use in authenticating to the control interface.
29100 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
29101 configuration to torrc.
29102 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
29103 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
29104 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
29106 o Features (config and command-line):
29107 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
29108 not on the command line.
29109 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
29111 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
29112 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
29113 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
29114 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
29115 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
29116 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
29117 - New log format in config:
29118 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
29119 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
29120 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
29121 from their dirserver.
29122 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
29124 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
29125 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
29126 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
29127 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
29128 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
29129 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
29130 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
29131 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
29132 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
29133 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
29134 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
29135 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
29136 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
29137 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
29138 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
29139 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
29140 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
29141 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
29142 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
29143 than once per minute.
29145 o Features (other):
29146 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
29147 get back to normal.)
29148 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
29149 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
29150 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
29151 log more informatively.
29152 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
29153 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
29154 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
29155 from each other, to hinder linkability.
29156 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
29157 them act more like real nodes.
29158 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
29159 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
29160 1024) file descriptors.
29161 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
29164 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
29166 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
29167 clients/servers with an open dirport.
29168 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
29169 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
29170 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
29171 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
29172 intermittent connections.
29173 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
29174 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
29176 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
29177 in reporting stats locally.
29178 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
29179 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
29180 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
29183 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
29185 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
29186 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
29187 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
29188 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
29189 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
29190 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
29191 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
29192 list to decide who's running.
29193 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
29194 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
29195 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
29196 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
29197 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
29198 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
29199 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
29200 for pointing out this bug.)
29201 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
29203 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
29204 don't put it into the client dns cache.
29205 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
29206 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
29207 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
29209 o Protocol changes:
29210 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
29211 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
29212 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
29213 hadn't heard of before.
29216 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
29217 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
29218 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
29219 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
29220 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
29221 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
29222 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
29223 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
29224 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
29225 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
29226 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
29227 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
29228 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
29229 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
29230 - Directory caching.
29231 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
29232 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
29233 directory they've pulled down.
29234 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
29235 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
29236 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
29237 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
29238 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
29239 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
29240 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
29242 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
29243 This isn't used yet.
29244 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
29245 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
29246 clients don't use this yet.)
29247 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
29248 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
29249 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
29250 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
29251 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
29252 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
29253 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
29254 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
29255 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
29256 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
29257 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
29258 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
29259 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
29260 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
29261 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
29262 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
29263 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
29264 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
29265 - File and name management:
29266 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
29267 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
29269 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
29270 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
29271 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
29272 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
29273 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
29274 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
29275 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
29277 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
29278 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
29279 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
29281 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
29282 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
29283 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
29284 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
29285 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
29286 - New docs in the tarball:
29288 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
29289 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
29290 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
29291 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
29292 know you might want to get it verified.
29293 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
29294 kazaa, gnutella ports.
29295 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
29296 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
29297 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
29298 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
29299 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
29300 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
29301 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
29303 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
29305 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
29306 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
29308 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
29309 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
29310 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
29313 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
29314 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
29315 ask them to resolve the host "".
29318 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
29319 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
29320 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
29323 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
29324 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
29325 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
29328 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
29329 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
29330 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
29331 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
29333 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
29334 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
29335 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
29337 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
29338 hidden service per 15-minute period.
29339 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
29340 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
29341 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
29342 o Fixes for security bugs:
29343 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
29344 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
29345 a trusted dirserver.
29347 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
29348 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
29349 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
29350 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
29351 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
29352 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
29353 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
29354 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
29355 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
29356 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
29358 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
29359 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
29360 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
29361 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
29362 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
29363 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
29365 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
29368 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
29369 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
29370 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
29371 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
29372 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
29373 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
29374 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
29375 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
29376 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
29377 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
29378 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
29379 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
29380 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
29381 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
29384 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
29385 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
29386 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
29387 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29390 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
29391 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
29392 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
29393 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
29394 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
29395 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29396 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
29400 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
29402 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
29403 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
29404 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
29405 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
29406 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
29407 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
29408 if you decrypted them correctly.
29409 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
29410 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
29411 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
29412 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
29413 in-memory directories too.
29414 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
29415 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
29416 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
29417 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
29418 just close the circ.
29419 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
29420 - Better debugging for tls errors
29421 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
29422 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
29424 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
29425 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
29426 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
29427 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
29428 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
29429 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
29430 it tells you about the first error.
29431 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
29432 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
29433 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
29434 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
29435 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
29436 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
29437 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
29438 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
29439 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
29440 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
29442 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
29443 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
29446 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
29447 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
29449 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
29450 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
29451 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
29452 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
29453 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
29454 expect it to have a nickname.
29455 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
29456 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
29457 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
29458 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
29459 the dns farm to do it.
29460 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
29461 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
29463 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
29464 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
29465 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
29466 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
29467 but that aren't warnings
29470 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
29471 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
29475 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
29476 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
29477 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
29478 - include missing header fcntl.h
29479 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
29480 - deal with hardware word alignment
29481 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
29482 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
29483 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
29484 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
29485 by kill -USR1 currently.
29486 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
29487 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
29488 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
29491 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
29492 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
29493 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
29496 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
29498 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
29499 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
29500 - And fix a few endian issues.
29503 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
29505 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
29506 try that circuit again: try a new one.
29507 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
29508 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
29509 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
29510 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
29511 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
29512 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
29514 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
29515 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
29516 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
29518 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
29520 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
29521 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
29522 side isn't reading right then.
29523 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
29524 RecommendedVersions
29525 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
29526 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
29527 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
29530 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
29532 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
29533 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
29536 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
29540 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
29542 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
29543 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
29544 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
29545 connection is finished.
29546 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
29547 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
29548 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
29549 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
29550 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
29551 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
29552 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
29553 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
29554 rather than warn and continue.
29555 - Make --version work
29556 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
29559 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
29561 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
29562 knows it's working.
29563 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
29564 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
29566 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
29567 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
29568 so you can collect coredumps there.
29570 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
29571 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
29572 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
29573 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
29574 dns cache actually gets populated.
29575 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
29576 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
29577 end cell down it first.
29578 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
29579 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
29582 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
29584 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
29585 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
29587 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
29588 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
29589 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
29590 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
29591 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
29592 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
29594 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
29596 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
29597 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
29598 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
29599 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
29600 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
29601 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
29603 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
29604 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
29607 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
29609 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
29610 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
29611 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
29612 tor. It even has a man page.
29613 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
29614 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
29615 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
29616 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
29618 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
29620 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
29623 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
29625 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
29626 it, apt-getters. :)
29627 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
29628 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
29629 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
29630 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
29631 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
29632 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
29633 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
29634 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
29635 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
29636 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
29637 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
29639 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
29640 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
29643 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
29645 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
29646 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
29649 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
29651 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
29652 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
29653 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
29654 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
29655 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
29656 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
29657 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
29658 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
29659 logfile so you know it's working.
29660 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
29661 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
29664 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
29666 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
29667 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
29668 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
29671 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
29673 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
29674 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
29675 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
29678 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
29679 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
29680 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
29682 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
29683 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
29685 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
29686 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
29687 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
29689 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
29690 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
29694 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
29696 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
29697 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
29698 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
29701 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
29702 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
29703 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
29704 - Add port ranges to exit policies
29705 - Add a conservative default exit policy
29706 - Warn if you're running tor as root
29707 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
29708 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
29709 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
29710 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
29712 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
29715 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
29716 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29717 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
29718 really screw things up.
29719 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
29721 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
29722 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
29724 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
29725 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
29726 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
29727 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
29728 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
29729 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
29732 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
29735 - Change default loglevel to warn.
29736 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
29737 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
29739 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
29742 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
29743 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29744 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
29745 - to get ownership/permissions right
29746 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
29747 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
29748 pull down a directory again
29749 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
29750 causing server crashes
29751 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
29752 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
29753 - exit if bind() fails
29754 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
29755 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
29756 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
29757 - fix minor bias in PRNG
29758 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
29761 - Wrote the design document (woo)
29763 o Circuit building and exit policies:
29764 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
29766 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
29767 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
29768 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
29769 exists, rather than failing
29770 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
29771 which AP connections are standing by
29772 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
29773 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
29774 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
29776 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
29777 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
29780 - APPort is now called SocksPort
29781 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
29783 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
29784 hardcoded (for dirservers)
29785 - Reloads config on HUP
29786 - Usage info on -h or --help
29787 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
29789 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
29790 o General stability:
29791 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
29792 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
29793 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
29794 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
29795 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
29796 to take down the network when I approve a new router
29797 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
29800 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
29801 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
29803 o Autoconf improvements:
29804 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
29805 - Make install now works
29806 - create var/lib/tor on make install
29807 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
29808 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
29810 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
29811 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
29812 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
29813 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup