1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.7.4-alpha - 2022-02-25
6 This version contains the negotiation congestion control work which is the
7 final part needed before going stable. There are also various bugfixes
8 including two major ones detailed below. Last, the Exit notice page layout
9 has been modernized but the text is unchanged. We recommend that all relay
10 operators running any previous alpha upgrade to this one.
12 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
13 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
14 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
15 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
17 o Major bugfixes (client):
18 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
19 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
20 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
21 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
22 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
23 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
25 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
26 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
27 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
28 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
30 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
31 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
34 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
35 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 25, 2022.
37 o Minor features (geoip data):
38 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
39 retrieved on 2022/02/25.
41 o Minor bugfix (logging):
42 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
43 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
45 o Minor bugfix (relay):
46 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
47 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
50 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
51 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
52 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
53 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
56 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
57 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
58 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
60 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
61 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
62 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
65 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
66 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
67 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
68 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
71 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
72 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
73 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
75 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
76 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
78 o Minor features (geoip data):
79 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
80 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
82 o Minor bugfix (logging):
83 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
84 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
86 o Minor bugfix (relay):
87 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
88 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
91 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
92 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
93 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
96 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
97 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
98 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
99 See below for more details.
101 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
102 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
103 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
104 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
105 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
107 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
108 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
109 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
112 o Minor features (compilation):
113 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
114 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
115 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
116 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
119 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
120 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
122 o Minor features (geoip data):
123 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
124 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
126 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
127 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
128 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
129 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
130 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
132 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
133 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
134 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
135 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
136 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
138 o Documentation (man, relay):
139 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
140 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
143 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
144 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
145 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
148 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
149 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
150 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
151 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
152 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
153 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
154 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
156 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
157 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
160 o Minor features (testing):
161 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
162 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
163 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
164 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
165 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
166 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
167 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
168 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
169 fix for ticket 40337.
170 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
171 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
172 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
174 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
175 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
176 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
177 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
178 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
179 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
180 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
181 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
183 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
184 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
185 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
187 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
188 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
189 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
190 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
191 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
194 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
195 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
196 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
197 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
198 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
199 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
202 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
203 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
204 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
205 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
206 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
207 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
208 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
211 o Major feature (onion service v2):
212 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
213 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
214 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
215 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
217 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
218 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
219 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
220 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
222 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
223 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
224 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
225 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
227 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
228 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
231 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
232 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
233 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
234 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
235 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
237 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
238 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
239 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
240 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
241 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
242 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
243 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
244 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
245 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
246 fix for ticket 40337.
247 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
248 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
249 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
251 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
252 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
253 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
255 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
256 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
257 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
258 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
259 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
260 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
262 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
263 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
264 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
265 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
266 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
269 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
270 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
271 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
272 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
273 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
275 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
276 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
277 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
278 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
279 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
280 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
283 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
284 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
285 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
286 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
287 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
288 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
289 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
292 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
293 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
294 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
295 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
296 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
298 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
299 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
300 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
301 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
303 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
304 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
305 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
306 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
308 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
309 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
312 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
313 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
314 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
315 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
316 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
320 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
321 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
322 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
323 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
324 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
326 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
327 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
328 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
329 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
330 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
331 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
332 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
335 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
336 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
338 o Minor features (geoip data):
339 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
340 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
342 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
343 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
344 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
346 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
347 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
348 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
350 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
351 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
352 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
354 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
355 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
356 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
357 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
359 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
360 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
361 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
362 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
363 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
364 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
365 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
368 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
369 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
370 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
371 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
372 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
374 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
375 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
376 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
377 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
378 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
379 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
380 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
383 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
384 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
386 o Minor features (geoip data):
387 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
388 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
390 o Minor features (testing):
391 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
392 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
394 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
395 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
396 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
398 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
399 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
400 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
402 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
403 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
404 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
405 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
406 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
407 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
408 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
410 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
411 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
412 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
415 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
416 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
417 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
418 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
419 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
421 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
422 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
423 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
424 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
425 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
426 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
427 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
430 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
431 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
433 o Minor features (geoip data):
434 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
435 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
437 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
438 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
439 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
441 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
442 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
443 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
446 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
447 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
448 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
449 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
450 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
452 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
453 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
454 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
455 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
456 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
457 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
459 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
460 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
461 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
465 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
466 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
467 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
468 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
469 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
472 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
473 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
474 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
475 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
477 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
478 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
480 o Major bugfixes (security):
481 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
482 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
483 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
484 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
485 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
486 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
488 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
489 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
490 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
491 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
492 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
493 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
494 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
495 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
497 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
498 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
499 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
500 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
501 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
502 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
503 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
504 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
505 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
506 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
507 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
508 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
509 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
510 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
511 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
513 o Major features (control port, onion services):
514 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
515 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
516 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
519 o Major features (directory authority):
520 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
521 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
522 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
523 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
525 o Major features (metrics):
526 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
527 documents. This information is controlled with the
528 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
529 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
530 328; closes ticket 40222.
532 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
533 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
534 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
536 o Major features (statistics):
537 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
538 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
539 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
541 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
542 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
543 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
544 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
545 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
546 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
547 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
548 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
549 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
550 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
551 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
552 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
553 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
554 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
555 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
556 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
557 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
558 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
559 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
560 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
563 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
564 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
565 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
566 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
568 o Minor features (bridge):
569 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
570 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
571 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
573 o Minor features (build system):
574 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
575 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
576 this. Closes ticket 40227.
578 o Minor features (client):
579 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
580 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
581 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
582 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
584 o Minor features (command line):
585 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
586 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
589 o Minor features (command-line interface):
590 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
591 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
592 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
593 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
594 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
595 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
596 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
597 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
598 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
599 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
601 o Minor features (compatibility):
602 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
603 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
604 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
607 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
608 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
609 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
611 o Minor features (dormant mode):
612 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
613 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
614 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
615 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
616 control over whether the client can become dormant from
617 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
619 o Minor features (geoip data):
620 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
621 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
623 o Minor features (logging):
624 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
625 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
627 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
628 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
629 any). Closes ticket 40308.
630 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
631 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
632 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
634 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
635 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
636 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
637 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
638 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
640 o Minor features (onion services):
641 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
642 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
644 o Minor features (performance, windows):
645 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
646 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
647 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
648 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
650 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
651 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
652 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
654 o Minor features (tests, portability):
655 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
656 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
659 o Minor features (vote document):
660 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
661 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
662 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
664 o Minor bugfixes (build):
665 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
666 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
667 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
669 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
670 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
671 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
672 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
675 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
676 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
677 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
678 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
680 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
681 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
682 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
683 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
684 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
686 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
687 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
688 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
689 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
690 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
691 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
694 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
695 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
696 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
697 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
698 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
699 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
701 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
702 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
703 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
704 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
705 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
707 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
708 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
709 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
710 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
711 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
713 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
714 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
715 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
717 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
718 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
719 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
722 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
723 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
724 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
725 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
727 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
728 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
729 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
730 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
732 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
733 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
734 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
737 o Code simplification and refactoring:
738 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
739 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
740 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
743 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
744 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
745 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
746 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
747 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
748 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
749 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
750 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
751 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
752 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
755 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
756 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
757 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
759 o Documentation (manual):
760 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
762 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
763 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
764 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
765 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
767 o Removed features (relay):
768 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
769 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
770 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
771 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
772 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
775 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
776 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
777 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
778 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
779 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
781 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
782 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
783 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
784 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
785 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
786 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
787 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
789 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
790 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
791 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
792 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
793 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
794 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
795 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
796 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
798 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
799 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
800 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
801 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
802 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
803 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
804 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
805 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
806 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
807 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
808 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
809 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
810 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
811 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
812 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
814 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
815 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
816 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
817 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
820 o Minor features (geoip data):
821 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
822 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
824 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
825 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
826 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
827 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
828 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
829 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
832 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
833 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
834 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
838 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
839 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
840 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
841 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
842 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
844 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
845 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
846 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
848 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
849 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
850 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
851 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
852 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
853 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
854 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
856 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
857 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
858 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
859 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
860 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
861 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
862 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
863 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
865 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
866 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
867 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
868 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
869 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
870 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
871 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
872 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
873 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
874 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
875 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
876 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
877 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
878 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
879 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
881 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
882 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
883 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
884 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
887 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
888 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
889 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
891 o Minor features (geoip data):
892 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
893 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
895 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
896 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
897 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
898 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
900 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
901 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
902 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
905 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
906 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
907 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
908 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
909 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
911 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
912 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
913 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
914 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
915 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
916 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
917 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
919 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
920 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
921 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
922 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
923 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
924 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
925 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
926 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
928 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
929 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
930 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
931 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
932 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
933 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
934 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
935 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
936 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
937 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
938 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
939 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
940 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
941 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
942 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
944 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
945 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
946 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
948 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
949 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
950 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
951 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
954 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
955 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
956 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
958 o Minor features (geoip data):
959 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
960 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
963 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
964 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
965 from the 0.4.6.x series.
967 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
968 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
969 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
970 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
971 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
973 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
974 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
975 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
977 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
978 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
979 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
981 o Minor features (geoip data):
982 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
983 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
985 o Minor features (onion services):
986 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
987 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
988 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
990 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
991 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
992 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
993 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
995 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
996 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
997 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
998 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1000 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1001 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1002 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1003 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1005 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1006 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1007 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1009 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
1010 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
1011 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
1012 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1014 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1015 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1016 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1017 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1019 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1020 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1021 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1025 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
1026 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1027 in earlier versions of Tor.
1029 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1030 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1031 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1032 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1033 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1034 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1035 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1036 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1037 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1040 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1041 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1044 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1045 compatibility issue.
1047 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1048 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1049 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1050 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1051 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1052 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1053 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1054 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1055 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1058 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1059 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1060 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1061 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1062 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1063 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1064 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1065 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1068 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1069 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1070 Closes ticket 40309.
1073 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
1074 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1075 in earlier versions of Tor.
1077 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1078 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1079 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1080 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1081 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1082 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1083 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1084 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1085 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1088 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1089 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1092 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1093 compatibility issue.
1095 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1096 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1097 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1098 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1099 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1100 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1101 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1102 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1103 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1106 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1107 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1108 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1109 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1110 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1111 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1112 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1113 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1116 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1117 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1118 Closes ticket 40309.
1121 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
1122 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
1125 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1126 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1127 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1128 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1129 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1130 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1131 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1132 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1133 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1136 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1137 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1140 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
1141 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
1143 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1144 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1145 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1146 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1147 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1148 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1149 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1150 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1151 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1154 o Minor features (geoip data):
1155 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1156 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1157 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1158 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1159 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1160 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1161 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1164 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1165 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
1166 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
1167 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
1168 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
1170 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1171 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
1172 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1174 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
1175 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
1176 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
1177 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
1178 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1180 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1181 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
1182 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1184 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1185 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
1186 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1188 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1189 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
1190 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1192 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1193 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
1194 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1195 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
1196 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
1197 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
1198 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
1199 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
1201 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
1202 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1203 Closes ticket 40309.
1206 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
1207 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
1208 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
1209 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
1210 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
1211 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
1212 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
1213 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
1214 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
1215 welcoming approach to growing our community.
1217 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
1218 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
1219 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
1220 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
1221 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
1222 smaller features and bugfixes.
1224 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
1225 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1227 o Major features (build):
1228 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
1229 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
1230 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
1231 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
1232 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
1234 o Major features (metrics):
1235 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
1236 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
1237 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
1238 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
1239 information and security considerations.
1241 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
1242 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
1243 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
1244 Closes ticket 33233.
1245 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
1246 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
1247 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
1248 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
1249 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
1250 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
1251 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
1252 use. Closes ticket 33220.
1253 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
1254 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
1255 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
1256 Closes ticket 34067.
1258 o Major features (tracing):
1259 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
1260 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
1261 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
1262 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
1263 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
1265 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
1266 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
1267 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
1268 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
1269 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1271 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
1272 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
1273 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
1274 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
1275 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
1276 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
1277 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1279 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
1280 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
1281 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
1282 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
1283 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
1284 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
1286 o Minor features (address discovery):
1287 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
1288 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
1289 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
1290 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
1292 o Minor features (admin tools):
1293 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
1294 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
1295 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
1298 o Minor features (authority, logging):
1299 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
1300 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
1301 Closes ticket 40245.
1303 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1304 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
1305 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
1306 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
1307 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
1308 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
1310 o Minor features (build):
1311 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
1312 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
1313 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
1314 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
1315 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
1317 o Minor features (configuration):
1318 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
1319 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1320 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
1321 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
1322 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
1323 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1325 o Minor features (control port):
1326 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
1327 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
1328 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
1329 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
1331 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
1332 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
1333 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
1336 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
1337 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
1338 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
1339 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
1340 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
1341 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
1342 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1344 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1345 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
1346 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
1348 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
1349 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
1350 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1351 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
1352 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
1353 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
1354 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
1355 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
1356 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
1357 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
1358 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
1360 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
1361 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
1362 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
1363 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
1365 o Minor features (documentation):
1366 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
1367 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
1368 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
1370 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
1371 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
1372 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
1373 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1375 o Minor features (heartbeat):
1376 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
1377 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
1379 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
1380 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
1381 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1383 o Minor features (logging):
1384 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
1385 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
1386 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
1387 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
1388 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
1389 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
1391 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
1392 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
1393 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
1394 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
1396 o Minor features (onion services):
1397 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
1398 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
1399 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1401 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
1402 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
1403 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
1404 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
1405 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
1406 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
1408 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1409 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
1410 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
1411 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
1412 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
1414 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
1415 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
1416 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
1417 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
1418 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
1419 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
1420 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
1422 o Minor features (relay):
1423 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
1424 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
1425 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
1426 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
1427 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
1428 Closes ticket 34137.
1430 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
1431 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
1432 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
1435 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
1436 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
1437 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
1438 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
1439 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
1440 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
1441 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
1442 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
1443 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
1445 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
1446 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
1448 o Minor features (safety):
1449 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
1450 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
1453 o Minor features (specification update):
1454 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
1455 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
1456 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
1458 o Minor features (state management):
1459 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
1460 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
1461 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
1462 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
1463 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
1465 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
1466 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
1467 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
1468 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
1469 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
1471 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
1472 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
1473 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
1475 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1476 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
1477 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
1478 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
1479 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
1481 o Minor features (testing):
1482 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
1483 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1485 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1486 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
1487 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
1488 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
1490 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
1491 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
1492 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1493 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
1494 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
1495 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
1496 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
1497 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
1498 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1500 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
1501 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
1502 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
1503 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
1504 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
1505 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1507 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1508 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
1509 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
1510 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
1511 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
1512 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
1515 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1516 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
1517 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
1518 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
1519 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
1520 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
1523 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
1524 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
1525 when a stream is attached with the purpose
1526 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
1527 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1529 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
1530 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
1531 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
1532 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1534 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1535 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
1536 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
1537 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
1538 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
1539 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1540 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
1541 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
1543 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
1544 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
1545 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1546 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
1547 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
1548 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
1549 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
1550 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
1553 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1554 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
1555 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
1556 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1558 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
1559 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
1560 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
1561 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1562 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
1563 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
1564 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1566 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
1567 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
1568 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
1569 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
1570 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
1571 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1573 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
1574 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
1575 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1577 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
1578 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
1579 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1580 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
1581 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
1582 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
1583 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
1584 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1586 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1587 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
1588 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
1589 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
1590 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
1591 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
1592 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
1593 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
1594 Closes ticket 34200.
1595 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
1596 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
1597 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
1598 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
1599 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
1600 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
1601 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
1603 - Split implementation of several command line options from
1604 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
1605 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
1606 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
1607 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
1608 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
1611 o Deprecated features:
1612 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
1613 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
1614 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
1617 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
1618 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
1621 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
1622 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
1623 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
1624 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
1626 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
1627 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
1629 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
1630 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
1631 directory. Closes part of 40139.
1632 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
1633 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
1637 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
1638 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1640 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
1641 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
1642 31699; Patch by @bduszel
1644 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
1645 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
1646 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
1647 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
1648 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
1650 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
1651 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
1652 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
1653 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
1654 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
1656 o Documentation (manual page):
1657 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
1658 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
1659 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
1660 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
1662 o Documentation (tracing):
1663 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
1664 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
1666 o Removed features (controller):
1667 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
1668 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
1671 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
1672 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1673 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1674 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1675 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1677 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1678 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1679 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1680 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1681 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1684 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1685 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1686 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1687 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1690 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1691 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1692 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1693 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1695 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1696 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1697 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1698 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1699 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1701 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1702 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1703 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1704 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1705 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1706 weasel for diagnosing this.
1708 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1709 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1710 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1711 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1712 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1713 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1714 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1716 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1717 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1718 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1719 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1721 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1722 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1723 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1724 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1726 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1727 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
1728 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
1729 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1730 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1731 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1732 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1734 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1735 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1738 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
1739 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1740 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1741 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1742 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1744 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
1745 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
1747 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1748 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1749 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1750 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1751 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1754 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1755 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1756 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1757 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1758 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1760 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1761 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1762 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1763 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1766 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1767 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1768 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1769 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1771 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1772 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1773 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1774 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1775 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1777 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1778 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1779 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1780 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1781 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1782 weasel for diagnosing this.
1784 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1785 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1786 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1787 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1788 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1789 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1790 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1792 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1793 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1794 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1796 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1797 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1798 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1799 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1801 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1802 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1803 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1804 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1806 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1807 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
1808 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
1809 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1810 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1811 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1812 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1814 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1815 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1818 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
1819 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1820 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1821 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1822 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1824 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1825 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1826 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1827 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1828 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1831 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1832 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1833 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1834 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1835 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1837 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1838 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1839 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1840 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1843 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1844 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1845 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1846 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1848 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1849 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1850 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1851 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1852 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1854 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1855 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1856 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1857 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1858 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1859 weasel for diagnosing this.
1861 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1862 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1863 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1864 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1865 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1866 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1867 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1869 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1870 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1871 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1873 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1874 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1875 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1876 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1878 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1879 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1880 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1881 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1883 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1884 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1885 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1886 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1888 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1889 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1892 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
1893 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
1894 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
1895 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
1896 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
1897 intended for a different relay.
1899 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1900 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1901 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1902 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1903 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1904 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1905 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1907 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1908 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
1909 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
1910 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
1911 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
1912 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
1913 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
1914 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
1915 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
1916 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
1917 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
1919 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1920 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1921 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1922 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1923 closes ticket 40133.
1925 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1926 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1927 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1929 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1930 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1931 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1933 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1934 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
1935 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
1936 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1937 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1938 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1940 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1941 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1942 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1944 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1945 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1946 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1949 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1950 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1951 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1952 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1955 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
1956 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
1957 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
1958 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
1959 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
1961 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
1962 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
1963 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
1966 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1967 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1968 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1969 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1971 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1972 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1973 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1974 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1975 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1976 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1977 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1979 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1980 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1981 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1982 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1983 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1986 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1987 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
1988 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
1989 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
1990 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
1991 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
1993 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1994 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1995 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1996 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1997 closes ticket 40133.
1999 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2000 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2001 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2002 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2004 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2005 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2006 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2008 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2009 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2010 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2012 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2013 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2014 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2015 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2016 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2018 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2019 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2020 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2022 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2023 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2024 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2025 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2026 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2027 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2028 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2030 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2031 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2032 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2035 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2036 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2037 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2038 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2039 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2040 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2043 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2044 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2045 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2046 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2048 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2049 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2050 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2051 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2053 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2054 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2055 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2057 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2058 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2061 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2062 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2063 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2064 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2065 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2066 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2067 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
2070 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
2071 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2072 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2073 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2074 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2076 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2077 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2078 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2079 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2081 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2082 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2083 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2084 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2085 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2086 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2087 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2089 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2090 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2091 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2092 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2093 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2096 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2097 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2098 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2099 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2100 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2101 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2103 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2104 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2105 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2106 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2108 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2109 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2110 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2111 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2112 closes ticket 40133.
2114 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2115 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2116 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2117 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2119 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2120 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2121 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2123 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2124 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2125 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2127 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2128 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2129 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2130 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2131 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2133 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2134 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2135 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2137 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2138 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2139 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2140 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2141 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2142 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2143 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2145 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2146 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2147 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2150 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2151 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2152 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2153 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2154 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2155 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2158 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2159 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2160 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2161 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2163 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2164 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2165 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2166 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2168 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2169 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2170 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2172 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2173 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2176 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
2177 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
2178 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
2179 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
2180 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
2181 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
2182 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
2184 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2185 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2186 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2187 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
2188 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
2190 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
2191 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
2192 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
2194 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
2195 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2197 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
2198 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
2199 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
2200 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
2201 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
2202 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
2203 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
2204 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
2205 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
2206 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
2208 o Major features (fallback directory list):
2209 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2210 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2211 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2213 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
2214 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
2215 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
2216 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
2217 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
2218 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
2219 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
2221 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
2223 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
2224 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
2225 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
2226 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
2228 o Major features (v3 onion services):
2229 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
2230 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
2231 Closes ticket 32709.
2233 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
2234 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2235 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2236 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2237 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2240 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
2241 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
2242 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
2243 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
2244 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
2245 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2247 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
2248 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2249 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2250 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2251 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2253 o Minor features (security):
2254 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2255 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2256 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2257 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2258 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2260 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2261 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
2262 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
2263 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
2264 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
2267 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
2268 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
2269 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
2270 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
2271 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
2272 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
2273 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
2275 o Minor features (code safety):
2276 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
2277 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
2278 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
2279 Resolves issue 33788.
2281 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2282 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
2283 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
2284 Resolves ticket 32143.
2286 o Minor features (control port):
2287 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
2288 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
2289 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2290 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
2291 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
2292 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
2293 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2295 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2296 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
2297 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
2299 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
2300 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
2301 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
2302 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
2303 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
2304 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
2306 o Minor features (developer tooling):
2307 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
2308 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
2309 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
2310 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
2311 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
2312 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
2313 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
2315 o Minor features (directory authority):
2316 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
2317 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
2318 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
2319 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
2320 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
2322 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
2323 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
2324 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
2325 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
2327 o Minor features (directory):
2328 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
2329 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
2330 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
2333 o Minor features (entry guards):
2334 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
2335 Closes ticket 40001.
2337 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
2338 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
2339 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
2341 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
2342 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
2343 Closes ticket 33901.
2345 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
2346 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
2347 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
2348 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
2349 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
2350 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
2351 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
2353 o Minor features (logging):
2354 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
2355 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
2357 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
2358 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
2359 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
2360 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
2363 o Minor features (onion service v3):
2364 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
2365 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2367 o Minor features (python scripts):
2368 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
2369 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
2370 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
2371 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
2373 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
2374 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
2375 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
2376 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
2377 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
2378 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
2379 up from ticket 33316.
2380 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2381 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2382 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2384 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
2385 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
2386 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
2387 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2389 o Minor features (windows):
2390 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
2391 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
2393 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
2394 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
2395 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
2396 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2398 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
2399 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2400 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2401 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2402 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2404 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2405 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
2406 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
2407 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
2408 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
2409 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2411 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2412 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
2413 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
2414 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2416 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
2417 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
2418 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
2419 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
2420 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2422 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
2423 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
2424 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2426 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
2427 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
2428 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
2429 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
2430 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
2431 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2432 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
2433 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
2434 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
2435 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2437 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2438 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
2439 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
2440 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
2441 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
2443 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
2444 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
2445 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
2446 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
2449 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
2450 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
2451 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
2452 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
2453 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2454 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
2455 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2457 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
2458 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
2459 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
2461 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
2462 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
2463 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2465 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
2466 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
2467 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2469 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2470 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
2471 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
2474 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
2475 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
2476 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
2479 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
2480 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2481 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2482 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2483 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2484 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2485 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2487 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
2488 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
2489 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
2490 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
2492 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
2493 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
2494 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
2495 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
2496 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
2499 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
2500 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2501 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2502 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2503 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2504 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2507 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
2508 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
2509 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
2512 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2513 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2514 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2515 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2517 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2518 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
2519 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2520 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
2521 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2524 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
2525 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2526 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2528 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2529 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
2530 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
2531 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
2532 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2533 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
2534 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
2535 isolated in subsystems of their own.
2536 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
2537 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
2538 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
2539 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
2541 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
2542 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2543 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
2544 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
2546 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
2547 code. Closes ticket 33014.
2548 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
2549 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
2552 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
2553 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
2554 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
2555 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
2556 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
2557 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2560 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2561 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2562 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2563 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2564 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2565 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
2566 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
2567 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
2568 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
2569 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
2570 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2571 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
2572 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
2575 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
2576 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
2577 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
2578 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
2579 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
2580 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2581 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
2582 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
2584 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
2585 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2587 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2588 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2589 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2590 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
2591 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
2592 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
2593 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
2594 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
2595 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
2596 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
2597 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2598 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2600 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
2601 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2604 o Documentation (manual page):
2605 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
2606 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
2607 Google Season of Docs.
2608 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
2609 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
2610 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
2611 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2612 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
2613 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
2614 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
2615 Closes ticket 33778.
2618 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
2619 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
2620 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
2622 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2623 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2624 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2625 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2626 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2627 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2628 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2631 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2632 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2633 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2634 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2637 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2638 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2639 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2640 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2641 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2642 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2644 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2645 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2646 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2647 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2648 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2649 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2651 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2652 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2653 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2655 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2656 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
2657 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
2658 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
2661 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2662 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2663 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2664 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2667 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
2668 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2669 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2670 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2671 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2673 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2674 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2675 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2677 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2678 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2679 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2680 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2681 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2684 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2685 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
2686 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
2687 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
2688 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
2689 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2691 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2692 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2693 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2694 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2696 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2697 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2698 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2699 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2702 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2703 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2704 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2705 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2706 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2707 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2708 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2709 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2713 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
2714 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
2715 several that affect usability and portability.
2717 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2718 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2719 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2720 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2721 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2722 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2723 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2726 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2727 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2728 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2729 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2732 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2733 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2734 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2735 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2736 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2737 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2739 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
2740 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
2741 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
2742 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
2743 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
2745 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2746 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
2747 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
2748 code. Closes ticket 33290.
2750 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2751 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2752 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2753 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2754 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2755 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2757 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2758 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2759 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2761 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2762 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
2763 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
2764 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
2767 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2768 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2769 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2770 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2773 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
2774 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2775 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2776 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2777 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2778 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
2781 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2782 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2783 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2785 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2786 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
2787 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
2788 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2790 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2791 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2792 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2793 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2794 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2797 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2798 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
2799 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
2800 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
2801 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
2802 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2804 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
2805 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
2806 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
2807 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
2808 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2810 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2811 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
2812 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
2813 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
2815 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2816 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2817 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2818 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2820 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2821 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2822 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2823 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2826 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2827 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2828 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2829 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2830 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2831 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2832 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2833 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2837 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
2838 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
2839 some affecting usability.
2841 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2842 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2843 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2844 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2845 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2846 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2847 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2850 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2851 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2852 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2853 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2856 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2857 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2858 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2860 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2861 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2862 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2863 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2866 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2867 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2868 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2870 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2871 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
2872 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
2873 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2875 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2876 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2877 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2878 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2880 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2881 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
2882 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2884 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2885 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
2886 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
2887 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
2888 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2890 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2891 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
2892 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
2894 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2895 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2896 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2897 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2899 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2900 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
2904 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
2905 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
2906 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
2907 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
2908 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
2909 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
2912 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2913 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2914 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2915 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
2916 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
2918 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
2919 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
2920 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
2923 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
2924 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2926 o New system requirements:
2927 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
2928 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
2929 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
2931 o Major features (build system):
2932 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
2933 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
2934 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
2935 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
2936 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
2938 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
2939 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
2940 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
2941 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
2942 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2944 o Major features (onion services):
2945 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
2946 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
2947 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
2948 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
2949 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
2950 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
2951 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
2953 o Major features (proxy):
2954 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
2955 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
2956 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
2957 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
2958 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
2959 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
2961 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
2962 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2963 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2964 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2965 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2966 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2967 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2968 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2969 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2971 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
2972 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2973 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2974 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2975 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2977 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2978 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
2979 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
2980 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
2981 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2983 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
2984 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2985 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2986 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2987 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2988 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2990 o Major bugfixes (networking):
2991 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
2992 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
2993 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2995 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
2996 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
2997 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
2998 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
2999 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
3000 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3002 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
3003 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
3004 message. Closes ticket 31371.
3006 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
3007 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3008 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3009 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3010 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3012 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
3013 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
3014 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
3015 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
3017 o Minor features (configuration validation):
3018 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
3019 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
3020 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
3021 Closes ticket 31241.
3023 o Minor features (configuration):
3024 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
3025 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
3027 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
3028 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
3029 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
3030 Implements ticket 32404.
3032 o Minor features (configure, build system):
3033 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
3034 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
3036 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3037 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
3038 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
3039 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3040 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3041 Closes ticket 33075.
3043 o Minor features (controller):
3044 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
3045 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
3046 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
3048 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3049 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3050 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3051 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3053 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3054 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
3055 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
3058 o Minor features (developer tools):
3059 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
3060 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
3061 Closes ticket 32772.
3062 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
3063 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
3064 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
3065 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
3066 target. Closes ticket 31919.
3067 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
3068 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
3069 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
3071 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
3072 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
3073 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
3074 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
3076 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3077 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3078 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3079 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3081 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3082 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
3083 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
3084 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3086 o Minor features (Doxygen):
3087 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
3088 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
3089 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
3091 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
3092 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
3093 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
3094 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
3095 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
3096 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
3097 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
3098 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
3100 o Minor features (git scripts):
3101 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
3102 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
3103 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
3104 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
3105 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
3106 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
3107 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
3108 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
3109 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
3110 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
3111 Closes ticket 32216.
3112 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
3113 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
3114 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
3115 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
3117 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
3118 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
3119 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
3120 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
3121 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
3122 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
3124 o Minor features (portability, android):
3125 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
3126 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
3127 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3129 o Minor features (relay modularity):
3130 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
3131 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
3132 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3133 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3134 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
3135 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
3136 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3137 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
3138 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
3140 o Minor features (release tools):
3141 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
3142 Closes ticket 32704.
3144 o Minor features (testing):
3145 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3146 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3147 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3148 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3149 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3150 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
3151 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
3152 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
3153 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
3154 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
3155 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
3157 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
3158 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
3159 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3161 o Minor features (usability):
3162 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
3163 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
3164 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
3166 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
3167 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3168 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3169 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3172 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3173 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3174 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3176 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3177 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
3178 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3180 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
3181 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3182 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3183 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3184 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3185 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3188 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
3189 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
3190 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
3191 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3192 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
3193 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
3194 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
3195 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
3196 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
3197 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
3198 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
3199 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
3200 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
3201 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3202 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
3203 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
3204 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
3205 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3207 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3208 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
3211 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3212 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3213 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3214 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3216 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3217 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
3218 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
3221 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
3222 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
3223 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3225 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
3226 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
3227 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
3228 Closes ticket 32213.
3229 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3230 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
3231 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3233 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
3234 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3235 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3236 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3237 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3240 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3241 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
3243 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
3244 Closes ticket 32216.
3246 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
3247 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3248 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3249 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3250 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3251 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3253 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3254 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
3255 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3256 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3257 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3258 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3259 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
3260 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
3262 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3263 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3264 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3265 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3267 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3268 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3269 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3270 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3272 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
3273 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
3274 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
3275 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
3276 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
3277 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
3278 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
3279 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
3282 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3283 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3284 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3285 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3287 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
3288 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
3289 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
3290 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3291 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3292 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3293 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3295 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
3296 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
3297 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
3298 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
3299 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3301 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3302 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
3303 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
3304 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
3307 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
3308 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
3309 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
3310 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
3311 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3313 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3314 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
3315 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
3316 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3318 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
3319 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3320 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3321 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3323 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
3324 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
3325 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3327 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3328 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
3329 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
3330 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
3332 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
3333 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3334 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
3335 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
3336 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
3337 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
3338 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3340 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
3341 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
3342 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
3343 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
3344 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
3346 o Deprecated features:
3347 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
3348 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
3349 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
3353 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
3354 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
3355 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
3356 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
3357 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
3358 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
3359 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
3360 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
3362 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
3363 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
3366 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
3367 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
3368 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
3369 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
3370 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
3371 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
3373 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
3374 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
3375 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
3376 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
3377 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
3380 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
3381 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
3382 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
3383 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
3384 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
3386 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
3387 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
3389 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
3390 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
3391 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
3392 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
3393 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
3396 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
3397 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
3398 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
3400 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
3401 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
3402 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
3403 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
3404 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
3405 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
3406 Solves part of ticket 32339.
3407 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
3408 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
3409 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
3410 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
3411 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
3412 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
3413 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
3414 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
3415 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
3416 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
3418 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
3419 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
3421 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
3422 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
3423 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
3425 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
3426 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
3427 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
3428 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
3429 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
3430 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
3432 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
3433 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
3434 Closes ticket 32163.
3435 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
3437 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
3439 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
3440 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
3441 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
3443 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
3444 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
3445 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
3446 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
3447 Closes ticket 32304.
3448 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
3449 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
3450 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
3451 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
3452 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
3455 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
3456 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3458 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3461 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
3462 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
3463 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
3464 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3465 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
3466 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
3467 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
3468 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3470 o Documentation (manpage):
3471 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
3472 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
3473 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3474 Google Season of Docs.
3475 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
3476 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
3477 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
3478 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
3479 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3480 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3482 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3484 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
3485 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
3486 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
3488 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
3489 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
3490 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3492 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
3493 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3494 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3495 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3496 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3497 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3498 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3499 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3502 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
3503 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
3506 o Testing (Travis CI):
3507 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3508 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3509 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3511 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3512 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3513 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3514 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3515 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3518 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
3519 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
3520 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3521 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
3522 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
3523 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
3524 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
3525 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
3526 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
3527 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
3528 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
3529 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
3531 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3532 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3533 as soon as packages are available.
3535 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3536 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3537 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3538 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3539 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3540 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3541 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3542 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3543 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3545 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3546 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3547 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3548 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3549 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3551 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3552 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
3553 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
3554 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
3555 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3557 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3558 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3559 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3560 Closes ticket 33075.
3562 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3563 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3564 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3566 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3567 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3568 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3569 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3570 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3573 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3574 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3575 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3576 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3579 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3580 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3581 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3582 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3584 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3585 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3586 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3587 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3589 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3590 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3591 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3592 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3593 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3596 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
3597 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
3598 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
3599 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
3600 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
3601 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
3602 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
3603 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
3604 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
3605 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
3606 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
3607 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
3609 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3610 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3611 as soon as packages are available.
3613 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3614 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3615 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3616 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3617 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3618 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3619 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3620 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3621 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3623 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3624 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3625 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3626 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3627 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3629 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3630 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3631 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3633 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3634 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3635 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3636 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3637 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3640 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3641 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3642 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3643 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3646 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3647 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3648 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3649 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3651 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3652 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3653 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3654 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3656 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3657 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3658 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3659 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3660 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3663 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
3664 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
3665 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
3666 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
3667 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
3668 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
3669 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
3670 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
3671 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
3672 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
3673 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
3676 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3677 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3678 as soon as packages are available.
3680 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3681 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3682 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3683 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3684 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3685 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3686 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3687 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3688 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3690 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3691 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3692 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3693 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3694 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
3695 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3696 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3697 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3700 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3701 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3702 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3703 Closes ticket 33075.
3705 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3706 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3707 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3709 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3710 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
3711 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
3712 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
3713 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3715 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3716 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3717 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3718 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3719 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3722 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3723 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3724 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3725 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3728 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3729 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3730 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3731 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3733 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3734 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3735 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3736 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3737 Closes ticket 32629.
3738 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3739 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3740 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3742 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3743 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3745 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3746 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3747 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3748 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3750 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3751 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3752 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3753 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3756 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
3757 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
3758 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
3759 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
3760 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
3761 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
3763 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3764 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3765 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3766 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3767 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
3768 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3769 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3770 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3772 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
3773 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
3774 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3776 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3777 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
3778 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
3779 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3781 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3782 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
3783 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
3784 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3786 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3787 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
3788 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
3789 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3790 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
3791 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
3794 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3795 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
3796 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3798 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3799 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3800 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3801 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3802 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3803 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3804 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3805 Closes ticket 32629.
3807 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3808 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3811 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
3812 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
3813 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
3814 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
3815 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
3816 current version of 0.4.1.x.
3818 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3819 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3820 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3821 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3822 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
3823 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3824 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3825 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3827 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
3828 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
3829 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3831 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
3832 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
3833 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
3834 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
3835 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3837 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3838 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
3839 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3841 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3842 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3843 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3844 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3845 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3846 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3847 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3848 Closes ticket 32629.
3850 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3851 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3854 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
3855 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
3856 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
3857 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
3858 bugs present in previous series.
3860 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
3861 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
3862 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3863 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3865 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
3866 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3868 o Major features (directory authorities):
3869 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
3870 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
3871 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
3873 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
3874 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
3875 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
3876 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
3877 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
3878 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
3881 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
3882 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3883 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
3884 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
3885 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
3886 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
3889 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
3890 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
3891 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
3892 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
3893 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3894 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
3895 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
3896 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
3897 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3899 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
3900 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
3901 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
3902 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3904 o Major bugfixes (relay):
3905 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3906 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3907 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3908 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3909 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3910 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3911 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3913 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
3914 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3915 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3916 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3917 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3919 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3920 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3921 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3922 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3923 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3926 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
3927 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
3928 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
3929 Closes ticket 29669.
3931 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
3932 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
3933 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
3934 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
3935 Closes ticket 31779.
3937 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
3938 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
3939 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
3940 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
3941 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
3942 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
3943 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
3944 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
3945 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
3946 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
3947 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
3948 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
3949 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
3950 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
3951 files. Closes ticket 31175.
3953 o Minor features (build system):
3954 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
3955 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
3956 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
3957 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
3958 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
3960 o Minor features (compilation):
3961 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
3962 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
3963 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
3965 o Minor features (configuration):
3966 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
3967 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
3968 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
3969 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
3971 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3972 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3973 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3974 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3975 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
3976 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
3977 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
3979 o Minor features (debugging):
3980 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
3981 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
3982 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
3983 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
3985 o Minor features (geoip):
3986 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3987 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3989 o Minor features (git hooks):
3990 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
3991 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
3992 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
3993 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
3994 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
3996 o Minor features (git scripts):
3997 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
3998 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
3999 push. Closes ticket 31314.
4000 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
4001 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
4002 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
4003 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
4004 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
4005 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
4006 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
4007 Closes ticket 31314.
4008 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
4009 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
4010 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
4011 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
4012 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
4013 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
4014 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
4015 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
4016 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
4018 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
4019 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
4020 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
4023 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
4024 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
4025 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
4027 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
4028 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
4029 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
4030 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
4031 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
4032 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
4033 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
4035 o Minor features (onion service v3):
4036 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
4037 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
4039 o Minor features (onion service):
4040 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
4041 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
4042 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
4043 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
4045 o Minor features (onion services v3):
4046 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
4047 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
4050 o Minor features (stem tests):
4051 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4052 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4055 o Minor features (testing):
4056 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
4057 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
4058 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
4059 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
4060 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
4061 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
4062 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
4063 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
4064 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
4065 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
4066 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
4067 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
4068 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
4069 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
4070 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
4072 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
4073 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4074 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4075 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4077 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4078 Closes ticket 31859.
4079 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4080 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4082 o Minor features (token bucket):
4083 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
4084 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
4086 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
4087 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
4088 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4090 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
4091 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
4092 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
4093 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4094 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
4095 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
4096 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
4097 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
4100 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4101 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
4102 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4103 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
4105 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
4106 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4107 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
4108 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
4109 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4110 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4111 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4113 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
4114 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
4115 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
4116 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
4117 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
4118 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4120 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
4121 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4122 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4123 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4124 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4125 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4127 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
4128 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
4129 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4131 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4132 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4133 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4134 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4135 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4137 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4138 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4139 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4141 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4142 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
4143 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
4144 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
4146 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
4147 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4148 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4149 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4151 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4152 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4153 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
4154 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4156 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
4157 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
4158 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
4159 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
4160 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
4161 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
4162 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
4163 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
4164 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
4165 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4167 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
4168 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4169 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4170 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4171 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4173 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4174 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
4175 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
4178 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4179 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
4180 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4182 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
4183 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
4184 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4185 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4186 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4187 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4188 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4189 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4190 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4191 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4192 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4193 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4196 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
4197 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4198 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4199 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4202 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
4203 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
4204 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
4205 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4207 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4208 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
4209 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
4210 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4211 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
4212 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4213 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
4214 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
4215 Closes ticket 31678.
4217 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4218 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4219 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4220 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4221 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4223 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
4224 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
4225 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
4226 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
4227 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4228 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
4229 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
4230 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
4231 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
4234 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4235 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4236 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4237 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4238 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4239 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4240 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4241 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4242 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4243 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
4244 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4245 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4246 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4248 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
4249 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
4250 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
4252 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
4253 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4254 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4255 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4257 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
4258 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4259 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4260 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4261 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4264 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
4265 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
4266 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
4269 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
4270 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
4271 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
4274 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
4275 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4276 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4278 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
4279 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
4280 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
4281 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
4282 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
4283 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4285 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
4286 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
4287 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
4288 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4291 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4292 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
4293 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
4294 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
4295 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4297 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4298 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
4299 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
4300 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
4301 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
4302 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4304 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
4305 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
4306 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
4307 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4309 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
4310 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4311 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4313 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4314 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4315 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4317 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4318 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4319 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4320 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4322 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
4323 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4324 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4325 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
4326 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4328 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
4329 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
4330 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
4331 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4333 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
4334 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
4335 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
4336 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
4337 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4339 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
4340 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
4341 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
4342 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
4343 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
4346 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4347 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
4348 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
4350 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4351 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4352 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4353 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4354 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
4355 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
4358 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
4359 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4360 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4362 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
4363 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4364 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4367 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
4368 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4369 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4370 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4371 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4372 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4374 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4375 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
4376 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
4377 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
4378 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4380 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
4381 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4382 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4383 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4384 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4385 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4386 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4387 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4388 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4389 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4391 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4392 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
4393 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
4394 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
4395 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
4396 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
4397 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
4399 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
4403 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
4404 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4405 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
4406 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
4407 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
4408 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
4409 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
4410 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
4412 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
4413 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
4414 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
4415 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
4416 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
4417 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
4418 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
4419 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
4420 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
4421 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
4422 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4423 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4424 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4427 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
4428 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
4429 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
4430 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
4431 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
4432 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
4434 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
4438 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
4439 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
4440 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4441 Closes ticket 32500.
4442 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
4443 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
4444 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
4445 Closes ticket 30967.
4447 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
4448 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
4449 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
4450 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
4451 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
4452 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
4453 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
4454 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
4455 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
4456 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
4457 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
4458 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
4459 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
4460 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
4461 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
4462 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
4464 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4465 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
4466 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
4467 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
4468 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
4469 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
4470 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
4471 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
4472 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
4473 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
4475 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
4476 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
4477 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
4479 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
4480 Closes ticket 30806.
4481 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
4482 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
4485 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
4486 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
4487 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
4489 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
4490 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
4491 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4493 o Testing (continuous integration):
4494 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4495 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4496 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4497 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4498 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4499 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4500 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4501 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4502 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4505 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
4506 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
4507 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
4508 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
4510 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4511 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4512 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4513 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4515 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4516 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4517 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4518 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4520 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4521 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4522 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4523 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4524 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4525 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4526 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4527 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4529 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4530 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4531 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4532 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4533 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4535 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4536 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4537 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4538 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4539 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4542 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4543 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4544 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4545 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4547 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4548 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4549 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4551 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4552 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4553 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4555 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4556 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4557 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4558 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4559 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4560 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4562 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4563 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4564 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4565 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4567 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4568 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4569 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4570 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4571 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4572 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4573 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4574 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4575 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4576 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4579 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4580 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4581 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4582 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4583 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4584 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4585 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4586 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4587 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4589 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4590 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4591 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4592 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4594 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4595 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4596 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4597 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4598 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4601 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4602 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4603 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4605 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4606 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4607 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4609 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4610 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4611 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4613 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4614 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4615 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4616 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4618 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4619 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4620 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4621 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4622 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4624 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4625 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4626 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4628 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4629 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4630 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4633 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4634 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
4635 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
4637 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4638 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4639 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4640 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4642 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4643 Closes ticket 31859.
4644 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4645 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4647 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4648 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4649 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4650 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4651 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4652 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4653 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4654 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4655 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4656 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4658 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4659 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4660 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4661 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4662 Closes ticket 32500.
4665 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
4666 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
4667 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
4668 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
4669 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
4671 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
4672 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
4673 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
4674 support until 1 Feb 2022.
4676 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
4677 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4680 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4681 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4682 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4683 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4684 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4685 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4686 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4687 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4688 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4689 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4690 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4692 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4693 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4694 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4695 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4696 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4697 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4699 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4700 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4701 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4702 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4703 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4706 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4707 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4708 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4709 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4710 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4712 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4713 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4714 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4715 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4718 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4719 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4720 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4721 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4722 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4723 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4724 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4725 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4727 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4728 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4729 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4730 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4731 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4733 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4734 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4735 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4736 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4737 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4740 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4741 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
4742 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
4744 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4745 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
4746 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
4749 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4750 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
4751 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
4753 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4754 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4755 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4756 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4758 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4759 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
4760 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
4761 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
4762 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
4764 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4765 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4766 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4768 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4769 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4770 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4773 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4774 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4775 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4777 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4778 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4779 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4781 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4782 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
4783 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4785 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4786 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
4787 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
4790 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4791 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4792 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4793 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4794 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4795 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4797 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4798 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4799 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4800 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4801 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4803 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4804 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4805 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
4808 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4809 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4810 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4812 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4813 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4814 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4815 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4817 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4818 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4819 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4820 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4822 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4823 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4824 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4825 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4827 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4828 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4829 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4830 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4832 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4833 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4834 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4835 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4836 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4837 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4838 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4840 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4841 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4842 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4843 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4845 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4846 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4847 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4848 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4850 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4851 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4852 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4855 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4856 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4857 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4858 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4859 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4860 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4861 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4863 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4864 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4865 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4866 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4869 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4870 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4871 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4872 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4873 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4875 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4876 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4877 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4878 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4879 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4881 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4882 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4883 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4886 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4887 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4888 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4889 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4890 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4892 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4893 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4894 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4895 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4897 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4898 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4899 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4900 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4901 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4904 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4905 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4906 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4909 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4910 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
4911 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
4912 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4914 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4915 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
4916 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
4917 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
4919 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4920 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4921 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
4922 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4924 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4925 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4926 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4927 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4930 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4931 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4932 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4933 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4934 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4935 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4938 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4939 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4940 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4942 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4943 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4944 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4946 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4947 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4948 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4949 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4951 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4952 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4953 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4955 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4956 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4957 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4958 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4959 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4961 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4962 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4963 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4966 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4967 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4968 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4969 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4970 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4971 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4972 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4973 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4974 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4975 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4977 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4978 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4979 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4980 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4982 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4983 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4984 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4985 Resolves issue 29702.
4987 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4988 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4990 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4991 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
4992 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4993 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
4996 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4997 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4998 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4999 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5001 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5002 Closes ticket 31859.
5003 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5004 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5006 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5007 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5008 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5009 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5010 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5011 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5012 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5013 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5014 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5015 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5017 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5018 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5019 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5020 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5021 Closes ticket 32500.
5024 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
5025 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
5026 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
5029 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5030 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5033 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5034 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5035 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5036 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5037 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5038 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5039 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5040 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5041 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5042 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5043 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5045 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5046 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5047 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5048 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5049 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5050 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5052 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5053 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5054 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5055 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5056 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5057 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5059 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5060 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5061 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5062 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5063 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5066 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5067 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5068 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5069 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5070 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5072 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5073 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5074 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5075 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5078 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5079 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5080 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5081 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5082 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5084 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5085 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5086 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5087 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5088 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5091 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5092 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5093 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5094 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5095 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5096 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5097 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5098 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5100 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5101 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5102 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5103 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5104 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5107 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5108 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5109 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5111 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5112 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5113 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5116 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5117 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5118 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5119 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5121 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5122 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5123 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5126 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5127 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5128 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5130 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5131 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5132 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5133 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5135 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5136 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5137 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5138 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5139 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5141 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5142 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5143 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5145 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5146 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5147 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5148 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5150 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5151 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5152 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5155 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5156 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5157 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5158 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5159 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5160 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5161 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5162 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5163 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5164 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5165 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5166 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5167 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5170 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5171 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5172 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5173 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5174 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5176 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5177 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5178 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5180 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5181 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5182 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5184 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5185 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5186 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5188 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5189 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5190 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5193 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5194 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5195 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5197 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5198 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5199 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5200 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5201 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5202 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5204 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5205 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5206 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5207 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5208 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5210 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5211 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5212 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5215 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5216 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
5217 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5219 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5220 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5221 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5223 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5224 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5225 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5226 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5228 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5229 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5230 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5231 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5233 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5234 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5235 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5236 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5238 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5239 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5240 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5241 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5243 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5244 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5245 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5246 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5247 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5248 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5249 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5251 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5252 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5253 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5254 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5256 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5257 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5258 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5259 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5261 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5262 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5263 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5266 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5267 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5268 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5269 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5270 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5271 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5272 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5274 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5275 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5276 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5277 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5280 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5281 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5282 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5283 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5284 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5286 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5287 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
5288 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5290 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5291 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5292 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5293 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5294 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5295 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5296 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5297 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5298 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5299 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5300 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5302 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5303 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5304 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5305 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5306 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5308 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5309 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5310 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5313 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5314 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5315 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5316 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5317 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5319 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5320 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5321 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5322 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5324 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5325 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5326 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5327 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5328 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5331 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5332 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5333 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5336 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5337 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5338 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5339 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5341 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5342 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5343 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5344 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5346 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5347 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5348 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5350 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5351 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5352 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5353 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5355 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5356 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5357 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5358 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5361 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5362 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5363 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5364 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5365 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5366 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5369 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5370 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5371 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5372 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5374 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5375 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5376 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5378 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5379 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5380 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5382 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5383 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5384 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5385 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5386 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5387 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5388 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5390 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5391 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5392 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5395 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5396 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5397 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5398 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5399 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5400 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5401 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5402 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5404 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5405 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5406 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5407 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5408 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5409 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5412 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5413 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5414 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5415 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5416 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5418 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
5419 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5420 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5421 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5422 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5423 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5424 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5425 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5427 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5428 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5429 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5432 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5433 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5434 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5435 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5436 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5437 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5438 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5439 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5440 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5441 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5443 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5444 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5445 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5446 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5447 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5448 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5450 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5451 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5452 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5453 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5455 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5456 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5457 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5458 Resolves issue 29702.
5460 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5461 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5463 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5464 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5465 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5466 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5469 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5470 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5471 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5472 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5474 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5475 Closes ticket 31859.
5476 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5477 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5479 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5480 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5481 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5482 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5483 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5484 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5485 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5486 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5487 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5488 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5490 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5491 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5492 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5493 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5494 Closes ticket 32500.
5497 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
5498 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5499 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
5500 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
5503 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5504 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5505 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5506 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5507 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5508 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5509 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5510 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5511 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5513 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5514 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5515 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5518 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5519 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5520 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5522 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5523 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5524 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5525 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5526 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5528 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5529 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5530 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5532 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5533 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5534 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
5535 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5537 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5538 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5539 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5540 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5543 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5544 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5545 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5546 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5547 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5549 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5550 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5551 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5554 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5555 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5556 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5558 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5559 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5560 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5561 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5562 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5563 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5565 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5566 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5567 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5568 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5569 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5570 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5571 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5572 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5573 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5574 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5576 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5577 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5578 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5579 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5582 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
5583 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
5584 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
5585 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
5586 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
5587 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
5588 bugfixes on earlier versions.
5590 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
5591 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
5592 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5593 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5595 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
5596 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5598 o Directory authority changes:
5599 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5602 o Major features (circuit padding):
5603 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
5604 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
5605 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
5606 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
5607 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
5608 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
5609 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
5610 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
5611 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
5613 o Major features (code organization):
5614 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
5615 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
5616 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
5617 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
5620 o Major features (controller protocol):
5621 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
5622 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
5623 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
5624 Closes ticket 30091.
5626 o Major features (flow control):
5627 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
5628 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
5629 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
5630 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
5631 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
5632 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
5633 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
5635 o Major features (performance):
5636 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
5637 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
5638 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
5640 o Major features (performance, RNG):
5641 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
5642 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
5643 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
5644 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
5645 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
5646 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
5647 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
5648 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
5650 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
5651 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5652 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5653 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5654 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5655 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5656 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5657 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5658 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5659 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5660 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5662 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5663 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5664 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5666 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5667 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5668 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5669 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5670 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5672 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
5673 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5674 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5675 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5676 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5679 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
5680 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5681 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5682 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5683 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5685 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5686 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5687 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5688 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5691 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
5692 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
5693 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
5694 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
5695 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
5696 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
5699 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
5700 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
5701 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
5702 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
5704 o Minor features (circuit padding):
5705 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
5707 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
5708 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
5709 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
5710 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
5711 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5712 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
5713 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
5715 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
5716 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5717 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5719 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5720 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5721 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5722 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
5723 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
5725 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5726 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5728 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5730 o Minor features (controller):
5731 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
5732 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
5733 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5735 o Minor features (debugging):
5736 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
5737 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
5738 can use format strings to include information for trouble
5739 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
5741 o Minor features (defense in depth):
5742 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
5743 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
5744 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
5745 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
5746 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
5747 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
5748 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
5749 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
5750 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
5752 o Minor features (developer tools):
5753 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
5754 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
5755 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
5756 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
5757 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
5759 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
5760 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
5762 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
5763 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
5765 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5766 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5767 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5768 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5769 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5771 o Minor features (geoip):
5772 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5773 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
5774 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5775 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
5777 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
5778 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
5779 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
5781 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
5782 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
5783 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
5784 addresses. Implements 26992.
5786 o Minor features (logging):
5787 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
5788 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
5789 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
5790 Closes ticket 30686.
5792 o Minor features (maintenance):
5793 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
5794 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
5795 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
5797 o Minor features (modularity):
5798 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
5799 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
5801 o Minor features (performance):
5802 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
5803 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
5804 Closes ticket 28837.
5806 o Minor features (testing):
5807 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
5808 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
5809 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
5810 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
5812 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
5813 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
5814 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
5815 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
5816 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
5817 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
5818 Implements ticket 29732.
5819 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
5820 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
5822 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
5823 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
5825 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
5826 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
5827 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
5828 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
5829 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5830 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5832 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
5833 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
5834 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
5835 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5837 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
5838 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5839 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5841 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
5842 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
5843 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5844 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
5845 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
5846 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
5847 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5848 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
5849 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
5850 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5851 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
5852 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5853 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
5854 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
5855 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5856 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
5857 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
5858 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5860 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
5861 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5862 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5863 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5864 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5866 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
5867 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
5868 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
5869 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
5870 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
5871 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5873 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
5874 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5875 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
5878 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5879 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5880 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5882 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
5883 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5884 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5885 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5887 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
5888 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5889 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5890 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5892 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5893 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5894 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5895 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5896 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5897 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5898 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5900 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5901 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
5902 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
5903 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
5904 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
5906 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
5907 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5908 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5909 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5911 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5912 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
5913 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
5916 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5917 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5918 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5919 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5920 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5921 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5923 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
5924 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5925 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5927 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5928 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
5929 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5930 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
5931 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
5932 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
5934 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
5935 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
5937 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5938 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5939 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5940 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5941 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5942 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
5943 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
5946 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5947 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5948 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5950 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
5951 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
5954 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
5955 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5956 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5957 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5959 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5960 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5961 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5962 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5963 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
5964 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
5965 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
5966 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
5968 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
5969 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
5970 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5971 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
5972 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
5973 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
5974 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5976 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
5977 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
5978 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
5979 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
5980 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
5981 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5983 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
5984 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5985 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5986 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5989 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5990 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
5991 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
5992 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
5993 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5995 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5996 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
5997 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5999 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6000 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6001 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6002 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6003 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6004 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6007 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
6008 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
6009 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
6012 o Minor bugfixes (python):
6013 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
6014 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
6015 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6017 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6018 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
6019 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
6020 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
6021 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6023 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
6024 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
6025 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
6026 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
6028 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6029 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
6030 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
6031 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
6032 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6034 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6035 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
6036 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
6037 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6038 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
6039 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6040 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
6041 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6042 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
6043 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
6044 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
6045 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
6046 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6048 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
6049 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
6050 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
6051 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
6052 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6054 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6055 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
6056 port. Implements ticket 30007.
6057 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
6058 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
6059 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
6060 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
6061 string to directory connection with or without compression.
6062 Resolves issue 28816.
6063 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
6064 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
6065 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
6066 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
6067 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
6068 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
6069 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
6070 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
6071 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
6072 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
6073 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
6074 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
6075 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
6076 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
6077 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
6078 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
6079 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6080 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
6081 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6082 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
6083 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
6084 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
6085 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
6086 Closes ticket 29894.
6087 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
6088 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
6089 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
6090 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
6093 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
6094 Closes ticket 30630.
6095 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
6096 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
6100 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
6101 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
6102 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
6103 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
6107 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6108 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6109 Resolves issue 29702.
6111 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
6112 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
6113 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
6114 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
6115 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
6116 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
6117 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
6118 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
6119 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
6120 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
6121 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
6124 o Testing (chutney):
6125 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
6126 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
6127 Closes ticket 27251.
6129 o Testing (continuous integration):
6130 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
6131 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6132 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
6133 Closes ticket 30694.
6136 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
6137 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
6138 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
6139 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
6140 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
6141 long-term maintainability.
6143 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
6144 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
6145 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6146 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6148 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
6149 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6151 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
6152 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
6153 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
6154 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
6155 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
6156 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
6158 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
6159 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
6161 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
6162 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
6165 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
6166 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
6167 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
6168 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
6169 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
6170 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
6171 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
6172 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
6173 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
6176 o Major features (circuit padding):
6177 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
6178 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
6179 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
6180 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
6181 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
6182 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
6183 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
6184 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
6187 o Major features (refactoring):
6188 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
6189 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
6190 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
6191 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
6194 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6195 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6196 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6197 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6198 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6199 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6200 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6201 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6203 o Major bugfixes (networking):
6204 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6205 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
6206 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
6207 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6209 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
6210 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6211 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6212 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6213 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6214 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6216 o Minor features (address selection):
6217 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6218 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6219 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6220 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6221 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6222 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6223 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6225 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
6226 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6227 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6228 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6229 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6231 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
6232 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
6233 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
6236 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
6237 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
6238 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
6239 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
6240 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
6243 o Minor features (compilation):
6244 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
6245 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
6246 Patches from "Mangix".
6248 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6249 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6250 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6252 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
6254 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6255 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6256 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6258 o Minor features (controller):
6259 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
6260 Implements ticket 28843.
6262 o Minor features (developer tooling):
6263 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
6264 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
6265 release. Closes ticket 27761.
6266 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
6267 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
6268 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
6270 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
6271 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
6272 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
6274 o Minor features (diagnostic):
6275 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
6276 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
6279 o Minor features (directory authority):
6280 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
6281 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
6282 Closes ticket 26698.
6283 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
6284 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
6285 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
6286 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
6289 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
6290 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
6291 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
6292 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
6293 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
6294 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
6295 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
6297 o Minor features (dormant mode):
6298 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
6299 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
6300 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
6301 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
6302 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
6303 background. Closes ticket 29357.
6305 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
6306 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
6307 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
6309 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
6310 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
6311 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
6312 Closes ticket 28518.
6314 o Minor features (geoip):
6315 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6316 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
6318 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
6319 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
6320 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
6321 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
6323 o Minor features (IPv6):
6324 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
6325 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
6326 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
6327 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
6328 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
6329 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6330 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
6331 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
6332 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
6333 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6335 o Minor features (log messages):
6336 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
6337 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
6340 o Minor features (memory usage):
6341 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
6342 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
6343 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
6344 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
6345 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
6347 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
6348 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6349 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6350 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6352 o Minor features (parsing):
6353 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
6354 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
6355 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
6357 o Minor features (performance):
6358 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
6359 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
6360 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
6361 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
6363 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
6364 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
6365 Closes ticket 28852.
6366 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
6367 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
6368 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
6369 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
6370 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
6371 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
6373 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
6374 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
6375 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
6376 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
6377 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
6379 o Minor features (process management):
6380 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
6381 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
6382 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
6383 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
6384 module. Closes ticket 28847.
6386 o Minor features (relay):
6387 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
6388 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
6389 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
6391 o Minor features (required protocols):
6392 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
6393 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
6394 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
6395 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
6396 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
6397 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
6398 297; closes ticket 27735.
6400 o Minor features (testing):
6401 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
6403 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
6404 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
6405 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
6406 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
6409 o Minor bugfixes (security):
6410 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6411 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6412 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6413 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6414 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6415 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6416 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6417 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6419 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6420 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6421 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6422 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6424 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
6425 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6426 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6427 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6428 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6430 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6431 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6432 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6434 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
6435 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6436 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6437 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6439 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6440 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6441 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6444 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
6445 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
6446 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6447 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
6448 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
6451 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6452 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6453 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6454 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
6455 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
6456 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6458 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
6459 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
6460 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6462 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
6463 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
6464 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
6465 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6467 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
6468 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
6469 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
6470 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
6471 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
6473 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6474 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
6475 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
6476 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
6478 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
6479 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
6480 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
6481 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
6482 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
6483 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
6484 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6486 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
6487 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
6488 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
6489 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
6492 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6493 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6494 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6495 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6496 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6497 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6498 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6499 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6500 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6501 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6502 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6503 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6504 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6505 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
6506 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
6507 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
6508 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6509 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
6510 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
6511 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
6512 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
6513 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
6515 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
6516 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6517 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6518 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6519 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6520 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6522 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
6523 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
6524 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
6525 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
6526 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6528 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
6529 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
6530 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
6531 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6533 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
6534 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
6535 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
6536 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
6537 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
6538 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6540 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6541 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
6542 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
6544 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
6545 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
6546 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
6548 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6549 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6550 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6551 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6553 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
6554 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
6555 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
6556 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6558 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6559 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
6560 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
6561 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
6562 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6564 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6565 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6566 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6568 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
6569 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
6570 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
6571 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
6572 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
6575 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
6576 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6577 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6578 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6579 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6580 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6581 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6583 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6584 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6585 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6588 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6589 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6590 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6591 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6592 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6593 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6595 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6596 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6597 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6598 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6599 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6600 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6601 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6602 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
6603 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6604 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
6605 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
6607 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
6608 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
6609 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
6610 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6612 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
6613 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6614 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6615 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6616 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6617 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6618 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6619 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6621 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
6622 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
6623 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
6624 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
6625 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6627 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
6628 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6629 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6630 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6631 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6632 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6634 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6635 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
6636 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
6637 Resolves issue 28816.
6638 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
6639 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
6640 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
6641 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
6642 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
6644 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
6645 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
6646 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
6647 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
6648 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
6649 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
6650 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
6651 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
6655 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
6656 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
6657 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
6658 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
6659 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
6660 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
6661 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
6662 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
6663 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
6665 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
6668 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
6669 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
6670 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
6671 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
6672 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
6673 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
6674 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
6675 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
6678 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
6680 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
6681 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
6683 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
6684 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
6685 code from client and service into one function. Closes
6688 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
6689 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
6691 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
6692 Resolves ticket 28006.
6693 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
6694 Resolves ticket 28012.
6695 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
6696 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
6697 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
6698 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
6702 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
6703 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
6704 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
6707 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6708 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6709 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6711 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6712 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6713 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6714 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6715 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6716 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6717 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6718 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6720 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6721 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6722 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
6723 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
6724 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6726 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6727 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
6728 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
6729 Patches from "Mangix".
6731 o Minor features (geoip):
6732 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6733 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6735 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6736 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
6739 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6740 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
6741 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
6742 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
6743 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
6744 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6746 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6747 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
6748 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
6749 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
6752 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6753 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6754 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6755 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6757 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6758 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
6759 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
6762 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6763 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
6764 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
6765 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6767 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6768 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
6769 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
6770 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
6772 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6773 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
6774 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
6775 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
6776 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
6777 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
6779 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6780 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
6781 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
6782 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
6783 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6785 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6786 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
6787 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
6788 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
6789 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6791 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6792 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
6793 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
6795 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
6796 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
6797 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
6799 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6800 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6801 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6802 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6804 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6805 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
6806 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6808 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6809 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
6810 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6811 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
6812 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
6815 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6816 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
6817 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
6818 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
6819 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6822 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
6823 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
6824 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
6825 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
6826 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6828 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6829 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6830 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6831 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6832 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6833 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6834 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6835 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6837 o Minor features (geoip):
6838 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6839 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6841 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6842 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6843 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6844 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6846 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6847 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6848 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6849 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6850 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6853 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
6854 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6855 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6856 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6858 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
6859 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
6860 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
6861 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
6863 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6864 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6865 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6866 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6867 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6868 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6869 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6870 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6872 o Minor features (geoip):
6873 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6874 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6876 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6877 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6878 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6879 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6881 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6882 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6883 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6884 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6885 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6888 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
6889 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6890 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
6891 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
6892 to this version, or to a later series.
6894 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
6895 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
6896 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
6897 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
6898 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
6899 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
6901 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6902 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6903 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6904 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6905 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6908 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6909 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6910 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6911 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6913 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6914 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6915 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6916 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6917 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6918 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6919 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6920 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6922 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6923 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6924 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6925 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6927 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6928 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6929 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6930 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6931 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6933 o Minor features (geoip):
6934 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6935 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
6937 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6938 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6939 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6940 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6941 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6942 Closes ticket 28973.
6944 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6945 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6946 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6947 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6949 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6950 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
6951 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
6954 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6955 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6956 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6958 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6959 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6960 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6961 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6963 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6964 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
6965 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
6966 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6968 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6969 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6970 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6971 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6972 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6973 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6976 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6977 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6978 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6981 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6982 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6983 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6984 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6985 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6987 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6988 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6989 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6990 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6991 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6993 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6994 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6995 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6996 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6997 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6998 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7000 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7001 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
7002 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
7005 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7006 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7007 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7009 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7010 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7011 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7013 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7014 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7015 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7018 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7019 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7020 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7021 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7022 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7023 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7024 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7025 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7027 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7028 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7029 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7030 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7032 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7033 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7034 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7035 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7036 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7037 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7038 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7039 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7040 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7041 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7043 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7044 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7045 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7046 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7047 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7048 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7050 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7051 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7052 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7053 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7054 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7056 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7057 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7058 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7061 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
7062 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7063 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
7064 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
7067 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
7068 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
7069 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
7072 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7073 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7074 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7075 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7076 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7079 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7080 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7081 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7082 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7083 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7084 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7085 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7087 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7088 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7089 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7092 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7093 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7094 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7095 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7096 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7099 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7100 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7101 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7102 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7103 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7105 o Minor features (geoip):
7106 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7107 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
7109 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7110 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7111 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7112 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7113 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7114 Closes ticket 28973.
7116 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7117 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7118 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7119 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7121 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7122 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7123 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7124 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7125 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7128 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7129 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7130 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7131 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7133 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7134 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7135 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7137 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7138 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7139 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7140 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7142 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7143 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7144 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7145 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7146 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7147 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7150 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7151 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7152 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7154 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7155 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7156 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7157 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7158 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7160 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7161 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7162 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7163 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7164 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7165 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7167 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7168 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7169 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7170 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7172 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7173 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7174 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7177 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
7178 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
7179 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
7180 affecting directory caches.
7182 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
7183 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
7184 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
7185 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
7186 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
7187 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
7188 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
7189 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
7191 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
7192 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
7193 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
7194 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
7195 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
7196 so it will recognize them.
7198 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
7199 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
7200 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
7201 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
7202 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
7203 with the latest stable release.)
7205 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
7206 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7208 o Major features (bootstrap):
7209 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
7210 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
7211 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
7212 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
7214 o Major features (new code layout):
7215 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
7216 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
7217 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
7218 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
7219 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
7220 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
7221 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
7223 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
7224 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
7225 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
7227 o Major features (onion services v3):
7228 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
7229 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
7230 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
7231 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
7232 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
7233 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
7234 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
7235 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
7236 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
7237 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
7238 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
7239 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
7240 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
7241 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
7242 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
7243 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
7244 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
7245 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
7247 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
7248 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
7249 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
7250 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
7251 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
7252 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
7254 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
7255 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
7256 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
7257 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
7258 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
7259 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
7260 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
7262 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
7263 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
7264 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
7265 (if present), and restart Tor.
7267 o Major features (relay, UI change):
7268 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
7269 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
7270 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
7271 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
7272 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7273 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
7274 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
7276 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
7277 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7278 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7280 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
7281 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
7282 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
7283 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
7284 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
7285 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7287 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7288 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
7289 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
7290 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
7293 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
7294 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
7295 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
7296 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
7297 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7299 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
7300 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7301 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7302 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7303 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7305 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
7306 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
7307 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
7308 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
7309 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
7310 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
7312 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
7313 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7314 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7315 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7316 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7319 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
7320 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
7321 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
7322 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
7323 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
7324 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
7326 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7327 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7328 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7329 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7330 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7332 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7333 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7334 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7335 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7336 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7337 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7339 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
7340 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7341 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7342 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7344 o Minor features (admin tools):
7345 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
7346 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
7349 o Minor features (build):
7350 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
7351 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
7352 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
7353 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
7355 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
7356 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
7357 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
7358 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
7359 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
7361 o Minor features (code layout):
7362 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
7363 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
7364 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
7365 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
7368 o Minor features (compilation):
7369 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
7370 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
7371 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
7372 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
7373 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
7374 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
7377 o Minor features (config):
7378 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
7381 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7382 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
7384 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
7385 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
7386 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7387 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7388 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7389 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
7390 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
7392 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7393 Implements ticket 27252.
7394 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7395 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7396 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7397 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7398 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7399 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7400 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7401 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7402 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7404 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
7405 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7406 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7408 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
7409 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
7411 o Minor features (controller):
7412 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
7413 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
7414 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
7415 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
7416 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7417 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7418 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7419 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7421 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
7422 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
7423 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
7424 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
7426 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
7427 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
7428 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
7429 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7431 o Minor features (development):
7432 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
7433 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
7435 o Minor features (directory authority):
7436 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
7437 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
7438 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
7439 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
7441 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
7442 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
7445 o Minor features (embedding API):
7446 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
7447 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
7448 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
7449 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
7450 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
7451 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
7454 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7455 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7456 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7457 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7458 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7460 o Minor features (geoip):
7461 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7462 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
7464 o Minor features (memory management):
7465 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
7466 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
7469 o Minor features (memory usage):
7470 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
7471 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
7472 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
7474 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
7475 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7476 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7477 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7478 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7479 Closes ticket 28973.
7481 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
7482 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
7483 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
7485 o Minor features (performance):
7486 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
7487 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
7488 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
7489 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
7490 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
7491 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
7492 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
7493 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
7494 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
7495 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
7497 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
7498 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
7499 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
7500 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
7502 o Minor features (testing):
7503 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
7504 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
7506 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
7507 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
7508 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
7510 o Minor features (UI):
7511 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
7512 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
7513 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
7514 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
7515 Closes ticket 26703.
7517 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
7518 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7519 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7520 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7521 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7523 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7524 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7525 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7526 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7527 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7530 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
7531 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
7532 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
7533 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7535 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7536 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
7537 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
7538 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7539 - Use time_t for all values in
7540 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
7541 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
7542 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7544 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
7545 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
7546 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
7547 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
7548 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
7551 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
7552 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
7553 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
7554 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
7555 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
7556 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7558 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
7559 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
7560 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
7561 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7563 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
7564 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7565 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7568 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7569 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7570 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7571 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7573 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7574 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
7575 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
7578 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
7579 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
7580 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
7581 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
7582 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
7584 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
7585 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7586 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7587 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7588 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7591 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
7592 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7593 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7594 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7595 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7596 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7597 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7598 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7599 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7600 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7601 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7602 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7603 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7605 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7606 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7607 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7609 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7610 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
7611 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
7612 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
7613 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
7616 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7617 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
7618 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
7619 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
7620 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
7622 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
7623 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7624 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7626 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
7627 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7628 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7629 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7630 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7631 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7634 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7635 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7636 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7639 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
7640 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
7641 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
7642 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
7643 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7645 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7646 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
7647 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
7650 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7651 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
7652 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
7654 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
7655 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
7656 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
7657 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
7658 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
7659 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
7661 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
7662 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
7663 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
7664 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
7665 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7667 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7668 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7669 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7670 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
7671 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7673 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
7674 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7675 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7677 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
7678 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
7679 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
7680 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
7683 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7684 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7685 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7686 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7687 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7688 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7689 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
7690 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
7691 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
7693 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
7694 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
7696 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
7697 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
7698 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
7699 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
7700 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7701 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7702 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7703 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7704 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7705 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7706 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7708 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
7709 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
7710 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
7711 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7713 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
7714 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
7715 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
7716 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
7717 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
7719 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
7720 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
7721 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
7722 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
7724 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
7725 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7726 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7729 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
7730 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
7732 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7733 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7734 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7735 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7736 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7737 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7738 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7739 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7740 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7741 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7743 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
7744 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
7745 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
7746 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
7747 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7749 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
7750 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7751 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7752 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7754 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7755 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
7756 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
7757 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
7758 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
7759 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7760 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7761 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
7762 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
7763 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7765 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7766 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
7767 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
7768 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7769 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7770 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7771 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
7772 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
7773 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
7775 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
7776 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
7777 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7778 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
7779 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7780 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7781 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7782 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7783 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7784 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7785 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
7786 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
7787 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7788 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
7789 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7791 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
7792 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
7793 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
7794 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
7795 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
7796 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
7797 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
7798 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
7800 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
7801 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
7802 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
7803 reported by Keifer Bly.
7805 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7806 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
7807 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
7809 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
7810 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
7811 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
7812 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
7813 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
7814 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
7815 Closes ticket 27814.
7816 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
7817 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
7818 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
7819 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
7820 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
7821 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
7822 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
7823 Closes ticket 27799.
7824 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
7825 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
7826 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
7827 directory within the top-level src directory.
7828 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
7829 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
7830 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
7831 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
7832 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
7833 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
7834 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
7835 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
7836 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
7837 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
7838 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
7839 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
7840 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
7841 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
7842 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
7843 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
7844 Closes ticket 21349.
7845 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
7846 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
7847 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
7848 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
7849 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
7850 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
7851 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
7853 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
7854 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
7855 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
7858 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
7859 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
7860 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
7861 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
7862 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
7863 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
7864 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
7865 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
7866 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
7869 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
7870 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
7871 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
7872 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
7873 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
7874 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
7875 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
7876 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
7877 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
7878 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
7879 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
7880 Closes ticket 26367.
7883 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
7884 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
7886 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
7887 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
7888 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
7889 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
7890 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
7891 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
7892 Closes ticket 19566.
7894 o Documentation (onion services):
7895 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
7896 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
7897 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
7898 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
7899 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
7900 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
7901 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
7902 process. Closes ticket 28275.
7905 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
7906 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7907 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
7908 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
7909 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
7911 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7912 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7913 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7915 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7916 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7917 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7918 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7919 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7921 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7922 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7923 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7924 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7925 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7928 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7929 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7930 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7931 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7933 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7934 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7935 Implements ticket 27252.
7936 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7937 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7938 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7939 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7940 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7941 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7942 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7944 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7945 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7946 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7947 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7949 o Minor features (geoip):
7950 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7951 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
7953 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7954 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7955 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7956 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7957 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7959 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7960 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7961 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7962 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7963 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7966 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7967 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7968 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7971 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7972 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7973 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7974 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7975 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7977 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7978 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7979 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7981 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7982 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7983 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7985 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7986 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7987 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7988 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7990 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7991 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7992 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7994 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7995 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7996 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7999 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8000 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8001 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8003 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8004 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8005 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8008 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8009 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8010 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8011 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8012 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8014 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8015 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8016 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8017 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8018 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8019 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8021 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8022 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8023 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8026 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8027 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8028 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8029 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8030 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8031 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8032 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8033 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8035 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8036 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8037 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8038 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8040 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8041 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8042 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8043 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8044 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8046 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8047 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8048 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8049 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8050 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8051 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8053 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8054 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8055 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8056 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8057 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8058 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8060 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8061 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8062 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8063 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8066 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8067 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8068 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8069 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8070 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8073 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
8074 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
8076 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8077 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8078 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8079 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8081 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8082 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8084 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8085 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8086 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8087 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8089 o Minor features (geoip):
8090 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8091 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8093 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8094 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8095 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8096 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8098 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8099 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8100 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8101 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8102 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8103 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8104 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8105 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8108 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8109 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8110 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8111 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8113 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8114 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8115 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8116 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8118 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8119 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8120 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8121 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8123 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8124 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8125 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8126 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8127 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8129 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8130 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8131 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8134 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8135 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8136 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8137 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8138 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8140 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8141 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8142 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8145 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8146 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8147 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8148 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8150 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8151 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8152 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8154 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8155 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8156 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8159 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8160 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8161 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8162 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8163 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8165 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8166 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8167 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8170 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
8171 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8173 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8174 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8175 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8176 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8178 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8179 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8181 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8182 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8183 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8184 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8186 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8187 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8190 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8191 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8192 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8193 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8195 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8196 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8197 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8198 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8200 o Minor features (geoip):
8201 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8202 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8204 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8205 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8206 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8207 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8208 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8209 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8210 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8212 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8213 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8214 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8215 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8216 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8217 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8218 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8219 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8222 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8223 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8224 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8225 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8227 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8228 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8229 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8230 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8232 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8233 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8234 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8235 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8236 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8238 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8239 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8240 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8241 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8242 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8244 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8245 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8246 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8249 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8250 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8251 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8252 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8253 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8255 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8256 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8257 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8260 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8261 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8262 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8265 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8266 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8267 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8270 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8271 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8273 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8274 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8275 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8276 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8278 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8279 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8280 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8281 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8283 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8284 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8285 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8287 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8288 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8289 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8290 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8291 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8292 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8293 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8296 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8297 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
8298 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
8299 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
8300 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8302 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8303 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8304 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8305 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8306 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8308 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8309 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8310 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8313 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
8314 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8316 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8317 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8318 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8319 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8321 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8322 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8323 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8324 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8326 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8327 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8328 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8330 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8331 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8332 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8333 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8335 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8336 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8339 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8340 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8341 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8342 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8344 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8345 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8346 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8347 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8349 o Minor features (geoip):
8350 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8351 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8353 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8354 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8355 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8356 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8357 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8358 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8359 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8361 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8362 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8363 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8364 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8365 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8366 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8367 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8368 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8371 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8372 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8373 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8374 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8376 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8377 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8378 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8379 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8381 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8382 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8383 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8384 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8385 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8387 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8388 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8389 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8390 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8391 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8393 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8394 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8395 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8398 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8399 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
8400 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
8401 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8403 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8404 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8405 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8406 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8407 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8409 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8410 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8411 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8414 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8415 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8416 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8419 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8420 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8421 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8424 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8425 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
8426 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
8427 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8429 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8430 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8431 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8434 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8435 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8437 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8438 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8439 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8440 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8441 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8442 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8443 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
8445 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8446 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8447 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
8448 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
8449 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8451 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8452 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8453 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8454 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8456 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8457 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8458 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8460 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8461 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8462 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8463 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8464 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8465 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8466 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8469 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8470 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8471 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8472 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8473 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8475 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8476 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8477 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8478 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8479 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8481 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8482 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8483 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8486 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
8487 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8488 compilation and portability fixes.
8490 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
8491 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
8492 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
8493 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
8494 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
8495 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
8496 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
8497 our anti-denial-of-service code.
8499 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
8500 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8502 o New system requirements:
8503 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
8504 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
8505 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
8506 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
8508 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
8509 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
8510 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
8511 To disable the module, the configure option
8512 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
8513 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
8515 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
8516 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
8517 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
8518 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
8519 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
8520 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
8521 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
8522 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
8523 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
8524 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
8525 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
8527 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
8528 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
8529 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
8530 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
8531 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
8532 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
8533 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
8534 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
8535 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
8536 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
8537 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
8538 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
8539 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
8540 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
8541 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
8542 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
8543 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
8544 Tor's uptime (26009).
8546 o Minor features (accounting):
8547 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
8548 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
8549 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
8550 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
8552 o Minor features (bug workaround):
8553 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8554 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8555 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8557 o Minor features (code quality):
8558 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
8559 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
8560 Closes ticket 25024.
8562 o Minor features (compatibility):
8563 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8564 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8565 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8566 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
8567 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
8568 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
8570 o Minor features (compilation):
8571 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8572 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8573 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8574 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8575 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8576 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8577 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8578 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8581 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
8582 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
8583 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
8584 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
8585 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
8586 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
8588 o Minor features (configuration):
8589 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
8590 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
8591 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
8592 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
8593 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
8595 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8596 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
8597 Implements ticket 27449.
8598 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
8599 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
8601 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8602 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8604 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8605 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8606 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
8607 Implements ticket 27275.
8608 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8609 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8610 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
8611 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
8612 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
8614 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
8615 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8618 o Minor features (control port):
8619 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
8620 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
8621 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
8622 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8623 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
8624 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
8625 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
8626 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
8627 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
8628 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
8630 o Minor features (controller):
8631 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8632 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8633 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8635 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8636 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
8637 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
8638 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
8639 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8640 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8641 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8643 o Minor features (directory authority):
8644 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
8645 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
8646 Closes ticket 23909.
8648 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
8649 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
8650 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
8651 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
8653 o Minor features (entry guards):
8654 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
8655 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
8657 o Minor features (geoip):
8658 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8659 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8661 o Minor features (performance):
8662 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
8663 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
8664 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
8665 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
8667 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
8668 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
8670 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
8671 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
8673 o Minor features (testing):
8674 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
8675 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
8677 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
8678 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
8679 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
8680 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
8681 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
8682 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
8684 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
8685 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
8686 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
8687 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
8688 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
8690 o Minor features (unit tests):
8691 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
8692 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
8693 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
8696 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
8697 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
8698 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
8699 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
8700 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
8701 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
8703 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8704 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
8705 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
8706 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
8708 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
8709 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
8710 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8711 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
8712 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
8714 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8715 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8716 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8717 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8718 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8719 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8720 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8721 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8723 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8724 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8725 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8726 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8727 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
8728 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
8729 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8730 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
8731 Closes ticket 26245.
8732 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
8733 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
8734 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8736 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
8737 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8738 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8739 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8741 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8742 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8743 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8744 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8745 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8747 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
8748 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
8749 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
8750 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
8751 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8752 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
8753 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
8754 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8755 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
8756 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
8757 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
8758 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8760 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
8761 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
8762 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
8765 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8766 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8767 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8770 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
8771 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
8772 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8773 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
8774 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
8775 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
8778 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
8779 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
8780 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
8781 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
8782 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
8783 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
8784 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
8786 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
8787 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
8788 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
8789 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8791 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8792 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8793 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8794 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8795 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8797 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8798 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8799 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8802 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8803 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8804 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8806 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8807 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8809 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
8810 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
8811 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
8812 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
8813 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8815 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8816 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8817 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8819 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
8820 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
8821 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8822 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
8823 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
8826 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
8827 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
8828 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
8829 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8831 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
8832 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
8833 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
8834 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
8835 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
8836 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
8837 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
8839 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8840 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8842 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8843 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8844 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8845 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8846 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
8848 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8849 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8850 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
8851 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
8852 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8854 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
8855 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
8856 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
8857 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8859 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
8860 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
8861 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
8862 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
8865 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8866 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8867 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8868 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
8869 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
8870 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
8871 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
8872 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8873 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
8874 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
8876 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
8877 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
8878 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8879 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
8880 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
8881 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
8882 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
8884 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
8885 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
8886 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
8887 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
8888 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
8890 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
8891 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
8892 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
8895 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
8896 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
8897 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
8898 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
8899 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8901 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
8902 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8903 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8904 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8905 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8906 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8907 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8910 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8911 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8912 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8913 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8914 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8916 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
8917 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8918 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8919 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8920 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8922 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
8923 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
8924 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
8925 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
8926 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
8927 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8929 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
8930 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8931 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8933 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8934 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
8935 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
8936 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8937 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
8938 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
8939 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
8940 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
8942 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
8943 confusing we renamed some functions and
8944 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
8945 router_should_check_reachability() and
8946 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
8947 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
8948 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
8949 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
8950 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
8952 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
8953 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
8955 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
8956 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
8957 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8958 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
8959 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
8960 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
8961 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
8962 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
8963 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
8964 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
8965 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
8966 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
8967 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
8968 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
8969 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
8970 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8971 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
8972 Closes ticket 25766.
8973 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
8974 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
8975 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
8976 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
8977 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
8978 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
8979 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
8980 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
8981 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
8982 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
8983 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8984 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
8985 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
8986 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
8988 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
8989 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
8990 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
8991 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
8992 before. Closes ticket 26016.
8993 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
8994 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
8995 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
8996 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
8998 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
8999 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
9000 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
9001 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9003 o Deprecated features:
9004 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
9005 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
9006 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
9007 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
9008 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
9009 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
9012 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
9013 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
9014 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
9015 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
9016 24378 and proposal 290.
9017 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
9018 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
9019 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
9020 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
9021 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
9022 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
9023 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
9024 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
9025 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
9026 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
9027 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
9028 their local router. Closes 25409.
9029 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
9030 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
9031 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
9032 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
9033 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
9034 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
9035 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
9036 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
9037 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
9038 Closes ticket 25268.
9041 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
9042 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9043 bridge relays should upgrade.
9045 o Directory authority changes:
9046 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9047 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9048 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9051 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
9052 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9053 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9056 o Directory authority changes:
9057 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9058 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9059 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9061 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9062 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9063 Closes ticket 26343.
9065 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9066 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9067 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9068 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9069 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9071 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9072 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9073 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9075 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9076 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9077 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9078 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9080 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9081 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9082 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9084 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9085 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9086 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9087 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9088 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9089 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9091 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9092 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9093 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9094 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9096 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9097 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9098 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9101 o Minor features (geoip):
9102 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9103 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9105 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9106 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9107 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9108 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9109 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9111 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9112 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9113 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9115 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9116 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9117 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9118 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9119 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9120 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9121 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9122 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9125 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9126 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9127 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9128 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9129 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9130 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9132 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9133 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
9134 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
9135 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
9136 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9138 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9139 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9140 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9141 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9142 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9144 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9145 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9146 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9149 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9150 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9151 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9153 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9154 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9155 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9156 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9158 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9159 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9160 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9161 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9162 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9163 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9164 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9166 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9167 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9168 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9169 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9172 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9173 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9174 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9176 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9177 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9178 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9180 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9181 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9182 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9183 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9186 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9187 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
9188 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
9189 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9191 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9192 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9193 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9195 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9196 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9197 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9200 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
9201 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9202 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9205 o Directory authority changes:
9206 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9207 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9208 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9210 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9211 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9212 Closes ticket 26343.
9214 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9215 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9216 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9217 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9218 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9220 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9221 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9222 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9223 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9225 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9226 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9227 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9228 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9229 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9230 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9232 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9233 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9234 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9237 o Minor features (geoip):
9238 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9239 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9241 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9242 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9243 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9244 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9245 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9247 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9248 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9249 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9251 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9252 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9253 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9254 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9257 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9258 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9259 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9260 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9261 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9262 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9264 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9265 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9266 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9267 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9268 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9270 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9271 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9272 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9275 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9276 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9277 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9279 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9280 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9281 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9282 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9284 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9285 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9286 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9288 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9289 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9290 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9293 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
9294 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9295 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
9297 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9298 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
9299 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
9300 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9302 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9303 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
9304 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
9307 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9308 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9309 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9312 o Minor features (geoip):
9313 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9314 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9316 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9317 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9318 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9319 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9321 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9322 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
9323 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
9324 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
9325 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
9328 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9329 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9330 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9331 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9332 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9334 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9335 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
9336 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
9337 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9339 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9340 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9341 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9343 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9344 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9345 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9346 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9349 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9350 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
9351 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
9352 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9354 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9355 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9356 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9357 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9358 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9359 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9360 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9361 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9365 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
9366 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9367 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
9369 o Directory authority changes:
9370 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9371 Closes ticket 26343.
9373 o Minor features (geoip):
9374 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9375 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
9377 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9378 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9379 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9380 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9381 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9382 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9384 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9385 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9386 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9388 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9389 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
9390 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
9391 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
9392 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9394 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9395 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9396 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9398 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9399 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
9400 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
9401 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
9402 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
9403 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9406 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
9407 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
9408 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9410 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
9411 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
9412 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
9413 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
9414 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
9415 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
9417 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
9418 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9420 o New system requirements:
9421 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
9422 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
9424 o Major features (embedding):
9425 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
9426 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
9427 Closes ticket 23684.
9428 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
9429 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
9430 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
9431 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
9432 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
9433 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
9435 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
9436 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
9437 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
9438 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
9440 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
9441 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
9442 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
9443 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
9444 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
9446 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
9447 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
9450 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
9451 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
9452 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
9453 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
9454 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
9455 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
9456 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
9458 o Major features (onion services):
9459 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
9460 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
9461 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
9462 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
9463 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
9465 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
9466 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
9467 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
9468 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
9469 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
9470 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9472 o Major features (relay):
9473 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
9474 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
9475 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
9476 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
9477 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
9479 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
9480 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
9481 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
9482 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
9483 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
9484 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
9485 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
9486 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
9488 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9489 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9490 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9491 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9492 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9494 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
9495 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
9496 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
9497 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
9498 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
9500 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9501 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
9502 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
9503 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9505 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
9506 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
9507 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
9508 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
9509 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
9510 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
9511 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
9512 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9514 o Major bugfixes (networking):
9515 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
9516 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
9517 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
9519 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9520 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9521 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9523 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
9524 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
9525 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
9526 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
9527 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
9528 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
9529 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
9531 o Major bugfixes (relay):
9532 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
9533 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
9534 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
9535 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9537 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9538 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
9539 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
9542 o Minor features (cleanup):
9543 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
9544 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
9546 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9547 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
9548 Closes ticket 26006.
9550 o Minor features (config options):
9551 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
9552 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
9553 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
9556 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9557 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9558 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9560 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9561 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9562 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9563 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9564 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9565 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9567 o Minor features (defensive programming):
9568 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
9569 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
9570 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
9571 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
9572 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
9573 once. Part of ticket 24337.
9574 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
9575 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
9576 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
9578 o Minor features (directory authority):
9579 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
9580 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
9582 o Minor features (embedding):
9583 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
9584 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
9585 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
9586 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
9587 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
9588 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
9589 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
9590 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
9591 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
9592 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
9593 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
9594 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
9595 Closes ticket 23848.
9596 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
9597 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
9598 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
9600 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9601 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
9602 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
9603 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
9604 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
9605 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
9606 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
9607 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
9610 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
9611 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
9612 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
9613 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
9614 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
9615 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
9616 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
9618 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
9619 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
9620 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
9621 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
9622 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
9623 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
9624 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
9625 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
9626 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
9627 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
9628 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
9629 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
9631 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
9632 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
9633 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
9635 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
9636 Implements ticket 24791.
9638 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
9639 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
9640 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
9641 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
9642 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
9643 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
9645 o Minor features (geoip):
9646 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
9647 database. Closes ticket 26104.
9649 o Minor features (heartbeat):
9650 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
9651 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
9654 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
9655 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
9656 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
9657 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
9658 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
9660 o Minor features (IPv6):
9661 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
9662 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
9663 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
9664 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
9665 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
9668 o Minor features (log messages):
9669 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
9670 information about memory usage from the different compression
9671 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
9672 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
9673 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
9674 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
9675 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
9677 o Minor features (logging):
9678 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
9679 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
9680 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
9683 o Minor features (performance):
9684 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
9685 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
9686 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
9687 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
9689 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
9690 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
9691 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
9692 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
9693 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
9694 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
9695 Implements ticket 24374.
9697 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
9698 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
9699 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
9700 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
9701 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
9703 o Minor features (performance, windows):
9704 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
9705 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
9706 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
9709 o Minor features (sandbox):
9710 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9711 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9712 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9714 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
9715 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
9716 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
9717 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
9718 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
9720 o Minor features (testing):
9721 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
9724 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
9725 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
9726 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
9727 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
9728 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
9729 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
9730 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
9731 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
9732 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
9734 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
9735 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
9736 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
9737 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
9738 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
9739 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
9740 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
9741 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
9742 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
9745 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9746 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9747 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9748 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9750 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
9751 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
9752 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
9754 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
9755 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
9756 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
9757 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
9758 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9760 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9761 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9762 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9765 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9766 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
9767 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
9768 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9770 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9771 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
9772 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
9773 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9774 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
9775 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
9776 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9778 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9779 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
9780 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
9781 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9783 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9784 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9785 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9786 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9787 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9789 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
9790 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
9791 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
9792 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
9795 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9796 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
9797 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
9798 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
9799 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9801 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9802 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
9803 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
9804 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
9805 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
9808 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
9809 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
9810 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
9811 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
9812 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
9814 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
9815 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
9816 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
9819 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
9820 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
9821 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
9823 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
9824 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9825 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
9826 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
9827 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
9829 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
9830 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
9831 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
9832 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9834 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
9835 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
9836 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9837 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
9838 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
9839 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9841 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9842 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
9843 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
9844 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9846 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9847 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9848 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9850 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9851 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
9852 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
9853 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
9855 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
9856 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
9857 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
9858 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
9861 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9862 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
9863 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
9864 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
9865 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9866 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
9869 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
9870 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
9871 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
9872 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9874 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9875 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
9876 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
9878 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9879 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
9880 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
9881 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
9882 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
9883 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9885 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9886 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9887 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9888 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9889 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9890 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9891 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9893 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9894 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
9895 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
9896 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
9898 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9899 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
9900 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
9901 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
9902 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
9904 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
9905 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
9906 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
9907 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
9908 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
9909 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9911 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
9912 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
9913 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
9914 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
9915 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
9916 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9917 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
9918 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
9919 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
9920 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
9921 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
9922 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9924 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9925 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9926 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9928 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
9929 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
9930 would call the Rust implementation of
9931 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
9932 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
9933 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
9934 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
9935 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9937 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
9938 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
9939 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
9940 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
9942 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9943 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9944 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9945 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9947 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
9948 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9950 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
9951 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
9952 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
9953 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
9954 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
9955 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9957 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9958 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9959 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9960 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
9961 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
9963 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
9965 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
9966 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
9967 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
9969 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
9971 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
9972 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
9973 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
9974 "aruna1234" and teor.
9975 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
9976 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
9977 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
9978 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
9980 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
9981 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
9982 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
9983 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
9984 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
9985 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
9986 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
9987 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
9988 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
9989 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
9991 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
9992 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
9995 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
9997 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
9998 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
9999 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
10000 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
10002 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
10003 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
10004 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
10005 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
10007 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
10008 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
10009 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
10010 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
10011 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
10013 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
10014 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
10015 adding very little except for unit test.
10017 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
10018 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
10019 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
10020 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
10022 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
10023 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
10024 const. Implements ticket 24489.
10026 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10027 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
10028 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
10030 o Documentation (man page):
10031 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
10032 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
10035 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
10036 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
10037 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
10041 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
10042 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
10045 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10046 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10048 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10049 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10051 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10054 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10055 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
10056 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10058 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
10059 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
10060 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
10061 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
10064 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10065 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10066 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10067 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10070 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10071 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10072 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10073 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10074 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10075 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10076 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10077 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10078 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10079 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10080 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10081 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10082 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10084 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10085 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10086 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10088 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10089 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10090 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10091 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10092 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10093 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10094 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10096 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10097 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10098 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10100 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10101 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10102 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10103 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10104 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10105 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10106 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10108 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10109 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10110 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10111 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10113 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10114 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10115 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10116 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10118 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10119 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10120 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10121 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10122 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10123 Closes ticket 24978.
10125 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10126 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10127 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10128 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10129 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10130 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10131 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10132 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10133 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10135 o Minor features (geoip):
10136 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10139 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10140 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10141 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10142 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10143 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10145 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10146 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10147 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10148 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10149 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10151 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10152 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10153 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10154 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10155 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10158 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10159 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10160 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10161 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10162 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10163 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10164 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10165 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10166 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10167 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
10168 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
10171 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
10172 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10173 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10175 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10176 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10177 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10180 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10181 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10182 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10183 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10184 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10185 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10186 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10188 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10189 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
10190 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10191 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
10192 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
10193 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
10194 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
10195 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
10196 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
10199 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10200 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
10201 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
10202 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
10203 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
10204 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10206 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10207 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10208 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10209 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10211 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
10212 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10213 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10214 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10215 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10218 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10219 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10220 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10221 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10222 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10223 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10225 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10226 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10227 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10228 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10229 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10230 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10231 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10232 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10233 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10234 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10235 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10236 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10238 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10239 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10240 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10241 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10243 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10244 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10245 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10246 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10248 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10249 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10250 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10251 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10254 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
10255 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10256 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10257 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10258 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10260 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10261 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10263 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10264 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10266 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10267 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10268 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10271 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
10272 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10273 later Tor releases.
10275 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10276 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10278 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10279 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10281 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10284 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10285 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
10286 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10288 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10289 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10290 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10291 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10294 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
10295 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10296 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10297 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10298 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10299 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10300 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10301 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10302 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10303 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10304 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10305 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10306 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10308 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10309 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10310 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10311 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10312 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10313 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10314 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10315 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10316 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10318 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
10319 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10320 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10321 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10322 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10323 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10324 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10326 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
10327 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10328 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10329 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10331 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
10332 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10333 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10334 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10335 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10336 Closes ticket 24978.
10338 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10339 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10340 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10341 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10343 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10344 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10345 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10346 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10347 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10348 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10349 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10350 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10351 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10353 o Minor features (geoip):
10354 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10357 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10358 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10359 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10361 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
10362 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10363 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10364 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10365 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10367 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
10368 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10369 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10370 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10371 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10373 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10374 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10375 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10376 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10377 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10380 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10381 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10382 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10384 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10385 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10386 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10389 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10390 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10391 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10392 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10393 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10394 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10395 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10397 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
10398 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10399 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10400 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10401 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10404 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
10405 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10406 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10407 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10408 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10409 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10411 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
10412 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10413 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10414 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10416 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10417 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10418 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10419 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10420 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10421 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10422 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10423 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10424 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10425 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10426 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10427 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10429 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
10430 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10431 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10432 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10435 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10436 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10437 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10438 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10439 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10441 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10442 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10444 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10445 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10448 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
10449 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
10450 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
10453 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10454 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10456 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
10457 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
10458 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
10459 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
10460 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
10461 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
10464 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10465 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10467 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10470 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
10471 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
10472 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
10473 the DoS mitigations.)
10475 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10476 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10477 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10478 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10481 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10482 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
10483 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
10484 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10486 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10487 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10488 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10489 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10490 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10491 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10492 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10493 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10494 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10495 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10496 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10497 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10498 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10500 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10501 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10502 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10503 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10504 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10505 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10506 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10507 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
10508 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
10509 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
10510 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10512 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10513 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10514 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10516 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10517 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10518 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10519 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10520 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10521 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10522 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10524 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10525 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
10526 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
10527 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10529 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10530 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10531 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10532 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10534 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10535 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10536 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10537 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10538 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10539 Closes ticket 24978.
10541 o Minor features (geoip):
10542 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10545 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10546 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
10547 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
10550 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10551 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10552 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10553 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10554 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10556 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10557 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10558 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10559 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10560 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10561 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10562 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10564 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10565 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10566 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10567 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10568 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10570 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10571 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
10572 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
10573 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10575 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10576 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
10577 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
10578 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
10579 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10581 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10582 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10583 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10584 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10586 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10587 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10588 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10589 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10591 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10592 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10593 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10594 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10596 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10597 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10599 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10600 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10602 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10603 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
10604 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
10606 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10607 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
10608 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
10609 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
10610 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10612 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10613 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10614 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10616 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
10617 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
10618 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
10622 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
10623 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
10625 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
10626 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
10627 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
10628 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
10629 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
10630 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
10632 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
10633 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
10634 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
10635 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
10636 with the 0.2.9 series.
10638 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
10639 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10641 o Directory authority changes:
10642 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10643 Closes ticket 23910.
10644 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10645 Closes ticket 23592.
10646 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10647 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10648 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10649 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10650 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10653 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
10654 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
10655 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
10656 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
10657 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
10658 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
10661 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
10662 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
10664 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
10667 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
10670 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
10672 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
10674 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
10676 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
10677 they are 56 characters long, as in
10678 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
10680 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
10681 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
10682 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
10683 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
10684 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
10687 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
10688 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
10689 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
10690 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
10691 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
10692 options. For more information, see our blog post at
10693 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
10695 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
10696 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
10697 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
10698 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
10699 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
10700 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
10701 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
10702 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
10703 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
10704 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
10705 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
10706 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
10708 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
10709 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
10710 more information, see the design paper at
10711 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
10712 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
10713 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
10714 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
10716 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
10717 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10718 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10719 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10720 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10721 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10722 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10723 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10725 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
10726 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10727 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10728 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10731 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
10732 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10733 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10734 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10735 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10736 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10737 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10738 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10739 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10740 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10741 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10742 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10745 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
10746 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10747 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10748 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10749 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10750 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10751 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
10752 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
10753 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10755 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10756 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10757 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10758 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10759 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10760 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10761 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10762 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10763 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10764 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
10765 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
10768 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
10769 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
10770 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
10771 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
10772 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
10773 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
10774 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10776 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
10777 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10778 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10779 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10780 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10781 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10784 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
10785 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10786 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10787 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10789 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
10790 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
10791 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
10792 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
10794 o Minor features (bridge):
10795 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
10796 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
10797 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
10798 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
10799 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
10800 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
10801 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
10802 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
10803 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
10804 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
10805 related to ticket 23080.
10807 o Minor features (bug detection):
10808 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
10809 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
10810 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
10812 o Minor features (build, compilation):
10813 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
10814 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
10815 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
10816 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
10817 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
10818 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
10819 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
10820 Closes ticket 23643.
10822 o Minor features (client):
10823 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
10824 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
10825 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
10826 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
10827 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
10828 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
10829 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
10830 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
10831 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
10832 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
10833 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
10834 Resolves ticket 23670.
10836 o Minor features (command line):
10837 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
10838 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
10839 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
10841 o Minor features (control port):
10842 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
10843 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
10844 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
10846 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
10847 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
10849 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
10850 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
10851 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
10852 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
10853 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
10854 Closes ticket 23237.
10855 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
10856 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
10858 o Minor features (development support):
10859 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
10860 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
10861 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
10862 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
10863 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
10864 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
10866 o Minor features (directory authority):
10867 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
10868 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
10869 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
10870 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
10872 o Minor features (ed25519):
10873 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
10874 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
10875 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
10877 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
10878 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
10879 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
10881 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10882 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10883 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10884 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10885 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10886 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10887 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10888 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10889 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10891 o Minor features (geoip):
10892 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10895 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
10896 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
10897 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
10898 another program, regardless of the settings of
10899 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
10900 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
10901 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
10903 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10904 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10905 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10907 o Minor features (logging):
10908 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
10910 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
10911 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
10913 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
10914 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
10915 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
10916 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
10917 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
10918 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
10919 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
10920 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
10921 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
10922 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
10924 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
10925 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
10927 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
10928 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
10929 the circuit identifier(s).
10930 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
10931 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
10933 o Minor features (portability):
10934 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
10935 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
10937 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
10938 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
10939 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
10940 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
10942 o Minor features (relay):
10943 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
10944 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
10945 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
10946 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
10947 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
10948 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
10949 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
10950 results. Closes ticket 22731.
10952 o Minor features (relay statistics):
10953 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10954 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10955 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10957 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
10958 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
10959 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
10960 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
10961 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
10963 o Minor features (robustness):
10964 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
10965 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
10967 o Minor features (startup, safety):
10968 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
10969 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
10972 o Minor features (static analysis):
10973 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
10974 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
10977 o Minor features (testing):
10978 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
10979 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
10980 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
10981 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
10983 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
10984 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
10985 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
10986 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
10987 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
10989 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10990 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10991 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10992 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10993 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10996 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10997 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
10998 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
11001 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
11002 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
11003 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
11004 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
11005 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11006 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
11007 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
11008 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
11009 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11010 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
11011 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
11012 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
11013 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11015 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
11016 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
11017 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
11018 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11020 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
11021 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
11022 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11023 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
11024 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
11025 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
11026 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
11027 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
11028 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11029 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11030 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11031 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
11032 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
11033 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11034 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
11035 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11036 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11038 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
11039 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
11040 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
11041 Coverity as CID 1415728.
11043 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11044 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
11045 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
11046 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11048 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
11049 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
11050 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
11051 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
11052 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
11053 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
11054 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
11055 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11057 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11058 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
11059 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
11060 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
11061 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11062 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
11063 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
11064 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11065 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
11066 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
11067 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
11068 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
11069 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
11070 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
11073 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11074 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
11075 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
11078 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
11079 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
11080 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
11081 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
11083 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11084 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11085 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11088 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
11089 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
11090 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
11091 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11093 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
11094 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11095 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11096 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11097 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11098 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11099 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11100 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11101 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11104 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
11105 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
11106 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
11107 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
11108 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11110 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
11111 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
11112 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
11113 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
11114 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
11115 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
11117 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
11118 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
11121 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11122 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
11123 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11124 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
11125 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
11126 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11128 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
11129 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
11130 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
11131 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11133 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
11134 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11135 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11136 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11137 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11138 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11140 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
11141 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
11142 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
11143 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
11144 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
11145 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
11146 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
11149 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
11150 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
11151 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
11152 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11154 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11155 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
11156 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
11157 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
11158 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11159 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
11160 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
11161 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11162 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
11163 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
11165 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
11166 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
11167 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
11169 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
11170 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
11171 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
11173 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
11174 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11175 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
11176 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
11177 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
11178 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
11180 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
11181 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11182 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11183 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11184 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11185 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11187 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
11188 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
11189 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11191 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11192 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11193 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11194 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11195 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11198 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11199 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11200 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11201 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11202 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11203 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11205 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11206 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
11207 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
11208 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
11209 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11210 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11211 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11213 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
11214 only fetch the service descriptor once.
11215 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11216 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11217 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11218 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
11219 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
11220 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
11221 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
11223 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11224 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11225 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11226 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11227 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11228 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11229 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11230 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11231 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11232 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11233 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11234 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11236 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11237 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
11238 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11239 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11240 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11241 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11244 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11245 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
11246 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
11247 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
11248 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11249 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11250 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11251 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11252 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11253 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11254 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11255 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11257 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11258 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
11259 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11260 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
11261 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
11262 Closes ticket 24109.
11263 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
11264 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11265 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
11266 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
11268 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
11269 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
11271 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
11272 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
11273 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
11274 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
11275 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
11276 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
11277 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
11278 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11279 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
11280 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
11281 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11283 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
11284 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
11285 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
11286 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11288 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11289 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
11290 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
11292 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
11293 function from the general code to handle channel state
11294 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
11295 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
11296 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
11297 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
11298 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
11299 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
11300 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
11301 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
11303 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
11304 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
11306 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
11307 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
11308 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
11309 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
11310 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
11311 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
11312 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
11313 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
11314 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
11315 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
11316 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
11317 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
11319 o Deprecated features:
11320 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
11321 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
11322 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
11323 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
11324 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
11325 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
11329 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
11330 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
11331 section. Closes ticket 24254.
11332 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
11333 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
11334 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
11335 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
11336 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
11337 Closes ticket 18736.
11338 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
11339 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
11340 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
11341 Closes ticket 15645.
11342 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
11343 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
11344 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
11345 file. Closes ticket 21148.
11347 o Removed features:
11348 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
11349 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
11350 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
11351 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
11352 Closes ticket 21031.
11353 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
11354 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
11357 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
11358 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
11359 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
11360 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
11362 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11363 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11364 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11365 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11366 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11367 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11368 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11369 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11370 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11371 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11372 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11374 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11375 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11376 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11377 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11378 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11379 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11380 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11383 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11384 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11385 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11386 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11387 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11389 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11390 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11391 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11392 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11393 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11394 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11395 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11396 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11397 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11399 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11400 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11401 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11402 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11403 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11404 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11407 o Minor features (bridge):
11408 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11409 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11410 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11411 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11414 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11415 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11418 o Minor features (geoip):
11419 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11422 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11423 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11424 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11425 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11426 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11428 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11429 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11430 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11432 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11433 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11434 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11435 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11436 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11437 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11439 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11440 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11441 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11444 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11445 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11446 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11447 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11448 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11451 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
11452 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11453 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11454 to another of the releases coming out today.
11456 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
11457 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11458 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11460 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11461 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11462 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11463 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11464 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11465 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11466 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11467 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11468 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11469 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11470 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11472 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11473 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11474 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11475 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11476 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11477 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11478 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11481 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11482 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11483 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11484 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11485 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11487 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11488 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11489 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11490 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11491 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11492 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11493 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11494 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11495 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11497 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11498 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11499 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11500 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11501 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11502 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11505 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11506 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11507 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11508 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11509 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11510 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11512 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11513 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11514 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11515 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11516 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11519 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11520 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11523 o Minor features (geoip):
11524 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11527 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11528 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11529 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11530 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11531 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11533 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11534 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11535 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11537 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11538 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11539 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11540 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11541 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11542 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11544 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11545 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11546 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11547 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11548 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11550 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11551 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11552 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11555 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
11556 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11557 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11558 to another of the releases coming out today.
11560 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11561 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11562 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11563 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11564 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11565 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11568 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11569 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11570 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11571 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11572 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11573 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11574 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11575 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11576 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11577 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11578 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11580 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11581 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11582 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11583 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11584 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11585 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11586 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11589 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11590 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11591 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11592 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11593 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11595 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11596 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11597 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11598 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11599 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11600 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11602 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11603 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11604 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11605 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11606 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11609 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11610 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11613 o Minor features (geoip):
11614 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11617 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11618 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11619 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11620 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11621 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11622 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11624 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11625 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11626 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11627 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11628 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11630 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11631 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11632 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11634 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11635 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11636 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11637 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11638 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11639 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11641 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11642 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11643 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11644 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11645 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11647 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11648 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11649 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11652 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
11653 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11654 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11655 to another of the releases coming out today.
11657 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
11658 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
11659 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11661 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11662 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11663 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11664 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11665 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11666 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11667 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11668 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11669 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11670 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11671 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11672 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11673 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11674 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11675 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11678 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11679 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11680 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11681 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11682 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11684 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11685 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
11686 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
11687 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
11688 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
11691 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11692 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11693 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11694 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11695 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11698 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11699 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11702 o Minor features (geoip):
11703 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11706 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11707 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11708 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11711 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
11712 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11713 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11714 to another of the releases coming out today.
11716 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
11717 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
11718 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11720 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11721 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11722 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11723 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11724 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11725 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11726 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11727 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11728 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11729 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11730 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11731 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11732 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11733 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11734 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11737 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11738 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11739 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11740 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11741 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11742 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11744 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11745 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11746 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11747 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11748 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11751 o Minor features (geoip):
11752 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11756 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
11757 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
11758 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
11760 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
11761 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
11762 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11764 o Directory authority changes:
11765 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11766 Closes ticket 23910.
11767 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11768 Closes ticket 23592.
11770 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11771 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11772 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11773 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11774 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11776 o Minor features (geoip):
11777 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11780 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11781 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11782 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11783 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11784 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11785 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11786 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11787 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11788 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11790 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11791 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11792 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11793 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11794 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11795 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11796 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11797 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11798 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11801 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
11802 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
11803 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
11804 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
11806 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
11807 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11808 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11810 o Directory authority changes:
11811 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11812 Closes ticket 23910.
11813 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11814 Closes ticket 23592.
11816 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11817 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11818 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11819 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11821 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11822 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11823 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11824 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11825 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11827 o Minor features (geoip):
11828 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11832 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
11833 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
11834 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
11835 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
11837 o Directory authority changes:
11838 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11839 Closes ticket 23910.
11840 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11841 Closes ticket 23592.
11843 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11844 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11845 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11846 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11848 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11849 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11850 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11851 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11852 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11854 o Minor features (geoip):
11855 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11858 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11859 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11860 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11861 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11862 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11863 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11864 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11865 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11868 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11869 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
11870 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11872 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11873 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11874 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11875 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11876 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11877 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11878 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11881 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
11882 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
11883 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
11884 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
11886 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
11887 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11888 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11890 o Directory authority changes:
11891 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11892 Closes ticket 23910.
11893 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11894 Closes ticket 23592.
11896 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11897 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11898 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11899 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11901 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11902 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11903 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11904 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11905 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11907 o Minor features (geoip):
11908 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11911 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11912 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11913 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11914 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11915 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11916 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11917 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11918 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11921 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11922 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11923 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11924 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11926 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11927 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
11928 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11930 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11931 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11932 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11933 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11934 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11935 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11936 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11939 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
11940 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
11941 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
11942 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
11943 a new directory authority, Bastet.
11945 o Directory authority changes:
11946 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11947 Closes ticket 23910.
11948 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11949 Closes ticket 23592.
11951 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11952 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11953 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11954 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11956 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11957 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11958 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11959 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11960 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11962 o Minor features (geoip):
11963 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11966 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11967 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
11968 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11969 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
11971 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11972 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
11973 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
11976 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11977 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
11978 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
11980 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11981 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11982 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11983 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11985 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11986 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
11987 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11989 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11990 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
11991 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
11995 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
11996 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
11999 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12000 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12001 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12002 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12004 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12005 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
12006 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
12007 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
12009 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12010 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12011 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12012 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12013 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12016 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12019 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12020 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12021 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12024 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12025 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12026 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12027 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12028 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12029 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12030 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12031 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12032 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12034 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12035 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12036 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12037 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12038 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12039 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12040 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12041 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12042 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12045 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
12046 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12049 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12050 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12051 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12052 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12054 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12055 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
12056 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
12057 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12058 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12059 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12060 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12062 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12063 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12064 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12065 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12067 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12068 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12069 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12071 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12072 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12073 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12074 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12076 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12077 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12078 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12079 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12080 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12082 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12083 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12084 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12085 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12087 o Minor features (geoip):
12088 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12091 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12092 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12093 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12094 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12096 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12097 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
12098 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12099 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
12100 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12101 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
12102 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
12103 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12105 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12106 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
12107 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12109 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12110 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12111 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12114 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12115 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12116 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12117 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
12118 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12120 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12121 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12122 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12123 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12124 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12125 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12127 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12128 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12129 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12130 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12131 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12132 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12133 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12134 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12135 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12137 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12138 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12139 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12140 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12142 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12143 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12144 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12146 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12147 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12148 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12149 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12150 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12152 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12153 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12154 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12157 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12158 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12159 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12160 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12161 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12163 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12164 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12165 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12166 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12167 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12168 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12169 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12170 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12171 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12174 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
12175 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
12178 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12179 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12180 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12181 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12183 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12184 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12185 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12186 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12189 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12192 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12193 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
12194 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12196 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12197 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12198 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12199 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
12200 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12202 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12203 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12204 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12205 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12207 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12208 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
12209 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
12211 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
12212 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
12213 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
12214 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12217 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
12218 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12220 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
12221 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
12222 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
12223 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
12224 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
12225 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
12226 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
12228 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
12229 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
12230 disabled. For more information, see
12231 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12233 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
12234 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
12235 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
12236 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
12237 with the 0.2.9 series.
12239 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
12240 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12242 o New dependencies:
12243 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
12244 pkg-config tool at build time.
12246 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
12247 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
12248 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
12249 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12250 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
12252 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
12253 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12254 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12255 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12256 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12257 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12258 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12259 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12260 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12262 o Major features (directory protocol):
12263 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
12264 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
12265 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
12266 now request these documents when available. When both client and
12267 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
12268 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
12269 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
12270 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
12271 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
12272 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
12273 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
12274 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
12275 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
12276 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
12277 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
12278 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
12279 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
12281 o Major features (experimental):
12282 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
12283 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
12284 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
12285 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
12286 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
12287 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
12288 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
12290 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
12291 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
12292 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
12293 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
12294 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
12295 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
12298 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
12299 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
12300 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
12301 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
12302 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
12303 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
12304 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
12305 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
12306 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
12307 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
12308 multiples of 10000.
12310 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12311 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
12312 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
12313 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12314 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12315 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12316 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12319 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
12320 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
12321 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
12322 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
12323 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
12324 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
12326 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
12327 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
12328 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
12329 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
12330 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
12331 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
12332 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
12333 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
12334 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12335 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
12336 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
12337 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
12338 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
12339 Otherwise it is at info.
12341 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
12342 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
12343 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
12344 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12345 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
12346 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
12347 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12349 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
12350 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12351 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12352 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12354 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
12355 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12356 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12357 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12358 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12360 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
12361 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12362 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12363 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12364 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12365 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12366 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12369 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
12370 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
12371 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
12372 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
12373 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
12374 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
12375 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
12376 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12377 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
12378 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
12379 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
12380 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
12381 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
12384 o Minor features (security, windows):
12385 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12386 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12387 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12388 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12389 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12391 o Minor features (bridge authority):
12392 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
12393 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
12395 o Minor features (code style):
12396 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12397 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12398 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12400 o Minor features (config options):
12401 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
12402 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
12403 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
12404 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
12405 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
12406 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
12407 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
12408 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
12410 o Minor features (controller):
12411 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
12412 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
12414 o Minor features (defaults):
12415 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
12416 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
12417 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
12418 can. Closes ticket 21407.
12419 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
12420 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
12421 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
12422 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
12423 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
12424 Closes ticket 21641.
12426 o Minor features (defensive programming):
12427 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
12428 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
12429 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
12432 o Minor features (diagnostic):
12433 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
12434 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
12435 attempt for bug 23105.
12436 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
12437 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
12438 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
12439 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
12440 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
12441 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
12442 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
12444 o Minor features (directory authority):
12445 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
12446 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
12447 Closes ticket 22348.
12449 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
12450 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
12451 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
12452 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
12453 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
12456 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
12457 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
12458 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
12459 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12460 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12461 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12462 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12464 o Minor features (geoip):
12465 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12468 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
12469 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
12470 introduction points than specified in
12471 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
12472 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
12473 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
12474 21594; closes ticket 21622.
12475 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
12476 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
12477 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
12478 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
12480 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12481 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
12482 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
12483 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
12484 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
12485 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
12486 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
12487 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
12488 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
12489 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
12491 o Minor features (logging):
12492 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
12493 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
12494 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
12495 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
12498 o Minor features (performance):
12499 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
12500 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
12502 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
12503 speed some controller functions.
12505 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
12506 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
12507 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
12508 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
12510 o Minor features (relay, performance):
12511 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
12512 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
12513 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
12514 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
12515 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
12518 o Minor features (safety):
12519 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
12520 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
12521 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
12524 o Minor features (testing):
12525 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
12527 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
12528 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
12529 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
12530 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
12531 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
12532 on. Closes ticket 21439.
12533 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
12534 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
12535 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
12536 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
12537 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
12538 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
12539 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
12540 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
12541 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
12542 21507. Partially implements 21470.
12544 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
12545 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12546 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12547 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12549 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12550 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
12551 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
12552 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
12555 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
12556 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
12557 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12558 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
12559 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12560 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
12561 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
12562 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
12565 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12566 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
12567 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12569 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12570 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
12571 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
12572 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
12573 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
12574 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12576 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12577 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
12578 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12580 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
12581 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
12582 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
12583 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
12584 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
12585 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
12586 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12587 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
12588 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
12589 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
12590 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
12591 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
12592 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
12593 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
12595 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12596 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12597 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12598 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
12599 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12600 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
12601 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12602 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
12603 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
12604 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
12605 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
12606 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12608 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12609 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12610 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12612 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
12613 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12614 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12615 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12616 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12617 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12619 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
12620 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
12621 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
12622 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
12623 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12624 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12625 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12626 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12627 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12628 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12629 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12630 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12632 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12633 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12634 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12635 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12636 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12637 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12638 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12639 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12641 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
12642 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
12643 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12644 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
12645 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
12646 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
12648 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
12649 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
12650 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
12653 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
12654 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
12655 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
12656 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
12657 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
12659 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12660 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
12661 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12662 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
12663 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
12664 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12665 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
12666 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12667 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
12668 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
12669 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12671 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
12672 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12673 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12674 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12676 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12677 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
12678 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
12679 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
12680 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
12681 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
12682 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
12683 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
12684 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
12685 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
12686 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12687 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
12688 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
12689 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12691 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
12692 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
12693 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
12694 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
12695 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
12696 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
12697 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12699 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12700 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12701 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12702 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12703 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12704 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12705 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12707 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12708 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
12709 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
12710 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
12711 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
12712 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
12713 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
12714 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
12715 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
12716 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
12717 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12718 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
12719 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
12721 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
12722 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
12723 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
12724 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
12726 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
12727 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
12728 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
12730 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
12731 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
12732 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
12733 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12735 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12736 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
12737 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
12738 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12740 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12741 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
12742 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12743 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
12744 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
12745 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12746 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
12747 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
12748 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
12750 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
12751 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
12752 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
12753 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
12754 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
12755 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
12756 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
12759 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
12760 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
12761 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
12762 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
12763 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
12764 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12766 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12767 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12768 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12769 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
12770 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
12771 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12772 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
12773 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12774 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
12775 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
12776 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
12777 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
12778 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
12779 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12780 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
12781 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
12784 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
12785 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12786 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12787 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12788 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12790 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
12791 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12792 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12793 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12794 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12795 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12796 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12798 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
12799 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
12800 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12802 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12803 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
12804 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
12805 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
12806 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
12807 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
12808 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
12809 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
12810 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
12811 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
12812 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
12813 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
12815 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
12816 Resolves ticket 22213.
12817 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
12818 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
12819 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
12820 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
12821 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
12822 types. Closes ticket 21651.
12823 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
12824 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
12827 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
12829 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
12830 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
12832 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
12833 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
12834 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
12836 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
12838 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
12839 Closes ticket 21873.
12840 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
12841 Closes ticket 21151.
12842 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
12843 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
12845 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
12846 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12847 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
12848 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
12850 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
12851 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
12852 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
12853 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
12854 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
12855 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
12856 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
12857 default behavior is now unavailable.
12858 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
12859 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
12860 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
12861 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
12862 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
12863 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
12864 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
12866 o Removed features (tools):
12867 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
12868 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
12869 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
12870 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
12871 required. Closes ticket 21842.
12874 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
12875 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
12876 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
12877 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
12879 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12880 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12881 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12882 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12883 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12884 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12885 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12886 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12887 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12889 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12890 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12891 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12892 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12894 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12895 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12896 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12897 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12898 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12900 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12901 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12904 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
12905 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12906 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12907 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12909 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12910 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
12911 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12912 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
12913 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12914 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
12915 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
12916 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
12919 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12920 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12921 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12924 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12925 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12926 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12927 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12928 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12929 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12931 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12932 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
12933 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
12934 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12936 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12937 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12938 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12940 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
12941 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
12942 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12945 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
12946 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
12947 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
12948 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
12949 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
12952 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
12955 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12956 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
12957 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
12958 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
12959 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
12960 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
12962 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12963 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
12964 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
12965 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12967 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12968 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
12969 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
12970 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12972 o Minor features (geoip):
12973 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12976 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12977 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12978 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12979 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12980 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12982 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12983 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12984 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12985 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12986 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12988 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12989 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12990 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12991 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12992 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12993 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12994 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12995 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12996 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12999 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
13000 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
13001 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13002 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13003 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
13005 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
13006 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13007 bugfixes described below.
13009 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13010 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13011 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13012 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13013 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13014 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13015 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13016 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13019 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13020 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13021 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13022 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13023 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13024 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13025 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13028 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13029 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13030 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13031 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13032 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13033 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13034 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13035 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13036 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13037 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13038 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13039 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13040 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13043 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13044 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
13045 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
13048 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13049 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13050 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13051 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13052 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13054 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13055 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13056 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13058 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13059 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13060 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13062 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13063 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13064 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13065 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13066 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13067 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13068 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13070 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
13072 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13073 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13074 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13077 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
13078 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13079 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13080 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13081 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13082 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13084 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
13085 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13086 bugfixes described below.
13088 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13089 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13090 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13091 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13092 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13095 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13096 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13097 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13098 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13099 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13100 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13101 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13104 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13105 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13106 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13107 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13108 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13110 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13111 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
13112 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13113 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13114 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13115 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13116 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13118 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
13119 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
13120 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
13121 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
13122 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
13124 o Minor features (geoip):
13125 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13128 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
13129 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13130 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13131 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13133 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13134 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13135 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13137 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13138 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13139 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13140 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13141 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13144 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
13145 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13146 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13147 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13148 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13150 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
13151 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13152 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13153 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13154 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13155 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13157 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13158 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13159 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13160 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13163 o Minor features (geoip):
13164 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13167 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13168 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13169 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13170 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13171 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13173 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13174 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13175 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13177 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
13178 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13179 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13180 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13181 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13182 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13184 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13185 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13186 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13187 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13190 o Minor features (geoip):
13191 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13194 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13195 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13196 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13199 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
13200 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13201 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13202 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13203 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13204 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13206 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13207 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13208 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13209 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13212 o Minor features (geoip):
13213 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13216 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13217 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13218 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13220 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
13221 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13222 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13223 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13224 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13225 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13227 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13228 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13229 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13230 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13233 o Minor features (geoip):
13234 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13237 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13238 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13239 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13241 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
13242 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13243 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13244 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13245 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13246 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13248 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13249 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13250 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13251 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13254 o Minor features (geoip):
13255 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13258 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13259 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13260 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13263 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
13264 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
13265 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
13266 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
13267 clients are not affected.
13269 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
13270 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
13271 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
13272 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
13273 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
13274 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13277 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13280 o Minor features (future-proofing):
13281 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
13282 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13283 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13284 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13285 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13286 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13288 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13289 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13290 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13291 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13292 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13296 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
13297 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
13299 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
13300 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
13301 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
13302 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
13303 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
13304 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
13307 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
13308 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
13310 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
13311 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
13312 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
13313 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
13314 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
13316 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
13317 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13319 o Major features (directory authority, security):
13320 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
13321 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
13322 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
13324 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
13325 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
13326 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
13327 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
13328 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
13331 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
13332 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
13333 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
13334 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
13335 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
13336 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
13337 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
13338 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
13341 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
13342 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
13343 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
13344 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
13345 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
13346 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
13347 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
13348 15056; part of proposal 220.
13349 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
13350 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
13351 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
13352 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
13353 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
13354 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
13355 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
13356 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
13357 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
13360 o Major features (security):
13361 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13362 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13363 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13364 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13365 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13366 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13368 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
13369 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13370 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13371 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13372 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13373 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13374 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13375 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13376 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13377 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13378 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13380 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
13381 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13382 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13383 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13385 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
13386 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
13387 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
13388 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
13391 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
13392 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13393 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13395 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
13396 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
13397 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
13398 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
13399 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
13400 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
13401 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13403 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
13404 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13405 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13406 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13407 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13408 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13409 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13410 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
13411 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
13412 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
13413 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
13414 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
13415 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
13416 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
13417 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
13419 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
13420 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
13421 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
13422 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
13423 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13425 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
13426 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13427 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
13428 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
13429 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
13430 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
13431 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13433 o Minor feature (client):
13434 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
13435 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
13437 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
13438 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
13439 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
13440 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
13442 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
13443 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
13444 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
13446 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
13447 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
13448 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
13449 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
13450 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
13452 o Minor features (controller):
13453 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
13454 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
13455 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
13456 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
13459 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
13460 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
13461 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
13462 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
13463 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
13464 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
13465 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
13466 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
13467 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
13468 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
13470 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
13471 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
13472 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
13475 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13476 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
13477 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
13479 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
13480 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
13481 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13483 o Minor features (directory authority):
13484 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
13485 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
13486 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
13487 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
13488 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
13490 o Minor features (directory cache):
13491 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
13492 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
13495 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
13496 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
13497 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
13498 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
13500 o Minor features (entry guards):
13501 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
13502 break regression tests.
13503 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
13504 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
13506 o Minor features (fallback directories):
13507 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
13508 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
13509 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
13510 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
13511 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
13512 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
13513 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
13514 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
13515 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
13516 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
13517 Closes ticket 20539.
13518 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
13519 Closes ticket 20822.
13520 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
13522 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
13523 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
13524 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
13525 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
13526 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
13528 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
13529 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
13530 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
13531 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
13532 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
13535 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
13536 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
13537 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
13538 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
13540 o Minor features (geoip):
13541 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13544 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
13545 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13548 o Minor features (infrastructure):
13549 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
13550 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
13552 o Minor features (linting):
13553 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
13554 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
13556 o Minor features (logging):
13557 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
13558 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
13560 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
13561 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
13562 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
13564 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
13565 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
13567 o Minor features (relay):
13568 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
13569 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
13570 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
13571 Written by Michael Sonntag.
13573 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
13574 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
13575 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
13578 o Minor features (testing):
13579 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
13580 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
13581 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
13583 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
13584 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
13585 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
13586 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
13587 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
13588 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
13589 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13590 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13591 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13593 o Minor bugfix (logging):
13594 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
13595 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
13596 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
13597 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
13600 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
13601 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
13602 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
13603 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
13605 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13606 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
13607 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
13610 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
13611 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
13612 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
13614 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13615 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
13616 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
13617 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13618 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
13619 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
13620 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
13622 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13623 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
13624 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
13626 o Minor bugfixes (config):
13627 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
13628 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
13629 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
13630 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13632 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13633 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
13634 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13635 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
13636 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
13637 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
13639 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
13640 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
13641 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
13642 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
13643 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
13644 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
13645 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
13648 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
13649 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
13650 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
13651 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
13652 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
13654 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
13655 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
13656 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
13657 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13659 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
13660 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
13661 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
13662 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
13663 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13665 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
13666 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
13667 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
13668 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
13669 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13671 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
13672 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
13673 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
13674 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13675 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
13676 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
13677 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
13680 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
13681 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
13682 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
13683 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
13684 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13685 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
13686 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
13687 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
13688 on all recent tor versions.
13690 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
13691 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
13692 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
13694 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
13695 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
13696 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13698 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13699 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
13700 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
13701 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
13702 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13703 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
13704 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13705 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
13706 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13708 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13709 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
13710 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
13711 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
13712 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13713 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
13714 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
13715 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13716 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
13717 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
13718 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
13721 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13722 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
13723 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
13724 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13725 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
13726 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
13727 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
13728 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13729 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
13730 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
13731 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
13734 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
13735 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
13736 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13737 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
13738 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
13739 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
13740 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
13741 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
13743 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
13744 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
13745 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
13748 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13749 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
13750 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13752 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13753 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
13754 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
13755 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
13758 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
13759 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
13760 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
13761 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
13763 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
13764 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13766 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13767 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13768 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13770 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
13771 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
13772 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
13773 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
13775 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13776 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
13777 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
13778 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
13779 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13780 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
13781 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
13782 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13784 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
13785 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
13786 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
13787 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13788 Patch by "junglefowl".
13790 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13791 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
13792 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
13793 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
13794 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13796 o Minor bugfixes (util):
13797 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
13798 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
13799 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
13800 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
13802 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
13803 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
13804 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
13807 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
13808 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
13809 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
13810 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
13812 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13813 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
13814 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
13815 Closes ticket 19858.
13816 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
13817 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
13818 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
13819 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
13820 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
13821 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
13822 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
13823 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
13824 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
13825 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
13826 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
13827 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
13828 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
13829 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
13830 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
13831 redundant with the similar structures used in the
13832 channel abstraction.
13833 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
13834 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
13835 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
13836 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
13837 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
13838 replaced with code automatically generated by the
13841 o Documentation (formatting):
13842 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
13843 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
13845 o Documentation (man page):
13846 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
13847 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
13850 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
13851 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
13853 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
13854 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
13855 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
13857 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
13858 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
13859 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
13860 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13861 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
13862 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
13863 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
13864 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
13865 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
13866 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
13868 o Removed features:
13869 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
13870 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
13871 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
13873 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
13874 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
13875 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
13878 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
13879 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
13880 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
13882 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
13883 from "overcaffeinated".
13884 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
13885 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
13888 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
13889 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
13890 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
13891 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13892 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
13895 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
13896 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
13897 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13899 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13900 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13901 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13902 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13903 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13904 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13905 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13907 o Minor features (geoip):
13908 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13912 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
13913 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13914 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
13915 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13918 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
13919 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
13920 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13922 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13923 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13925 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13926 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13927 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13929 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13930 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13931 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13934 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13935 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13936 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13937 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13938 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13939 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13940 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13941 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13942 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13944 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13945 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13946 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13947 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13948 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13949 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13950 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13951 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13952 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13953 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13954 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13955 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13956 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13958 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13959 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13960 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13961 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13962 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13964 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13965 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13966 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13968 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13969 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13970 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13971 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13972 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13973 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13974 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13977 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13978 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13979 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13980 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13981 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13982 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13983 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13985 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13986 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13987 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13988 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13991 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13992 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13993 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13994 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13996 o Minor features (geoip):
13997 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14001 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
14002 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14003 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
14004 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14007 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14008 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14009 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14011 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14012 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14014 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14015 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14016 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14018 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14019 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14020 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14023 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14024 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14025 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14026 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14027 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14028 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14029 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14030 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14031 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14033 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14034 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14035 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14036 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14037 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14038 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14039 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14040 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14041 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14043 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14044 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14045 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14046 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14047 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14049 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14050 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14051 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14052 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14053 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14056 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14057 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14058 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14059 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14060 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14062 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14063 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14064 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14066 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14067 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14068 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14069 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14070 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14071 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14074 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14075 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14076 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14077 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14078 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14079 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14080 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14083 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14084 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14085 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14086 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14087 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14088 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14089 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14091 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14092 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14093 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14094 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14097 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14098 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14099 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14100 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14102 o Minor features (geoip):
14103 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14106 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14107 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14108 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14111 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
14112 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14113 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
14114 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14117 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14118 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
14119 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14121 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14122 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14124 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14125 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14126 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14128 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14129 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14130 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14133 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14134 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14135 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14136 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14137 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14138 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14139 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14140 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14141 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14143 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14144 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14145 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14146 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14147 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14148 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14149 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14150 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14151 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14153 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14154 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14155 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14156 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14157 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14159 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14160 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14161 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14162 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14163 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14166 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14167 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14168 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14169 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14170 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14172 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14173 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14174 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14176 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14177 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14178 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14179 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14180 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14181 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14184 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14185 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14186 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14187 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14188 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14189 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14190 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14193 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14194 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14195 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14196 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14197 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14198 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14199 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14201 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14202 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14203 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14204 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14207 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14208 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14209 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14210 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14212 o Minor features (geoip):
14213 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14216 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14217 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14218 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14220 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
14221 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14222 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14223 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14224 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14225 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14227 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14228 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14229 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14233 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
14234 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14235 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
14236 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14239 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
14240 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14241 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14243 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14244 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14246 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14247 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14248 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14250 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14251 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14252 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14255 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14256 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14257 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14258 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14259 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14260 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14261 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14262 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14263 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14265 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14266 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14267 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14268 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14269 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14270 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14271 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14272 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14273 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14275 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14276 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14277 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14278 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14279 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14282 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14283 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14284 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14285 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14286 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14288 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14289 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14290 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14292 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14293 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14294 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14295 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14296 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14297 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14300 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14301 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14302 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14303 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14304 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14305 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14306 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14309 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14310 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14311 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14312 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14313 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14314 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14315 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14317 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14318 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14319 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14320 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14323 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14324 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14325 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14326 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14328 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14329 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
14330 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
14331 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
14333 o Minor features (geoip):
14334 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14337 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14338 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14339 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14341 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14342 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14343 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14347 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
14348 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
14349 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
14350 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
14352 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
14353 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
14354 least January of 2020.
14356 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14357 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14358 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14359 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14362 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14363 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14364 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14365 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14366 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14367 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14368 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14370 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14371 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14372 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14373 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14374 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14375 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14376 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14378 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14379 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14380 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14382 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14383 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14384 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14386 o Minor features (geoip):
14387 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14390 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14391 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14392 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14394 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14395 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14397 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14398 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14399 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14401 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14402 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
14403 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
14404 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14405 Patch by "junglefowl".
14408 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
14409 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
14410 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
14411 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
14412 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
14413 version should upgrade.
14415 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
14416 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
14418 o Major bugfixes (security):
14419 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14420 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14421 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
14422 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14423 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14424 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14426 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
14427 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14428 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14429 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14430 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14431 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14432 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14433 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14434 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14435 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14436 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14438 o Minor features (geoip):
14439 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14442 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14443 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
14444 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
14445 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
14447 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
14448 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14451 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
14452 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
14453 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
14454 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
14455 become available for their systems.
14457 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
14460 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
14461 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
14463 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
14464 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14465 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14466 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14467 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14468 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14469 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14470 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14471 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14473 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
14474 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
14475 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
14476 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
14477 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
14479 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
14480 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14484 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
14485 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
14487 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
14488 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
14489 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
14490 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
14491 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
14492 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
14493 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
14494 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
14496 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
14498 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
14499 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
14500 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
14501 become available for their systems.
14503 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
14504 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
14506 o New system requirements:
14507 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
14508 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
14509 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
14510 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
14511 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
14512 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
14513 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
14514 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
14515 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
14516 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
14517 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
14519 o Deprecated features:
14520 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
14521 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
14522 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
14523 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
14524 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
14525 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
14526 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
14527 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
14528 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14529 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
14530 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14531 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14532 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
14533 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
14534 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
14535 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
14536 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
14537 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
14538 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
14539 and TransListenAddress.
14541 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
14542 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14543 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14544 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14545 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14546 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14547 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14548 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14549 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14551 o Major features (build, hardening):
14552 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
14553 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
14554 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
14555 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
14556 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
14557 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
14558 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
14559 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
14560 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
14562 o Major features (circuit building, security):
14563 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
14564 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
14565 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
14567 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
14568 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
14570 o Major features (compilation):
14571 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
14572 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
14573 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
14574 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
14576 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
14577 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
14578 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
14580 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
14581 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
14582 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
14583 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
14584 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
14585 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
14586 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
14587 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
14589 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
14590 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
14591 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
14592 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
14593 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
14594 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
14595 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
14597 o Major features (resource management):
14598 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
14599 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
14600 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
14601 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
14602 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
14603 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
14605 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
14606 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
14607 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
14608 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
14609 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
14610 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
14611 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
14612 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
14613 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
14614 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
14615 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
14617 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
14618 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
14619 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
14620 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
14621 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
14622 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
14623 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
14624 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
14625 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
14626 part of proposal 264.
14628 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
14629 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
14630 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
14631 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
14633 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
14634 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
14635 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
14636 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14637 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
14638 download, stop waiting for certificates.
14639 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
14640 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
14641 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
14643 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
14644 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
14645 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
14647 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
14648 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
14649 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
14650 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
14651 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
14652 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
14653 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
14655 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14656 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
14657 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
14658 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
14659 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
14660 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
14661 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
14662 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
14663 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
14664 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
14666 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
14667 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
14668 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
14669 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
14670 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
14671 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14673 o Minor features (port flags):
14674 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
14675 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
14676 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
14677 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
14678 18693; patch by "teor".
14680 o Minor features (build, hardening):
14681 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
14682 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
14683 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
14684 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
14685 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
14686 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
14687 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
14688 Closes ticket 18895.
14690 o Minor features (client, directory):
14691 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
14692 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
14693 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
14696 o Minor features (code safety):
14697 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
14698 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
14699 patch from "U+039b".
14701 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
14702 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
14705 o Minor features (config):
14706 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
14707 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
14709 o Minor features (controller):
14710 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
14711 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
14712 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
14713 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
14714 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
14715 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
14716 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
14717 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
14719 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
14720 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
14721 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
14724 o Minor features (directory authority):
14725 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
14726 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
14727 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
14728 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
14729 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
14730 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
14731 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
14732 Implements ticket 18624.
14733 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
14734 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
14735 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
14738 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
14739 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
14740 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
14741 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
14742 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
14744 o Minor features (hidden service):
14745 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
14746 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
14747 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
14750 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
14751 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
14752 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
14753 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
14754 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
14755 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
14756 Closes ticket 18365.
14757 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
14758 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
14759 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
14760 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
14762 o Minor features (logging):
14763 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
14764 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
14765 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
14766 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
14767 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
14768 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
14769 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
14770 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
14771 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
14772 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
14774 o Minor features (performance):
14775 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
14776 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
14777 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
14778 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
14779 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
14780 Closes ticket 18815.
14782 o Minor features (relay, usability):
14783 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
14784 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
14785 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
14786 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
14789 o Minor features (security, TLS):
14790 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
14791 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
14792 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
14793 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
14795 o Minor features (testing):
14796 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
14797 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
14798 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
14799 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
14800 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
14801 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
14802 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
14803 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
14804 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
14805 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
14807 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
14808 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
14809 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
14810 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
14811 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
14812 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
14813 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
14815 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
14816 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
14817 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
14818 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
14819 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
14820 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
14821 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
14822 assertion as a test failure.
14823 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
14825 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
14826 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
14827 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
14828 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
14829 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
14830 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
14831 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
14832 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
14833 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
14835 o Minor features (Tor2web):
14836 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
14837 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
14838 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
14840 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
14841 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
14842 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
14843 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
14844 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
14846 o Minor features (user interface):
14847 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
14848 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
14849 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
14850 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
14853 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
14854 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
14855 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
14856 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
14859 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
14860 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
14861 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
14862 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
14863 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
14864 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
14866 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14867 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
14868 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
14869 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14871 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
14872 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
14873 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
14874 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
14875 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
14877 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
14878 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
14879 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
14880 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
14881 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
14883 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
14884 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
14885 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
14886 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
14887 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14889 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
14890 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
14891 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14893 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
14894 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
14895 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14897 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
14898 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
14899 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
14902 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
14903 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
14904 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
14906 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14907 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
14908 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
14910 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
14911 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
14912 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14913 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
14914 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
14915 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
14916 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
14917 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
14919 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14920 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
14921 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
14922 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
14924 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14925 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
14926 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
14927 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14928 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
14929 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
14930 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
14931 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14932 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
14933 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
14935 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
14936 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
14937 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
14938 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14940 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
14941 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
14942 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
14943 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
14946 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
14947 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
14948 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
14949 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
14951 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
14952 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
14955 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14956 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
14957 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
14958 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
14960 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
14961 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
14963 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
14964 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
14965 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
14966 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
14967 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
14969 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
14970 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
14971 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14973 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
14974 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
14975 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
14977 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14978 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
14979 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
14980 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
14981 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
14982 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14984 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14985 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
14986 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
14988 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
14989 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14990 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
14991 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
14992 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
14993 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
14994 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
14996 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
14997 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
14998 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14999 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
15000 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15001 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
15002 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15003 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
15004 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
15005 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15006 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
15007 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
15008 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15009 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
15010 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
15013 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
15014 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
15015 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
15016 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
15017 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
15018 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
15020 o Minor bugfixes (options):
15021 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
15022 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
15024 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
15025 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
15026 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
15029 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15030 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
15031 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15032 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
15033 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
15034 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15036 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15037 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
15038 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
15039 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
15040 patch from "cypherpunks".
15041 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
15042 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
15043 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
15044 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15045 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
15046 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
15047 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
15048 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
15049 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15050 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
15051 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
15053 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
15054 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
15056 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
15057 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
15058 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15059 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
15060 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
15063 o Minor bugfixes (time):
15064 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
15065 bugfix on all released tor versions.
15066 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
15067 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
15068 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
15069 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15071 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
15072 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
15073 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
15074 19678. Patch by teor.
15076 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
15077 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
15078 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
15079 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
15080 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
15082 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
15083 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15085 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15086 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
15088 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
15089 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15090 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
15091 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
15094 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
15095 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
15096 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
15097 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
15098 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
15099 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
15100 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
15101 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
15102 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
15103 tickets 19287 and 19290.
15104 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
15105 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15106 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
15107 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
15108 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15109 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
15110 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
15111 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
15113 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
15114 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
15115 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
15116 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
15119 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
15120 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
15122 o Removed features:
15123 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
15124 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
15125 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
15126 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
15127 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
15128 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
15129 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
15132 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
15133 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
15134 command-line options to enable them.
15135 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
15136 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
15139 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
15140 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
15141 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
15142 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
15145 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15146 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
15147 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
15148 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
15149 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
15150 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
15153 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15154 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
15155 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
15158 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
15159 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
15160 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
15161 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
15163 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15164 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
15165 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
15166 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15169 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15170 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
15171 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
15172 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15175 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
15176 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
15177 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
15180 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15181 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
15182 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15184 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15185 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
15186 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
15188 o Minor features (geoip):
15189 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15193 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
15194 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
15195 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
15196 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
15197 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
15200 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15201 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15202 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15203 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15204 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15205 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15206 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15207 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15208 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15210 o Minor features (geoip):
15211 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15215 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
15216 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
15217 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
15218 who select public relays as their bridges.
15220 o Major bugfixes (crash):
15221 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
15222 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
15223 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
15224 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
15225 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15227 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
15228 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
15229 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
15230 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
15231 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
15234 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
15235 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
15236 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
15238 o Minor features (geoip):
15239 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15243 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
15244 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
15245 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
15246 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
15247 encouraged to upgrade.
15249 o Directory authority changes:
15250 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15251 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15253 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
15254 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
15255 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
15256 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
15257 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
15258 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15260 o Minor features (geoip):
15261 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15264 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15265 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
15266 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
15269 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15270 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
15271 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
15272 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
15275 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
15277 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
15279 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
15280 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
15281 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
15282 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
15283 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
15284 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15286 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
15288 o New system requirements:
15289 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
15290 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
15291 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
15293 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
15294 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
15295 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
15296 longer runs with, these versions.
15297 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
15298 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
15299 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
15300 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
15301 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
15303 o Directory authority changes:
15304 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15305 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15307 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15309 o Major features (directory system):
15310 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
15311 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
15312 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
15313 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
15314 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
15315 gsathya, and karsten.
15316 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
15317 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
15318 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
15319 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
15320 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
15322 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
15323 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
15324 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
15325 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
15326 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
15327 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
15328 mikeperry and teor.
15330 o Major features (security, Linux):
15331 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
15332 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
15333 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
15334 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
15335 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
15337 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
15338 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
15339 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
15340 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
15341 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
15342 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
15343 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
15345 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
15346 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
15349 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
15350 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15351 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15353 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
15354 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
15355 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
15356 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
15357 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
15359 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
15360 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
15361 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
15362 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15363 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
15364 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
15365 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
15366 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
15367 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
15368 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15370 o Major bugfixes (key management):
15371 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15372 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15373 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15374 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15375 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15376 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15379 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
15380 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15381 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15382 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15383 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15385 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
15386 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
15387 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
15388 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
15389 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
15390 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
15391 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
15392 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
15393 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15395 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
15396 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15397 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15398 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15399 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15401 o Major bugfixes (testing):
15402 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
15403 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15405 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
15406 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
15407 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
15408 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15410 o Minor features (accounting):
15411 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
15412 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
15413 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
15414 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
15416 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
15417 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15418 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15419 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15420 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
15421 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
15422 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
15425 o Minor features (build):
15426 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
15427 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
15428 Steven Chamberlain.
15429 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
15430 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
15431 patch from "cypherpunks".
15432 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
15433 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
15434 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
15435 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
15436 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
15437 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
15438 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15439 Patch from intrigeri.
15441 o Minor features (clients):
15442 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
15443 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
15444 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
15446 o Minor features (controller):
15447 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
15448 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
15449 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
15451 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
15452 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
15453 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
15454 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
15455 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
15457 o Minor features (crypto):
15458 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
15459 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
15461 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
15462 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
15463 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15464 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
15465 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
15467 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
15468 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
15469 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
15470 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
15472 o Minor features (directory downloads):
15473 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
15474 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
15475 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
15476 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
15477 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
15478 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
15479 17864; patch by teor.
15481 o Minor features (geoip):
15482 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15485 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
15486 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
15487 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
15488 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
15489 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
15491 o Minor features (IPv6):
15492 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
15493 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
15494 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
15495 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
15496 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
15497 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
15498 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
15499 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
15500 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
15501 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
15502 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
15503 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
15505 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
15506 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
15507 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
15508 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
15509 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
15510 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
15511 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
15512 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
15513 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
15514 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
15516 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15517 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
15518 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
15519 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
15520 while fixing 18548.
15522 o Minor features (logging):
15523 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
15524 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
15525 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
15526 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
15529 o Minor features (portability):
15530 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
15531 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
15533 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
15534 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
15535 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
15536 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
15537 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
15539 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
15540 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
15541 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
15542 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
15543 Resolves ticket 17951.
15545 o Minor features (replay cache):
15546 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
15547 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
15549 o Minor features (robustness):
15550 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
15551 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
15552 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
15554 o Minor features (security, clock):
15555 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
15556 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
15557 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
15558 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
15560 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
15561 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
15562 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
15563 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
15564 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
15565 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
15567 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
15568 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15569 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15570 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15572 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
15573 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
15574 Implements ticket 17026.
15575 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
15576 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
15577 Implements feature 17986.
15578 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
15579 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
15580 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
15582 o Minor features (security, RNG):
15583 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
15584 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
15585 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
15586 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
15587 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
15588 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
15589 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
15590 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
15591 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
15592 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
15595 o Minor features (security, win32):
15596 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
15597 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
15600 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
15601 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
15602 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
15603 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
15604 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
15605 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
15606 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
15609 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
15610 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
15611 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
15612 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
15613 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15614 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
15615 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
15616 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
15617 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
15618 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
15619 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15620 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
15621 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
15622 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15624 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
15625 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
15626 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
15627 from "unixninja92".
15629 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
15630 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
15631 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
15634 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
15635 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
15636 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15638 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15639 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
15640 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
15641 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15642 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
15643 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
15645 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
15646 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
15648 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
15649 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
15650 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15651 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
15652 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
15654 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
15655 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15656 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
15657 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
15658 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15659 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
15661 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
15662 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
15663 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
15664 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
15665 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15666 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
15667 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
15668 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15669 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
15670 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15671 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
15673 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
15674 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
15677 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
15678 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
15679 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
15680 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
15681 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15683 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15684 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
15685 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
15686 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
15687 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
15688 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15689 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
15690 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
15692 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
15694 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
15695 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
15696 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
15698 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
15699 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
15700 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15702 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15703 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
15704 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15706 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
15707 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
15708 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
15709 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
15711 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
15712 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
15713 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
15714 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
15715 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15717 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
15718 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
15719 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
15721 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
15722 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
15723 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
15724 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
15725 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
15726 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15727 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
15728 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
15729 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
15731 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
15732 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
15733 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
15734 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
15737 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
15738 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
15739 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
15740 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
15741 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
15743 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15744 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
15745 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
15746 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
15747 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
15748 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
15749 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
15750 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
15752 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
15753 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
15754 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
15755 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
15756 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
15757 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
15758 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
15759 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
15760 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
15763 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
15764 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
15765 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
15766 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15768 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
15769 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
15770 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
15772 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
15773 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
15774 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15776 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15777 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
15778 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
15779 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
15780 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
15781 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
15782 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
15783 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15784 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
15785 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
15786 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15787 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
15788 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
15789 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15790 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
15791 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15792 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
15793 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
15794 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
15796 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15797 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
15798 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
15799 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
15800 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
15802 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
15803 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15804 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
15805 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
15806 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
15807 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
15808 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
15809 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
15810 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
15811 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15812 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
15813 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
15816 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
15817 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
15818 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
15819 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
15821 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
15822 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15823 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
15826 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
15827 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
15828 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
15829 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15831 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
15832 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
15833 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
15834 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
15835 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
15836 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
15839 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
15840 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
15841 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
15842 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
15844 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15845 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
15846 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
15847 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
15848 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
15849 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
15850 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
15851 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
15852 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15854 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
15855 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
15856 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
15857 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
15858 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
15860 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
15861 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
15862 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
15863 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
15865 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15866 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
15867 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
15868 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15869 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
15870 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
15871 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
15872 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
15874 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
15875 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
15877 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
15878 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
15879 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
15882 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15883 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
15884 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
15885 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
15887 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
15888 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
15889 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15890 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
15891 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
15892 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
15893 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
15894 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
15895 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
15896 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
15897 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15898 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
15899 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
15900 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
15901 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
15902 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15904 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
15905 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
15906 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
15907 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
15908 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
15909 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
15910 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
15912 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
15913 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
15914 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
15915 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
15917 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15918 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
15919 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
15921 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
15922 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
15923 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
15924 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
15926 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
15927 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
15928 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
15929 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
15930 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
15931 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
15932 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
15933 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
15934 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
15935 17744. Patch from zerosion.
15936 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
15937 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
15938 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
15939 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
15940 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
15941 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
15942 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
15943 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
15944 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
15945 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
15946 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
15947 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
15951 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
15952 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
15953 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
15954 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
15955 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
15956 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
15957 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
15958 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
15959 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
15960 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
15961 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
15962 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
15964 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
15965 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
15967 o Removed features:
15968 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
15969 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
15970 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
15971 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
15972 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
15973 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
15974 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
15975 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
15978 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
15979 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
15980 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
15981 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
15982 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
15983 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
15984 portion of ticket 16831.
15985 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
15987 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
15988 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
15989 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
15990 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
15991 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
15993 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
15994 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
15995 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
15996 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
15999 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
16000 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
16001 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
16003 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
16004 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16005 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16006 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16007 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16008 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16011 o Minor features (geoip):
16012 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16015 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16016 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
16017 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
16018 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
16019 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16020 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16022 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16023 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
16024 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
16025 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
16026 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
16027 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
16028 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
16029 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16030 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
16031 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16034 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
16035 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
16036 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
16037 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
16038 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
16039 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
16040 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
16041 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
16042 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
16043 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
16044 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
16045 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
16046 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
16047 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
16048 that would make him proud.
16050 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
16052 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
16053 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
16054 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
16055 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
16056 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
16057 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
16058 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
16060 o New system requirements:
16061 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
16062 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
16064 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
16065 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
16066 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
16067 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
16068 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
16069 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
16070 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
16071 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
16072 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
16073 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
16074 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
16075 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
16076 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
16078 o Major features (controller):
16079 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
16080 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
16082 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
16083 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
16084 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
16085 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
16086 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
16087 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
16088 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
16090 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
16091 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
16092 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
16093 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
16094 key). Closes ticket 13642.
16095 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
16096 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
16097 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
16098 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
16099 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
16100 Implements part of ticket 12498.
16101 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
16102 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16103 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
16104 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
16105 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16106 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
16107 part of ticket 12498.
16108 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
16109 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
16111 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
16112 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
16113 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
16114 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
16115 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
16116 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
16117 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
16118 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
16119 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
16122 o Major features (ECC performance):
16123 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
16124 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
16126 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
16127 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
16128 available. Implements ticket 16535.
16129 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
16130 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
16131 Implements ticket 16467.
16132 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
16133 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
16134 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
16135 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
16137 o Major features (Hidden services):
16138 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
16139 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
16140 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
16141 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
16142 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
16143 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
16144 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
16145 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
16146 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
16147 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
16148 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
16149 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
16151 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
16152 introduction points, which used to change the number of
16153 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
16154 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
16156 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
16157 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
16158 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
16159 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
16160 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
16161 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
16163 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
16164 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16165 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
16166 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
16167 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
16168 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
16170 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16171 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16172 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16173 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16174 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16175 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16176 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16177 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16180 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16181 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16182 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16183 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16185 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
16186 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
16187 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
16188 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
16189 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
16190 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
16193 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
16194 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
16195 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
16197 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
16198 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
16199 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
16200 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
16201 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
16202 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
16204 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
16205 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16206 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16207 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16208 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16211 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16212 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16213 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16214 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16215 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16216 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16217 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16218 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16221 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
16222 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
16223 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
16224 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
16226 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
16227 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
16228 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
16229 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16230 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
16231 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
16232 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
16235 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
16236 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
16237 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
16238 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
16239 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
16240 own. Implements feature 15482.
16241 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
16242 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
16244 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
16245 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
16246 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
16247 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
16248 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
16250 o Minor features (command-line interface):
16251 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
16252 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16253 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
16254 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
16256 o Minor features (compilation):
16257 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
16258 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
16259 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
16260 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
16261 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
16263 o Minor features (control protocol):
16264 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
16265 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
16267 o Minor features (controller):
16268 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
16269 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
16270 present. Implements ticket 14840.
16271 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
16272 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
16273 Closes ticket 14845.
16274 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
16275 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
16276 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
16278 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16279 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
16280 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
16281 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
16282 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
16283 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
16285 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
16286 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16287 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16288 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16289 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
16290 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
16291 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16293 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
16294 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
16295 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
16296 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
16298 o Minor features (geoip):
16299 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16302 o Minor features (hidden services):
16303 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
16304 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
16305 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
16306 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
16308 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
16309 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
16310 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
16312 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
16313 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
16314 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
16315 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
16316 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
16317 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
16318 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
16319 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
16321 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
16322 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
16323 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
16324 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
16325 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
16326 Closes ticket 15745.
16328 o Minor features (logging):
16329 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
16330 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
16333 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
16334 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
16335 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
16336 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
16338 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
16339 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
16340 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
16341 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
16342 Resolves ticket 15435.
16344 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
16345 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
16346 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
16347 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16348 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
16349 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
16350 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
16351 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16352 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
16353 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
16354 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
16355 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
16356 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
16357 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
16358 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
16359 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
16360 Related to ticket 16069.
16362 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
16363 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
16364 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
16366 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
16367 stderr, not stdout.
16368 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
16369 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
16370 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
16373 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16374 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
16375 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
16376 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
16377 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
16379 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
16380 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16381 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16382 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16384 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
16385 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
16386 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
16387 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
16388 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
16389 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
16390 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
16391 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16393 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16394 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
16395 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
16396 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16398 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16399 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
16400 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
16402 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
16403 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
16404 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
16406 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
16407 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
16408 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
16409 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16411 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
16412 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16413 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16414 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16415 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16416 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16418 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16419 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16420 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16422 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
16423 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16425 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16426 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
16427 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16428 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
16429 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16430 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
16431 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
16432 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
16434 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
16435 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
16436 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
16437 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
16439 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
16440 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16441 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16443 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
16444 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
16445 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
16448 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16449 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
16450 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
16451 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
16452 recent enough Clang.
16454 o Minor bugfixes (network):
16455 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
16456 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
16457 unsuitable for public communications.
16459 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
16460 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
16461 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
16462 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
16464 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16465 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
16466 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16467 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
16468 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
16470 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
16471 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
16473 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16474 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
16475 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
16476 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
16477 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
16479 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
16480 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16481 from "cypherpunks".
16482 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
16483 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
16486 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
16487 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
16488 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
16489 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
16490 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
16492 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16493 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
16494 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
16495 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
16496 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
16497 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
16499 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
16500 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
16501 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
16502 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16504 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
16505 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
16506 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
16507 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
16508 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
16509 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
16510 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
16511 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
16513 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
16514 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16515 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16517 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16518 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
16519 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
16520 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
16521 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
16522 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
16523 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
16524 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
16525 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
16526 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
16527 function. Closes ticket 16763.
16528 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
16529 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
16531 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
16532 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
16533 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
16534 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
16535 haven't supported that in ages.
16536 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
16537 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
16538 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
16539 suite of other microdesc functions.
16540 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
16541 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
16542 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
16543 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
16544 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
16545 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
16546 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
16547 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
16548 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
16549 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
16550 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
16551 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
16552 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
16553 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
16554 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
16555 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
16557 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
16558 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
16562 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
16563 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
16564 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
16566 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
16567 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16568 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
16569 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
16570 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
16571 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
16572 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
16573 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
16574 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
16575 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
16577 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
16579 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
16580 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
16581 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
16582 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
16583 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
16584 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
16585 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
16586 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
16587 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
16588 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
16589 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
16590 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
16591 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
16593 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
16594 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16597 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
16598 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
16599 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
16600 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
16601 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
16602 Closes ticket 14922.
16603 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
16604 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
16605 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
16606 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
16607 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
16608 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
16609 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
16610 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
16611 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
16612 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
16613 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
16614 Closes ticket 13338.
16616 o Removed features:
16617 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
16618 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
16619 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
16620 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
16621 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
16622 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
16623 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
16624 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
16625 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
16626 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
16627 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
16628 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
16629 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
16630 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
16631 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
16634 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
16635 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
16636 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
16637 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
16638 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
16639 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
16640 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
16641 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
16642 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
16643 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
16644 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
16646 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
16647 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
16648 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
16649 Closes ticket 15817.
16650 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
16651 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
16652 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
16653 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
16654 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
16655 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
16656 network before we begin.
16657 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
16658 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
16659 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
16660 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
16661 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
16662 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
16664 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
16665 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
16667 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
16668 default as a part of "make check".
16669 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
16670 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
16671 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
16672 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
16673 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
16674 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
16675 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
16676 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
16677 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
16678 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
16679 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
16680 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
16681 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
16682 files. Closes ticket 15180.
16683 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
16684 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
16685 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
16686 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
16687 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
16688 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
16689 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
16690 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
16691 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
16692 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
16693 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
16694 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
16695 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
16696 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
16697 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
16698 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
16699 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
16701 - Set the severity correctly when testing
16702 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
16703 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
16704 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
16705 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
16707 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
16708 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
16709 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
16710 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
16711 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
16712 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
16714 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
16715 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16716 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16717 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16718 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16719 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16720 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16721 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16724 o Major bugfixes (stability):
16725 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16726 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16727 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16728 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16729 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16730 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16731 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16734 o Minor features (geoip):
16735 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16736 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16738 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
16739 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16740 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16741 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16742 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16743 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16745 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16746 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
16747 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
16748 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
16751 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
16752 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
16753 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
16754 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
16755 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
16757 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
16758 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16759 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
16760 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
16761 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16764 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
16765 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16766 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16767 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16768 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
16769 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
16770 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16772 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16773 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16774 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16775 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16777 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16778 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
16779 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
16780 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
16781 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16782 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16785 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16786 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16787 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16790 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
16791 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
16792 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
16793 authorities should upgrade.
16795 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16796 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16797 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16798 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16801 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16802 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16803 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16806 o Minor features (geoip):
16807 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16808 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16812 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
16813 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
16814 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
16815 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
16816 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16818 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
16819 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16821 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16822 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16823 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16824 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16825 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16826 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16827 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16829 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16830 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16831 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16832 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16833 Resolves ticket 15515.
16834 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
16835 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
16836 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
16840 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
16841 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
16842 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
16843 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
16844 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16846 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
16847 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16849 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16850 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16851 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16852 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16853 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16854 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16855 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16857 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16858 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16859 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16860 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16861 Resolves ticket 15515.
16864 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
16865 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
16866 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
16867 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
16868 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16870 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
16871 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16873 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16874 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16875 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16876 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16877 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16878 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16879 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16881 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16882 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16883 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16884 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16885 Resolves ticket 15515.
16888 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
16889 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
16891 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
16892 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
16893 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
16894 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
16895 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
16896 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
16897 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
16898 bugs should be addressed.
16900 o New compiler and system requirements:
16901 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
16902 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
16903 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
16904 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
16906 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
16907 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
16908 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
16909 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
16910 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
16911 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
16912 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
16913 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
16914 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
16916 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
16917 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
16918 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
16919 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
16920 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
16921 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
16922 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
16924 o Directory authority changes:
16925 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16926 closes ticket 14487.
16927 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16928 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16929 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16931 o Major features (bridges):
16932 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
16933 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
16934 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
16937 o Major features (changed defaults):
16938 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
16939 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
16940 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
16941 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
16942 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
16943 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
16945 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
16946 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
16947 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
16948 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
16951 o Major features (directory system):
16952 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
16953 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
16954 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
16955 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
16956 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
16957 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
16958 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
16959 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
16960 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
16961 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
16962 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
16963 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
16964 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
16965 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
16966 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
16967 227. Closes ticket 10395.
16969 o Major features (guards):
16970 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
16971 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
16972 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
16973 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
16974 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
16976 o Major features (hidden services):
16977 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
16978 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
16979 Closes ticket 13667.
16980 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
16981 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
16982 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
16983 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
16984 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
16985 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
16986 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
16987 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
16988 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
16989 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
16990 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
16992 o Major features (performance):
16993 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
16994 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
16995 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
16996 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
16997 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
16998 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
16999 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
17000 Implements ticket 9682.
17002 o Major features (relay):
17003 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
17004 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
17005 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
17006 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
17007 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
17008 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
17009 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
17010 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
17012 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
17013 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
17014 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
17015 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
17016 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
17017 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
17018 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
17021 o Major features (sample torrc):
17022 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
17023 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
17024 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
17025 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
17026 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
17027 generally useful "sample torrc".
17029 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
17030 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
17031 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
17032 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
17033 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
17034 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
17036 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
17037 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
17038 Implements ticket 11485.
17040 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
17041 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
17042 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
17043 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
17044 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
17045 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
17048 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
17049 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
17050 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
17053 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17054 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
17055 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17057 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
17058 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
17059 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
17060 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
17061 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17063 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17064 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17065 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17066 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17068 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
17069 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
17070 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
17073 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17074 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
17075 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
17076 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
17077 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
17078 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
17080 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17081 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
17082 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
17083 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
17085 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
17086 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
17087 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
17088 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
17089 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
17090 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
17091 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
17093 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17094 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
17095 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
17096 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
17097 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
17098 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17100 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
17101 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17102 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
17103 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17104 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17105 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17106 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17107 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17109 o Minor features (build):
17110 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
17111 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
17112 Resolves ticket 13037.
17114 o Minor features (client):
17115 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
17116 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
17117 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
17118 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
17120 o Minor features (client):
17121 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
17122 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
17123 Resolves ticket 13315.
17125 o Minor features (controller):
17126 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
17127 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
17129 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
17130 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
17132 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
17133 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
17134 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
17135 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17136 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17137 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17138 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
17139 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
17140 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
17142 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
17143 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
17144 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
17145 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
17146 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
17147 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
17148 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
17149 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
17150 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
17151 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
17153 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17154 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
17155 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
17156 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
17157 argument more than once.
17158 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
17159 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
17160 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
17161 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
17162 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
17163 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
17165 o Minor features (geoip):
17166 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17167 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17170 o Minor features (guard nodes):
17171 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
17172 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
17173 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
17175 o Minor features (heartbeat):
17176 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
17177 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
17178 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
17179 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
17181 o Minor features (hidden service):
17182 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
17183 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
17184 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
17185 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
17186 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
17187 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
17188 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
17189 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
17190 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
17191 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
17192 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
17193 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
17194 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
17195 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
17197 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
17198 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
17199 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
17201 o Minor features (interface):
17202 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
17203 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
17204 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
17206 o Minor features (logging):
17207 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
17208 Resolves ticket 6852.
17209 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
17210 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
17211 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
17213 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
17214 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
17215 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
17216 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
17217 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
17218 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
17219 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
17220 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
17221 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
17222 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
17223 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
17224 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
17227 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
17228 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
17229 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
17230 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
17232 o Minor features (relay):
17233 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
17234 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
17235 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
17237 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
17238 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
17239 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
17240 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
17241 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
17242 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
17243 document. Implements feature 10427.
17245 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
17246 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
17247 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
17248 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
17250 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
17251 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
17252 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
17253 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
17254 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
17255 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
17257 o Minor features (stability):
17258 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
17259 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
17262 o Minor features (systemd):
17263 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
17264 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
17265 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
17266 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17267 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
17268 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17270 o Minor features (testing networks):
17271 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
17272 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
17273 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
17274 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
17275 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
17277 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
17278 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
17279 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
17280 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
17281 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
17282 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
17284 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
17285 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
17286 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
17287 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
17288 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
17290 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
17291 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
17292 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
17293 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
17294 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
17296 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
17297 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
17298 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
17299 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
17300 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
17303 o Minor features (validation):
17304 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
17305 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
17306 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
17307 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
17308 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
17309 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
17310 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
17311 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
17312 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
17313 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
17314 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
17317 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
17318 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
17319 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
17320 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17322 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
17323 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
17324 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
17325 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17327 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
17328 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
17329 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
17331 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
17332 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
17333 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
17335 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
17336 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17337 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
17338 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
17339 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17340 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
17341 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17343 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
17344 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
17345 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
17346 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17347 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
17348 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
17349 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
17350 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
17351 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
17353 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17354 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
17355 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
17356 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
17357 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
17358 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17359 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
17360 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
17361 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
17363 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17364 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17365 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17366 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17367 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17368 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17369 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
17370 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
17372 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
17373 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
17374 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
17377 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
17378 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
17379 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
17380 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
17381 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17383 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
17384 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
17385 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
17386 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17387 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
17388 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
17389 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
17390 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17392 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
17393 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
17394 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
17395 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
17396 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17398 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
17399 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
17400 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
17401 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
17402 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
17404 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
17405 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
17406 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17408 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
17409 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
17410 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
17411 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
17412 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
17414 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
17415 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
17416 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
17418 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17419 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
17421 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
17422 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
17423 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
17424 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
17426 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
17427 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
17429 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
17430 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
17431 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
17432 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
17433 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
17434 Addresses ticket 14188.
17435 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
17436 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
17437 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
17438 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
17439 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
17440 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
17441 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
17442 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17443 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
17444 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
17445 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
17448 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17449 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
17450 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
17451 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
17452 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
17453 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17455 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17456 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
17457 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
17458 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
17459 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
17461 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17462 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
17463 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
17464 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
17465 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17466 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
17467 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
17468 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17469 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
17470 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17471 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
17472 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
17473 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17474 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
17475 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
17476 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17478 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
17479 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
17480 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
17481 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17482 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
17483 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
17484 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
17485 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
17488 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
17489 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
17490 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
17491 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
17492 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
17493 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
17494 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
17495 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
17496 state, and key files.
17497 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
17498 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
17501 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17502 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
17503 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
17504 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
17505 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17506 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
17507 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
17508 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17509 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
17510 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
17511 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
17512 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
17513 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
17514 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
17515 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
17516 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
17517 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
17518 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
17521 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17522 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
17523 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
17524 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
17525 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
17526 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
17527 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
17528 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
17529 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
17530 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17532 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17533 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
17534 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17535 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
17536 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
17537 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
17539 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
17540 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17542 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
17543 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
17544 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
17545 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
17546 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17548 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
17549 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
17550 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
17551 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
17552 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
17553 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17555 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17556 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
17557 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
17559 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
17560 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
17561 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
17563 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
17564 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
17565 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
17566 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
17567 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
17569 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
17570 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
17571 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
17574 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17575 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
17576 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
17577 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
17578 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
17581 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
17582 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
17583 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
17584 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
17587 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
17588 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
17589 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
17592 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17593 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
17594 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17596 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
17597 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
17598 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
17599 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
17600 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
17603 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
17604 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
17605 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17606 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
17607 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
17608 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
17610 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
17611 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
17612 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
17613 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
17614 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
17615 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
17617 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
17618 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
17619 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
17620 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
17621 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17622 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
17623 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
17624 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
17625 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
17626 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
17627 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
17628 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
17629 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
17630 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
17631 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
17632 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
17633 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
17634 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
17635 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
17636 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17637 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
17638 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
17639 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
17640 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
17641 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
17642 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
17643 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
17644 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17645 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
17646 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
17647 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
17648 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
17650 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
17651 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
17652 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
17653 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
17654 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17656 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17657 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
17658 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
17659 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
17660 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
17661 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17662 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
17663 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
17664 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17666 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
17667 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
17668 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
17670 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
17671 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
17672 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
17675 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
17676 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
17677 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
17678 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
17681 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
17682 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
17683 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17685 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17686 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
17687 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
17689 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
17690 Resolves ticket 12205.
17691 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
17692 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
17693 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
17694 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
17696 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
17697 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
17698 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
17700 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
17701 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
17703 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
17704 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
17705 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
17706 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
17707 or_options_t structure.
17708 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
17709 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
17710 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
17711 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
17712 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
17713 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
17714 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
17715 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
17717 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
17718 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
17720 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
17722 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
17723 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
17724 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
17725 with a function instead.
17726 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
17727 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
17728 Closes ticket 13172.
17729 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
17730 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
17731 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
17732 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
17733 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
17734 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
17735 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
17736 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
17737 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
17738 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
17739 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
17740 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
17744 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
17745 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
17746 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
17747 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
17749 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
17750 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
17751 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
17752 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
17753 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
17754 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
17755 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
17756 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
17757 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
17758 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
17759 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
17760 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
17761 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
17762 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
17763 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
17764 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
17765 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
17766 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
17768 o Distribution (systemd):
17769 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
17770 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
17771 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
17772 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
17773 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
17775 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
17776 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
17778 o Downgraded warnings:
17779 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
17780 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
17783 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
17784 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
17785 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
17788 o Removed features (directory authorities):
17789 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
17790 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
17791 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
17792 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
17793 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
17794 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
17795 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
17796 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
17797 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
17799 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
17800 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
17801 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
17802 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
17805 o Removed features:
17806 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
17807 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
17808 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
17809 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
17810 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
17812 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
17813 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
17814 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
17815 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
17816 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
17817 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
17818 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
17819 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
17820 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
17822 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
17823 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
17825 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
17826 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
17827 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
17828 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
17829 anymore, and ignore it.
17831 o Removed platform support:
17832 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
17833 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
17834 Closes ticket 11446.
17836 o Testing (test-network.sh):
17837 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
17838 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
17840 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
17842 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
17843 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
17844 Partially implements ticket 13161.
17847 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
17848 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
17849 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
17850 (existing behavior).
17851 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
17852 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
17853 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
17854 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
17855 Closes ticket 14107.
17856 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
17857 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17858 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
17859 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
17861 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
17862 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
17863 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
17864 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
17865 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
17866 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
17868 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
17870 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
17871 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
17872 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
17873 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17874 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
17875 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
17876 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
17877 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
17878 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
17879 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
17880 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
17881 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
17883 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
17884 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
17885 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
17887 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
17888 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
17890 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
17891 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
17892 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
17894 o Directory authority changes:
17895 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17896 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17897 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17898 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17899 closes ticket 14487.
17901 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
17902 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
17903 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
17906 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
17907 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17908 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
17909 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17910 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
17911 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17912 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17913 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17915 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17916 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17917 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17918 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17920 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17921 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
17922 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
17923 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
17925 o Minor features (controller):
17926 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17927 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17928 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17930 o Minor features (geoip):
17931 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17932 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17935 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17936 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17937 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17938 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17939 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17940 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17942 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17943 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
17944 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
17945 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
17947 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17948 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
17949 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
17950 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
17951 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17952 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
17953 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
17954 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17956 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17957 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
17958 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17960 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
17961 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
17962 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
17963 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
17964 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
17968 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
17969 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
17970 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
17973 o Directory authority changes:
17974 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17975 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17976 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17977 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17978 closes ticket 14487.
17980 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
17981 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17982 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17983 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17985 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
17986 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17987 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
17988 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17989 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
17990 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17991 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17992 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17994 o Minor features (geoip):
17995 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17996 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17999 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
18000 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18002 It adds several new security features, including improved
18003 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
18004 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
18005 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
18006 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
18007 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
18008 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
18009 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
18010 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
18011 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
18012 and features mentioned below.
18014 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
18015 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
18017 o Major features (security):
18018 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
18019 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
18020 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
18021 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
18022 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
18023 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
18024 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
18025 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18026 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18027 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18029 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
18030 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
18031 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
18032 streams attached to each circuit.
18034 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
18035 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
18036 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
18037 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
18038 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
18039 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
18040 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
18041 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
18042 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
18043 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
18044 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
18045 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
18046 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
18048 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
18049 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
18050 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
18051 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
18053 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
18054 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
18055 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
18056 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
18057 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
18058 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
18060 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
18061 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
18062 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
18063 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
18064 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
18065 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
18066 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
18067 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
18070 o Major features (controller):
18071 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
18072 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
18073 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
18074 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
18075 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
18076 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
18078 o Major features (relay performance):
18079 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
18080 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
18081 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
18082 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
18083 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
18084 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
18085 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
18086 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
18087 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
18088 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
18090 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
18091 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
18092 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
18093 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
18094 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
18095 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
18096 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
18097 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
18098 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
18099 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
18101 o Major features (testing networks):
18102 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
18103 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
18104 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
18105 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
18106 Implements ticket 8530.
18108 o Major features (other):
18109 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
18110 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
18111 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
18112 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
18113 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
18114 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
18116 o Deprecated versions:
18117 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
18118 attention for some while.
18120 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
18121 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
18122 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
18124 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
18125 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
18126 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
18127 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
18128 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
18129 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
18130 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
18131 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
18132 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
18133 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
18134 router's identity is not forgeable.
18136 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
18137 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18138 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
18139 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18141 o Major bugfixes (client):
18142 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
18143 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
18144 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
18145 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
18146 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
18147 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
18148 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
18149 to build circuits".
18151 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
18152 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
18153 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
18154 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
18157 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
18158 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
18159 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
18160 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
18161 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
18162 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
18163 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18165 o Major bugfixes (relay):
18166 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
18167 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18168 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18169 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
18170 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
18171 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
18172 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18173 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
18174 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
18175 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
18176 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
18177 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
18178 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
18179 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
18180 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
18181 bugfix on every version of Tor.
18183 o Minor features (security):
18184 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
18185 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
18186 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
18187 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
18189 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
18190 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
18191 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
18192 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
18193 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
18194 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
18195 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
18197 o Minor features (security, memory management):
18198 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
18199 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
18200 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
18201 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
18202 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
18203 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
18205 o Minor features (bridge client):
18206 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
18207 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
18208 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
18210 o Minor features (bridge):
18211 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
18212 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
18214 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
18215 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
18216 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
18217 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
18218 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
18219 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
18220 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
18221 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
18222 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
18223 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
18224 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
18225 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
18226 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
18227 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
18228 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
18230 o Minor features (build):
18231 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
18232 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
18233 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
18234 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
18235 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
18236 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
18237 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
18238 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
18239 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
18240 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
18241 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
18242 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
18243 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
18244 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
18245 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
18248 o Minor features (client):
18249 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
18250 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
18251 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
18252 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
18254 o Minor features (config options and command line):
18255 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
18256 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
18257 Implements ticket 10060.
18258 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
18259 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
18260 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
18262 o Minor features (config options):
18263 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
18264 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
18265 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
18266 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
18267 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
18268 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
18269 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
18270 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
18271 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
18272 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
18273 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
18274 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
18275 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
18276 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
18277 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
18278 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
18279 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
18282 o Minor features (controller):
18283 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
18284 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
18286 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
18287 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
18288 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
18289 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
18290 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
18291 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
18292 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
18293 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
18295 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
18296 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
18297 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
18299 o Minor features (diagnostic):
18300 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
18301 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
18302 help diagnose bug 7164.
18303 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
18304 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
18305 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
18306 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
18307 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
18309 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
18310 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
18311 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
18312 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
18313 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
18314 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
18315 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
18316 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
18317 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
18318 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
18319 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
18320 still referenced by a live node_t object.
18321 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
18322 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
18323 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
18325 o Minor features (geoip):
18326 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18329 o Minor features (interface):
18330 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
18331 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
18332 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
18333 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
18335 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
18336 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
18337 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
18339 o Minor features (log messages):
18340 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
18341 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
18342 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
18343 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
18344 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
18345 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
18346 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
18347 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
18349 o Minor features (log verbosity):
18350 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
18351 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
18352 Resolves ticket 5286.
18353 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
18354 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
18355 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
18356 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
18357 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
18358 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
18360 o Minor features (performance):
18361 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
18362 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
18363 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
18364 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
18365 Closes ticket 8109.
18367 o Minor features (relay):
18368 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
18369 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
18370 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
18372 o Minor features (testing):
18373 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
18374 the unit test scripts.
18375 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
18376 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
18377 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
18378 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
18380 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
18381 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
18382 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
18383 10267; patch from "yurivict".
18384 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
18385 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
18386 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
18387 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
18388 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
18389 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
18391 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
18392 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
18393 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
18394 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18396 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18397 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
18398 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
18399 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
18400 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
18401 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
18402 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
18403 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
18404 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
18405 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
18407 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
18408 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
18409 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
18411 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
18412 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
18413 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
18414 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
18415 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18417 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18418 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
18419 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
18420 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
18421 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18422 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
18423 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
18424 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
18425 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18426 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
18427 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
18428 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
18430 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
18431 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
18432 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
18433 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
18434 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
18435 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18436 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
18437 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
18438 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18439 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
18440 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
18441 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18443 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
18444 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
18445 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
18446 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
18448 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
18449 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
18450 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
18451 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
18454 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
18455 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
18456 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
18457 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18458 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
18459 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
18462 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
18463 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
18464 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
18465 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
18466 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
18468 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
18469 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
18470 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
18473 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
18474 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
18475 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
18476 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
18477 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
18478 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
18479 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
18480 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
18481 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
18482 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
18484 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
18485 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
18486 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
18487 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
18488 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
18490 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
18491 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
18493 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18494 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
18495 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
18496 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
18497 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
18498 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
18499 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
18500 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
18501 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
18502 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18503 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
18504 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
18505 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
18507 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
18508 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
18509 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
18510 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
18511 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
18512 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
18513 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
18514 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
18515 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
18516 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
18517 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
18518 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
18519 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
18521 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
18522 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
18523 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
18525 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
18526 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
18527 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
18528 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
18529 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
18530 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
18532 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
18533 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
18534 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
18535 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18536 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
18537 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
18538 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
18539 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
18540 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
18541 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18543 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18544 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
18545 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18547 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
18548 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
18549 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
18550 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
18551 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
18553 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
18554 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
18555 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
18556 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18557 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
18558 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
18559 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
18560 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18561 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
18562 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
18563 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
18564 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
18565 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
18566 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
18568 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18569 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
18570 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
18571 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
18572 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18573 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
18574 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
18575 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
18576 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
18578 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
18579 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
18580 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
18581 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
18582 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
18583 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
18584 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
18586 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
18587 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
18589 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
18590 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
18591 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
18592 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
18594 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
18595 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
18596 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
18597 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18598 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
18599 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
18600 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
18601 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
18602 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
18603 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
18604 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
18605 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
18606 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
18607 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
18608 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
18609 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
18610 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
18612 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
18613 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
18614 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
18615 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
18616 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
18617 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
18618 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
18619 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
18622 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
18623 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
18624 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
18625 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
18626 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
18627 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
18628 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18629 Reported by "mr-4".
18630 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
18631 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
18632 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
18633 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
18635 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
18636 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
18637 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
18638 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
18639 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
18640 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
18641 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
18642 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
18643 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
18644 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
18645 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
18646 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
18648 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
18649 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
18650 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
18652 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
18653 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
18654 early. Fixes bug 10081.
18656 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18657 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
18658 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
18659 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
18662 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
18663 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
18664 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
18665 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
18668 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
18669 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
18670 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
18671 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
18673 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
18674 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
18675 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
18677 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
18678 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
18679 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
18680 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
18681 versions. Found by "skruffy".
18682 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
18683 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
18684 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
18687 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
18688 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
18689 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18690 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
18691 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
18692 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
18693 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
18694 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
18695 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18696 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
18697 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
18699 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18700 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
18701 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
18702 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
18703 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
18705 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
18706 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
18707 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
18708 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
18711 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
18712 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
18713 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
18714 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
18715 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
18716 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
18717 should never have affected anyone in practice.
18719 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18720 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
18721 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
18722 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
18723 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
18724 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
18725 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
18726 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
18727 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
18728 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
18729 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
18730 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
18731 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
18732 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
18733 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
18734 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
18735 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
18736 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
18737 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
18738 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
18739 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
18740 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
18741 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
18742 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
18744 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
18745 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
18746 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
18747 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
18748 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
18749 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
18750 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
18751 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
18752 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
18754 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
18755 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
18758 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
18759 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
18761 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
18763 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
18764 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
18765 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
18766 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
18767 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
18768 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
18770 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
18771 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
18773 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
18774 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
18775 caches don't get confused.
18776 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
18777 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18778 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
18779 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
18780 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
18781 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
18782 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
18783 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
18784 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
18785 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
18786 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
18787 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
18788 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
18789 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
18790 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18791 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
18792 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
18793 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18796 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
18797 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
18798 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
18799 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
18800 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
18802 o Removed code and features:
18803 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
18804 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
18805 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
18806 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
18807 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
18808 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
18810 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
18811 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
18812 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
18813 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
18814 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
18815 part of a fix for bug 10841.
18816 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
18817 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
18818 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
18819 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
18820 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
18821 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
18823 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
18824 Resolves ticket 11070.
18825 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
18826 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
18827 the rest of bug 10841.
18828 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
18829 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
18830 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
18831 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
18833 o Test infrastructure:
18834 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
18835 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
18836 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
18837 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
18838 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
18839 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
18840 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
18841 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
18842 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
18843 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
18845 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
18846 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
18847 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
18848 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
18849 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
18850 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
18851 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
18852 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
18853 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
18854 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
18855 invoking the other functions it calls.
18858 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
18859 Patch from Dana Koch.
18860 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
18861 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
18862 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
18863 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
18865 o Distribution (systemd):
18866 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
18867 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
18868 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
18869 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
18870 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
18871 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
18872 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
18873 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
18874 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
18875 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
18876 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
18877 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
18878 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18882 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
18883 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
18884 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
18885 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
18886 (which does affect Tor).
18888 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
18889 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18890 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18891 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18893 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
18894 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18895 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
18896 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18899 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
18900 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
18901 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
18902 the directory authorities.
18905 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
18906 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
18907 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
18908 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
18909 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
18910 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
18911 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
18912 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
18913 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
18914 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
18915 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
18916 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18918 o Directory authority changes:
18919 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
18921 o Minor features (geoip):
18922 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18926 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
18927 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
18928 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
18929 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
18932 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
18933 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
18934 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
18935 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
18936 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
18937 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
18938 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
18939 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
18940 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
18941 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
18944 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
18945 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
18946 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
18947 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
18948 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
18949 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
18950 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
18951 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
18955 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
18956 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
18957 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
18958 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
18959 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
18960 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
18961 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
18962 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
18963 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18964 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
18965 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
18966 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
18967 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
18970 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18974 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
18975 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
18976 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
18977 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
18978 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
18979 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
18980 of RAM, and several others.
18982 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18983 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
18984 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
18985 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
18986 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
18988 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
18989 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
18990 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
18991 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
18994 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18995 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
18996 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
18997 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
18998 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
18999 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
19000 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19001 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
19002 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
19003 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
19004 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
19005 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
19006 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
19007 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
19008 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
19009 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
19010 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
19011 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
19012 Resolves ticket 11438.
19014 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
19015 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
19016 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
19017 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
19018 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
19019 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19021 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19022 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
19023 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19025 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19026 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
19027 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19029 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19030 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
19031 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
19032 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19034 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19035 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
19036 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
19038 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19039 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
19040 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19043 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
19044 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
19045 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
19046 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
19049 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19050 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
19051 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
19052 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
19054 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19055 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
19056 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
19057 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
19059 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19060 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
19061 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
19065 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
19066 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
19067 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
19068 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
19070 o Major features (client security):
19071 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19072 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19073 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19074 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19075 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19076 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
19079 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
19080 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
19081 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
19082 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19084 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19085 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
19086 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
19087 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
19088 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
19091 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
19092 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
19094 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
19095 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
19096 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
19097 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
19098 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
19099 GeoLite2 Country database.
19102 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
19103 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
19104 bugfix on every released Tor.
19105 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
19106 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
19107 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
19108 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19109 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
19110 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
19111 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19112 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
19113 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
19114 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19115 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
19116 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
19117 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19118 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
19119 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19121 o Documentation fixes:
19122 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
19123 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19126 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
19127 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
19128 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
19129 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
19130 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
19131 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
19132 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
19134 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
19135 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
19138 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
19139 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
19140 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
19141 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
19142 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
19143 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
19144 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
19145 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
19147 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
19148 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19149 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
19150 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
19151 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
19152 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
19155 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
19156 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19157 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
19158 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
19159 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
19162 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
19163 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
19164 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
19165 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
19166 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
19167 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
19168 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
19169 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
19171 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
19172 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
19173 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
19174 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
19175 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
19176 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
19177 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
19178 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
19179 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
19180 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
19181 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
19182 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
19183 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
19184 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
19185 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
19186 security, and privacy fixes.
19188 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
19189 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
19190 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
19191 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
19192 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
19193 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
19194 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
19195 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
19196 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
19197 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
19198 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
19200 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
19201 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
19202 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
19204 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
19206 o Major features (better link encryption):
19207 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
19208 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
19209 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
19210 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
19211 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
19212 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
19215 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
19216 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
19217 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
19218 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
19220 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
19222 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
19223 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
19224 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
19225 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
19226 them to solve bug 6033.)
19228 o Major features (relay performance):
19229 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
19230 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
19231 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
19232 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
19233 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
19234 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
19235 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
19236 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
19237 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
19238 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
19239 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
19240 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
19241 Implements ticket 9574.
19243 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
19244 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
19245 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
19246 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
19247 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
19248 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
19249 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
19250 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
19251 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
19252 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
19253 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
19254 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
19255 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
19256 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
19257 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
19258 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
19260 o Major features (use of guards):
19261 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
19262 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
19263 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
19264 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
19265 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
19266 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
19267 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
19268 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
19269 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
19270 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
19271 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
19272 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
19273 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
19274 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19276 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
19277 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
19278 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
19279 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
19281 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
19282 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
19285 o Major features (geoip database):
19286 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
19287 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
19288 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
19289 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
19290 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
19291 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
19293 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
19295 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19297 o Major features (IPv6):
19298 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
19299 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
19300 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
19301 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
19302 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
19303 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
19304 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
19305 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
19306 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
19307 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
19308 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
19309 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
19310 revised in proposal 208.
19311 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
19312 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
19313 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
19315 o Major features (directory authorities):
19316 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
19317 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
19319 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
19320 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
19321 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
19322 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
19323 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
19324 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
19325 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
19326 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
19327 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
19328 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
19329 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
19331 o Major features (build and portability):
19332 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
19333 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
19334 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
19335 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
19336 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
19337 fixes by Jim Meyering.
19338 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
19339 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
19340 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
19341 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
19342 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
19343 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
19345 o Security features:
19346 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
19347 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
19348 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
19349 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
19350 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
19351 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
19352 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
19353 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
19354 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
19357 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19358 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
19359 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
19360 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
19361 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
19362 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
19363 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
19364 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
19365 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
19366 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
19367 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
19368 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
19369 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
19370 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
19371 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
19372 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
19373 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
19374 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19376 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
19377 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
19378 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
19379 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
19381 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
19382 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
19383 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
19385 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
19386 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
19387 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19388 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
19389 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
19390 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19391 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
19392 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
19393 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
19395 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
19396 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19398 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
19399 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
19400 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
19401 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
19402 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
19403 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
19404 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
19405 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
19406 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
19407 last time we raised it).
19408 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
19409 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
19410 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
19412 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
19413 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
19414 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
19415 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
19416 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
19417 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
19418 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
19419 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19420 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
19421 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
19422 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
19423 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
19424 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19426 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
19427 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
19428 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
19429 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
19430 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
19431 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
19432 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
19433 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
19434 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19435 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
19436 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
19437 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
19438 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
19440 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
19441 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
19442 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
19443 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
19444 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
19445 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
19446 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
19447 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
19448 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19450 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
19451 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
19452 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
19453 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
19454 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
19455 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
19456 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
19457 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
19458 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
19459 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
19460 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
19461 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
19462 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
19463 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
19464 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
19465 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
19466 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
19469 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
19470 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
19471 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
19472 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19474 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
19475 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
19476 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
19477 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
19479 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
19480 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
19481 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
19482 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
19483 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
19484 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
19487 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
19488 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
19489 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
19490 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
19491 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
19492 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
19493 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19495 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
19496 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
19497 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
19498 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19500 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
19501 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
19502 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
19503 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
19504 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
19505 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
19506 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
19507 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
19509 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
19510 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
19511 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
19513 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
19514 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
19515 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19517 o Internal abstraction features:
19518 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
19519 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
19520 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
19521 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
19522 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
19523 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
19524 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
19525 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
19526 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
19527 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
19528 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
19529 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
19530 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
19531 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
19532 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
19533 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
19534 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
19536 o New build requirements:
19537 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
19538 strongly recommended.
19539 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
19540 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
19541 from a source distribution.)
19543 o Minor features (protocol):
19544 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
19545 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
19547 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
19548 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
19549 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
19550 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
19551 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
19552 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
19553 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
19554 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
19555 closes ticket 7199.
19556 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
19557 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
19559 o Minor features (security):
19560 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
19561 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
19562 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
19563 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
19564 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
19565 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
19566 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
19567 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
19568 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
19570 o Minor features (control protocol):
19571 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
19573 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
19574 Implements ticket 4971.
19575 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
19576 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
19577 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
19578 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
19579 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
19581 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
19582 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
19584 o Minor features (path selection):
19585 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
19586 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
19587 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
19588 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
19589 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
19590 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
19591 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
19592 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
19593 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
19594 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
19595 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
19596 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
19597 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
19598 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
19600 o Minor features (hidden services):
19601 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
19602 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
19603 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
19604 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
19605 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
19606 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
19607 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
19608 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
19609 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
19610 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
19611 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
19612 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
19613 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
19615 o Minor features (clients):
19616 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
19617 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
19618 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
19619 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
19620 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
19621 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
19622 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
19623 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
19624 the ORPort and the DirPort.
19626 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
19627 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
19628 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
19629 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
19630 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
19631 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
19632 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
19633 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
19634 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
19635 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
19636 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
19637 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
19638 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
19639 Implements part of proposal 222.
19641 o Minor features (bridges):
19642 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
19643 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
19644 bugs 1913 and 1992.
19645 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
19646 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
19647 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
19648 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
19649 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
19650 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
19651 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
19652 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
19653 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
19654 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
19655 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
19657 o Minor features (relays):
19658 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
19659 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
19661 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
19662 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
19663 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
19664 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
19665 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
19666 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
19667 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
19668 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
19669 connect to the wrong addresses.
19670 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
19671 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
19672 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
19673 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
19676 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
19677 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
19678 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
19679 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
19680 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
19681 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
19683 o Minor features (directory authorities):
19684 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
19685 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
19686 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
19688 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
19689 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
19690 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
19691 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
19692 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
19693 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
19695 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
19696 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
19697 Implements ticket 8151.
19698 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
19699 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
19700 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
19701 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
19703 o Minor features (path bias detection):
19704 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
19705 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
19706 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
19707 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
19708 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
19709 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
19710 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
19711 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
19712 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
19713 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
19714 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
19715 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
19716 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
19717 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
19718 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
19719 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
19720 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
19721 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
19722 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
19723 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
19724 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
19725 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
19726 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
19727 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
19728 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
19729 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
19730 detection capability loss.
19732 o Minor features (build):
19733 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
19734 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
19735 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
19737 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
19738 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
19739 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
19741 o Build improvements (autotools):
19742 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
19743 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
19744 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
19746 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
19747 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
19748 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
19749 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
19751 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
19752 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
19753 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
19754 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
19755 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
19756 than to perform erroneously.
19757 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
19759 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
19760 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
19761 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
19763 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
19764 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
19765 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
19766 hard-to-track-down errors.
19767 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
19768 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
19769 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
19770 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
19771 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
19772 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
19773 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
19774 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19775 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
19776 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
19777 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
19779 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
19780 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
19781 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
19782 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
19783 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
19784 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
19785 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
19786 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
19787 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
19788 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
19790 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
19791 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
19792 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
19793 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
19794 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
19795 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
19796 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
19797 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
19798 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
19799 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
19800 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
19801 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
19802 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
19804 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
19805 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
19806 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
19807 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
19808 or at least make it more diagnosable.
19809 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
19810 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
19811 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
19812 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
19814 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
19815 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
19816 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
19817 part of ticket 6736.
19818 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
19819 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
19820 Resolves ticket 6758.
19821 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
19822 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
19823 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
19824 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19825 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
19826 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
19827 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
19829 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
19830 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
19831 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
19832 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19834 o Minor features (testing):
19835 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
19836 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
19838 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
19839 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
19840 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
19843 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
19844 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
19846 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
19847 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
19848 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
19849 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
19850 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
19851 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
19852 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
19853 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
19854 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
19855 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
19856 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
19857 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
19858 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
19859 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
19860 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
19861 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
19862 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
19864 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
19865 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
19866 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
19867 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
19868 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
19869 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
19870 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
19871 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
19872 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
19873 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
19874 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
19875 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
19876 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
19877 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
19878 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
19879 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
19880 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
19881 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19882 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
19883 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
19886 o Minor fixes (config options):
19887 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
19888 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
19889 or we just won't work.)
19890 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
19891 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
19892 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19893 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
19894 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
19895 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
19896 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
19897 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19898 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
19899 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
19900 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
19901 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19902 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
19903 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
19904 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
19905 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19906 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
19907 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
19908 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
19910 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
19911 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
19912 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
19914 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
19915 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
19916 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
19917 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
19919 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
19920 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
19921 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
19922 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
19923 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
19924 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
19925 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
19926 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
19927 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
19928 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
19929 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19930 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
19931 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
19932 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
19933 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
19934 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
19937 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
19938 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
19939 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
19940 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
19941 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
19942 Should help resolve bug 8235.
19943 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
19944 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
19945 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
19946 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19947 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
19948 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
19949 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
19950 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
19951 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
19952 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
19953 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19955 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19956 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
19957 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
19958 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
19959 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
19960 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
19961 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
19962 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
19964 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
19965 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
19966 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
19967 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
19969 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
19970 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
19971 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
19972 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
19973 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
19975 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
19976 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
19977 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
19978 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19979 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
19980 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19982 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
19983 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
19984 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
19985 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
19986 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
19987 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
19988 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
19989 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
19990 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
19992 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19993 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
19994 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
19995 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
19996 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19997 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
19998 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
19999 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
20000 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
20001 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
20002 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
20003 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
20005 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
20006 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
20007 this is CID 718634.
20008 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
20009 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
20010 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
20011 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
20013 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
20014 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
20016 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
20017 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
20018 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
20019 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
20020 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
20021 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
20022 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
20023 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20024 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
20025 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
20026 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
20027 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20028 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
20029 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
20030 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20031 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
20032 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
20033 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
20035 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
20036 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
20037 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
20038 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
20039 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20040 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
20041 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
20042 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
20043 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
20044 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
20045 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
20046 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
20047 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
20050 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
20051 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
20052 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
20053 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
20054 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
20056 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
20057 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20058 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
20059 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
20060 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
20061 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20062 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
20063 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
20064 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
20067 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20068 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
20069 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20070 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20072 o Documentation fixes:
20073 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
20074 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
20075 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
20076 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
20077 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
20078 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
20079 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
20081 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
20082 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
20083 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
20084 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
20085 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
20086 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
20087 message is logged at notice, not at info.
20088 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
20089 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
20090 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
20091 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
20092 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
20093 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
20095 o Removed features:
20096 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
20097 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
20098 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
20100 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
20101 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
20102 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
20103 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
20104 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
20105 compatibility code.
20108 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
20109 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
20111 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
20112 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
20114 o Code simplification:
20115 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
20116 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
20117 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
20118 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
20120 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
20121 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
20123 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
20124 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
20125 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
20126 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
20127 present the same extensions.)
20128 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
20130 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
20131 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
20132 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
20133 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
20135 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
20136 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
20137 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
20138 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
20141 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
20143 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
20144 and the different handshakes it supports.
20145 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
20146 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
20147 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
20148 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
20150 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
20151 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
20152 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
20153 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
20154 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
20155 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
20156 testable, and a little less fragile too.
20157 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
20158 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
20159 Implements ticket 5529.
20160 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
20161 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
20162 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
20165 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
20166 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
20167 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
20168 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
20169 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
20170 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20171 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
20172 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
20173 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
20174 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
20175 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
20176 any encoding is overkill.
20177 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
20178 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
20179 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
20180 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
20181 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
20182 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
20183 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
20184 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
20185 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
20188 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
20189 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
20190 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
20191 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
20192 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
20193 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
20194 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
20195 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
20197 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
20198 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
20199 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
20200 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
20201 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
20202 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
20203 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
20204 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
20205 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
20206 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
20207 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
20209 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
20210 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
20211 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
20212 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
20213 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
20214 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
20215 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
20216 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
20217 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
20218 describes microdescriptors.
20220 o Major features (build hardening):
20221 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
20223 o Major features (relay scaling):
20224 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
20225 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
20226 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
20227 much faster than other AES implementations.
20228 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
20229 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
20230 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
20231 Resolves ticket 4526.
20232 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
20233 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
20235 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
20236 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
20237 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
20238 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
20240 o Major features (blocking resistance):
20241 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
20243 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
20244 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
20245 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
20246 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
20247 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
20248 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
20249 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
20250 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
20251 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
20252 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
20253 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
20254 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
20255 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
20256 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
20257 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
20258 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
20259 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
20260 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
20261 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
20263 o Major features (pluggable transports):
20264 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
20265 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
20266 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
20267 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
20269 o Major features (DoS resistance):
20270 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
20271 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
20272 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
20273 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
20274 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
20275 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
20276 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
20277 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
20278 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
20279 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
20280 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
20282 o Major features (hidden services):
20283 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
20284 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
20285 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
20287 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
20288 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
20289 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
20290 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
20291 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
20292 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
20294 o Major features (IPv6):
20295 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
20296 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
20297 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
20298 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
20299 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
20301 o Major features (directory authorities):
20302 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
20303 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
20304 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
20305 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
20306 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
20307 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
20308 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
20309 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
20310 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
20311 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
20313 o Major features (performance):
20314 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
20315 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
20316 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
20317 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
20318 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
20319 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
20320 side of Proposal 174.
20321 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
20322 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
20323 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
20324 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
20325 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
20326 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
20327 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
20328 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
20329 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
20330 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
20331 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
20332 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
20334 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
20335 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
20336 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
20337 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
20338 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
20341 o Major features (relays):
20342 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
20343 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
20344 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
20345 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
20346 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
20347 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
20348 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
20350 o Major features (stream isolation):
20351 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
20352 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
20353 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
20354 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
20355 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
20356 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
20357 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
20358 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
20359 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
20360 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
20361 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
20362 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
20363 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
20364 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
20366 o Major features (bufferevents):
20367 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
20368 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
20369 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
20370 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
20371 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
20372 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
20373 zero-copy transports where available.
20374 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
20375 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
20376 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
20377 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
20378 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
20379 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
20381 o Major features (path selection):
20382 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
20383 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
20384 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
20385 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
20388 o Major features (port forwarding):
20389 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
20390 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
20391 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
20392 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
20393 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
20394 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
20396 o Major features (logging):
20397 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
20398 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
20399 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
20400 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
20401 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
20402 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
20403 Implements enhancement 1668.
20405 o Major features (other):
20406 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
20407 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
20408 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
20409 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
20410 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
20411 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
20412 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
20413 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
20414 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
20415 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
20416 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
20417 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
20418 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
20419 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
20420 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
20421 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
20422 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
20423 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
20424 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
20425 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
20427 o New directory authorities:
20428 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
20429 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
20431 o Security/privacy fixes:
20432 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
20433 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
20434 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20435 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
20436 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
20437 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
20438 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20439 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
20440 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
20441 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
20442 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
20443 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
20444 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
20445 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
20446 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
20447 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
20448 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
20449 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
20450 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
20451 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
20452 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
20453 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
20454 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
20455 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
20456 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
20457 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
20458 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
20459 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
20460 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
20461 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
20462 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
20464 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
20465 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
20466 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
20467 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
20468 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
20469 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
20470 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
20471 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20472 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
20473 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
20474 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
20475 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
20476 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
20477 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
20480 o Major bugfixes (clients):
20481 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
20482 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
20483 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
20484 which introduced predicted ports.
20485 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
20486 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
20487 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
20488 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
20489 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
20490 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
20491 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20492 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
20493 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
20495 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
20496 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
20497 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
20498 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
20499 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
20500 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
20502 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
20503 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
20504 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
20505 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
20506 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
20507 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
20508 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
20509 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
20510 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
20511 documents entirely.
20513 o Major bugfixes (relays):
20514 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
20515 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
20516 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
20517 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
20518 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
20519 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
20520 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
20521 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
20522 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
20523 immensely in tracking this bug down.
20524 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
20525 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
20526 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
20527 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
20528 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
20529 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
20530 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20532 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
20533 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
20534 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
20535 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
20536 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
20537 cells were introduced.
20538 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
20539 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
20540 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
20541 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
20543 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20544 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
20545 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
20546 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
20547 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
20548 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
20549 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
20550 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
20551 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
20552 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
20553 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
20554 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
20555 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
20556 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
20557 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
20558 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
20559 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
20560 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
20561 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
20562 Fixes part of bug 3825.
20564 o Changes to default torrc file:
20565 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
20566 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
20568 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
20569 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
20570 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
20572 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
20573 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
20574 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
20576 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20577 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
20578 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
20579 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
20580 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
20581 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
20582 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
20583 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
20584 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
20585 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
20586 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
20587 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
20588 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
20589 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
20590 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
20591 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
20594 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
20595 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
20596 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
20597 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
20598 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
20599 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
20600 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
20601 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
20602 sure. Closes bug 5139.
20603 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
20604 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
20605 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
20606 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
20607 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
20609 o Minor features (IPv6):
20610 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
20611 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
20612 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
20613 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
20614 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
20615 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
20617 o Minor features (hidden services):
20618 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
20619 Required by fix for bug 3460.
20620 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
20621 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
20622 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
20623 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
20624 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
20625 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
20626 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
20627 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
20628 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
20630 o Minor features (relays):
20631 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
20632 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
20633 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
20634 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
20635 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
20636 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
20637 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
20638 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
20639 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
20640 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
20641 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
20644 o Minor features (new config options):
20645 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
20646 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
20647 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
20648 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
20649 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
20650 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
20651 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
20652 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
20653 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
20654 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
20655 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
20656 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
20658 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
20659 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
20660 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
20661 Implements issue 933.
20662 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
20663 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
20664 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
20665 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
20666 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
20667 implements ticket 3439.
20668 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
20669 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
20670 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
20671 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
20672 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
20673 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
20674 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
20675 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
20677 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
20678 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
20679 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
20680 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
20681 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
20682 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
20683 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
20684 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
20685 appending to the list.
20686 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
20687 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
20688 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
20689 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
20692 o Minor features (controller, new events):
20693 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
20694 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
20695 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
20696 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
20697 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
20698 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
20700 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
20701 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
20702 circuit-status' control-port command.
20703 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
20704 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
20705 user. Implements ticket 1692.
20706 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
20707 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
20708 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
20710 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
20711 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
20712 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
20713 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
20714 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
20715 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
20716 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
20717 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
20718 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
20720 o Minor features (controller, other):
20721 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
20722 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
20723 part of ticket 3457.
20724 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
20725 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
20726 file. Resolves bug 1101.
20727 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
20728 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
20730 o Minor features (log messages):
20731 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
20732 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
20733 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
20734 please let us know about it.
20735 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
20736 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
20737 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
20738 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
20739 Resolves ticket 2474.
20740 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
20741 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
20743 o Minor features (other):
20744 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
20745 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
20746 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
20747 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
20749 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
20750 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
20751 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
20752 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
20753 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
20754 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
20755 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
20757 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
20758 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
20759 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
20760 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
20761 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
20763 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
20764 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
20765 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
20766 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
20767 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
20768 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
20769 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
20770 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
20771 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20772 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
20773 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
20774 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
20775 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
20776 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
20777 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
20778 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
20781 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
20782 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
20783 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
20784 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
20785 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
20786 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
20787 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
20788 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
20789 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
20791 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
20792 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
20793 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
20794 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
20795 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
20796 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
20797 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20798 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
20799 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
20800 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20802 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20803 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
20804 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20805 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
20806 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
20807 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
20808 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
20809 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
20810 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
20812 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
20813 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
20814 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
20815 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
20816 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
20817 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
20818 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
20819 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
20820 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
20822 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
20823 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
20824 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
20825 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
20826 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
20827 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
20828 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
20830 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
20831 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
20832 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
20833 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
20835 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20836 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
20837 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
20838 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20839 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
20840 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
20841 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
20842 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
20843 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
20844 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
20845 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
20846 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
20849 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
20850 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
20851 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20852 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
20853 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
20854 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
20856 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
20857 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
20858 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20859 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
20860 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
20861 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
20862 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20863 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
20864 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
20865 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
20866 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
20867 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
20868 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
20869 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
20870 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
20872 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
20873 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
20874 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
20875 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
20876 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
20877 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
20879 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
20880 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
20881 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
20882 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
20883 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
20884 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
20885 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
20886 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
20887 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
20888 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
20889 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
20890 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
20891 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
20892 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
20893 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20895 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
20896 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
20897 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
20898 be disabled using the new
20899 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
20900 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20901 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
20902 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
20903 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
20904 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
20905 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
20907 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
20908 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
20909 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
20910 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20911 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
20912 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
20913 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
20915 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
20916 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
20917 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
20918 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
20919 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20920 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
20921 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
20922 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
20924 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
20925 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
20926 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
20927 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20928 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
20929 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
20930 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
20931 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20933 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20934 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
20935 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
20936 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
20937 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
20938 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
20939 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
20940 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
20942 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
20943 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
20944 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
20945 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
20947 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
20948 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
20949 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
20951 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
20952 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
20954 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
20955 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
20956 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
20957 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
20958 case for flushing marked connections.
20959 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
20960 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
20961 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
20962 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
20963 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
20964 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
20965 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
20966 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
20967 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
20968 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20970 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20971 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
20972 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
20973 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
20974 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
20975 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
20976 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
20977 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
20978 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
20979 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
20980 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
20982 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
20983 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
20984 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
20985 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
20986 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20988 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
20989 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
20990 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
20991 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
20992 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20993 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
20994 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
20995 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
20996 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
20997 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
20998 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
20999 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
21000 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
21001 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
21002 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
21003 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
21005 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
21006 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
21007 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
21008 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21009 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
21010 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
21011 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21012 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
21013 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21014 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
21015 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
21016 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
21017 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
21018 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
21019 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
21020 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
21021 Implements ticket 3264.
21022 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
21024 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
21025 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
21026 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
21027 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
21028 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
21029 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
21031 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
21032 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
21033 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21034 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
21035 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
21036 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21037 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
21038 them from the other auths.
21039 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
21040 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
21041 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
21042 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21043 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
21044 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
21045 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
21046 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
21050 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
21051 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
21052 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
21054 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
21055 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
21056 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
21057 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
21058 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
21059 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
21060 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
21061 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
21063 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
21064 ./src/test/bench binary.
21065 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
21066 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
21067 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
21068 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
21071 o Build improvements:
21072 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
21073 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
21074 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
21075 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
21076 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
21077 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
21078 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
21079 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21080 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
21081 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
21082 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
21083 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
21084 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
21085 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
21086 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
21087 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
21088 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
21089 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
21090 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
21091 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
21092 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
21094 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
21096 o Build requirements:
21097 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
21098 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
21099 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
21100 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
21101 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
21102 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
21103 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
21104 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
21105 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
21106 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
21107 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
21108 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
21109 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
21111 o Build fixes (compile/link):
21112 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
21113 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
21115 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
21116 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
21117 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
21118 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
21119 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
21120 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
21121 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21122 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
21123 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21125 o Build fixes (other):
21126 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
21127 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
21129 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
21130 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
21131 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
21132 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21133 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
21134 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
21135 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
21136 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
21138 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
21139 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
21142 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
21143 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
21144 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
21145 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
21146 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
21147 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
21148 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
21149 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21151 o Code refactoring (safety):
21152 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
21153 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
21154 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
21155 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
21156 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
21157 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
21158 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
21159 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
21160 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
21161 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
21162 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
21163 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
21165 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
21166 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
21167 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
21168 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
21169 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
21170 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
21171 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
21172 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
21173 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
21174 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
21175 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
21176 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
21177 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
21178 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
21179 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
21180 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
21181 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
21182 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
21184 o Code refactoring (separate):
21185 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
21186 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
21187 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
21189 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
21190 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
21193 o Code refactoring (name changes):
21194 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
21195 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
21196 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
21197 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
21198 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
21199 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
21200 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
21202 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
21203 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
21204 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
21205 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
21206 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
21207 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
21208 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
21209 invalid value, rather than just -1.
21210 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
21211 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
21212 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
21214 o Code refactoring (other):
21215 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
21216 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
21218 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
21219 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
21220 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
21221 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
21222 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
21223 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
21224 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
21225 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
21226 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
21227 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
21228 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
21229 our library structure used to force them to link it.
21231 o Removed features and files:
21232 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
21233 it would be a bad idea to start.
21234 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
21236 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
21237 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
21238 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
21239 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
21240 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
21241 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
21242 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
21243 are no longer in use as relays.
21244 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
21245 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
21246 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
21247 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
21248 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
21249 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
21253 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
21254 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
21255 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
21257 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
21258 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
21260 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
21261 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
21262 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
21264 o Documentation fixes:
21265 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
21266 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
21267 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
21268 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
21269 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
21270 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
21271 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
21272 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
21275 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
21276 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
21280 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21281 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21282 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21283 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
21284 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
21285 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
21286 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
21290 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
21291 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
21292 attack that could in theory leak path information.
21295 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
21296 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
21297 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21298 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
21299 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
21300 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
21301 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
21302 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
21303 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
21304 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
21305 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
21306 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
21307 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
21308 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21311 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
21312 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
21313 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
21317 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
21318 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
21319 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
21320 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
21321 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
21322 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
21323 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21324 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
21325 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
21326 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
21327 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21330 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
21331 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
21334 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
21335 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
21338 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
21339 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
21340 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
21341 and fixes several crash bugs.
21343 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
21344 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
21345 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
21346 those packages and upgrade anyway.
21348 o Directory authority changes:
21349 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
21350 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
21354 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
21355 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
21356 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
21357 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
21358 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
21359 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
21360 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
21361 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
21362 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
21363 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
21364 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
21365 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
21366 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
21367 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
21368 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
21369 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
21370 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
21371 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
21372 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
21373 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
21374 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
21375 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
21376 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
21377 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
21378 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
21379 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
21380 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
21383 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
21384 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21385 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
21386 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
21388 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
21389 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
21391 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
21392 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
21393 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
21394 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
21395 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
21396 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
21397 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
21398 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
21401 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
21402 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
21403 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
21404 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
21405 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
21406 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
21407 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
21408 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
21409 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
21410 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
21411 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
21412 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
21413 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
21414 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
21415 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
21416 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
21417 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
21418 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
21419 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
21420 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
21421 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
21422 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
21423 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
21424 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
21425 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
21426 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
21427 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
21428 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
21429 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
21430 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
21431 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
21432 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
21433 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21434 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
21435 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21436 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
21437 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
21438 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
21439 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
21440 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21441 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
21442 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21443 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
21444 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
21445 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
21446 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21448 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
21449 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
21450 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
21451 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
21452 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
21453 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
21454 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
21455 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
21456 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
21457 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
21458 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21459 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
21460 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21461 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
21462 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
21465 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
21466 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
21467 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
21468 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
21470 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21473 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
21474 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
21475 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
21476 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
21477 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
21478 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
21479 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
21482 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
21483 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
21484 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
21486 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
21487 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
21488 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
21489 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
21490 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
21491 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
21492 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
21493 (which Tor does not do by default).
21495 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
21496 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
21497 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
21498 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
21499 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
21501 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
21502 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
21503 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
21506 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
21507 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
21508 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
21509 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
21510 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
21512 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
21513 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
21516 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
21517 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
21518 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
21519 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
21520 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
21521 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
21522 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
21523 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
21525 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
21526 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
21527 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
21528 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
21529 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
21530 close based on processing a cell on it.
21531 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
21532 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
21533 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
21534 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21535 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
21536 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
21537 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21538 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
21539 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
21540 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
21541 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
21542 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
21543 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
21544 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
21545 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
21548 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
21549 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
21550 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
21551 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
21552 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
21553 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
21554 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
21556 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
21557 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
21558 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
21559 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
21560 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
21561 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21562 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
21563 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
21564 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21565 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
21566 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
21567 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
21568 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
21569 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21570 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
21571 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
21572 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
21573 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
21574 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21575 Reported by "troll_un".
21576 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
21577 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21578 Reported by "troll_un".
21579 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
21580 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
21581 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
21582 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
21585 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
21586 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
21587 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
21588 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
21589 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
21590 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
21591 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
21592 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
21593 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
21594 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
21595 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21597 o Packaging changes:
21598 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
21599 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
21602 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
21603 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
21604 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
21605 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
21606 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
21608 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
21609 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
21611 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21612 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
21613 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
21614 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
21615 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21616 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
21617 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
21618 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
21619 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
21622 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21625 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
21626 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
21627 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
21629 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
21630 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
21631 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
21632 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
21633 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
21634 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
21635 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
21636 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
21637 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
21638 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
21639 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
21640 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
21641 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
21643 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
21644 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
21645 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
21646 currently connected to them.
21648 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
21649 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
21650 remain; see for example proposal 188.
21652 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
21653 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
21654 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
21655 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
21656 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
21657 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
21658 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
21659 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
21660 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
21661 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
21662 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
21663 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
21664 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
21665 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
21666 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
21667 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
21668 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
21669 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
21672 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
21673 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
21674 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
21675 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
21676 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
21677 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
21678 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
21679 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
21680 when bridges were introduced.
21681 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
21682 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
21683 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
21684 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21685 Found by "frosty_un".
21688 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
21689 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
21691 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
21692 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
21693 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
21694 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
21695 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
21696 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
21697 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
21700 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
21701 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
21702 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
21703 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
21704 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
21705 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
21706 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
21707 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
21708 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
21709 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
21710 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
21711 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
21712 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
21713 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
21714 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
21715 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
21716 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
21717 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
21719 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
21720 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
21721 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
21722 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21723 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
21724 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
21725 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
21726 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
21727 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
21728 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
21729 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
21730 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21733 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21734 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21735 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
21736 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21739 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
21740 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
21741 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
21742 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
21743 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
21745 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21746 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
21747 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
21748 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
21749 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
21750 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
21751 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
21752 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
21753 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
21754 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21756 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21757 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
21758 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
21759 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
21760 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
21761 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
21762 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
21763 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
21764 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
21765 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
21766 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
21767 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
21768 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
21769 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
21770 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21771 Found by "frosty_un".
21772 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
21773 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
21774 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
21775 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
21776 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
21777 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21778 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
21779 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
21780 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21781 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
21782 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
21783 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
21784 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21785 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
21786 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
21787 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
21788 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
21789 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
21790 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
21792 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21793 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
21794 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
21795 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
21796 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
21797 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
21798 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
21799 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
21801 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
21802 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
21803 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
21804 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
21805 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
21806 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
21807 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
21808 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
21809 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
21810 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
21811 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
21812 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
21814 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
21815 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21816 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
21817 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21818 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
21819 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21820 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
21821 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
21822 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
21824 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
21826 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
21827 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
21828 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
21829 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21830 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
21831 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
21832 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
21833 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21835 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
21836 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
21837 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
21838 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
21839 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
21841 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21842 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
21843 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
21844 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
21845 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21848 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
21849 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
21850 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
21851 reachable from Iran again.
21854 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
21855 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
21856 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21858 o Minor features (security):
21859 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
21860 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
21861 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
21862 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
21863 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
21864 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
21865 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
21866 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
21867 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
21868 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
21871 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
21872 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
21873 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
21874 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
21875 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
21876 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
21877 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
21878 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
21879 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21881 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
21882 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
21883 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
21884 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
21885 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
21886 raised by bug 3898.
21887 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
21888 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
21889 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
21890 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
21891 fixes part of bug 2442.
21892 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
21893 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
21894 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
21896 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
21897 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
21898 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
21899 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
21900 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21903 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
21904 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21905 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
21906 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
21907 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
21908 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
21911 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
21912 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
21913 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
21914 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
21915 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
21916 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
21917 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
21918 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
21919 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
21920 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
21922 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
21923 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
21924 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
21925 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
21926 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
21927 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
21928 many many other features and bugfixes.
21930 o Major features (client performance):
21931 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
21932 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
21933 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
21934 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
21935 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
21936 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
21938 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
21939 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
21940 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
21941 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
21942 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
21943 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
21944 the first implementation of this feature.
21946 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
21947 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
21948 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
21949 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
21950 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
21951 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
21952 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
21953 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
21954 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
21955 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
21956 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
21957 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
21958 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
21959 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
21960 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
21961 file. Implements ticket 1296.
21963 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
21964 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
21965 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
21966 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
21967 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
21968 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
21969 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
21970 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
21971 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
21972 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
21973 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
21974 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
21975 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
21976 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
21977 they first get the Guard flag.
21978 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
21979 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
21980 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
21981 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
21982 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
21983 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
21984 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
21985 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
21987 o Major features (relays control their load better):
21988 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
21989 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
21990 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
21991 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
21992 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
21993 based on a variant of proposal 163.
21994 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
21995 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
21996 but never per-conn write limits.
21997 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
21998 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
21999 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
22000 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
22002 o Major features (controllers):
22003 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
22004 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
22005 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
22006 contributions to the network.
22007 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
22008 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
22009 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
22011 o Major features (directory authorities):
22012 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
22013 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
22014 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
22016 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
22017 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
22018 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
22019 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
22020 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
22021 download consensus + microdescriptors".
22022 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
22023 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
22024 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
22025 hash algorithm in the future.
22026 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
22027 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
22028 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
22030 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
22031 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
22032 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
22033 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
22034 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
22035 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
22036 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
22037 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
22038 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
22039 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
22040 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
22041 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
22042 connections to directory servers.
22043 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
22044 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
22045 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
22046 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
22047 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
22048 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
22049 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
22050 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
22051 information, or fetch directory information.
22052 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
22053 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
22054 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
22055 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
22056 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
22058 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
22059 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
22060 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
22061 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
22062 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
22063 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
22064 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
22065 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
22066 the network changes.
22067 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
22068 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
22070 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
22071 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
22072 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
22073 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
22074 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
22075 unless you really want your Tor to break.
22076 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
22077 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
22078 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
22079 - When StrictNodes is 1:
22080 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
22081 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
22082 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
22083 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
22084 reachability self-tests.
22085 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
22086 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
22087 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
22088 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
22089 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
22091 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
22092 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22093 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
22095 o Major features (misc):
22096 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
22097 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
22098 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
22099 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
22100 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
22101 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
22102 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
22103 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
22104 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
22105 part of ticket 3076.
22106 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
22107 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
22108 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
22110 o Code security improvements:
22111 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
22112 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
22113 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
22114 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
22115 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
22116 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
22117 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
22118 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
22119 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
22120 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22121 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
22122 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
22123 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
22124 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
22125 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
22126 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
22127 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22128 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
22129 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
22130 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
22131 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
22132 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
22133 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
22134 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
22135 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
22136 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
22137 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
22138 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
22140 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22141 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
22142 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
22143 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
22144 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
22145 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
22146 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
22147 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
22148 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
22149 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
22150 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
22151 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
22152 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
22154 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
22155 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
22156 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
22158 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
22159 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
22161 o Major bugfixes (stability):
22162 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22163 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22164 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22165 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
22166 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22167 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
22168 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
22169 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
22170 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
22171 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
22172 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
22173 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
22174 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
22175 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
22176 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
22177 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
22179 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
22180 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
22181 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
22183 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
22184 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
22185 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
22186 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
22187 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
22188 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
22189 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
22190 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
22191 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
22192 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
22193 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
22194 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
22195 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
22196 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
22197 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
22198 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22199 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
22200 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22201 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22203 o Privacy fixes (clients):
22204 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
22205 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
22206 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
22207 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
22208 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
22209 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22210 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
22211 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
22212 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
22214 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
22215 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
22216 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
22217 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
22218 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
22219 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
22220 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
22221 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
22222 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
22223 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
22225 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
22226 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22227 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22228 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22229 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
22230 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
22231 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22232 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
22233 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
22234 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
22235 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
22236 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
22237 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
22239 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
22240 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
22241 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
22242 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
22243 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
22244 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
22245 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
22246 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
22247 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
22248 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22250 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
22251 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
22252 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
22253 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
22254 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
22255 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
22256 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
22258 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
22259 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
22260 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
22261 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
22262 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
22263 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
22264 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
22265 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
22266 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
22267 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
22268 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
22269 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
22270 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
22271 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
22272 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
22274 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22275 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
22276 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
22277 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
22278 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
22279 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
22280 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
22282 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
22283 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
22284 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
22285 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
22286 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
22287 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
22288 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
22289 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
22291 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
22292 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
22293 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
22294 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
22295 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
22296 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
22297 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
22298 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
22299 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
22300 the longest-lived bug prize.
22301 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
22302 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
22303 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
22304 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
22305 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
22306 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
22307 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
22308 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
22309 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
22310 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
22312 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
22313 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
22314 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
22315 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
22316 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
22317 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
22320 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22321 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
22322 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
22323 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
22324 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
22325 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
22326 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
22327 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
22328 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
22329 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
22330 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
22331 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22332 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
22333 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
22334 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
22335 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
22336 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
22337 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
22338 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
22339 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
22340 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
22341 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
22342 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
22343 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
22344 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
22345 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
22347 o Major bugfixes (misc):
22348 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
22349 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
22350 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22351 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
22352 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
22353 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
22354 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
22355 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
22357 o Minor features (relays):
22358 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
22359 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
22360 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
22361 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
22362 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
22363 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
22364 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
22365 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
22367 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
22368 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
22369 Resolves ticket 3252.
22370 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
22371 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
22373 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
22374 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
22375 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
22376 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
22377 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
22379 o Minor features (network statistics):
22380 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
22381 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
22382 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
22383 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
22384 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
22385 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
22386 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
22387 measure download times.
22388 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22389 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
22391 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
22392 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
22393 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22394 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
22396 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
22397 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
22398 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
22400 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
22401 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
22402 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
22403 Implements ticket 2432.
22404 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
22405 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
22406 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
22407 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
22408 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
22409 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
22410 Implements enhancement 1790.
22411 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
22412 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
22414 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
22415 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
22416 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
22417 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
22418 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
22419 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
22420 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
22422 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22424 o Minor features (clients):
22425 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
22426 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
22427 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
22428 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
22430 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
22431 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
22432 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
22433 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
22434 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
22435 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
22436 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
22437 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
22439 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
22440 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
22441 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
22442 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
22443 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
22444 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
22445 SSL handshake issues.
22447 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22448 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
22449 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
22450 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
22451 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
22452 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
22453 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
22454 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
22455 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
22456 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
22457 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
22458 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
22459 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
22460 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
22461 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
22462 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
22463 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
22464 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
22465 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
22466 hour of their uptime.
22467 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
22468 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
22469 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
22470 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
22472 o Minor features (hidden services):
22473 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
22474 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
22475 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
22476 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
22477 Required by fix for bug 3000.
22478 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
22479 by fix for bug 3000.
22480 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
22481 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
22482 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
22483 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
22484 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
22486 o Minor features (controller interface):
22487 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
22488 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
22489 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
22490 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
22491 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
22492 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
22493 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
22494 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
22495 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
22496 over our stored history.
22497 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
22498 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
22499 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
22501 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
22502 to the circuit build timeout.
22503 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
22504 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
22505 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
22507 o Minor features (controller protocol):
22508 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
22509 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
22510 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
22512 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
22513 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
22514 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
22515 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
22516 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
22517 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
22518 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
22519 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
22520 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
22521 arguments we do not recognize.
22523 o Minor features (more useful logging):
22524 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
22525 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
22526 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
22527 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
22528 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
22529 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
22530 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
22531 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
22532 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
22533 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
22534 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
22535 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
22536 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
22537 got suppressed since the last warning.
22538 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
22539 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
22540 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
22541 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
22542 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
22543 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
22544 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
22546 o Minor features (log domains):
22547 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
22548 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
22549 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
22551 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
22552 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
22554 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
22555 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
22556 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
22558 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
22559 during the TLS handshake.
22561 o Minor features (build process):
22562 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
22563 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
22564 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
22566 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
22567 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
22568 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
22570 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
22571 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
22572 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
22573 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
22574 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
22575 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
22577 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
22578 source files Tor was built with.
22579 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
22580 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
22581 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
22582 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
22583 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
22584 speeds up the build considerably.
22586 o Minor features (options / torrc):
22587 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
22588 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
22589 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
22590 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
22591 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
22592 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
22593 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
22594 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
22595 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
22596 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
22597 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
22598 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
22599 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
22600 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
22601 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
22602 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
22603 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
22604 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
22605 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
22606 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
22607 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
22608 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
22609 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
22610 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
22611 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
22612 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
22613 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
22615 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
22616 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
22617 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
22620 o Minor features (unit tests):
22621 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
22622 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
22623 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
22624 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
22625 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
22626 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
22628 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
22629 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
22632 o Minor features (misc):
22633 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
22634 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
22635 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
22636 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
22638 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
22639 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
22640 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
22641 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
22642 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
22644 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
22645 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
22646 open() without checking it.
22647 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
22648 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
22649 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
22650 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22652 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22653 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
22654 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
22655 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
22656 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
22657 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
22658 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
22659 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
22660 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
22661 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
22662 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
22663 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
22664 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
22665 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
22666 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
22667 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
22668 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
22669 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
22670 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
22671 based on the time during which we were active and not in
22672 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
22673 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
22674 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
22675 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
22676 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22677 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
22678 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
22679 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
22681 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
22682 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
22683 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
22684 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
22686 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22687 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
22688 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
22689 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
22690 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
22692 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
22693 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
22694 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22695 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
22696 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
22697 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
22698 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
22699 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
22700 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
22701 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
22702 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
22703 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
22704 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
22706 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22707 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
22708 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
22709 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
22710 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
22711 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
22712 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
22713 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
22714 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
22715 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
22716 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
22717 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22718 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
22719 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
22720 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
22721 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
22722 two-hop circuits are actually created.
22723 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
22724 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22725 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
22726 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
22728 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
22729 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
22730 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
22731 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
22732 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
22733 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
22734 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
22735 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
22736 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
22738 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
22739 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
22740 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
22741 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
22742 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
22743 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
22744 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
22745 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
22746 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
22747 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
22748 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
22749 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
22750 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
22753 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22754 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
22755 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
22756 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
22757 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22758 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
22759 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
22760 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
22761 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
22762 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
22763 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
22765 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
22766 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
22768 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
22769 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
22770 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
22771 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
22772 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22773 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
22774 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
22775 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
22777 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
22778 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
22779 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
22780 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22781 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
22782 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
22783 discovered by katmagic.
22784 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
22785 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
22787 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
22788 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
22789 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
22790 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
22791 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
22792 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
22793 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
22794 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
22795 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
22797 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
22798 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
22800 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
22801 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
22803 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
22804 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
22806 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
22807 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
22808 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
22809 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
22810 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
22811 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
22812 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22813 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
22814 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
22815 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
22816 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
22817 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
22818 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
22819 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
22820 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
22822 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
22823 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
22824 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
22825 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
22826 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
22827 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
22828 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
22829 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
22830 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
22832 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
22833 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
22834 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
22836 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
22837 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
22838 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
22839 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
22841 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
22842 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
22843 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
22844 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
22845 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22846 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
22847 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
22849 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
22850 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
22851 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
22852 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22853 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
22854 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
22856 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
22857 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
22858 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
22859 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
22860 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
22861 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
22862 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
22863 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22864 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
22866 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
22867 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
22868 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22869 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
22870 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22871 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
22872 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
22873 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
22874 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
22875 control-spec.txt said they were.
22877 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
22878 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
22879 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
22881 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
22882 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22883 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
22884 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
22885 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
22887 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
22888 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
22890 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
22891 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
22892 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
22893 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
22894 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
22895 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
22896 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
22898 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
22899 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
22900 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
22901 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22902 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
22903 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
22904 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
22905 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
22908 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
22909 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
22910 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
22911 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
22912 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
22913 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
22914 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
22915 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
22916 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
22917 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
22918 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
22919 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22920 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
22921 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
22922 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
22924 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
22925 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
22926 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
22927 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
22928 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
22929 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22930 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
22932 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
22933 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
22936 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
22937 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
22938 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
22939 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
22940 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22941 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
22942 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
22943 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
22944 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
22945 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
22946 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
22947 fixes part of bug 3407.
22948 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
22949 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
22950 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
22951 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
22952 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
22953 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
22954 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
22955 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
22956 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
22957 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
22959 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
22960 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
22961 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
22962 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
22963 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
22964 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
22965 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
22966 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22967 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
22968 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
22969 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
22970 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22971 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
22972 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
22973 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
22974 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
22975 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
22977 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
22978 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
22979 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
22980 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
22981 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
22982 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
22983 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22984 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
22985 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
22986 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
22987 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
22988 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
22990 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
22991 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
22992 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
22993 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
22994 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
22996 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
22997 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
22998 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
22999 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
23001 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
23002 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
23003 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
23004 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
23005 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
23006 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
23007 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
23008 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
23009 structures and defines in or.h for now.
23010 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
23012 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
23013 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23014 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23015 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23016 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
23017 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
23018 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
23019 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
23021 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
23022 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
23023 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
23025 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23026 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
23027 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
23028 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
23029 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
23030 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
23031 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
23032 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
23033 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
23034 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
23036 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
23038 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
23039 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
23040 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
23041 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
23042 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
23043 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
23044 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
23045 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
23046 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
23047 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
23049 o Documentation changes:
23050 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
23051 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
23053 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
23054 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
23055 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
23056 what should go in a patch.
23057 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
23059 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
23060 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
23061 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
23062 projects directory in svn.
23064 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
23065 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
23066 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
23067 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
23068 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
23069 hidden service usage.
23070 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
23071 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
23072 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
23073 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
23074 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
23077 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
23078 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
23079 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
23080 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
23081 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
23084 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
23085 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
23086 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
23087 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
23088 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
23089 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23090 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23091 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
23092 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
23093 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
23094 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
23095 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
23096 via application-level web tricks.
23097 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
23098 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
23099 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
23100 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
23101 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
23102 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
23103 send a body too). Since only server versions before
23104 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
23105 keep the workaround in place.
23106 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
23107 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
23108 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
23109 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
23110 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
23111 want to do it differently.
23112 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
23113 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
23114 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
23117 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
23118 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
23119 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
23120 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
23121 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
23122 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
23125 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
23126 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
23127 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
23128 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
23129 the rest of bug 1074.
23130 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
23131 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23132 Found by "piebeer".
23133 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
23134 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
23135 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
23136 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
23137 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
23138 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
23139 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23142 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
23144 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23147 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
23148 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
23149 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
23150 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
23151 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
23152 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
23153 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
23154 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
23155 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
23156 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
23157 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23159 o Packaging changes:
23160 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
23161 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
23162 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
23163 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
23164 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
23165 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23168 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
23169 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
23170 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
23171 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
23172 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
23174 o Major bugfixes (security):
23175 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
23176 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
23177 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
23179 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
23180 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
23181 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
23182 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
23183 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
23184 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
23185 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
23186 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
23188 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23189 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
23190 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
23191 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
23192 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
23193 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
23194 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
23195 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
23196 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
23197 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
23198 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
23199 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
23200 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
23201 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
23204 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23205 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
23206 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
23207 bug reported by doorss.
23208 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
23209 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
23210 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23211 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
23212 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
23214 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
23215 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
23216 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
23217 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
23218 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
23221 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23222 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
23225 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
23226 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
23227 Automake 1.7 or later.
23228 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
23229 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
23230 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
23231 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
23234 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
23235 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
23236 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
23237 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
23241 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
23242 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
23243 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
23244 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
23246 o Directory authority changes:
23247 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23250 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23253 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
23254 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
23255 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
23256 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
23257 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
23260 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
23261 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
23262 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
23263 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
23264 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23265 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
23266 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
23267 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
23268 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
23269 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23270 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
23271 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23272 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
23273 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
23274 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
23275 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
23276 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
23277 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
23278 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
23279 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
23280 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
23281 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
23282 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
23285 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
23286 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
23287 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
23288 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
23290 o New directory authorities:
23291 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
23295 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
23296 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
23297 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
23299 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
23300 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
23301 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
23302 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
23303 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
23304 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
23306 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
23307 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
23308 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
23311 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
23312 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
23313 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
23314 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
23315 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
23316 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
23317 Patch from mingw-san.
23320 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
23321 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
23322 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
23323 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
23324 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
23325 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
23328 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
23329 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
23330 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
23331 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
23332 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
23334 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
23335 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
23338 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
23339 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
23340 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
23341 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
23342 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
23343 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
23344 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
23345 their directory fetches over TLS).
23346 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
23347 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
23348 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
23349 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
23350 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
23351 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
23352 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
23353 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
23356 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
23357 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
23361 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
23362 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23363 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
23364 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
23365 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
23366 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
23367 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23370 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
23371 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
23372 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
23373 several minor potential security bugs.
23376 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
23377 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
23378 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
23379 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
23380 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
23381 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
23382 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
23385 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
23386 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
23388 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
23389 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
23390 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
23391 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
23394 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
23395 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
23399 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
23400 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
23401 customized patches to run/build.
23404 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
23405 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
23406 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
23409 o Major bugfixes (performance):
23410 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
23411 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
23412 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
23413 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
23414 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
23415 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
23416 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
23419 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
23420 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
23421 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
23422 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
23423 libraries in a security patch.
23424 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
23425 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
23426 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
23427 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
23431 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
23432 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
23435 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
23436 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
23437 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
23438 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
23439 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
23442 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
23443 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
23444 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
23445 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
23446 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
23448 o Directory authority changes:
23449 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
23453 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
23454 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
23455 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23458 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
23459 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
23460 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
23461 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
23462 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
23465 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
23466 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
23467 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
23468 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
23469 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
23470 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
23471 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
23474 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
23475 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
23476 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23477 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
23478 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
23479 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
23481 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
23482 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
23485 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
23486 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
23487 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
23488 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
23490 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
23491 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
23493 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
23494 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
23495 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
23496 in the Vidalia Settings window.
23499 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
23500 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
23501 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
23502 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
23503 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
23505 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
23506 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
23508 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
23509 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
23510 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
23513 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
23514 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
23515 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
23517 o New directory authorities:
23518 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
23520 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
23523 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
23524 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
23526 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
23527 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
23528 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23529 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
23530 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
23531 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
23532 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23533 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
23534 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
23535 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
23536 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
23537 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
23538 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
23539 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
23540 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
23541 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
23542 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
23544 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
23545 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
23546 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
23548 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
23549 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
23553 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
23554 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
23555 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
23556 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
23557 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
23560 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
23561 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
23565 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
23566 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
23567 part of patch provided by "optimist".
23570 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
23571 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
23572 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
23573 and confuse fewer users.
23576 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
23577 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
23578 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
23579 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
23580 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
23581 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
23582 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
23585 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
23586 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
23587 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
23588 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
23589 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
23590 other features and bug fixes.
23592 o Major features (clients):
23593 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
23594 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
23595 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
23596 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
23598 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
23599 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
23600 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
23601 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
23602 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
23603 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
23604 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
23605 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
23606 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
23607 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
23609 o Major features (relays):
23610 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
23611 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
23612 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
23613 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
23614 data. Found by Jacob.
23615 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
23616 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
23617 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
23618 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
23620 o Major features (hidden services):
23621 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
23622 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
23623 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
23624 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
23625 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
23626 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
23627 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
23628 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
23629 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
23630 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
23631 lookups more reliable.
23633 o Major features (path selection):
23634 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
23635 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
23636 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
23637 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
23638 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
23640 o Major features (misc):
23641 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
23642 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
23644 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
23645 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
23646 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
23647 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
23648 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
23649 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
23651 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
23652 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
23653 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
23654 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
23656 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
23659 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
23660 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
23661 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
23662 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
23663 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
23664 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
23665 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
23666 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
23667 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
23668 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
23669 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
23670 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
23671 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
23672 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
23673 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
23674 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
23675 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
23676 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
23677 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
23678 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
23679 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23680 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
23681 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
23682 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
23683 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
23684 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
23685 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
23686 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
23687 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
23688 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
23689 Implements proposal 148.
23691 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23692 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
23693 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
23694 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
23695 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
23696 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
23698 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
23699 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
23700 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
23701 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
23702 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
23703 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23704 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
23705 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23706 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
23708 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
23709 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
23710 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
23711 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
23713 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
23714 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
23715 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
23716 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
23717 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
23718 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
23719 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
23720 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
23721 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23723 o Major bugfixes (clients):
23724 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
23725 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
23726 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
23727 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
23728 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
23729 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
23730 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
23731 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
23732 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
23733 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
23734 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
23735 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
23736 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
23737 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
23738 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
23741 o Major bugfixes (relays):
23742 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
23743 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
23744 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
23745 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
23746 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
23747 patch by Sebastian.
23748 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
23749 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
23750 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
23751 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
23752 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
23753 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
23754 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
23755 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
23756 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
23757 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
23760 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23761 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
23762 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
23763 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
23764 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
23765 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
23767 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
23768 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
23769 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
23770 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
23771 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
23772 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
23773 on a typical directory cache.
23774 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
23775 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
23776 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
23777 and may reduce fragmentation.
23779 o New/changed config options:
23780 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
23781 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
23782 Suggested by Lucky Green.
23783 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
23784 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
23785 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
23786 locked down these days.
23787 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
23788 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23789 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
23790 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
23791 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
23792 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
23793 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
23794 output to messages of warning and error severity.
23795 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
23796 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
23797 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
23798 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
23799 directory requests we should expect to see.
23800 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
23801 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
23802 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
23803 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
23804 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
23805 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
23806 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
23808 o Minor features (relays):
23809 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
23810 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
23811 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
23812 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
23813 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
23815 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
23816 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
23817 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
23818 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
23819 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
23820 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
23821 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
23822 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
23823 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
23824 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
23825 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
23826 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
23827 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
23829 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23830 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
23831 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
23832 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
23833 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
23834 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
23835 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
23836 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
23837 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
23838 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
23839 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
23841 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
23842 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
23843 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
23844 fingerprints with or without space.
23846 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
23847 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
23848 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
23849 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
23850 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
23851 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
23852 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
23853 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
23854 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
23856 o Minor features (bridges):
23857 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
23858 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
23860 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
23861 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
23864 o Minor features (hidden services):
23865 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
23866 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
23867 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
23868 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
23869 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
23870 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
23871 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
23872 faster after restart.
23873 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
23874 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
23876 o Minor features (build and packaging):
23877 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
23879 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
23880 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
23882 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
23883 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
23884 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
23885 entirely. Patch from coderman.
23886 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
23887 are built without support for deprecated functions.
23888 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
23889 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
23890 system to do it for us.
23891 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
23892 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
23893 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
23894 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
23895 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
23896 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
23897 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
23898 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
23899 the letter of C99's alias rules.
23900 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
23901 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
23902 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
23903 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
23904 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
23905 with log.h on Android.
23906 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
23907 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
23909 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
23910 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
23911 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
23912 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
23914 o Minor features (controllers):
23915 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
23916 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
23917 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
23918 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
23919 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
23920 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
23921 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
23922 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
23923 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
23924 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
23926 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
23927 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
23928 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
23929 been fetched and validated.
23930 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
23931 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
23933 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
23935 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
23936 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
23937 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
23938 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
23939 partway through and wants to catch up.
23940 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
23942 o Minor features (tools):
23943 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
23944 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
23945 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
23946 people find host:port too confusing.
23947 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
23948 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
23950 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
23951 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
23952 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23953 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
23954 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
23955 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
23956 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
23957 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
23958 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
23960 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
23961 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
23962 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
23963 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
23964 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
23966 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
23967 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
23968 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
23970 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
23971 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23972 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
23973 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
23974 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
23975 have already been marked for close.
23976 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
23977 memory performance during directory parsing.
23979 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23980 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
23981 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
23982 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
23983 done that for a long time.
23984 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
23985 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
23986 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
23987 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
23988 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
23989 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
23990 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
23991 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
23992 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23993 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
23994 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
23995 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
23996 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
23997 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
23998 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
23999 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
24000 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
24001 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
24002 because of a pending download.
24003 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
24004 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
24005 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
24006 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
24007 bug 820, reported by seeess.
24009 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24010 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
24011 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
24012 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
24013 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
24014 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
24015 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
24016 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
24017 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
24019 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24020 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
24022 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
24023 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
24024 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24025 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
24026 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
24027 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
24028 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
24029 of 0. Suggested by lark.
24030 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
24031 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
24032 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
24033 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
24034 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
24036 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
24037 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
24038 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
24040 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
24041 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
24043 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
24044 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
24045 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
24046 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
24047 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
24048 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
24049 rest, and don't automatically fail.
24050 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
24051 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
24052 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
24053 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
24054 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
24055 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24057 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24058 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
24059 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
24060 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
24061 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
24062 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
24063 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
24065 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
24066 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24068 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24069 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
24070 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
24071 Workaround for bug 1024.
24072 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
24073 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
24074 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
24075 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
24076 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
24077 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
24078 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
24079 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
24082 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
24083 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
24086 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
24087 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
24088 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
24089 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
24090 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
24091 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
24092 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
24094 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
24095 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
24096 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
24097 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
24098 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
24099 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
24100 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
24101 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
24104 o Deprecated and removed features:
24105 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
24106 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
24107 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
24109 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
24111 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
24112 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
24113 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
24114 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
24115 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
24116 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
24117 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
24118 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
24119 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
24120 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
24121 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
24122 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
24123 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
24124 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
24127 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24128 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
24129 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
24130 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
24131 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
24133 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
24134 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
24135 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
24136 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
24137 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
24138 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
24139 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
24140 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
24141 actual mistakes we're making here.
24142 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
24143 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
24144 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
24145 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
24146 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
24147 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
24148 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
24149 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
24150 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
24151 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
24152 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
24153 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
24154 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
24155 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
24156 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
24159 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
24161 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
24162 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
24163 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
24164 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
24165 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24168 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
24169 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
24170 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
24171 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
24172 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
24173 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
24174 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
24175 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
24176 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
24177 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
24180 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
24181 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
24182 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
24183 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
24184 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
24185 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
24186 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
24187 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
24190 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
24191 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
24192 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
24193 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
24194 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
24196 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
24197 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
24198 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
24199 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
24202 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
24203 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24204 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
24205 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
24206 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
24207 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
24208 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
24209 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
24212 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
24213 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
24214 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
24215 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
24218 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
24219 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
24220 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
24221 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
24223 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
24224 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
24225 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
24228 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
24229 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
24232 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
24233 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
24234 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
24235 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
24236 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
24237 reported by "wood".
24238 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
24239 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
24240 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
24241 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
24242 identify a connection.
24243 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
24244 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
24245 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
24246 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
24247 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
24248 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
24249 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24250 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
24251 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
24252 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
24254 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
24255 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
24256 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
24257 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
24258 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
24259 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
24260 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
24263 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
24264 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
24266 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
24267 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
24268 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
24269 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
24270 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
24271 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
24272 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24273 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
24275 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
24276 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
24277 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
24278 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
24279 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
24280 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
24281 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
24282 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
24283 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
24284 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
24285 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
24286 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
24287 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
24288 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
24289 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24290 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
24291 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
24292 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24293 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
24294 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
24295 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
24296 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
24297 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
24298 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
24299 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
24300 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
24301 840. Patch from rovv.
24302 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
24303 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
24304 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
24306 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
24307 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
24308 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
24309 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
24310 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
24311 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
24312 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
24314 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24315 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
24316 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
24319 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
24320 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
24322 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
24323 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
24324 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
24325 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
24326 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
24327 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
24328 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
24329 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
24330 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
24332 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
24334 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
24335 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
24339 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
24340 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
24341 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
24342 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
24343 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
24344 variety of other issues.
24347 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
24348 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
24349 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
24350 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
24351 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
24352 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
24353 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
24354 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
24355 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
24356 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
24357 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
24358 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
24361 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
24362 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24364 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24365 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
24366 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
24367 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
24368 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
24369 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
24370 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24371 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
24372 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
24373 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
24374 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
24375 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
24376 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
24377 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
24378 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
24382 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
24383 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
24384 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
24385 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
24386 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
24387 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
24388 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
24389 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
24390 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
24391 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
24392 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
24393 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
24394 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
24395 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
24396 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
24397 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
24398 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
24399 list. It has been gone for many months.
24400 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
24401 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
24402 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
24405 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24406 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
24407 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
24410 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
24411 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
24412 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
24413 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24416 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24417 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24418 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24419 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
24420 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
24421 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
24423 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
24424 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
24425 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
24426 pointed out by rovv.
24429 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
24430 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24431 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
24432 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24433 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
24434 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
24435 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
24436 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
24437 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
24438 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24439 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
24440 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
24441 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
24442 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24443 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
24444 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
24445 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
24446 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
24447 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
24448 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
24449 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
24452 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
24453 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
24454 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
24455 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
24456 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
24457 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
24458 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
24460 o New v3 directory design:
24461 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
24462 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
24463 network status document rather than each publishing their own
24464 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
24465 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
24466 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
24467 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
24469 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
24470 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
24471 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
24472 dannenberg (run by CCC).
24473 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
24474 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
24475 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
24476 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
24477 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
24478 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
24479 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
24480 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
24481 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
24482 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
24484 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
24485 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
24486 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
24487 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
24488 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
24489 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
24490 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
24491 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
24492 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
24493 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
24494 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
24495 certain censored countries by default again.
24496 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
24497 Tor's x509 certificates.
24499 o Implement bridge relays:
24500 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
24501 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
24502 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
24503 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
24504 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
24505 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
24506 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
24507 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
24508 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
24509 rather than "v2,v3".
24510 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
24511 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
24512 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
24513 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
24514 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
24515 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
24516 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
24517 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
24518 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
24519 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
24520 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
24522 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
24523 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
24524 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
24525 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
24526 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
24527 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
24528 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
24529 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
24530 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
24531 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
24532 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
24533 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
24534 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
24535 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
24536 bridges are functioning.
24537 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
24538 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
24539 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
24540 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
24541 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
24542 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
24543 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
24544 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
24545 knows that password. Unset by default.
24546 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
24547 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
24548 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
24549 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
24550 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
24551 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
24552 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
24553 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
24554 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
24555 and bridges@torproject.org.
24557 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
24558 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
24559 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
24560 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
24561 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
24562 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
24563 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
24564 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
24565 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
24566 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
24567 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
24568 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
24569 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
24570 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
24571 longer a completely silly thing to do.
24573 o Major features (relay usability):
24574 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
24575 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
24576 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
24577 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
24578 proposal 111 for details.
24579 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
24580 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
24581 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
24582 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
24584 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
24585 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
24586 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
24588 o Major features (directory authorities):
24589 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
24590 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
24591 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
24592 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
24593 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
24594 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
24595 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
24596 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
24597 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
24598 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
24599 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
24600 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
24601 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
24603 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
24604 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
24605 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
24606 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
24607 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
24608 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
24609 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
24610 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
24611 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
24612 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
24613 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
24614 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
24615 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
24616 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
24617 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
24618 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
24619 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
24620 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
24621 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
24622 general, controller, or bridge.
24624 o Major features (other):
24625 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
24626 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
24627 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
24628 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
24629 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
24630 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
24631 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
24632 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
24633 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
24634 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
24635 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
24636 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
24637 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
24638 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
24641 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
24642 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
24643 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
24645 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
24646 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
24647 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
24648 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
24649 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
24650 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
24651 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
24652 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
24653 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
24654 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
24655 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
24657 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
24658 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
24660 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
24661 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
24662 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
24663 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
24665 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
24666 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
24667 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
24668 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
24669 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
24671 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
24672 address maps to an internal address space.
24673 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
24674 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
24675 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
24676 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
24677 complements proposal 107.
24678 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
24679 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
24680 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
24681 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
24682 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
24683 reported by taranis and lodger.
24684 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
24685 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
24686 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
24687 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
24688 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
24689 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
24690 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
24691 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
24692 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
24693 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
24694 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
24695 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
24696 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
24698 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
24699 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
24701 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
24702 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
24703 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
24704 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
24705 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
24706 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
24707 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
24709 o Major bugfixes (other):
24710 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
24711 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
24712 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
24714 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
24715 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
24716 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
24717 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
24718 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
24719 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
24720 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
24721 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
24722 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
24723 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
24724 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
24725 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
24726 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
24727 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
24728 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
24729 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
24730 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
24731 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
24732 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
24734 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
24735 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
24736 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
24737 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
24738 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
24739 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
24740 eat all of our bandwidth.
24741 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
24742 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
24743 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
24744 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
24745 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
24746 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
24747 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
24748 bug 688, reported by mfr.
24749 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
24750 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
24751 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
24752 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
24754 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
24755 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
24756 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
24757 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
24758 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
24759 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
24760 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
24761 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
24762 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
24763 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
24764 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
24765 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
24767 o Performance improvements (memory):
24768 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
24769 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
24770 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
24771 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
24772 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
24773 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
24774 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
24775 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
24776 memory fragmentation.
24777 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
24778 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
24779 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
24780 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
24781 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
24783 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
24784 of them were actually distinct.
24785 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
24787 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
24788 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
24789 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
24790 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
24791 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
24792 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
24793 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
24794 performance-intensive.
24795 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
24796 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
24797 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
24798 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
24799 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
24802 o Performance improvements (socket management):
24803 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
24804 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
24805 our allocated connection limit.
24806 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
24807 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
24808 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
24809 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
24810 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
24812 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
24813 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
24815 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
24816 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
24817 is interested in a given message.
24818 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
24819 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
24820 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
24821 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
24822 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
24824 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
24825 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
24826 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
24828 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
24829 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
24830 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
24831 they are the same).
24832 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
24833 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
24834 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
24835 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
24838 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
24839 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
24840 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
24841 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
24842 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
24843 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
24844 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
24846 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
24847 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
24848 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
24849 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
24850 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
24851 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
24852 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
24853 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
24854 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
24855 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
24856 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
24857 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
24858 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
24861 o Changed config option behavior (features):
24862 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
24863 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
24864 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
24865 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
24866 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
24867 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
24868 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
24869 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
24870 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
24871 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
24872 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
24873 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
24874 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
24875 and are reaching it.
24876 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
24877 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
24878 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
24879 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
24881 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
24882 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
24883 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
24884 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
24885 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
24886 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
24887 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
24888 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
24889 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
24891 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
24892 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
24893 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
24894 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
24895 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
24896 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
24897 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
24898 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
24900 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
24901 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
24903 o New config options:
24904 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
24905 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
24906 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
24907 running a test network on a single host.
24908 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
24909 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
24910 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
24911 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
24912 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
24913 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
24914 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
24915 the approved-routers file.
24916 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
24917 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
24918 v2 directory information.
24920 o Minor features (other):
24921 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
24922 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
24923 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
24924 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
24925 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
24926 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
24928 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
24929 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
24930 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
24931 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
24932 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
24933 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
24934 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
24936 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
24937 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
24938 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
24940 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
24941 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
24942 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
24943 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
24944 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
24946 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
24947 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
24948 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
24949 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
24950 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
24951 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
24952 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
24954 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
24955 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
24956 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
24957 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
24958 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
24959 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
24960 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
24961 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
24962 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
24965 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24966 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
24967 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
24969 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
24970 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
24971 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
24972 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
24973 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
24974 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
24976 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
24977 bandwidthburst values.
24978 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
24979 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
24980 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
24981 to mark all our entry points down.
24982 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
24983 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
24984 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
24985 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
24986 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
24988 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
24989 more often than they are allowed to appear.
24990 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
24991 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
24992 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
24993 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
24994 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
24995 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
24996 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
24998 o Controller features:
24999 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
25000 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
25001 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
25002 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
25003 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
25004 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
25006 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
25007 multiple controller passwords.
25008 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
25009 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
25010 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
25011 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
25013 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
25014 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
25015 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
25016 cookie authentication file, and config option
25017 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
25018 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
25019 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25020 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
25022 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
25023 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
25024 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
25025 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
25026 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
25027 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
25028 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
25030 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
25031 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
25033 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
25034 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
25035 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
25036 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
25037 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
25038 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
25039 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
25040 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
25041 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
25042 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
25043 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
25044 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
25045 report the value as a "minimum skew."
25047 o Controller bugfixes:
25048 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
25049 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
25050 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
25051 processes can't run us out of memory.
25052 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
25053 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
25054 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
25056 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
25057 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
25058 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
25059 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
25060 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
25061 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
25062 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
25063 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
25064 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
25065 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
25066 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
25067 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
25068 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
25069 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
25070 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
25072 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
25073 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
25075 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
25076 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
25077 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
25078 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
25079 WARN-severity events.
25081 o Portability / building / compiling:
25082 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
25083 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
25084 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
25085 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
25086 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
25087 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
25088 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
25089 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
25090 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
25091 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
25092 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
25093 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
25094 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
25096 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
25097 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
25098 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
25099 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
25100 Use this version consistently in log messages.
25101 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
25102 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25103 partial results on small file reads.
25104 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
25105 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
25106 a directory. Fix from lodger.
25107 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
25108 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
25109 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
25111 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
25112 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
25113 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
25114 logging for the unit tests.
25115 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
25116 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
25118 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
25119 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
25121 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
25122 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
25123 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
25124 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
25127 o Logging improvements:
25128 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
25129 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
25130 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
25131 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
25132 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
25133 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
25134 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
25136 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
25137 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
25138 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
25139 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
25140 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
25141 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
25142 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
25143 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
25144 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
25145 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
25146 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
25147 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
25148 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25149 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
25150 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
25151 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
25152 Good in combination with --hash-password.
25153 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
25154 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
25156 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
25157 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
25158 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
25159 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
25161 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
25162 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
25163 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
25164 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
25165 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
25167 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
25168 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
25169 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
25170 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
25171 makes the log messages nicer.
25172 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
25173 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
25175 o Contributed scripts and tools:
25176 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
25177 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
25179 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
25180 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
25181 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
25182 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
25183 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
25184 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
25185 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
25186 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
25187 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
25188 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
25190 o Newly deprecated features:
25191 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
25192 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
25193 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
25194 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
25196 o Removed features:
25197 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
25198 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
25199 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
25200 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
25201 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
25203 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
25204 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
25205 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
25206 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
25207 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
25208 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
25209 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
25210 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
25212 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
25213 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
25214 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
25215 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
25216 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
25217 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
25219 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
25220 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
25221 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
25222 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
25223 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
25224 patch from Karsten Loesing.
25225 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
25226 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
25227 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
25228 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
25229 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
25230 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
25231 code), this assumption no longer holds.
25232 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
25236 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
25237 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
25238 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
25239 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25242 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
25243 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
25244 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
25245 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
25246 on network address.
25249 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
25250 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
25251 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
25252 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
25253 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
25254 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
25255 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
25256 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
25257 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
25258 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
25259 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
25260 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
25263 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
25264 rebuild our server descriptor.
25265 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
25266 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
25267 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
25268 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
25269 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
25270 nonstandard integer types.
25271 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
25272 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
25273 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
25274 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
25275 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
25277 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
25278 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
25279 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
25280 when they receive them.
25281 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
25282 This includes some 64-bit systems.
25283 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
25284 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
25285 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
25286 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
25287 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
25288 router_get_by_hexdigest().
25289 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
25290 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
25294 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
25295 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
25296 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
25297 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
25298 lists for a few hours each day.
25300 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25301 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
25302 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
25303 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
25304 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
25305 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25306 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
25307 rend_process_relay_cell().
25309 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25310 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
25311 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
25312 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
25313 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
25314 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
25315 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
25316 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
25318 o Major bugfixes (other):
25319 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
25320 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
25321 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
25322 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
25323 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
25324 circuit cannibalization).
25325 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
25326 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
25327 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
25328 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
25329 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
25330 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
25333 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
25334 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
25336 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
25337 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
25338 absent. Resolves bug 467.
25339 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
25340 a way to trigger this remotely.)
25341 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
25342 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
25343 were reporting the dir port.)
25344 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
25345 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
25346 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
25347 the future. Fixes bug 434.
25348 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
25350 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
25351 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
25352 the onion key from getting rotated.
25353 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
25354 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
25355 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
25356 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
25357 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
25358 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
25359 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25362 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
25363 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
25364 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
25365 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
25366 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
25369 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
25370 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
25373 o Major bugfixes (security):
25374 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
25375 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
25376 become more of a headache than it's worth.
25378 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
25379 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
25380 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
25382 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
25383 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
25384 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
25385 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
25386 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
25387 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
25389 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
25390 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
25391 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
25392 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
25393 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
25395 o Minor features (controller):
25396 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
25397 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
25398 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
25399 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
25401 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
25402 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
25403 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
25404 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
25405 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
25406 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
25407 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
25408 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
25410 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25411 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
25412 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
25413 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
25414 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
25415 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
25416 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
25417 if we ran off the end of the list.
25418 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
25419 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
25420 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
25421 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
25422 every time we change any piece of our config.
25423 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
25424 encourage people using them to stop.
25425 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
25427 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
25428 servers to choose a circuit.
25429 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
25430 unparseable piece of it.
25433 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
25434 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
25435 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
25436 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
25437 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
25438 TorK, etc. Or worse.
25440 o Major security fixes:
25441 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
25442 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
25445 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
25446 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
25447 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
25448 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
25450 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
25451 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
25453 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25454 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
25455 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
25456 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
25457 routerlist while inserting a new router.
25458 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
25459 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
25461 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
25462 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
25463 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
25465 o Major bugfixes (security):
25466 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
25468 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
25469 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
25470 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
25471 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
25472 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
25473 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
25474 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
25475 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
25476 guard list unless we need to.
25478 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
25479 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
25480 don't get overused as guards.
25482 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
25483 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
25484 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
25485 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
25486 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
25488 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25489 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
25490 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
25493 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25494 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
25495 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
25496 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
25497 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
25498 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
25499 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
25500 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
25503 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
25504 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
25505 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
25506 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
25508 o Directory authority changes:
25509 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
25510 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
25511 or use hidden services.
25513 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25514 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
25515 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
25516 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
25517 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
25518 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
25519 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
25520 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
25521 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
25524 o Major bugfixes (security):
25525 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
25526 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
25527 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
25529 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
25530 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
25531 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
25532 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
25533 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
25534 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
25535 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
25536 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
25537 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
25538 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
25541 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
25542 purpose=controller.
25543 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
25544 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
25546 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
25547 having a hard time downloading.
25548 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25549 partial results on small file reads.
25550 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
25551 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
25552 the gaps in the store get very large.
25555 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
25556 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
25558 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
25559 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
25562 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
25563 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
25564 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
25565 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
25566 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
25567 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
25569 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
25570 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
25571 free speech on the Internet.
25573 o Major features, client performance:
25574 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
25575 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
25576 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
25577 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
25578 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
25579 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
25580 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
25581 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
25582 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
25583 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
25584 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
25585 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
25586 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
25587 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
25588 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
25590 o Major features, client functionality:
25591 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
25592 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
25593 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
25594 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
25595 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
25596 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
25597 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
25598 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
25599 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
25600 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
25601 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
25602 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
25603 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
25605 o Major features, servers:
25606 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
25607 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
25608 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
25609 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
25610 authenticated, so use with care.
25611 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
25612 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
25613 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
25615 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
25616 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
25617 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
25618 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
25619 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
25620 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
25622 o Improvements on DNS support:
25623 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
25624 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
25625 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
25626 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
25627 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
25628 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
25629 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
25630 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
25631 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
25632 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
25633 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
25634 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
25635 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
25636 lets you turn it off.
25637 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
25638 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
25639 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
25640 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
25641 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
25642 useful to the network.
25643 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
25644 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
25645 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
25646 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
25647 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
25648 our tests for DNS hijacking.
25650 o Improvements on reachability testing:
25651 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
25652 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
25653 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
25654 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
25655 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
25656 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
25657 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
25658 if their identity keys are as expected.
25659 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
25660 chews through many circuits before giving up.
25661 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
25662 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
25663 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
25664 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
25665 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
25666 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
25667 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
25668 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
25669 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
25670 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
25671 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
25672 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
25674 o Improvements on rate limiting:
25675 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
25676 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
25677 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
25678 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
25679 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
25681 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
25682 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
25683 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
25684 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
25685 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
25686 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
25687 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
25688 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
25690 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
25691 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
25693 o Major features, NT services:
25694 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
25695 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
25696 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
25697 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
25698 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
25699 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
25700 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
25702 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
25703 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
25704 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
25706 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
25707 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
25708 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
25710 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
25711 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
25713 o Directory authority improvements:
25714 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
25716 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
25717 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
25718 too much load to the exit nodes.
25719 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
25720 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
25721 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
25722 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
25723 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
25724 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
25725 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
25726 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
25727 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
25728 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
25729 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
25730 broken. Not used yet.
25731 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
25732 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
25733 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
25734 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
25735 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
25736 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
25737 non-versioning dirservers.
25738 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
25739 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
25740 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
25742 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
25743 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
25744 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
25745 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
25747 o Directory mirrors and clients:
25748 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
25749 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
25750 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
25751 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
25752 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
25753 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
25754 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
25755 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
25756 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
25757 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
25758 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
25759 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
25760 routers for even longer.
25761 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
25762 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
25763 caching HTTP proxies.
25764 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
25765 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
25766 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
25767 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
25769 o Major fixes, crashes:
25770 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
25771 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
25772 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
25773 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
25775 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
25776 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
25777 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
25778 stream is detached.
25779 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
25780 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
25781 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
25782 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
25783 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
25784 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
25785 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
25786 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
25787 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
25788 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
25790 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
25791 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
25792 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
25793 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
25794 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
25795 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
25796 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
25797 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
25798 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
25799 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
25800 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
25801 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
25802 could return an unnamed server instead.
25803 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
25804 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
25805 a more attractive target for compromise.)
25806 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
25807 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
25808 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
25809 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
25811 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
25812 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
25814 o Major fixes, other:
25815 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
25816 uptime in the descriptor.
25817 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
25818 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
25819 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
25820 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
25821 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
25822 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
25823 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
25824 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
25825 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
25826 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
25827 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
25828 our DirPort now, etc.
25829 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
25830 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
25831 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
25833 o New config options or behaviors:
25834 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
25835 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
25836 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
25837 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
25838 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
25839 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
25840 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
25841 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
25842 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
25843 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25844 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
25845 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
25847 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
25848 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
25849 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
25850 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
25851 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
25853 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
25854 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
25855 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
25856 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
25857 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
25858 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
25859 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
25860 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
25861 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
25862 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
25863 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
25864 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
25865 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
25866 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
25867 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
25868 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
25869 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
25870 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
25871 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
25872 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
25873 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
25874 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
25875 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
25876 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
25877 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
25878 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
25879 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
25880 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
25881 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
25882 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
25884 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
25885 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
25886 your ORPort is set.
25889 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
25890 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
25892 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
25893 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
25894 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
25895 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
25897 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
25898 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
25899 whether the config options are bad or good.
25900 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
25901 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
25902 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
25903 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
25904 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
25905 result more than once.
25906 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
25907 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
25908 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
25909 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
25910 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
25911 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
25912 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
25913 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
25914 before we check for libevent.
25915 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
25916 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
25917 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
25918 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
25919 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
25920 recommendation system saner.)
25921 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
25922 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
25923 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
25924 now universal binaries.
25925 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
25926 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
25928 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
25930 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
25931 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
25932 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
25933 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
25934 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
25935 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
25937 o Minor features, controller:
25938 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
25939 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
25940 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
25942 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
25943 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
25944 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
25945 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
25946 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
25947 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
25948 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
25950 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
25951 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
25952 connected or resolved cell.
25953 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
25954 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
25955 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
25956 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
25957 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
25958 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
25959 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
25961 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
25962 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
25963 entry guard status as it changes.
25964 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
25965 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
25966 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
25967 watching for STREAM events.
25968 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
25969 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
25970 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
25971 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
25973 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
25974 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
25975 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
25976 working much like those for circuit events.
25977 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
25978 about the current status of a router.
25979 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
25980 a router's status has changed.
25981 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
25982 can tell which events and features are supported.
25983 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
25984 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
25985 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
25986 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
25987 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
25988 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
25989 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
25990 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
25991 for more information.
25992 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
25993 best guess to the user.
25994 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
25995 descriptor has changed.
25996 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
25997 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
25998 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
26000 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
26001 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
26002 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
26003 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
26004 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
26005 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
26006 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
26007 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
26008 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
26009 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
26010 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
26012 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
26013 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
26015 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
26016 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
26017 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
26019 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
26020 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
26021 the controller from learning about current events.
26022 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
26023 reported by Mike Perry.
26024 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
26025 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
26026 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
26027 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
26028 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
26029 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
26030 long nicknames where appropriate.
26031 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
26032 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
26034 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
26035 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
26036 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
26037 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
26038 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
26040 o Minor features, code performance:
26041 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
26042 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
26043 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
26045 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
26046 some profiles, but not others.)
26047 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
26048 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
26049 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
26050 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
26051 operations, for profiling.
26052 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
26053 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
26054 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
26055 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
26056 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
26057 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
26058 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
26059 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
26061 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
26062 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
26063 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
26064 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
26065 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
26066 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
26067 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
26068 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
26069 family lists conveniently.
26071 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
26072 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
26073 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
26074 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
26075 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
26076 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
26077 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
26078 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
26079 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
26080 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
26081 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
26082 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
26083 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
26084 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
26085 of it), is not therefore "up".
26087 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
26088 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
26089 what version a router is running.
26090 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
26091 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
26092 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
26093 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
26095 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
26096 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
26097 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
26098 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
26099 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
26102 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
26103 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
26104 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
26106 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
26107 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
26109 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
26110 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
26111 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
26112 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
26113 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
26114 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
26115 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
26116 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
26117 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
26118 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
26120 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
26121 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
26122 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
26123 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
26124 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
26125 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
26126 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
26127 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
26128 get one we don't recognize.
26131 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
26132 o Security bugfixes:
26133 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
26134 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
26135 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
26136 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
26140 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
26141 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
26142 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
26145 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
26147 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
26148 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
26149 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
26150 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
26151 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
26152 its circuits on demand.
26153 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
26154 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
26155 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
26156 connections more stable on average.
26157 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
26158 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
26159 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
26161 o Security bugfixes:
26162 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
26163 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
26166 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
26168 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
26169 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
26170 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
26171 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
26172 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
26173 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
26174 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
26175 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
26178 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
26180 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
26181 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
26182 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
26183 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
26184 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
26185 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
26186 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
26187 it can't resolve its hostname.
26188 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
26189 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
26190 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
26193 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
26194 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
26195 "extendcircuit" request.
26196 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
26197 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
26198 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
26199 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
26201 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
26202 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
26203 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
26205 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
26206 methods: these are known to be buggy.
26207 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
26208 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
26209 we don't recognize.
26212 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
26214 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
26215 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
26216 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
26217 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
26218 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
26219 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
26220 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
26221 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
26222 test reachability, so you won't publish.
26225 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
26226 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
26227 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
26228 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
26229 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
26231 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
26232 own server descriptor yet.
26235 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
26237 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
26238 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
26239 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
26240 make sure to test via one of these.
26241 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
26242 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
26243 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
26244 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
26245 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
26247 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
26248 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
26249 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
26252 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
26253 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
26254 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
26255 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
26256 directory authority.
26257 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
26258 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
26259 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
26260 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
26263 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
26264 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
26265 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
26267 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
26268 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
26269 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
26270 current guards when picking a new guard.
26271 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
26272 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
26273 when we had more than one pending.
26274 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
26275 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
26276 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
26277 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
26278 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
26279 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
26280 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
26281 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
26282 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
26283 debug the reachability problems better.
26285 o Log / documentation fixes:
26286 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
26287 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
26288 about protocol violations by others.
26289 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
26290 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
26291 about what happened to our old torrc.
26294 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
26295 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
26296 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
26297 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
26298 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
26299 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
26301 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
26302 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
26303 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
26304 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
26305 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
26306 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
26307 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
26308 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
26309 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
26310 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
26311 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
26312 on malicious huge inputs.
26314 o Security fixes, major:
26315 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
26316 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
26317 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
26318 misreading their logs.
26319 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
26320 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
26321 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
26322 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
26323 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
26324 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
26325 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
26326 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
26327 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
26328 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
26329 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
26330 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
26331 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
26332 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
26334 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
26335 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
26336 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
26337 firewall options forbid.
26338 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
26339 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
26340 can only proxy to certain destinations.
26341 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
26342 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
26343 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
26345 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
26346 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
26347 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
26348 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
26349 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
26350 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
26351 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
26352 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
26353 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
26354 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
26355 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
26356 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
26357 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
26359 o Security fixes, minor:
26360 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
26361 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
26363 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
26364 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
26365 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
26366 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
26367 if we've not heard of a server.
26368 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
26369 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
26370 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
26371 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
26372 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
26373 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
26374 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
26375 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
26376 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
26377 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
26378 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
26379 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
26380 aids some statistical attacks.
26381 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
26382 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
26383 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
26384 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
26385 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
26386 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
26387 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
26388 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
26391 o Packaging improvements:
26392 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
26393 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
26394 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
26395 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
26396 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
26397 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
26399 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
26400 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
26401 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
26402 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
26403 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
26404 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
26406 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
26407 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
26408 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
26410 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
26411 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
26412 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
26413 They are useless now.
26414 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
26415 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
26416 is reachable by you.
26417 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
26420 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
26421 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
26422 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
26423 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
26424 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
26425 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
26426 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
26427 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
26428 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
26429 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
26430 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
26431 and isolating attacks better.
26432 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
26433 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
26434 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
26435 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
26436 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
26437 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
26438 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
26439 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
26440 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
26441 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
26442 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
26444 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
26445 can answer v2 directory requests too.
26446 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
26447 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
26448 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
26449 mirrors still cache and serve it).
26450 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
26451 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
26452 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
26453 for clients and for servers.
26454 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
26455 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
26456 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
26457 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
26458 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
26459 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
26460 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
26461 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
26462 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
26463 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
26464 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
26466 o Other directory improvements:
26467 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
26468 fifth authoritative directory servers.
26469 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
26470 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
26471 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
26472 to hang up on them.
26473 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
26474 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
26475 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
26476 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
26477 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
26478 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
26480 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
26481 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
26482 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
26483 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
26484 connections more reliable.
26485 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
26486 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
26487 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
26488 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
26489 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
26490 we fail to connect).
26491 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
26493 o Controller protocol improvements:
26494 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
26495 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
26496 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
26497 applications without caring how our protocol works.
26498 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
26499 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
26500 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
26501 many bytes we've used in this time period.
26502 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
26503 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
26504 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
26505 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
26506 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
26507 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
26508 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
26509 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
26510 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
26511 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
26512 or "signal reload".
26513 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
26514 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
26515 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
26516 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
26517 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
26518 a router in its role as directory authority.
26519 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
26520 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
26521 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
26522 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
26523 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
26524 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
26525 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
26526 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
26527 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
26528 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
26529 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
26530 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
26531 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
26532 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
26533 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
26534 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
26535 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
26536 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
26538 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
26539 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
26540 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
26541 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
26542 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
26543 just tell them to go read their logs.
26545 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
26546 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
26547 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
26548 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
26549 try to be a bit more fair.
26550 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
26551 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
26552 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
26553 and we're using a default DirPort.
26554 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
26555 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
26556 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
26557 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
26558 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
26559 services faster on the service end.
26560 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
26562 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
26563 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
26564 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
26565 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
26566 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
26567 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
26568 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
26569 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
26570 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
26571 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
26572 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
26573 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
26574 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
26575 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
26576 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
26577 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
26578 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
26579 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
26580 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
26581 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
26582 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
26583 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
26584 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
26585 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
26586 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
26588 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
26589 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
26590 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
26591 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
26592 so we can be backward-compatible.
26593 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
26594 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
26595 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
26596 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
26597 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
26598 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
26599 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
26600 initial descriptor forever.
26601 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
26602 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
26603 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
26604 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
26605 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
26606 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
26607 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
26608 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
26609 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
26610 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
26611 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
26612 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
26613 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
26614 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
26615 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
26616 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
26617 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
26618 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
26619 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
26620 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
26621 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
26622 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
26623 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
26624 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
26625 ports that have changed.
26626 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
26627 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
26628 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
26629 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
26630 connections once a week.
26631 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
26632 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
26633 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
26634 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
26635 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
26636 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
26637 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
26638 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
26639 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
26640 able to discover them.
26641 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
26642 want to make it an NT service.
26643 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
26644 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
26645 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
26646 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
26647 memory leaks better.
26648 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
26649 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
26650 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
26651 statistics are now uint64_t's.
26652 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
26653 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
26654 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
26655 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
26656 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
26657 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
26658 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
26659 default ulimit -n is 1024.
26660 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
26661 and its existence is confusing some users.
26663 o Config option fixes:
26664 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
26665 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
26666 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
26667 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
26668 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
26669 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
26670 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
26671 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
26672 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
26674 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
26675 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
26676 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
26677 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
26678 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
26679 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
26680 it would silently ignore the 6668.
26681 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
26682 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
26683 silently resetting it to its default.
26684 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
26685 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
26686 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
26687 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
26688 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
26689 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
26690 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
26691 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
26692 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
26693 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
26694 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
26695 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
26696 Address config option.
26697 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
26698 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
26700 o Config option features:
26701 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
26702 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
26703 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
26704 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
26705 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
26707 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
26708 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
26709 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
26710 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
26711 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
26712 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
26713 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
26714 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
26715 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
26716 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
26717 in at least some cases.)
26718 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
26719 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
26720 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
26721 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
26722 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
26723 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
26724 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
26725 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
26726 even if we know they're jerks.
26727 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
26728 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
26729 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
26730 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
26731 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
26732 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
26733 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
26734 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
26735 because older Tors do not understand it.
26736 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
26737 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
26738 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
26739 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
26740 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
26741 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
26742 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
26743 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
26744 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
26745 unattached before we fail it?
26746 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
26747 at least this many seconds ago.
26748 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
26749 at least this many seconds ago.
26750 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
26751 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
26753 o Improved and clearer log messages:
26754 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
26755 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
26756 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
26758 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
26759 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
26760 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
26761 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
26762 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
26763 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
26764 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
26765 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
26766 temporarily unreachable.
26767 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
26768 Windows-style errno back.
26769 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
26770 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
26772 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
26773 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
26774 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
26775 exactly for this case.
26776 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
26777 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
26778 don't warn twice about the same name.
26779 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
26781 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
26782 it was self-testing that told us so.
26783 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
26784 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
26785 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
26786 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
26787 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
26788 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
26789 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
26790 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
26791 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
26792 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
26793 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
26794 established a circuit.
26795 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
26796 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
26797 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
26798 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
26799 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
26800 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
26801 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
26802 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
26803 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
26804 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
26805 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
26806 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
26807 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
26808 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
26809 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
26810 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
26811 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
26812 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
26813 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
26814 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
26815 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
26816 testing for reachability.
26817 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
26818 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
26820 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
26823 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
26824 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26825 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
26826 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
26828 o Other important bugfixes:
26829 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
26830 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
26831 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
26832 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
26834 o Backported features:
26835 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
26836 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
26837 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
26838 without getting overloaded.
26839 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
26840 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
26841 503's whenever they feel busy.
26842 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
26843 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
26844 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
26845 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
26846 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
26849 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
26850 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26851 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
26852 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
26853 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
26854 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
26855 too -- so detect and avoid this.
26856 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
26858 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
26859 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
26860 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
26861 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
26862 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
26863 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
26864 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
26865 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
26866 rendezvous circuits.
26867 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
26869 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26870 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
26871 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
26872 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
26873 advertising it because of hibernation.
26874 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
26875 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
26876 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
26877 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
26878 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
26879 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
26880 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
26881 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
26882 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
26883 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
26884 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
26885 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
26886 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
26887 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
26888 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
26891 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
26892 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26893 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
26894 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
26895 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
26896 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
26897 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
26898 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
26899 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
26900 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
26901 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
26902 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
26903 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
26904 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
26905 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
26908 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
26909 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26910 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
26912 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
26913 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
26916 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
26917 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26918 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
26919 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
26920 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
26921 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
26922 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
26924 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
26925 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
26929 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
26930 o New directory servers:
26931 - tor26 has changed IP address.
26933 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26934 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
26935 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
26936 pthreads libraries.
26937 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
26938 claims its dirport is 0.
26939 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
26940 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
26944 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
26945 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26946 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
26947 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
26948 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
26949 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
26950 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
26951 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
26954 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
26956 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
26957 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
26958 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
26959 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
26960 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
26961 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
26962 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
26963 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
26964 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
26966 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
26967 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
26969 o Assert / crash bugs:
26970 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
26971 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
26972 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
26974 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
26975 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
26976 TLS errors better in other situations too.
26977 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
26978 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
26981 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
26982 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
26983 duplicate ram over time.
26984 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
26985 reentry and threadsafeness.
26986 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
26987 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
26988 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
26990 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
26991 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
26992 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
26993 point at your Tor server.
26994 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
26996 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
26997 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
27000 o Protocol correctness:
27001 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
27002 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
27003 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
27004 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
27005 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
27006 to abandon partially built circuits.
27007 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
27008 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
27009 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
27010 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
27011 descriptors we just dropped.
27012 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
27013 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
27014 and to take errno into account where possible.
27015 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
27016 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
27017 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
27018 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
27020 o Robustness improvements:
27021 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
27022 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
27023 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
27025 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
27026 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
27027 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
27028 that will want high uptime circuits.
27029 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
27030 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
27031 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
27032 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
27033 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
27034 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
27035 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
27036 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
27037 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
27038 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
27039 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
27040 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
27041 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
27042 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
27043 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
27044 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
27045 for google.com" problem.
27046 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
27047 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
27048 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
27049 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
27050 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
27053 o Reachability testing.
27054 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
27055 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
27056 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
27057 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
27058 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
27059 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
27060 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
27061 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
27062 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
27063 already connected to them.
27064 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
27068 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
27069 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
27070 nickname+key are allowed.
27071 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
27072 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
27073 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
27074 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
27075 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
27076 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
27077 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
27078 have quite wrong clocks).
27079 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
27080 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
27081 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
27082 their descriptors are being rejected.
27084 o Efficiency improvements:
27085 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
27086 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
27087 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
27088 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
27089 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
27090 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
27091 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
27092 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
27093 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
27094 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
27096 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
27097 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
27098 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
27099 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
27100 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
27101 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
27102 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
27103 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
27104 of CPU time plus memory.
27105 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
27106 directory every time you regenerate it.
27107 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
27108 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
27109 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
27110 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
27111 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
27112 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
27113 lowercase when you first see them.
27116 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
27117 hidden services better.
27118 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
27119 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
27120 when we try to launch one.
27121 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
27122 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
27123 attempts to build a circuit.
27124 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
27125 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
27126 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
27127 normal web requests.
27130 - More Tor controller support. See
27131 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
27132 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
27133 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
27134 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
27135 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
27136 to make it easier to write controllers.
27137 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
27138 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
27139 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
27140 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
27141 new log event types.
27143 o New config options/defaults:
27144 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
27145 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
27146 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
27147 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
27148 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
27150 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
27152 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
27153 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
27154 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
27155 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
27156 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
27158 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
27159 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
27160 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
27161 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
27162 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
27163 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
27164 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
27165 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
27166 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
27167 required exit node for certain sites.
27168 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
27169 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
27170 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
27171 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
27172 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
27173 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
27174 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
27175 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
27176 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
27178 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
27179 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
27180 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
27181 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
27182 private-IP addresses.
27183 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
27184 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
27185 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
27186 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
27187 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
27188 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
27189 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
27190 is valid without actually launching Tor.
27192 o Logging improvements:
27193 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
27194 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
27195 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
27196 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
27198 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
27199 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
27200 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
27201 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
27202 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
27203 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
27204 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
27205 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
27206 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
27208 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
27210 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
27211 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
27212 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
27213 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
27214 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
27215 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
27217 o New contrib scripts:
27218 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
27219 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
27221 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
27222 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
27223 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
27224 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
27225 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
27226 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
27228 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
27229 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
27230 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
27231 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
27235 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
27236 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
27237 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
27238 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
27239 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
27240 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
27241 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
27243 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
27244 something more reasonable when first installing.
27245 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
27246 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
27247 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
27248 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
27250 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
27251 artificially capped at 500kB.
27252 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
27254 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
27255 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
27256 they could use instead.
27257 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
27258 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
27259 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
27260 the user asks you to.
27263 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
27264 rather than just rejecting it.
27265 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
27266 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
27267 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
27268 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
27269 rather than just "success" or "failure".
27270 - A more sane version numbering system. See
27271 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
27272 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
27273 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
27274 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
27275 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
27276 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
27278 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
27279 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
27280 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
27281 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
27283 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
27284 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
27286 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
27287 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
27288 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
27289 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
27291 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
27292 whether the server is hibernating.
27295 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
27296 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
27297 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
27298 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
27299 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
27303 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
27304 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27305 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
27306 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
27307 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
27310 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
27311 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27312 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
27313 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
27314 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
27315 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
27316 busy for more than 100 seconds.
27319 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
27320 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27321 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
27322 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
27323 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
27324 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
27325 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
27326 creating actual system users.
27327 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
27328 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
27332 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
27333 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
27334 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
27335 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
27336 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
27337 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
27338 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
27339 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
27340 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
27341 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
27342 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
27343 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
27344 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
27345 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
27346 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
27348 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
27349 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
27350 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
27351 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
27352 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
27353 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
27354 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
27355 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
27356 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
27357 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
27358 existing torrc files.
27359 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
27362 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
27363 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27364 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
27365 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
27366 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
27367 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
27368 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
27369 the win32 SYSTEM account.
27370 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
27371 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
27372 file descriptors available.
27373 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
27374 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
27375 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
27378 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
27379 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27380 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
27381 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
27383 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
27384 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
27385 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
27386 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
27387 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
27389 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
27390 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
27391 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
27392 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
27393 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
27394 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
27395 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
27396 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
27397 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
27398 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
27399 800kB/s of capacity.
27400 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
27403 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
27404 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27405 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
27406 need as much processor time.
27407 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
27408 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
27409 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
27410 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
27411 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
27412 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
27413 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
27414 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
27415 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
27416 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
27417 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
27418 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
27420 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
27421 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
27422 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
27423 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
27424 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
27425 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
27426 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
27429 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
27430 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
27431 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
27433 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
27434 style address, then we'd crash.
27435 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
27436 a dirserver is broken.
27437 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
27439 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
27440 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
27441 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
27443 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
27444 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
27445 name out of the warning/assert messages.
27446 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
27447 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
27448 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
27450 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
27451 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
27452 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
27454 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
27456 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
27457 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
27458 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
27459 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
27460 values at once couldn't work.
27461 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
27462 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
27463 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
27464 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
27465 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
27466 they can handle any number of routers.
27467 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
27468 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
27469 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
27470 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
27471 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
27472 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
27473 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
27474 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
27475 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
27478 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
27479 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27480 - Make hibernation actually work.
27481 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
27482 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
27483 don't use the stream status code.
27486 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
27487 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
27488 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
27489 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
27490 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
27491 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
27492 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
27493 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
27494 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
27495 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
27496 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
27497 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
27500 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
27501 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
27502 win32 socket errors better.
27503 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
27504 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
27505 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
27506 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
27508 - Make unit tests work on win32.
27510 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
27511 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
27512 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
27513 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
27514 right after sending the begin cell.
27515 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
27516 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
27517 exit nodes too. Oops.
27518 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
27519 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
27520 the user would get no response.
27521 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
27522 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
27523 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
27525 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
27526 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
27527 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
27528 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
27529 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
27531 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
27532 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
27533 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
27534 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
27535 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
27536 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
27537 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
27538 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
27539 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
27540 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
27541 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
27543 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
27544 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
27545 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
27546 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
27547 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
27548 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
27549 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
27550 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
27551 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
27552 so we don't see those messages days later.
27553 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
27554 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
27556 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
27557 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
27558 they ran out of file descriptors.
27559 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
27560 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
27561 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
27562 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
27564 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
27565 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
27566 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
27567 the ones we find in directories.)
27568 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
27569 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
27570 if you don't want it open.
27571 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
27572 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
27573 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
27574 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
27575 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
27576 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
27578 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
27579 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
27581 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
27583 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
27584 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
27586 o Features (circuits and streams):
27587 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
27588 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
27589 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
27590 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
27591 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
27592 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
27593 the user knows which one it's talking about.
27594 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
27595 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
27596 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
27597 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
27598 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
27599 from Geoff Goodell.
27600 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
27602 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
27603 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
27604 to fill the last cell completely.
27605 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
27606 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
27608 o Features (bandwidth):
27609 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
27610 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
27611 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
27612 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
27613 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
27614 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
27615 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
27616 your billing cycle starts on.
27617 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
27618 hibernation properties by
27619 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
27620 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
27621 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
27622 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
27623 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
27625 o Features (directories):
27626 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
27627 nickname to its identity key.
27628 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
27629 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
27630 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
27631 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
27632 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
27634 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
27635 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
27637 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
27638 will be able to get a directory.
27639 - Http proxy support
27640 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
27641 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
27642 be routed through this host.
27643 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
27644 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
27645 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
27646 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
27647 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
27648 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
27650 o Features (packages and install):
27651 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
27652 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
27653 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
27654 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
27655 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
27656 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
27657 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
27658 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
27659 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
27660 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
27663 o Features (ui controller):
27664 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
27665 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
27666 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
27667 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
27668 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
27669 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
27670 with the control port.
27671 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
27672 use in authenticating to the control interface.
27673 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
27674 configuration to torrc.
27675 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
27676 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
27677 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
27679 o Features (config and command-line):
27680 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
27681 not on the command line.
27682 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
27684 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
27685 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
27686 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
27687 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
27688 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
27689 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
27690 - New log format in config:
27691 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
27692 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
27693 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
27694 from their dirserver.
27695 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
27697 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
27698 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
27699 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
27700 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
27701 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
27702 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
27703 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
27704 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
27705 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
27706 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
27707 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
27708 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
27709 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
27710 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
27711 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
27712 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
27713 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
27714 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
27715 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
27716 than once per minute.
27718 o Features (other):
27719 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
27720 get back to normal.)
27721 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
27722 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
27723 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
27724 log more informatively.
27725 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
27726 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
27727 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
27728 from each other, to hinder linkability.
27729 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
27730 them act more like real nodes.
27731 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
27732 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
27733 1024) file descriptors.
27734 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
27737 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
27739 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
27740 clients/servers with an open dirport.
27741 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
27742 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
27743 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
27744 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
27745 intermittent connections.
27746 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
27747 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
27749 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
27750 in reporting stats locally.
27751 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
27752 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
27753 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
27756 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
27758 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
27759 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
27760 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
27761 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
27762 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
27763 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
27764 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
27765 list to decide who's running.
27766 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
27767 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
27768 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
27769 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
27770 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
27771 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
27772 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
27773 for pointing out this bug.)
27774 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
27776 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
27777 don't put it into the client dns cache.
27778 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
27779 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
27780 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
27782 o Protocol changes:
27783 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
27784 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
27785 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
27786 hadn't heard of before.
27789 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
27790 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
27791 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
27792 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
27793 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
27794 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
27795 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
27796 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
27797 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
27798 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
27799 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
27800 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
27801 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
27802 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
27803 - Directory caching.
27804 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
27805 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
27806 directory they've pulled down.
27807 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
27808 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
27809 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
27810 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
27811 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
27812 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
27813 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
27815 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
27816 This isn't used yet.
27817 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
27818 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
27819 clients don't use this yet.)
27820 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
27821 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
27822 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
27823 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
27824 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
27825 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
27826 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
27827 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
27828 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
27829 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
27830 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
27831 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
27832 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
27833 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
27834 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
27835 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
27836 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
27837 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
27838 - File and name management:
27839 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
27840 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
27842 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
27843 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
27844 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
27845 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
27846 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
27847 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
27848 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
27850 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
27851 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
27852 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
27854 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
27855 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
27856 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
27857 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
27858 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
27859 - New docs in the tarball:
27861 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
27862 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
27863 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
27864 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
27865 know you might want to get it verified.
27866 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
27867 kazaa, gnutella ports.
27868 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
27869 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
27870 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
27871 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
27872 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
27873 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
27874 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
27876 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
27878 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
27879 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
27881 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
27882 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
27883 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
27886 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
27887 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
27888 ask them to resolve the host "".
27891 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
27892 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
27893 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
27896 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
27897 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
27898 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
27901 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
27902 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
27903 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
27904 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
27906 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
27907 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
27908 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
27910 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
27911 hidden service per 15-minute period.
27912 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
27913 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
27914 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
27915 o Fixes for security bugs:
27916 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
27917 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
27918 a trusted dirserver.
27920 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
27921 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
27922 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
27923 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
27924 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
27925 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
27926 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
27927 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
27928 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
27929 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
27931 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
27932 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
27933 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
27934 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
27935 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
27936 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
27938 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
27941 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
27942 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
27943 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
27944 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
27945 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
27946 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
27947 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
27948 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
27949 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
27950 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
27951 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
27952 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
27953 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
27954 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
27957 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
27958 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
27959 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
27960 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
27963 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
27964 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
27965 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
27966 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
27967 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
27968 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
27969 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
27973 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
27975 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
27976 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
27977 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
27978 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
27979 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
27980 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
27981 if you decrypted them correctly.
27982 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
27983 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
27984 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
27985 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
27986 in-memory directories too.
27987 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
27988 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
27989 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
27990 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
27991 just close the circ.
27992 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
27993 - Better debugging for tls errors
27994 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
27995 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
27997 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
27998 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
27999 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
28000 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
28001 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
28002 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
28003 it tells you about the first error.
28004 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
28005 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
28006 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
28007 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
28008 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
28009 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
28010 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
28011 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
28012 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
28013 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
28015 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
28016 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
28019 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
28020 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
28022 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
28023 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
28024 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
28025 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
28026 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
28027 expect it to have a nickname.
28028 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
28029 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
28030 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
28031 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
28032 the dns farm to do it.
28033 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
28034 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
28036 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
28037 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
28038 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
28039 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
28040 but that aren't warnings
28043 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
28044 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
28048 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
28049 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
28050 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
28051 - include missing header fcntl.h
28052 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
28053 - deal with hardware word alignment
28054 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
28055 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
28056 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
28057 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
28058 by kill -USR1 currently.
28059 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
28060 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
28061 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
28064 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
28065 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
28066 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
28069 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
28071 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
28072 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
28073 - And fix a few endian issues.
28076 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
28078 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
28079 try that circuit again: try a new one.
28080 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
28081 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
28082 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
28083 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
28084 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
28085 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
28087 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
28088 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
28089 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
28091 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
28093 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
28094 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
28095 side isn't reading right then.
28096 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
28097 RecommendedVersions
28098 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
28099 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
28100 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
28103 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
28105 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
28106 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
28109 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
28113 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
28115 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
28116 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
28117 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
28118 connection is finished.
28119 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
28120 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
28121 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
28122 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
28123 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
28124 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
28125 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
28126 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
28127 rather than warn and continue.
28128 - Make --version work
28129 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
28132 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
28134 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
28135 knows it's working.
28136 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
28137 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
28139 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
28140 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
28141 so you can collect coredumps there.
28143 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
28144 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
28145 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
28146 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
28147 dns cache actually gets populated.
28148 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
28149 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
28150 end cell down it first.
28151 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
28152 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
28155 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
28157 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
28158 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
28160 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
28161 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
28162 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
28163 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
28164 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
28165 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
28167 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
28169 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
28170 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
28171 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
28172 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
28173 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
28174 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
28176 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
28177 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
28180 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
28182 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
28183 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
28184 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
28185 tor. It even has a man page.
28186 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
28187 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
28188 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
28189 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
28191 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
28193 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
28196 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
28198 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
28199 it, apt-getters. :)
28200 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
28201 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
28202 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
28203 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
28204 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
28205 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
28206 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
28207 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
28208 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
28209 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
28210 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
28212 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
28213 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
28216 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
28218 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
28219 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
28222 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
28224 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
28225 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
28226 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
28227 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
28228 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
28229 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
28230 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
28231 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
28232 logfile so you know it's working.
28233 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
28234 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
28237 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
28239 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
28240 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
28241 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
28244 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
28246 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
28247 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
28248 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
28251 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
28252 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
28253 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
28255 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
28256 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
28258 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
28259 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
28260 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
28262 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
28263 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
28267 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
28269 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
28270 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
28271 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
28274 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
28275 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
28276 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
28277 - Add port ranges to exit policies
28278 - Add a conservative default exit policy
28279 - Warn if you're running tor as root
28280 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
28281 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
28282 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
28283 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
28285 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
28288 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
28289 o Robustness and bugfixes:
28290 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
28291 really screw things up.
28292 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
28294 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
28295 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
28297 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
28298 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
28299 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
28300 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
28301 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
28302 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
28305 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
28308 - Change default loglevel to warn.
28309 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
28310 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
28312 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
28315 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
28316 o Robustness and bugfixes:
28317 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
28318 - to get ownership/permissions right
28319 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
28320 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
28321 pull down a directory again
28322 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
28323 causing server crashes
28324 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
28325 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
28326 - exit if bind() fails
28327 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
28328 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
28329 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
28330 - fix minor bias in PRNG
28331 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
28334 - Wrote the design document (woo)
28336 o Circuit building and exit policies:
28337 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
28339 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
28340 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
28341 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
28342 exists, rather than failing
28343 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
28344 which AP connections are standing by
28345 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
28346 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
28347 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
28349 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
28350 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
28353 - APPort is now called SocksPort
28354 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
28356 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
28357 hardcoded (for dirservers)
28358 - Reloads config on HUP
28359 - Usage info on -h or --help
28360 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
28362 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
28363 o General stability:
28364 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
28365 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
28366 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
28367 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
28368 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
28369 to take down the network when I approve a new router
28370 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
28373 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
28374 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
28376 o Autoconf improvements:
28377 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
28378 - Make install now works
28379 - create var/lib/tor on make install
28380 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
28381 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
28383 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
28384 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
28385 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
28386 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup