1 Changes in version 0.4.8.4 - 2023-08-23
2 Finally, this is the very first stable release of the 0.4.8.x series making
3 Proof-of-Work (prop#327) and Conflux (prop#329) available to the entire
4 network. Some major bugfixes since the release candidate detailed below.
6 o Major feature (denial of service):
7 - Extend DoS protection to partially opened channels and known
8 relays. Because re-entry is not allowed anymore, we can apply DoS
9 protections onto known IP namely relays. Fixes bug 40821; bugfix
12 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
13 - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug
14 40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds
15 additional log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug
16 40834; bugfix on 0.4.8.3-rc.
18 o Major bugfixes (proof of work, onion service, hashx):
19 - Fix a very rare buffer overflow in hashx, specific to the dynamic
20 compiler on aarch64 platforms. Fixes bug 40833; bugfix
23 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
24 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 23, 2023.
26 o Minor features (geoip data):
27 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
28 retrieved on 2023/08/23.
30 o Minor features (testing):
31 - All Rust code is now linted (cargo clippy) as part of GitLab CI, and
32 existing warnings have been fixed. - Any unit tests written in Rust now
33 run as part of GitLab CI.
35 o Minor bugfix (FreeBSD, compilation):
36 - Fix compilation issue on FreeBSD by properly importing
37 sys/param.h. Fixes bug 40825; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
39 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
40 - Right after compression/decompression work is done, check for
41 errors. Before this, we would consider compression bomb before
42 that and then looking for errors leading to false positive on that
43 log warning. Fixes bug 40739; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch
47 Changes in version 0.4.8.3-rc - 2023-08-04
48 This is the first release candidate (and likely the only) of the 0.4.8.x
49 series. We fixed a major conflux bugfix which was a fatal asserts on the
50 relay Exit side. See below for more details. Couple minor bugfixes. Until
51 stable, name of the game here is stabilization.
53 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
54 - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux
55 circuit between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on
56 the conflux set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back-
57 pointer when the last leg is removed. Additional checks and log
58 messages have been added to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827;
59 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
61 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
62 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 04, 2023.
63 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on July 26, 2023.
65 o Minor features (geoip data):
66 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
67 retrieved on 2023/07/26.
68 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
69 retrieved on 2023/08/04.
71 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
72 - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change.
73 Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
75 o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn):
76 - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP
77 addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
80 Changes in version 0.4.8.2-alpha - 2023-07-12
81 This is our second alpha containing some minor bugfixes and one major bugfix
82 about L2 vanguard rotation. We believe this will be the last alpha before the
83 rc in a couple of weeks.
85 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
86 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the
87 Stable or Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in
88 the L2 vanguard list but never use them, and if all of our
89 vanguards end up like this we wouldn't have any middle nodes left
90 to choose from so we would fail to make onion-related circuits.
91 Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
94 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
97 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
98 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on July 12, 2023.
100 o Minor features (geoip data):
101 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
102 retrieved on 2023/07/12.
104 o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
105 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
106 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
107 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
108 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
109 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
110 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
111 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
112 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
114 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
115 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
116 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
117 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
119 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
120 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
121 avoids inifinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
122 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
123 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
124 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
125 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
126 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
128 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
129 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
130 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
131 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
132 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
133 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
135 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
136 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
139 o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
140 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
141 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
142 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
143 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
144 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
147 Changes in version 0.4.8.1-alpha - 2023-06-01
148 This is the first alpha of the 0.4.8.x series. Two major features in this
149 version which are Conflux and onion service Proof-of-Work (PoW). There are
150 also many small features in particular, worth noting, the MetricsPort is now
151 exporting more relay and onion service metrics. Finally, there are
152 also numerous minor bugfixes included in this version.
154 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
155 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
156 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
157 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
158 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
159 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
161 o Major features (conflux):
162 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
163 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol.
164 These circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre-
165 built conflux pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used.
166 When using conflux circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency
167 circuit to send data to the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the
168 client, it maximizes throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits
169 in a multiplexed fashion. Alternatively, clients can request that
170 the Exit optimize for latency when transmitting to them, by
171 setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX latency'. Onion services
172 are not currently supported, but will be in arti. Many other
173 future optimizations will also be possible using this protocol.
176 o Major features (dirauth):
177 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with
178 directory authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they
179 would continue to upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to
180 the hard-coded address in the configuration. Now, if the directory
181 authority is listed in the consensus at a different address, they
182 will direct queries to this new address. Implements ticket 40705.
184 o Minor feature (CI):
185 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
187 o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
188 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
189 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
191 o Minor feature (compilation):
192 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
193 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
196 o Minor feature (cpuworker):
197 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
198 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
199 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
201 o Minor feature (lzma):
202 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
204 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
205 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
208 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
209 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
210 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
212 o Minor features (directory authorities):
213 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
214 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
215 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
216 Implements ticket 40753.
218 o Minor features (directory authority):
219 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
220 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
221 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
222 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
223 40130; implements proposal 275.
225 o Minor features (network documents):
226 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
227 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
228 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
229 the future. Part of ticket 40130.
231 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
232 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
234 o Minor features (geoip data):
235 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
236 retrieved on 2023/06/01.
238 o Minor features (hs, metrics):
239 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
240 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
241 durations. Part of ticket 40757.
243 o Minor features (metrics):
244 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
245 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
246 failures. Closes ticket 40755.
247 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
249 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
250 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
251 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
253 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
254 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
255 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
257 o Minor features (relay):
258 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
259 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
261 o Minor features (relays):
262 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
263 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
264 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
265 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
267 o Minor features (tests):
268 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
269 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
271 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
272 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
273 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
275 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
276 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
277 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
278 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
279 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
281 o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
282 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
283 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
285 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
286 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
287 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
288 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
290 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
291 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
292 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
294 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
295 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
296 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
298 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
299 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
300 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
301 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
302 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
303 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
304 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
305 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
307 o Minor bugfixes (state file):
308 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
309 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
310 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
313 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
314 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
315 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
318 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
319 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
320 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
321 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
322 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
323 congestion control fix detailed below.
325 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
326 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
327 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
328 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
329 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
330 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
331 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
333 o Major bugfixes (relay):
334 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
335 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
336 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
337 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
338 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
339 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
342 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
343 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
344 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
345 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
346 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
348 o Minor feature (authority):
349 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
351 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
352 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
354 o Minor features (geoip data):
355 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
356 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
358 o Minor features (relays):
359 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
360 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
361 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
362 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
365 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
366 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
367 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
369 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
370 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
371 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
372 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
374 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
375 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
376 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
377 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
380 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
381 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
382 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
383 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
386 o Major bugfixes (relay):
387 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
388 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
389 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
390 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
391 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
392 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
395 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
396 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
397 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
398 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
399 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
401 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
402 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
404 o Minor features (geoip data):
405 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
406 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
409 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
410 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
411 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
414 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
415 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
416 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
417 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
418 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
420 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
421 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
424 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
425 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
427 o Minor features (geoip data):
428 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
429 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
431 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
432 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
433 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
436 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
437 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
438 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
439 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
441 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
442 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
444 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
445 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
446 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
448 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
449 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
450 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
451 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
452 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
454 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
455 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
456 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
457 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
458 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
461 o Major bugfixes (relay):
462 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
463 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
465 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
466 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
468 o Minor features (geoip data):
469 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
470 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
473 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
474 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
475 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
476 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
479 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
480 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
482 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
483 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
484 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
485 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
487 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
488 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
489 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
490 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
491 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
493 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
494 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
495 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
496 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
497 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
499 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
500 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
501 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
502 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
503 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
506 o Major bugfixes (relay):
507 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
508 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
510 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
511 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
512 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
513 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
514 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
515 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
517 o Minor feature (metrics):
518 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
521 o Minor feature (performance):
522 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
523 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
524 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
526 o Minor feature (relay):
527 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
529 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
530 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
531 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
532 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
534 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
535 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
536 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
537 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
538 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
540 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
541 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
542 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
543 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
544 are currently opened and how many were created.
545 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
546 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
547 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
548 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
549 - Related to ticket 40194.
551 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
552 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
554 o Minor features (geoip data):
555 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
556 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
558 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
559 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
560 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
562 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
563 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
564 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
565 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
566 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
567 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
568 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
569 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
570 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
571 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
572 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
574 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
575 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
576 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
579 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
580 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
581 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
584 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
585 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
586 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
587 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
588 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
589 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
590 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
592 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
593 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
594 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
597 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
598 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
599 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
600 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
603 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
604 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
605 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
606 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
607 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
610 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
611 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
612 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
613 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
616 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
617 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
618 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
619 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
620 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
623 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
624 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
625 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
626 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
629 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
630 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
631 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
632 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
633 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
636 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
637 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
638 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
639 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
640 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
643 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
644 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
646 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
647 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
648 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
649 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
650 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
651 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
652 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
653 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
654 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
657 o Major bugfixes (relay):
658 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
659 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
660 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
661 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
662 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
663 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
664 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
666 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
667 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
668 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
669 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
670 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
673 o Minor features (dirauth):
674 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
675 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
676 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
677 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
678 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
679 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
680 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
681 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
684 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
685 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
687 o Minor features (geoip data):
688 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
689 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
691 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
692 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
693 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
694 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
695 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
696 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
697 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
699 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
700 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
701 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
702 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
703 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
705 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
706 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
707 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
708 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
711 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
712 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
713 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
714 stability or safety purposes.
716 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
717 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
718 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
720 o Major bugfixes (relay):
721 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
722 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
723 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
724 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
725 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
726 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
727 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
729 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
730 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
732 o Minor features (geoip data):
733 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
734 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
736 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
737 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
738 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
740 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
741 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
742 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
743 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
744 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
745 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
747 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
748 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
749 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
750 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
751 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
753 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
754 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
755 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
756 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
758 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
759 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
760 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
761 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
762 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
764 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
765 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
766 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
768 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
769 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
770 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
771 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
772 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
773 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
775 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
776 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
777 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
778 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
781 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
782 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
783 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
784 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
785 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
787 o Major bugfixes (relay):
788 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
789 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
790 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
791 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
792 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
793 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
794 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
796 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
797 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
799 o Minor features (geoip data):
800 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
801 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
803 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
804 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
805 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
807 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
808 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
809 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
810 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
811 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
812 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
814 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
815 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
816 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
817 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
818 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
820 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
821 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
822 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
823 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
825 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
826 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
827 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
828 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
829 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
831 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
832 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
833 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
835 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
836 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
837 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
838 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
839 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
840 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
842 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
843 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
844 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
845 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
848 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
849 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
850 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
851 should upgrade to this version.
853 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
854 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
855 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
856 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
857 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
858 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
860 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
861 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
863 o Minor features (geoip data):
864 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
865 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
867 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
868 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
869 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
870 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
872 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
873 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
874 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
875 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
876 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
877 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
878 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
879 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
880 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
882 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
883 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
884 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
887 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
888 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series includes
889 several major bugfixes from previous series and one massive new feature:
892 Congestion control should improve traffic speed and stability on the network
893 once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more details about it in
894 proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
896 For a complete list of changes since 0.4.6.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
898 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
899 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
901 o Minor features (geoip data):
902 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
903 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
905 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
906 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down to
907 info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix on
911 Changes in version 0.4.7.6-rc - 2022-04-07
912 This is the first release candidate of the 0.4.7.x series. Only one minor
913 bugfix went in since the last alpha couple weeks ago. We strongly recommend
914 anyone running an alpha version to upgrade to this version. Unless major
915 problems are found, the next release will finally be the stable!
917 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
918 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 07, 2022.
920 o Minor features (geoip data):
921 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
922 retrieved on 2022/04/07.
924 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
925 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
926 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
929 Changes in version 0.4.7.5-alpha - 2022-03-25
930 This version contains, of what we hope, the final work for congestion
931 control paving the way to the stable version. We expect this to be the last
932 alpha version of the 0.4.7.x series. Mostly minor bugfixes except one major
933 bugfix that changes how Tor behaves with DNS timeouts for Exit relays. As
934 always with an alpha, we recommend all relay operators to upgrade from
935 previous alpha to this one.
937 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
938 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
939 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
940 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
942 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
943 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
944 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
945 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
946 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
947 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
949 o Minor features (control port):
950 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
951 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
953 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
954 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on March 25, 2022.
956 o Minor features (geoip data):
957 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
958 retrieved on 2022/03/25.
960 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
961 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
962 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
964 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
965 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
966 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
967 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
970 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
971 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
972 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
973 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
974 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
976 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
977 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
978 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
979 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
981 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
982 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
983 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
984 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
985 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
988 Changes in version 0.4.7.4-alpha - 2022-02-25
989 This version contains the negotiation congestion control work which is the
990 final part needed before going stable. There are also various bugfixes
991 including two major ones detailed below. Last, the Exit notice page layout
992 has been modernized but the text is unchanged. We recommend that all relay
993 operators running any previous alpha upgrade to this one.
995 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
996 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
997 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
998 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
1000 o Major bugfixes (client):
1001 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
1002 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
1003 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
1004 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
1005 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
1006 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1008 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1009 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
1010 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
1011 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1013 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1014 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
1017 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1018 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 25, 2022.
1020 o Minor features (geoip data):
1021 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1022 retrieved on 2022/02/25.
1024 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1025 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1026 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1028 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1029 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1030 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1033 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
1034 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
1035 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
1036 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
1039 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1040 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
1041 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1043 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1044 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
1045 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1048 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
1049 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
1050 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
1051 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
1054 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
1055 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
1056 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1058 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1059 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1061 o Minor features (geoip data):
1062 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1063 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1065 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1066 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1067 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1069 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1070 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1071 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1074 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1075 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1076 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1079 Changes in version 0.4.5.12 - 2022-02-04
1080 This version contains mostly minor bugfixes for which you can find the
1081 details below. The previous release (0.4.5.11) was suppose to update the
1082 GeoIP and fallbackdir lists but a problem in our release pipeline prevented
1083 those files to be updated correctly. Thus, this release regenerates up to
1084 date lists. Furthermore, another fix to highlight is that relays don't
1085 advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1087 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1088 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1089 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1092 o Minor features (compilation):
1093 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1094 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1095 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1096 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1099 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1100 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1102 o Minor features (geoip data):
1103 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1104 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1106 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1107 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1108 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1110 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1111 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1112 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1115 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1116 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1117 that does not support expanding statically initialized const
1118 values in macro's. Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
1119 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1120 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1121 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1122 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1124 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1125 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1126 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1128 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1129 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1130 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1131 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1132 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1135 Changes in version 0.4.7.3-alpha - 2021-12-15
1136 This third alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series fixes several bugs including
1137 two major ones affecting Bridges and Relays (see below). If you are running
1138 an earlier 0.4.7.x version, you should upgrade to this version.
1140 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1141 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
1142 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
1143 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
1144 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
1145 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
1146 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
1147 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
1150 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1151 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
1152 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
1153 and not the DNS server itself.
1154 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
1155 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
1156 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
1157 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1158 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1159 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1160 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1162 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1163 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1164 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1167 o Minor features (compilation):
1168 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1169 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1170 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1171 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1174 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1175 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1177 o Minor features (geoip data):
1178 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1179 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1181 o Minor features (portability):
1182 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
1183 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
1184 Closes ticket 40355.
1186 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
1187 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
1188 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
1189 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1191 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1192 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
1193 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
1194 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
1195 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
1196 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
1197 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
1198 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1200 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1201 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1202 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1203 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1204 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1206 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1207 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1208 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1209 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1210 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1211 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1213 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1214 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
1215 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
1216 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
1217 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
1218 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1220 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1221 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1222 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1223 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1224 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1225 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1227 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1228 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1229 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1230 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1231 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1233 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1234 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
1235 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
1236 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
1237 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1239 o Documentation (man, relay):
1240 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1241 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1244 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1245 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1246 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1247 See below for more details.
1249 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1250 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1251 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1252 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1253 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1255 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1256 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1257 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1260 o Minor features (compilation):
1261 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1262 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1263 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1264 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1267 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1268 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1270 o Minor features (geoip data):
1271 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1272 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1274 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1275 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1276 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1277 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1278 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1280 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1281 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1282 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1283 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1284 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1286 o Documentation (man, relay):
1287 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1288 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1291 Changes in version 0.4.7.2-alpha - 2021-10-26
1292 This second alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series adds two major
1293 features: congestion control (prop324) for network performance, and
1294 the MiddleOnly flag (prop335) voted by the authorities to pin relays
1295 to the middle position for various network health reasons. This
1296 release also fixes numerous bugs.
1298 The congestion control feature, detailed in proposal 324, still needs
1299 more work before we can enable it by default. It is currently in its
1300 testing and tuning phase which means that you should expect more
1301 0.4.7.x alphas as congestion control gets stabilized and tuned for
1302 optimal performance. And so, at this release, it can not be used
1303 without a custom patch.
1305 o Major features (congestion control):
1306 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
1307 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
1309 o Major features (directory authority):
1310 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
1311 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
1312 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
1313 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
1314 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
1315 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
1316 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
1317 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
1318 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
1320 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
1321 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
1322 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
1323 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
1324 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1326 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1327 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1328 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1329 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1330 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1331 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1332 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1334 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1335 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
1336 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
1338 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
1339 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
1340 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
1341 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
1342 Closes ticket 40476.
1343 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1344 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1346 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1347 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1350 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
1351 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
1352 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
1353 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1354 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1355 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1356 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1358 o Minor features (testing):
1359 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1360 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1363 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1364 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1365 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1367 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1368 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1369 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1370 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1373 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1374 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1375 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1376 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1377 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1378 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1379 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1380 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1382 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1383 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1384 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1385 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1387 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1388 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1389 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1390 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1392 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1393 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1394 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1396 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1397 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1398 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1399 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1401 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1402 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1403 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1404 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1405 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1406 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1407 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1408 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1409 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1411 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1412 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1413 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1414 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1415 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1417 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1418 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1419 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1420 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1421 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1423 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1424 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1425 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1426 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1427 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1430 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1433 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1434 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1435 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1437 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1438 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1439 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1443 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1444 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1445 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1448 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1449 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1450 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1451 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1452 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1453 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1454 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1456 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1457 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1460 o Minor features (testing):
1461 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1462 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1463 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1464 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1465 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1466 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1467 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1468 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1469 fix for ticket 40337.
1470 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1471 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1472 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1474 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1475 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1476 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1477 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1478 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1479 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1480 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1481 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1483 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1484 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1485 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1487 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1488 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1489 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1490 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1491 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1494 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1495 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1496 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1497 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1498 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1499 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1502 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1503 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1504 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1505 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1506 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1507 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1508 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1511 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1512 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1513 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1514 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1515 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1517 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1518 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1519 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1520 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1522 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1523 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1524 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1525 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1527 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1528 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1531 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1532 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1533 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1534 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1535 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1537 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1538 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1539 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1540 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1541 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1542 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1543 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1544 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1545 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1546 fix for ticket 40337.
1547 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1548 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1549 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1551 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1552 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1553 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1555 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1556 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1557 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1558 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1559 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1560 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1562 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1563 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1564 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1565 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1566 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1569 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1570 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1571 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1572 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1573 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1575 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1576 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1577 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1578 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1579 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1580 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1583 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1584 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1585 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1586 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1587 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1588 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1589 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1592 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1593 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1594 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1595 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1596 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1598 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1599 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1600 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1601 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1603 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1604 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1605 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1606 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1608 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1609 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1612 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1613 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1614 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1615 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1616 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1620 Changes in version 0.4.7.1-alpha - 2021-09-17
1621 This version is the first alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series. One
1622 major feature is Vanguards Lite, from proposal 333, to help mitigate
1623 guard discovery attacks against onion services. It also includes
1626 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
1627 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
1628 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
1629 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
1630 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
1631 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
1632 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
1633 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
1634 40363; implements proposal 333.
1636 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
1637 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
1638 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
1639 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
1641 o Minor features (fuzzing):
1642 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
1643 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
1644 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
1646 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1647 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1648 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1649 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1650 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1651 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1652 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1653 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1654 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1655 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1656 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1657 fix for ticket 40337.
1658 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1659 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1660 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1662 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1663 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1664 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1665 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1667 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1668 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1669 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1670 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1671 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1674 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1675 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1676 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1677 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1678 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1680 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1681 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1682 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1683 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1685 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1686 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1687 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1688 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1690 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1691 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1692 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1693 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1694 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1695 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1697 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1698 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1699 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1700 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1702 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1703 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1704 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1707 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1708 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1710 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1711 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1714 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1715 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1716 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1717 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1718 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1720 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1721 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1722 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1723 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1724 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1725 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1726 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1727 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1729 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1730 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1732 o Minor features (geoip data):
1733 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1734 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1736 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1737 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1738 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1741 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1742 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid
1743 Address) for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix
1746 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1747 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW
1748 in order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug
1749 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1751 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1752 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1753 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1754 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1755 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1756 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
1757 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1760 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1761 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1762 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1763 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1764 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1766 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1767 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1768 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1769 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1770 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1771 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1772 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1773 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1775 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1776 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1778 o Minor features (geoip data):
1779 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1780 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1782 o Minor features (testing):
1783 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1784 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1787 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1788 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1789 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1792 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1793 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1794 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1796 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1797 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1798 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1799 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1800 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1801 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
1802 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1804 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.6):
1805 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1806 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1809 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1810 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1811 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1812 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1813 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1815 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1816 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1817 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1818 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1819 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1820 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1821 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1822 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1824 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1825 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1827 o Minor features (geoip data):
1828 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1829 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1831 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1832 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1833 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1836 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1837 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1838 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1841 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1842 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1843 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1844 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1845 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1847 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1848 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1849 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1850 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1851 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1852 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1854 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1855 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1856 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1860 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
1861 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1862 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1863 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1864 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1866 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1867 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1868 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1869 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1870 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1871 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1872 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1874 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1875 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1876 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1877 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1878 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1879 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1880 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1881 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1883 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1884 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1885 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1886 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1887 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1888 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1889 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1890 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1891 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1892 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1893 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1894 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1895 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1896 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1897 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1899 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1900 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1901 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1902 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1905 o Minor features (geoip data):
1906 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1907 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1909 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1910 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1911 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1912 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1913 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1914 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1917 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1918 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1919 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1923 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
1924 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1925 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1926 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1927 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1929 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
1930 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
1931 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
1933 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1934 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1935 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1936 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1937 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1938 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1939 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1941 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1942 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1943 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1944 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1945 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1946 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1947 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1948 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1950 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1951 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1952 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1953 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1954 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1955 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1956 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1957 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1958 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1959 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1960 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1961 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1962 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1963 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1964 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1966 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1967 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1968 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1969 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1972 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1973 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1974 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1976 o Minor features (geoip data):
1977 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1978 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1980 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1981 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1982 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1983 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1985 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1986 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1987 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1990 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
1991 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
1992 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1993 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1994 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1996 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1997 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1998 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1999 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2000 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2001 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2002 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2004 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2005 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2006 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2007 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2008 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2009 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2010 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2011 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2013 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2014 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2015 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2016 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2017 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2018 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2019 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2020 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2021 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2022 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2023 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2024 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2025 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2026 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2027 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2029 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2030 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2031 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2033 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2034 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2035 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2036 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2039 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2040 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2041 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2043 o Minor features (geoip data):
2044 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2045 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2048 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
2049 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
2050 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
2051 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
2052 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
2055 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
2056 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
2057 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
2058 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2060 Below are the changes since 0.4.6.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2061 since 0.4.5.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2063 o Major bugfixes (security):
2064 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2065 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2066 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2067 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2068 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2069 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2071 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
2072 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2073 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2074 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2075 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2076 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2077 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2078 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2080 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2081 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2082 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2083 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2084 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2085 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2086 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2087 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2088 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2089 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2090 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2091 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2092 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2093 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2094 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2096 o Minor features (geoip data):
2097 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2098 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2100 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
2101 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
2102 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
2103 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
2104 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
2107 Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28
2108 Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope,
2109 the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are
2110 found, the next release will be stable.
2112 o Minor features (compatibility):
2113 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2114 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2115 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2118 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
2119 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
2120 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
2121 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
2122 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2124 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
2125 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2126 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2127 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2128 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2129 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2132 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2133 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2134 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2138 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
2139 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
2140 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
2143 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
2144 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
2145 from the 0.4.6.x series.
2147 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2148 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2149 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2150 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2151 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2153 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2154 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2155 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2157 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2158 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2159 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2161 o Minor features (geoip data):
2162 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2163 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2165 o Minor features (onion services):
2166 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
2167 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
2168 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
2170 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2171 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2172 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2173 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2175 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2176 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2177 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2178 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2180 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2181 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2182 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2183 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2185 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2186 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2187 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2189 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
2190 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2191 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2192 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2194 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2195 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2196 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2197 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2199 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2200 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2201 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2205 Changes in version 0.4.6.3-rc - 2021-05-10
2206 Tor 0.4.6.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2207 a few small bugs from previous versions, and adds a better error
2208 message when trying to use (no longer supported) v2 onion services.
2210 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
2211 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
2212 be fairly simple. There will likely be at least one more release
2213 candidate before 0.4.6.x is stable.
2215 o Major bugfixes (onion service, control port):
2216 - Make the ADD_ONION command properly configure client authorization.
2217 Before this fix, the created onion failed to add the client(s).
2218 Fixes bug 40378; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
2220 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox):
2221 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2222 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2223 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2224 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2226 o Minor features (compilation):
2227 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2228 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2230 o Minor features (geoip data):
2231 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2232 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2234 o Minor features (onion services):
2235 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
2236 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
2238 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation):
2239 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2240 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2241 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2243 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
2244 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2245 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2247 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
2248 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
2249 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2251 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak):
2252 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2253 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2254 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2257 Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15
2258 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several
2259 small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had
2260 enabled denial-of-service attacks and affected integration with
2263 o Minor features (client):
2264 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
2265 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
2266 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
2267 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
2269 o Minor features (command line):
2270 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
2271 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
2274 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2275 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
2276 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
2277 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2279 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2280 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2281 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2283 o Minor features (geoip data):
2284 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2285 retrieved on 2021/04/13.
2287 o Minor features (logging):
2288 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
2289 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
2292 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport):
2293 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2294 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2295 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2297 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS):
2298 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2299 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2300 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2302 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2303 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
2304 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
2305 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2307 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2308 - Fix pattern-matching for directories on all platforms when using
2309 %include options in configuration files. This patch also fixes
2310 compilation on musl libc based systems. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix
2313 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2314 - Move the "overload-general" line from extrainfo to the server
2315 descriptor. Fixes bug 40364; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
2317 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
2318 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2319 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2322 o Documentation (manual):
2323 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
2325 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
2326 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
2327 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
2328 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
2331 Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18
2332 Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It
2333 improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and
2334 improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It also
2335 includes numerous smaller bugfixes.
2337 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.7. (Note that this release DOES
2338 include the fixes for the security bugs already fixed in 0.4.5.7.)
2340 o Major features (control port, onion services):
2341 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
2342 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
2343 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
2346 o Major features (directory authority):
2347 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
2348 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
2349 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
2350 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2352 o Major features (metrics):
2353 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
2354 documents. This information is controlled with the
2355 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
2356 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
2357 328; closes ticket 40222.
2359 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
2360 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
2361 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
2363 o Major features (statistics):
2364 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
2365 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
2366 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
2368 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
2369 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
2370 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
2371 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
2372 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
2373 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
2374 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
2375 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
2376 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
2377 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
2378 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
2379 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
2380 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
2381 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
2382 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
2383 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
2384 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2385 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
2386 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
2387 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
2390 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
2391 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
2392 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
2393 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2395 o Minor features (bridge):
2396 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
2397 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
2398 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
2400 o Minor features (build system):
2401 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
2402 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
2403 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2405 o Minor features (command-line interface):
2406 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
2407 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
2408 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
2409 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
2410 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
2411 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
2412 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
2413 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
2414 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
2415 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2417 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
2418 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
2419 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2421 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2422 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
2423 control over whether the client can become dormant from
2424 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2426 o Minor features (logging):
2427 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
2428 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
2429 any). Closes ticket 40308.
2430 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
2431 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
2432 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2434 o Minor features (performance, windows):
2435 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
2436 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
2437 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
2438 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2440 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2441 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
2442 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
2444 o Minor features (tests, portability):
2445 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
2446 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
2449 o Minor features (vote document):
2450 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
2451 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
2452 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
2454 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2455 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
2456 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
2457 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2459 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
2460 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
2461 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
2462 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
2465 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2466 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2467 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2468 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2470 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
2471 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
2472 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
2473 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
2474 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
2475 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
2477 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2478 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
2479 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
2480 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
2481 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2483 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
2484 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
2485 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
2486 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
2487 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2489 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
2490 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
2491 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
2492 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2494 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2495 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
2496 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
2497 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2499 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2500 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
2501 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
2502 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2505 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
2506 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
2507 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
2508 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
2509 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
2510 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
2511 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
2514 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
2515 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
2516 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
2518 o Removed features (relay):
2519 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
2520 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
2521 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
2522 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
2523 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
2526 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2527 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2528 in earlier versions of Tor.
2530 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2531 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2532 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2533 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2534 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2535 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2536 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2537 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2538 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2541 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2542 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2545 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2546 compatibility issue.
2548 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2549 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2550 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2551 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2552 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2553 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2554 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2555 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2556 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2559 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2560 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2561 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2562 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2563 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2564 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2565 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2566 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2569 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2570 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2571 Closes ticket 40309.
2574 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2575 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2576 in earlier versions of Tor.
2578 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2579 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2580 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2581 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2582 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2583 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2584 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2585 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2586 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2589 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2590 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2593 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2594 compatibility issue.
2596 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2597 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2598 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2599 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2600 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2601 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2602 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2603 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2604 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2607 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2608 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2609 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2610 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2611 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2612 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2613 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2614 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2617 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2618 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2619 Closes ticket 40309.
2622 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2623 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2626 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2627 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2628 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2629 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2630 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2631 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2632 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2633 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2634 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2637 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2638 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2641 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2642 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2644 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2645 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2646 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2647 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2648 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2649 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2650 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2651 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2652 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2655 o Minor features (geoip data):
2656 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2657 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2658 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2659 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2660 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2661 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2662 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2665 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2666 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2667 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2668 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2669 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2671 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2672 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2673 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2675 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2676 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2677 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2678 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2679 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2681 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2682 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2683 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2685 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2686 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2687 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2689 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2690 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2691 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2693 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2694 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2695 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2696 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2697 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2698 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2699 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2700 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2702 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2703 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2704 Closes ticket 40309.
2707 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2708 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2709 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2710 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2711 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2712 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2713 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2714 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2715 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2716 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2718 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2719 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2720 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2721 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2722 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2723 smaller features and bugfixes.
2725 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2726 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2728 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
2729 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if
2730 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug
2731 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2733 o Minor features (protocol versions):
2734 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version.
2735 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in
2736 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop
2737 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list.
2738 Closes ticket 40221.
2740 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2741 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2742 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2743 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2744 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2745 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2747 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2748 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly
2749 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
2751 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2752 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor
2753 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support
2754 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a
2755 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2757 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config):
2758 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the
2759 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing
2760 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple
2761 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix
2765 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2766 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2767 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2768 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2769 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2771 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2772 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2773 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2774 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2775 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2778 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2779 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2780 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2781 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2784 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2785 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2786 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2787 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2789 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2790 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2791 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2792 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2793 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2795 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2796 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2797 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2798 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2799 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2800 weasel for diagnosing this.
2802 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2803 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2804 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2805 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2806 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2807 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2808 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2810 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2811 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2812 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2813 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2815 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2816 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2817 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2818 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2820 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2821 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2822 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2823 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2824 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2825 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2826 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2828 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2829 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2832 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
2833 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2834 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2835 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2836 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2838 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
2839 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
2841 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2842 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2843 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2844 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2845 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2848 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2849 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2850 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2851 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2852 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2854 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2855 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2856 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2857 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2860 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2861 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2862 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2863 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2865 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2866 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2867 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2868 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2869 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2871 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2872 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2873 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2874 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2875 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2876 weasel for diagnosing this.
2878 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2879 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2880 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2881 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2882 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2883 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2884 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2886 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2887 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2888 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2890 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2891 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2892 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2893 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2895 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2896 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2897 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2898 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2900 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2901 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2902 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2903 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2904 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2905 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2906 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2908 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2909 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2912 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
2913 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2914 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2915 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2916 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2918 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2919 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2920 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2921 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2922 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2925 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2926 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2927 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2928 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2929 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2931 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2932 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2933 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2934 should help mitigate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2937 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2938 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2939 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2940 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2942 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2943 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2944 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2945 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2946 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2948 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2949 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2950 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2951 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2952 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2953 weasel for diagnosing this.
2955 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2956 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2957 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2958 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2959 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2960 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2961 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2963 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2964 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2965 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2967 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2968 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2969 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2970 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2972 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2973 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2974 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2975 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2977 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2978 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2979 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2980 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2982 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2983 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2986 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
2987 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
2988 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
2989 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
2990 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
2992 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
2993 release, though of course that could change.
2995 o Major feature (exit):
2996 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2997 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2998 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3001 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
3002 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
3003 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
3007 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
3008 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
3009 several bugs present in previous releases.
3011 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
3012 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
3014 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
3015 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
3016 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3018 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
3019 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
3020 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
3021 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
3022 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3024 o Minor feature (build system):
3025 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3026 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3027 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3029 o Minor features (authority, logging):
3030 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
3031 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
3032 Closes ticket 40245.
3033 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
3034 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
3037 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3038 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
3039 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
3040 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
3041 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
3042 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
3043 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
3045 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
3046 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
3047 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
3048 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
3049 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
3052 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3053 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
3054 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
3055 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
3057 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3058 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
3059 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
3060 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3063 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
3064 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
3065 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
3066 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable.
3068 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
3069 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
3070 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
3071 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
3073 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
3074 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3075 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3076 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3077 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3080 o Minor features (crypto):
3081 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3082 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3083 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3084 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3085 weasel for diagnosing this.
3087 o Minor features (documentation):
3088 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
3089 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
3090 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
3092 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3093 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3094 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3095 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3096 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
3097 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
3100 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
3101 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
3102 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
3103 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
3104 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3106 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
3107 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
3108 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
3110 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
3111 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
3112 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3114 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
3115 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
3116 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
3117 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
3118 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
3121 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
3122 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3123 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3124 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3127 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
3128 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
3129 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
3130 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
3131 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
3132 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
3135 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
3136 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
3137 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
3138 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
3139 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
3140 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
3141 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3143 o Minor features (compilation):
3144 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3145 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3146 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3147 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3149 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
3150 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
3151 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
3152 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
3153 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
3155 o Minor features (safety):
3156 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
3157 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
3160 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
3161 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
3162 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
3163 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
3164 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
3165 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3167 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3168 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
3169 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
3170 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3171 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
3172 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3173 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
3174 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
3175 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3177 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3178 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
3179 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
3180 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
3181 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
3182 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
3184 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
3185 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
3186 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
3187 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3188 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
3189 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
3190 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3192 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
3193 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
3194 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
3195 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3197 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3198 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
3199 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
3201 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
3202 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
3203 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3205 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
3206 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
3207 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3208 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
3209 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
3210 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
3211 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3213 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3214 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3215 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3216 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3217 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
3218 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
3219 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
3221 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3222 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3223 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3225 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3226 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3228 o Removed features (controller):
3229 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
3230 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
3233 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
3234 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3235 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3236 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
3237 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
3238 intended for a different relay.
3240 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3241 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3242 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3243 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3244 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3245 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3246 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3248 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3249 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3250 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3251 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3252 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3253 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3254 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3255 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3256 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3257 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3258 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3260 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3261 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3262 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3263 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3264 closes ticket 40133.
3266 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3267 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3268 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3270 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3271 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3272 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3274 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3275 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3276 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3277 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3278 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3279 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3281 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3282 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3283 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3285 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3286 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3287 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3290 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3291 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3292 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3293 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3296 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
3297 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3298 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3299 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3300 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3302 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
3303 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
3304 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
3307 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3308 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3309 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3310 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3312 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3313 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3314 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3315 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3316 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3317 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3318 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3320 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3321 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3322 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3323 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3324 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3327 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3328 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3329 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3330 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3331 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3332 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3334 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3335 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3336 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3337 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3338 closes ticket 40133.
3340 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3341 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3342 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3343 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3345 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3346 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3347 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3349 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3350 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3351 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3353 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3354 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3355 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3356 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3357 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3359 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3360 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3361 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3363 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3364 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3365 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3366 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3367 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3368 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3369 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3371 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3372 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3373 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3376 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3377 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3378 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3379 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3380 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3381 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3384 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3385 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3386 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3387 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3389 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3390 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3391 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3392 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3394 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3395 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3396 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3398 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3399 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3402 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3403 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3404 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3405 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3406 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3407 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3408 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3411 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3412 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3413 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3414 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3415 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3417 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3418 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3419 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3420 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3422 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3423 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3424 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3425 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3426 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3427 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3428 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3430 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3431 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3432 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3433 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3434 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3437 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3438 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3439 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3440 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3441 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3442 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3444 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3445 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3446 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3447 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3449 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3450 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3451 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3452 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3453 closes ticket 40133.
3455 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3456 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3457 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3458 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3460 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3461 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3462 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3464 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3465 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3466 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3468 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3469 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3470 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3471 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3472 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3474 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3475 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3476 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3478 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3479 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3480 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3481 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3482 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3483 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3484 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3486 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3487 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3488 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3491 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3492 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3493 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3494 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3495 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3496 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3499 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3500 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3501 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3502 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3504 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3505 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3506 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3507 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3509 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3510 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3511 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3513 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3514 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3518 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
3519 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
3520 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
3521 metrics and tracing.
3523 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3524 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3525 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
3526 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
3527 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
3528 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
3529 series soon, after it has had some testing.
3531 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
3533 o Major features (build):
3534 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
3535 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
3536 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
3537 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
3538 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
3540 o Major features (metrics):
3541 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
3542 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
3543 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
3544 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
3545 information and security considerations.
3546 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
3547 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
3548 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
3549 Closes ticket 33233.
3550 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
3551 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
3552 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
3553 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
3554 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
3555 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
3556 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
3557 use. Closes ticket 33220.
3558 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
3559 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
3560 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
3561 Closes ticket 34067.
3563 o Major features (tracing):
3564 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
3565 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
3566 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
3567 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
3568 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
3570 o Major bugfixes (security):
3571 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3572 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3573 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3574 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3575 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3576 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3578 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
3579 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
3580 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
3581 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
3582 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
3583 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
3585 o Minor features (address discovery):
3586 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
3587 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
3588 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
3589 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
3591 o Minor features (admin tools):
3592 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
3593 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
3594 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
3597 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3598 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
3599 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
3600 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
3601 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
3602 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
3604 o Minor features (build):
3605 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
3606 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
3607 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
3608 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
3609 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
3611 o Minor features (configuration):
3612 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
3613 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3614 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
3615 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
3616 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
3617 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3619 o Minor features (control port):
3620 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
3621 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
3622 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
3623 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
3625 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
3626 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
3627 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
3630 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
3631 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
3632 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
3633 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
3634 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
3635 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
3636 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3638 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3639 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3640 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3641 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3642 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3643 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3644 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3645 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
3646 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
3648 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
3649 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
3650 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3651 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3652 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3653 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3654 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3655 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
3656 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
3657 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
3658 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
3659 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
3660 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
3661 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
3662 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
3664 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
3665 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
3666 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
3667 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
3669 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
3670 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
3671 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
3672 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3674 o Minor features (heartbeat):
3675 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
3676 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
3678 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
3679 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
3680 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3682 o Minor features (logging):
3683 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
3684 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
3685 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
3686 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
3687 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
3688 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
3690 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
3691 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
3692 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
3693 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
3695 o Minor features (onion services):
3696 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
3697 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
3698 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3700 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
3701 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
3702 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
3703 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
3704 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
3705 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
3707 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
3708 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
3709 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
3710 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
3711 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
3712 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
3713 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
3715 o Minor features (relay):
3716 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
3717 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
3718 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
3719 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
3720 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
3721 Closes ticket 34137.
3723 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
3724 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
3725 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
3728 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
3729 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
3730 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
3731 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
3732 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
3733 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
3734 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
3735 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
3736 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
3738 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
3739 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
3741 o Minor features (specification update):
3742 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
3743 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
3744 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
3746 o Minor features (state management):
3747 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
3748 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
3749 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
3750 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
3751 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
3753 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
3754 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
3755 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
3756 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
3757 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
3759 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
3760 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3761 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3762 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3763 closes ticket 40133.
3764 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
3765 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
3767 o Minor features (testing configuration):
3768 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
3769 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
3770 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
3771 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
3773 o Minor features (testing):
3774 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
3775 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3777 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
3778 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3779 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3781 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3782 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3783 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3785 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3786 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
3787 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
3788 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
3790 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
3791 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
3792 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3793 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
3794 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
3795 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
3796 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
3797 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
3798 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3800 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
3801 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3802 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3803 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3804 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3805 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3806 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3808 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3809 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3810 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3811 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3812 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3813 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3815 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3816 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
3817 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
3818 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
3821 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
3822 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
3823 when a stream is attached with the purpose
3824 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
3825 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3827 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3828 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3829 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3830 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
3831 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
3832 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
3833 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
3834 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
3837 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
3838 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3839 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3842 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
3843 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
3844 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
3845 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3846 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
3847 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
3848 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3850 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
3851 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
3852 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
3853 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
3854 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
3855 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3857 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
3858 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
3859 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3861 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
3862 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
3863 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3864 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
3865 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
3866 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
3867 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
3868 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3870 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
3871 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3872 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3873 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3875 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3876 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
3877 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
3878 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
3879 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
3880 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
3881 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
3882 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
3883 Closes ticket 34200.
3884 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
3885 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
3886 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
3887 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
3888 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
3889 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
3890 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
3892 - Split implementation of several command line options from
3893 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
3894 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
3895 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
3896 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
3897 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
3900 o Deprecated features:
3901 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
3902 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
3903 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
3906 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
3907 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
3910 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
3911 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
3912 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
3913 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
3915 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
3916 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
3918 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
3919 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
3920 directory. Closes part of 40139.
3921 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
3922 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
3926 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
3927 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3929 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
3930 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
3931 31699; Patch by @bduszel
3933 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
3934 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
3935 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
3936 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
3937 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
3939 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
3940 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
3941 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
3942 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
3943 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
3945 o Documentation (manual page):
3946 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
3947 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
3948 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
3949 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
3951 o Documentation (tracing):
3952 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
3953 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
3956 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3957 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3958 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3959 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3960 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3961 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3962 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3964 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3965 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3966 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3967 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3968 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3970 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3971 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3972 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3974 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3975 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3977 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3978 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3979 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3980 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3981 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3982 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3984 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3985 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3986 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3987 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3988 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3990 o Minor features (control port):
3991 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3992 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3993 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3995 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3996 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3997 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3998 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3999 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
4000 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
4002 o Minor features (tests):
4003 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
4004 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
4005 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
4007 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
4008 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
4009 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
4011 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
4012 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
4013 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
4014 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4017 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
4018 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
4019 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
4022 o Major features (fallback directory list):
4023 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
4024 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
4025 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
4027 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
4028 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
4029 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
4030 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
4031 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
4034 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4035 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
4036 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
4037 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
4038 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
4040 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
4041 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
4042 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
4043 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
4046 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
4047 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
4048 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
4049 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
4050 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
4051 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
4055 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
4056 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
4057 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
4060 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
4061 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
4062 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
4063 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
4064 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
4065 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
4068 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
4069 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
4070 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
4072 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4073 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4074 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4075 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4076 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4077 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4078 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4081 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4082 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4083 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4084 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4087 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4088 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4089 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4090 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4091 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4092 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4094 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4095 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4096 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4097 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4098 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4099 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4101 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4102 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4103 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4105 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4106 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4107 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4108 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4111 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4112 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4113 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4114 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4117 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4118 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4119 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4120 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4121 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4123 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4124 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4125 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4127 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4128 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4129 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4130 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4131 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4134 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4135 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4136 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4137 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4138 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4139 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4141 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4142 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4143 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4144 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4146 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4147 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4148 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4149 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4152 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4153 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4154 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4155 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4156 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4157 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4158 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4159 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4163 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
4164 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
4165 several that affect usability and portability.
4167 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4168 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4169 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4170 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4171 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4172 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4173 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4176 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4177 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4178 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4179 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4182 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4183 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4184 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4185 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4186 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4187 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4189 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
4190 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4191 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4192 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4193 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4195 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4196 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4197 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4198 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4200 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4201 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4202 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4203 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4204 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4205 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4207 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4208 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4209 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4211 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4212 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4213 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4214 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4217 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4218 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4219 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4220 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4223 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4224 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4225 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4226 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4227 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4228 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4231 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4232 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4233 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4235 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4236 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4237 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4238 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4240 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4241 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4242 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4243 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4244 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4247 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4248 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4249 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4250 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4251 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4252 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4254 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
4255 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4256 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4257 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4258 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4260 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4261 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4262 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4263 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4265 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4266 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4267 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4268 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4270 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4271 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4272 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4273 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4276 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4277 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4278 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4279 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4280 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4281 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4282 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4283 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4287 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
4288 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
4289 some affecting usability.
4291 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4292 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4293 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4294 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4295 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4296 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4297 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4300 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4301 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4302 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4303 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4306 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4307 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4308 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4310 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4311 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4312 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4313 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4316 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4317 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4318 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4320 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4321 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4322 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4323 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4325 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4326 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4327 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4328 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4330 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4331 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4332 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4334 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4335 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4336 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4337 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4338 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4340 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4341 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4342 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4344 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4345 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4346 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4347 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4349 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4350 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4354 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
4355 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
4356 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
4357 compatibility, and portability issues.
4359 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4360 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4361 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4362 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4363 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4364 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4365 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4368 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
4369 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4370 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4371 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4374 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
4375 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
4376 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
4377 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
4378 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
4381 o Minor features (directory authority):
4382 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
4383 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
4384 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
4385 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
4386 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
4388 o Minor features (entry guards):
4389 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
4390 Closes ticket 40001.
4392 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
4393 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
4394 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
4395 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
4396 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
4397 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
4398 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
4400 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
4401 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4402 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4404 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
4405 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
4406 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4408 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
4409 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
4410 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
4413 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
4414 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4415 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4417 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
4418 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
4419 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
4420 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4422 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4423 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4424 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4425 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4427 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4428 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
4429 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
4432 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
4433 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
4436 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
4437 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
4438 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
4439 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
4440 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
4441 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
4442 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
4443 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
4446 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
4447 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
4448 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
4449 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
4450 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
4451 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
4453 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
4455 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
4456 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
4457 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
4458 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
4459 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
4460 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
4461 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
4462 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
4463 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
4464 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
4466 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
4467 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
4468 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
4469 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
4470 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
4471 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
4472 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
4474 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
4476 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
4477 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
4478 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
4479 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
4481 o Major features (v3 onion services):
4482 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
4483 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
4484 Closes ticket 32709.
4486 o Minor feature (developer tools):
4487 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
4488 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
4490 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
4491 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
4492 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
4493 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
4496 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
4497 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
4498 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4500 o Minor feature (python scripts):
4501 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
4502 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
4503 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
4504 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
4506 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
4507 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
4508 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
4509 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
4510 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
4512 o Minor features (code safety):
4513 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
4514 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
4515 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
4516 Resolves issue 33788.
4518 o Minor features (compilation size):
4519 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
4520 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
4522 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4523 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
4524 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
4525 Resolves ticket 32143.
4527 o Minor features (control port):
4528 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
4529 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
4530 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
4531 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4533 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4534 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
4535 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
4536 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
4537 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
4538 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
4540 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
4541 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
4542 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
4543 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
4545 o Minor features (directory):
4546 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
4547 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
4548 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
4551 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
4552 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
4553 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
4555 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
4556 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
4557 Closes ticket 33901.
4559 o Minor features (logging):
4560 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
4561 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
4563 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
4564 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
4565 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
4566 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
4567 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
4568 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
4569 up from ticket 33316.
4571 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
4572 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
4573 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
4574 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4576 o Minor features (windows):
4577 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
4578 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
4580 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
4581 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4582 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4583 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4584 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4586 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
4587 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
4588 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
4589 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
4591 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
4592 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4593 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4594 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4597 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4598 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
4599 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
4600 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
4601 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
4602 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4604 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4605 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
4606 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
4607 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4609 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
4610 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
4611 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
4612 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
4613 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4615 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
4616 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
4617 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4619 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
4620 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
4621 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
4622 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
4623 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
4624 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4625 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
4626 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
4627 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
4628 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4630 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
4631 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4632 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4633 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4635 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
4636 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
4637 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
4638 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
4639 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4641 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
4642 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
4643 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4645 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
4646 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
4647 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4649 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
4650 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4651 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4653 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4654 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
4655 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4658 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
4659 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
4660 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4662 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4663 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4664 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4666 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
4667 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
4668 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
4671 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
4672 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4673 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4674 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4676 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4677 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
4678 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
4679 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
4680 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4681 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
4682 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
4683 isolated in subsystems of their own.
4684 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
4685 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
4686 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
4687 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
4689 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
4690 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
4691 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
4692 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
4696 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
4697 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
4698 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4699 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4703 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
4704 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
4705 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
4706 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
4707 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4708 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
4709 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
4712 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
4713 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
4714 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
4715 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
4716 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
4717 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4718 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
4719 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
4721 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
4722 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4724 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4725 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4726 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4727 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
4728 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
4729 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
4730 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
4731 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
4732 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
4733 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
4734 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4735 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4737 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
4738 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
4739 code. Closes ticket 33014.
4741 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
4742 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
4743 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
4745 o Documentation (manual page):
4746 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
4747 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4748 Google Season of Docs.
4749 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
4750 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
4751 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
4752 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4753 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
4754 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
4755 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
4756 Closes ticket 33778.
4759 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4760 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4761 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4762 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4763 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4764 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4767 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4768 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4769 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4770 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4771 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4773 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4774 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4775 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4778 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4779 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4781 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4782 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4783 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4784 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4785 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4786 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4789 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4790 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4791 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4792 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
4793 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
4794 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
4798 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
4799 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
4800 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
4801 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
4803 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
4804 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4805 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4806 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4807 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4808 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4810 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
4811 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4812 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4813 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4814 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4816 o Minor features (testing):
4817 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4818 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4819 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4820 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4821 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4823 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
4824 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
4825 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
4826 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4828 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
4829 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
4830 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
4831 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4833 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4834 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
4835 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
4836 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
4838 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
4839 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
4840 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
4841 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
4842 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4843 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
4844 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
4845 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
4846 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
4847 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
4848 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4850 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4851 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4852 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4853 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4854 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4855 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4857 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4858 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4859 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4860 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4861 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4862 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4865 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4866 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4867 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4868 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4869 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4870 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
4871 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
4872 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
4874 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4875 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
4876 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
4879 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4880 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4881 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4882 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4883 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4887 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4888 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4889 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4890 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4891 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4892 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4893 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4897 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
4898 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
4899 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
4900 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4901 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4902 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4903 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4904 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4905 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4906 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4907 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4910 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4911 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4912 as soon as packages are available.
4914 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4915 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4916 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4917 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4918 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4919 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4920 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4921 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4922 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4924 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4925 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4926 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4927 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4928 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4930 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4931 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4932 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4933 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4934 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4936 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4937 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4938 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4939 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4941 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4942 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4943 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4944 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4946 o Minor features (usability):
4947 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4948 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4949 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4951 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4952 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4953 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4954 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4957 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
4958 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
4959 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
4960 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
4961 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4963 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4964 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4967 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4968 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4969 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4970 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4973 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4974 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4975 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4976 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4979 o Documentation (manpage):
4980 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4981 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4982 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4983 Google Season of Docs.
4984 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4985 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4987 o Testing (Travis CI):
4988 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4989 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4990 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4992 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4993 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4994 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4995 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4996 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4999 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
5000 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5001 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
5002 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
5003 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
5004 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
5005 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
5006 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
5007 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
5008 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
5009 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
5010 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
5012 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5013 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5014 as soon as packages are available.
5016 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5017 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5018 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5019 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5020 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5021 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5022 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5023 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5024 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5026 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5027 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
5028 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
5029 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
5030 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
5032 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5033 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
5034 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
5035 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
5036 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
5038 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5039 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5040 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5041 Closes ticket 33075.
5043 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5044 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5045 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5047 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5048 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5049 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5050 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5051 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5054 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5055 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5056 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5057 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5060 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5061 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5062 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5063 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5065 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5066 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5067 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5068 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5070 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5071 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5072 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5073 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5074 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5077 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
5078 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
5079 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
5080 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
5081 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
5082 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
5083 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
5084 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
5085 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
5086 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
5087 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
5088 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
5090 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5091 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5092 as soon as packages are available.
5094 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5095 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5096 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5097 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5098 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5099 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5100 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5101 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5102 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5104 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5105 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
5106 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
5107 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
5108 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
5110 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5111 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5112 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5114 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5115 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5116 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5117 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5118 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5121 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5122 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5123 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5124 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5127 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5128 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5129 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5130 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5132 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5133 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5134 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5135 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5137 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5138 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5139 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5140 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5141 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5144 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
5145 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
5146 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
5147 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
5148 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
5149 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
5150 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
5151 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
5152 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
5153 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
5154 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
5157 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5158 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5159 as soon as packages are available.
5161 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5162 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5163 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5164 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5165 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5166 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5167 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5168 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5169 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5171 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5172 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5173 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5174 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5175 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
5176 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5177 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5178 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5181 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5182 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5183 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5184 Closes ticket 33075.
5186 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5187 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5188 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5190 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5191 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5192 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5193 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5194 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5196 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5197 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5198 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5199 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5200 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5203 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5204 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5205 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5206 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5209 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5210 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5211 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5212 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5214 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5215 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5216 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5217 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5218 Closes ticket 32629.
5219 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5220 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5221 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5223 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5224 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5226 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5227 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5228 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5229 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5231 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5232 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5233 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5234 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5237 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
5238 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
5239 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
5240 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
5243 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
5244 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
5245 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
5246 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5248 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5249 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
5250 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
5251 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
5253 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5254 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
5255 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
5256 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5257 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5258 Closes ticket 33075.
5260 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5261 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
5262 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5264 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5265 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
5266 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5267 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
5269 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
5270 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
5271 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5273 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5274 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5275 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5276 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5277 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5279 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
5280 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
5281 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
5282 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5284 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5285 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
5286 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
5287 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5289 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
5290 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
5291 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
5292 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
5295 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5296 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
5297 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
5298 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5300 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
5301 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5302 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5303 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5305 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
5306 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
5307 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
5308 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
5309 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
5311 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
5312 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
5313 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
5315 o Documentation (manpage):
5316 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
5317 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
5318 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
5321 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
5322 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5323 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
5324 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
5325 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
5326 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
5328 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5329 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5330 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5331 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5332 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5333 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5334 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5335 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5337 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5338 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5339 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5341 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5342 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5343 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5344 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5346 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5347 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5348 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5349 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5351 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5352 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5353 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5354 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5355 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5356 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5359 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5360 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5361 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5363 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5364 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5365 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5366 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5367 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5368 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5369 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5370 Closes ticket 32629.
5372 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5373 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5376 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5377 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5378 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5379 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5380 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5381 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5383 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5384 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5385 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5386 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5387 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5388 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5389 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5390 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5392 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5393 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5394 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5396 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5397 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5398 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5399 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5400 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5402 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5403 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5404 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5406 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5407 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5408 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5409 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5410 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5411 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5412 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5413 Closes ticket 32629.
5415 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5416 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5419 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
5420 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
5421 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
5422 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
5423 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
5424 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
5425 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
5426 write better code in the future.
5428 o New system requirements:
5429 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
5430 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
5431 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
5433 o Major features (build system):
5434 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
5435 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
5436 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
5437 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
5438 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
5440 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
5441 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
5442 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
5443 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
5444 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5446 o Major features (onion service, controller):
5447 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
5448 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
5449 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
5450 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
5452 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
5453 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
5454 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
5455 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
5457 o Major features (proxy):
5458 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
5459 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
5460 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
5461 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
5462 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
5463 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
5465 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
5466 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5467 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5468 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5469 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5470 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5471 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5472 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5474 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5475 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5476 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5478 o Major bugfixes (networking):
5479 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
5480 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
5481 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5483 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
5484 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
5485 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
5486 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
5487 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
5488 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5490 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
5491 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
5492 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
5494 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
5495 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
5496 message. Closes ticket 31371.
5498 o Minor features (configuration validation):
5499 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
5500 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
5501 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
5502 Closes ticket 31241.
5504 o Minor features (configuration):
5505 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
5506 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
5508 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
5509 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
5510 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
5511 Implements ticket 32404.
5513 o Minor features (controller):
5514 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
5515 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
5516 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
5518 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
5519 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
5520 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
5521 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
5523 o Minor features (defense in depth):
5524 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
5525 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
5528 o Minor features (developer tooling):
5529 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
5530 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
5531 Closes ticket 32772.
5533 o Minor features (developer tools):
5534 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
5535 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
5536 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
5537 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
5538 target. Closes ticket 31919.
5539 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
5540 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
5541 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
5543 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
5544 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
5545 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
5546 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
5548 o Minor features (Doxygen):
5549 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
5550 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
5551 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
5553 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
5554 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
5555 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
5556 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
5557 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
5558 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
5559 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
5560 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
5562 o Minor features (git scripts):
5563 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
5564 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
5565 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
5566 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
5567 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
5568 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
5569 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
5570 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
5571 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
5572 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
5573 Closes ticket 32216.
5574 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
5575 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
5576 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
5577 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
5579 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
5580 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
5581 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
5582 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
5583 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
5584 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
5586 o Minor features (portability, android):
5587 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
5588 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
5589 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
5591 o Minor features (relay modularity):
5592 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
5593 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
5594 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
5595 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
5596 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
5597 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
5598 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
5600 o Minor features (relay):
5601 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
5602 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
5604 o Minor features (release tools):
5605 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
5606 Closes ticket 32704.
5608 o Minor features (testing):
5609 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
5610 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
5611 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
5612 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
5613 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
5614 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
5617 o Minor features (tests, Android):
5618 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
5619 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
5620 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
5622 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
5623 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5624 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5626 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5627 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
5628 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
5630 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
5631 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
5632 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
5633 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5635 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5636 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
5637 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5638 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
5639 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
5640 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
5641 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
5642 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
5643 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
5644 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
5645 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5646 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
5647 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
5648 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
5649 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5651 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5652 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
5653 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
5656 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
5657 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5658 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5659 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5661 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
5662 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
5663 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
5665 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
5666 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
5667 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
5668 Closes ticket 32213.
5669 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
5670 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
5671 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5673 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5674 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
5675 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
5676 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
5677 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
5680 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5681 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
5683 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
5684 Closes ticket 32216.
5686 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
5687 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
5688 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
5689 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
5692 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
5693 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5694 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5695 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5697 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5698 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
5699 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
5700 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
5701 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
5704 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
5705 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
5706 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
5707 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
5708 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
5709 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5711 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5712 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
5713 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
5714 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
5715 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5717 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
5718 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
5719 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5721 o Minor bugfixes (test):
5722 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
5723 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
5724 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
5727 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5728 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
5729 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5730 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5731 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5732 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5733 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5734 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5737 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
5738 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
5739 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
5740 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
5741 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
5742 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5744 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
5745 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5746 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5748 o Deprecated features:
5749 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
5750 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
5751 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
5755 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
5756 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
5757 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
5758 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
5759 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
5760 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
5761 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
5762 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
5764 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
5765 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
5768 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
5769 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
5770 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
5771 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
5772 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
5773 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
5775 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
5776 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
5777 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
5778 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
5779 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
5782 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
5783 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
5785 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
5786 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
5787 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
5788 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
5789 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5790 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5791 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5792 Closes ticket 32629.
5793 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
5795 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5796 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5797 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5799 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
5800 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
5801 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
5803 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
5804 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
5805 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
5806 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
5807 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
5808 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
5809 Solves part of ticket 32339.
5810 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
5811 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
5812 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
5813 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
5814 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
5815 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
5816 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
5817 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
5818 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
5819 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
5821 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
5822 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
5824 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
5825 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
5826 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
5828 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
5829 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
5830 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
5831 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
5832 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
5833 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
5835 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
5836 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
5837 Closes ticket 32163.
5838 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
5840 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
5842 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5843 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
5844 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
5845 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
5846 Closes ticket 32304.
5847 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
5848 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
5849 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
5850 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
5851 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
5854 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
5855 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
5857 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
5860 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
5861 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
5862 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
5863 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
5864 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
5865 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
5866 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
5867 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
5869 o Documentation (manpage):
5870 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
5872 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
5874 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
5875 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
5876 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
5878 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
5879 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
5880 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
5882 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
5883 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
5886 o Testing (continuous integration):
5887 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5890 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5891 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5892 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5893 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5894 bugs present in previous series.
5896 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5897 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5898 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5899 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5901 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5902 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5903 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5904 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5906 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
5907 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5909 o Minor features (geoip):
5910 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5911 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5914 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5915 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5916 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5917 Closes ticket 32500.
5920 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5921 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5922 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5923 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5925 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5926 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5927 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5928 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5930 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5931 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5932 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5933 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5935 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5936 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5937 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5938 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5939 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5940 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5941 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5942 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5944 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5945 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5946 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5947 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5948 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5950 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5951 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5952 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5953 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5954 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5957 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5958 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5959 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5960 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5962 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5963 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5964 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5966 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5967 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5968 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5970 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5971 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5972 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5973 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5974 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5975 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5977 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5978 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5979 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5980 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5982 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5983 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5984 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5985 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5986 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5987 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5988 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5989 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5990 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5991 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5994 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5995 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5996 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5997 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5998 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5999 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6000 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6001 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6002 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6004 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6005 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6006 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6007 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6009 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6010 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6011 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6012 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6013 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6016 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6017 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
6018 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
6020 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6021 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6022 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6024 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6025 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6026 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6028 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6029 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6030 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6031 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6033 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6034 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6035 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6036 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6037 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6039 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6040 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
6041 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6043 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6044 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6045 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6048 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6049 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
6050 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
6052 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6053 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6054 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6055 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6057 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6058 Closes ticket 31859.
6059 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6060 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6062 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6063 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6064 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6065 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6066 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6067 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6068 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6069 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6070 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6071 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6073 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6074 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6075 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6076 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6077 Closes ticket 32500.
6080 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
6081 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
6082 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
6083 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
6084 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
6086 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
6087 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
6088 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
6089 support until 1 Feb 2022.
6091 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6092 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6095 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6096 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6097 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6098 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6099 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6100 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6101 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6102 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6103 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6104 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6105 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6107 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6108 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6109 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6110 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6111 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6112 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6114 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6115 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6116 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6117 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6118 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6121 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6122 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6123 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6124 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6125 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6127 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6128 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6129 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6130 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6133 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6134 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6135 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6136 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6137 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6138 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6139 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6140 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6142 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6143 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6144 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6145 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6146 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6148 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6149 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6150 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6151 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6152 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6155 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6156 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6157 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6159 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6160 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6161 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6164 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6165 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6166 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6168 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6169 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6170 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6171 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6173 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6174 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6175 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6176 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6177 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6179 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6180 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6181 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6183 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6184 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6185 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6188 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6189 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6190 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6192 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6193 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6194 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6196 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6197 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6198 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6200 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6201 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6202 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6205 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6206 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6207 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6208 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6209 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6210 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6212 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6213 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6214 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6215 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6216 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6218 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6219 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6220 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6223 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6224 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6225 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6227 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6228 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6229 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6230 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6232 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6233 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6234 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6235 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6237 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6238 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6239 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6240 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6242 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6243 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6244 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6245 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6247 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6248 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6249 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6250 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6251 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6252 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6253 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6255 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6256 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6257 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6258 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6260 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6261 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6262 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6263 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6265 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6266 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6267 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6270 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6271 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6272 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6273 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6274 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6275 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6276 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6278 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6279 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6280 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6281 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6284 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6285 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6286 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6287 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6288 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6290 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6291 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6292 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6293 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6294 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6296 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6297 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6298 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6301 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6302 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6303 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6304 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6305 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6307 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6308 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6309 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6310 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6312 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6313 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6314 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6315 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6316 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6319 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6320 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6321 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6324 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6325 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6326 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6327 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6329 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6330 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6331 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6332 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6334 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6335 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6336 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6337 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6339 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6340 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6341 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6342 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6345 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6346 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6347 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6348 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6349 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6350 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6353 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6354 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6355 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6357 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6358 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6359 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6361 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6362 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6363 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6364 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6366 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6367 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6368 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6370 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6371 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6372 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6373 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6374 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6376 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6377 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6378 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6381 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6382 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6383 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6384 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6385 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6386 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6387 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6388 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6389 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6390 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6392 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6393 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6394 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6395 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6397 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6398 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6399 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6400 Resolves issue 29702.
6402 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6403 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6405 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6406 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6407 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6408 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6411 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6412 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6413 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6414 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6416 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6417 Closes ticket 31859.
6418 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6419 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6421 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6422 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6423 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6424 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6425 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6426 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6427 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6428 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6429 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6430 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6432 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6433 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6434 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6435 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6436 Closes ticket 32500.
6438 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6439 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6440 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6443 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6444 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6447 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6448 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6449 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6450 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6451 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6452 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6453 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6454 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6455 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6456 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6457 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6459 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6460 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6461 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6462 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6463 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6464 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6466 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6467 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6468 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6469 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6470 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6471 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6473 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6474 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6475 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6476 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6477 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6480 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6481 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6482 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6483 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6484 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6486 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6487 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6488 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6489 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6492 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6493 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6494 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6495 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6496 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6498 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6499 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6500 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6501 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6502 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6505 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6506 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6507 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6508 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6509 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6510 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6511 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6512 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6514 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6515 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6516 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6517 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6518 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6521 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6522 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6523 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6525 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6526 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6527 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6530 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6531 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6532 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6533 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6535 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6536 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6537 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6540 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6541 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6542 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6544 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6545 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6546 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6547 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6549 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6550 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6551 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6552 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6553 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6555 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6556 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6557 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6559 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6560 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6561 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6562 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6564 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6565 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6566 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6569 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6570 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6571 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6572 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6573 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6574 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6575 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6576 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6577 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6578 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6579 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6580 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6581 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6584 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6585 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6586 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6587 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6588 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6590 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6591 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6592 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6594 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6595 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6596 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6598 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6599 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6600 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6602 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6603 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6604 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6607 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6608 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6609 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6611 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6612 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6613 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6614 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6615 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6616 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6618 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6619 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6620 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6621 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6622 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6624 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6625 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6626 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6629 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6630 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6631 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6633 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6634 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6635 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6637 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6638 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6639 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6640 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6642 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6643 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6644 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6645 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6647 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6648 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6649 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6650 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6652 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6653 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6654 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6655 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6657 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6658 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6659 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6660 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6661 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6662 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6663 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6665 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6666 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6667 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6668 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6670 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6671 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6672 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6673 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6675 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6676 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6677 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6680 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6681 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6682 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6683 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6684 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6685 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6686 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6688 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6689 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6690 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6691 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6694 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6695 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6696 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6697 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6698 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6700 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6701 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6702 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6704 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6705 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6706 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6707 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6708 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6709 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6710 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6711 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6712 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6713 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6714 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6716 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6717 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6718 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6719 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6720 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6722 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6723 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6724 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6727 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6728 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6729 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6730 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6731 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6733 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6734 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6735 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6736 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6738 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6739 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6740 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6741 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6742 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6745 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6746 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6747 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6750 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6751 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6752 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6753 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6755 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6756 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6757 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6758 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6760 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6761 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6762 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6764 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6765 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6766 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6767 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6769 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6770 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6771 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6772 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6775 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6776 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6777 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6778 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6779 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6780 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6783 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6784 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6785 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6786 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6788 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6789 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6790 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6792 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6793 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6794 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6796 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6797 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6798 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6799 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6800 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6801 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6802 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6804 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6805 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6806 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6809 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6810 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6811 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6812 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6813 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6814 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6815 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6816 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6818 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6819 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6820 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6821 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6822 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6823 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6826 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6827 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6828 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6829 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6830 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6832 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6833 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6834 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6835 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6836 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6837 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6838 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6839 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6841 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6842 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6843 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6846 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6847 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6848 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6849 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6850 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6851 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6852 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6853 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6854 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6855 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6857 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6858 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6859 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6860 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6861 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6862 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6864 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6865 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6866 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6867 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6869 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6870 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6871 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6872 Resolves issue 29702.
6874 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6875 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6877 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6878 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6879 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6880 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6883 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6884 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6885 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6886 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6888 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6889 Closes ticket 31859.
6890 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6891 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6893 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6894 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6895 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6896 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6897 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6898 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6899 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6900 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6901 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6902 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6904 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6905 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6906 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6907 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6908 Closes ticket 32500.
6910 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
6911 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
6912 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
6913 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
6915 o Minor features (build system):
6916 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
6917 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
6919 o Minor features (geoip):
6920 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6921 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
6923 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
6924 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6925 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6926 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6927 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6928 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6930 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
6931 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
6932 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6934 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6935 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
6936 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6938 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
6939 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
6940 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
6941 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
6942 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6944 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
6945 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
6946 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
6947 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
6948 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6950 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
6951 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
6952 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6953 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
6954 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6956 o Testing (continuous integration):
6957 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6958 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6959 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6960 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6961 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6962 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6963 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6964 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6965 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6968 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
6969 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
6970 from earlier versions of Tor.
6972 o Major bugfixes (relay):
6973 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6974 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6975 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6976 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6977 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6978 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6979 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6981 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6982 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6983 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6984 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6985 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6988 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
6989 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
6990 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
6991 Closes ticket 29669.
6993 o Minor features (testing):
6994 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
6995 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
6996 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
6997 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
6999 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
7000 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
7001 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
7002 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
7004 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
7005 Closes ticket 31859.
7006 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
7007 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
7009 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
7010 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
7011 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7012 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
7014 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
7015 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7016 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
7017 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
7018 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7020 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
7021 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
7022 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
7023 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
7025 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
7026 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
7027 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7029 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
7030 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
7031 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
7032 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
7033 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
7036 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
7037 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
7038 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
7040 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
7041 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
7042 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7044 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7045 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7046 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
7048 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
7049 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
7050 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
7051 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7053 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
7054 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
7055 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
7058 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
7059 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
7060 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7061 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
7062 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
7064 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
7065 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
7066 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
7067 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7070 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
7071 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7072 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
7073 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
7074 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
7075 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
7078 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
7079 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
7080 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
7081 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
7083 o Major features (directory authorities):
7084 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
7085 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
7086 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
7088 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
7089 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
7090 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
7091 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7093 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
7094 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
7095 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
7096 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
7097 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7099 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
7100 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
7101 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
7102 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
7103 Closes ticket 31779.
7105 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7106 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
7107 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
7108 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
7110 o Minor features (geoip):
7111 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7112 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
7114 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
7115 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
7116 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
7117 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
7118 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
7119 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
7120 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
7122 o Minor features (onion services v3):
7123 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
7124 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
7127 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
7128 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
7129 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7131 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
7132 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
7133 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
7134 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7136 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7137 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
7138 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
7139 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7141 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7142 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
7143 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7144 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
7145 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7146 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
7147 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
7148 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
7149 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7150 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
7151 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7153 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
7154 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
7155 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
7156 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7158 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
7159 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
7160 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
7163 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
7164 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
7165 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
7167 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7168 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
7169 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
7170 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7172 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
7173 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
7174 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7176 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7177 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
7178 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
7179 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
7180 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
7181 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
7182 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
7184 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
7188 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
7189 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
7191 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
7192 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
7193 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
7194 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
7195 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
7196 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
7199 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
7200 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
7201 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
7202 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
7205 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7206 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
7207 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
7208 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
7209 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7210 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
7211 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
7212 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
7213 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7215 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7216 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
7217 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
7220 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7221 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
7222 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7224 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7225 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
7226 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
7227 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
7228 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
7230 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
7231 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
7232 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7234 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7235 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
7236 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
7237 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7239 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7240 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
7241 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
7242 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
7245 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7246 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
7247 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
7248 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
7249 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7251 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7252 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
7253 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
7256 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7257 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
7258 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7260 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7261 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7262 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
7263 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
7264 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
7265 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7267 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7268 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7269 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
7270 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
7271 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
7272 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7273 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7274 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7275 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7276 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7278 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7279 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7280 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7281 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7284 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
7285 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
7286 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
7287 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
7288 Tor's stability and ease of development.
7290 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
7291 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
7292 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
7293 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
7294 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
7295 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
7298 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7299 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7300 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
7301 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
7302 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
7303 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
7306 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
7307 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
7308 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
7309 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
7310 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7311 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
7312 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
7313 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
7314 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7316 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
7317 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
7318 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
7319 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
7320 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
7321 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
7322 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
7323 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
7324 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
7325 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
7326 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
7327 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
7328 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
7329 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
7330 files. Closes ticket 31175.
7332 o Minor features (build system):
7333 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
7334 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
7335 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
7337 o Minor features (compilation):
7338 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
7339 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
7340 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
7342 o Minor features (configuration):
7343 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
7344 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
7345 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
7346 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
7348 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7349 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
7350 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
7351 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
7353 o Minor features (debugging):
7354 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
7355 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
7356 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
7357 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
7359 o Minor features (git hooks):
7360 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
7361 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
7362 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
7363 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
7364 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
7366 o Minor features (git scripts):
7367 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
7368 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
7369 push. Closes ticket 31314.
7370 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
7371 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
7372 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
7373 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
7374 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
7375 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
7376 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
7377 Closes ticket 31314.
7378 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
7379 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
7380 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
7381 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
7382 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
7383 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
7384 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
7385 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
7386 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
7388 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
7389 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
7390 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
7393 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
7394 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
7395 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
7397 o Minor features (onion service v3):
7398 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
7399 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
7401 o Minor features (onion service):
7402 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
7403 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
7404 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
7405 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
7407 o Minor features (stem tests):
7408 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
7409 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
7412 o Minor features (testing):
7413 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
7414 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
7415 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
7416 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
7417 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
7418 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
7419 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
7420 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
7421 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
7422 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
7423 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
7425 o Minor features (token bucket):
7426 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
7427 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
7429 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
7430 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
7431 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
7432 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7433 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
7434 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
7435 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
7436 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
7439 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
7440 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
7441 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7443 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
7444 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
7445 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
7446 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
7447 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
7448 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
7450 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7451 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
7452 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
7453 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
7454 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
7456 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
7457 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
7458 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7460 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7461 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
7462 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
7463 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
7465 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
7466 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
7467 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
7468 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
7469 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
7470 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
7471 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
7472 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
7473 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
7474 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7476 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7477 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
7478 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
7481 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7482 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
7483 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7485 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
7486 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
7487 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
7488 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7489 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
7490 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
7491 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7492 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
7493 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
7494 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
7497 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
7498 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
7499 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
7500 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
7503 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
7504 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
7505 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
7506 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7508 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
7509 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
7510 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
7511 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7512 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
7513 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7514 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
7515 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
7516 Closes ticket 31678.
7518 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7519 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
7520 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
7521 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
7522 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7524 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
7525 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
7526 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
7527 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
7528 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7529 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
7530 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
7531 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
7532 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
7535 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7536 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
7537 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
7539 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
7540 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
7541 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
7543 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7544 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
7545 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
7548 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
7549 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
7550 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
7551 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
7552 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
7553 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
7555 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
7556 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
7557 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
7558 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
7561 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7562 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
7563 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
7564 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
7565 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7567 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7568 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
7569 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
7570 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
7571 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
7572 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7574 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
7575 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
7576 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
7577 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7579 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7580 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
7581 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7582 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
7583 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7585 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
7586 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
7587 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
7588 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7590 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
7591 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
7592 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
7593 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
7594 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7596 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
7597 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
7598 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
7599 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
7600 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
7603 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7604 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
7605 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
7608 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
7609 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7610 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
7611 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
7612 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
7613 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7615 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
7616 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7617 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
7618 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
7619 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
7620 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7621 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7622 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7623 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7624 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7627 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
7628 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
7629 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
7630 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
7631 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7632 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7633 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7636 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
7637 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
7638 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
7639 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
7640 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
7641 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
7643 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
7647 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
7648 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
7649 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
7650 Closes ticket 30967.
7652 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
7653 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
7654 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
7655 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
7656 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
7657 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
7658 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
7659 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
7660 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
7661 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
7662 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
7663 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
7664 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
7665 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
7666 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
7667 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
7669 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
7670 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
7671 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
7672 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
7673 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
7674 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
7675 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
7676 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
7677 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
7678 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
7680 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
7681 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
7682 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
7684 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
7685 Closes ticket 30806.
7686 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
7687 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
7690 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
7691 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
7692 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
7694 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
7695 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
7696 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7699 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
7700 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
7701 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
7702 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
7703 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
7704 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
7705 bugfixes on earlier versions.
7707 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
7708 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
7709 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7710 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7712 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
7713 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7715 o Directory authority changes:
7716 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
7719 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
7720 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
7721 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
7722 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
7724 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
7725 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
7726 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
7727 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
7728 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
7729 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
7730 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7732 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7733 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
7734 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
7735 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7737 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7738 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7739 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7740 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7741 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7743 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7744 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7745 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7746 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7747 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7748 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7750 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7751 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7752 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
7755 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7756 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7757 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7759 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
7760 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
7761 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
7764 o Testing (continuous integration):
7765 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
7766 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7767 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
7771 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
7772 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
7773 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
7774 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
7776 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7777 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7778 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
7779 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
7780 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
7781 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7783 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7784 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
7785 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
7787 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7788 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
7789 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
7790 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
7791 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
7793 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7794 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
7795 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
7797 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
7798 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
7799 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7801 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
7802 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
7803 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
7804 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7806 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7807 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
7808 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
7811 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7812 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
7813 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
7816 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7817 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
7818 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
7822 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
7823 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
7824 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
7826 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
7827 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
7828 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
7829 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
7830 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7833 o Minor features (geoip):
7834 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7835 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
7837 o Minor features (logging):
7838 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
7839 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
7840 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
7841 Closes ticket 30686.
7843 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
7844 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
7845 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7847 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7848 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7849 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7850 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7851 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7852 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
7853 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7855 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7856 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
7857 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
7858 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7860 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7861 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
7862 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
7863 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
7864 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7867 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7868 Closes ticket 30630.
7871 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
7872 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
7873 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
7874 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
7875 SENDME implementation.
7877 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7878 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
7879 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
7880 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
7881 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
7882 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
7883 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
7884 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
7885 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
7886 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
7887 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7889 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
7890 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
7891 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
7892 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
7893 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
7894 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7896 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
7897 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
7898 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
7899 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
7900 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7903 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
7904 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
7905 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
7906 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
7907 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
7908 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
7911 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7912 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
7913 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
7916 o Minor features (maintenance):
7917 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
7918 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
7919 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
7921 o Minor features (testing):
7922 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7923 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7924 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7925 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7927 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7928 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7929 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7931 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7932 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7933 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7934 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7936 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7937 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
7938 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
7940 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
7941 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
7944 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7945 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7946 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7949 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7950 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7951 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7954 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7955 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7956 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7957 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7959 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7960 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7961 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7962 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7965 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7966 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7967 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7968 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7969 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7970 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7973 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
7974 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
7975 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
7976 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
7977 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
7978 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7980 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7981 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7982 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7983 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7986 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7987 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7988 Resolves issue 29702.
7991 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
7992 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
7993 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
7994 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
7995 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
7996 performance in several areas.
7998 o Major features (circuit padding):
7999 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
8000 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
8001 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
8002 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
8003 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
8004 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
8005 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
8006 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
8007 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
8009 o Major features (code organization):
8010 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
8011 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
8012 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
8013 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
8016 o Major features (controller protocol):
8017 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
8018 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
8019 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
8020 Closes ticket 30091.
8022 o Major features (flow control):
8023 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
8024 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
8025 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
8026 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
8027 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
8028 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
8029 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
8031 o Major features (performance):
8032 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
8033 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
8034 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
8036 o Major features (performance, RNG):
8037 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
8038 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
8039 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
8040 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
8041 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
8042 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
8043 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
8044 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
8046 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
8047 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
8048 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
8049 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
8050 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
8052 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
8053 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
8054 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
8055 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
8058 o Minor features (circuit padding):
8059 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
8061 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
8062 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
8063 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
8064 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
8065 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8066 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
8067 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
8069 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
8070 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
8071 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
8073 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8074 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
8075 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
8077 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
8079 o Minor features (controller):
8080 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
8081 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
8082 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8084 o Minor features (debugging):
8085 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
8086 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
8087 can use format strings to include information for trouble
8088 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
8090 o Minor features (defense in depth):
8091 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
8092 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
8093 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
8094 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
8095 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
8096 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
8097 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
8098 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
8099 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
8101 o Minor features (developer tools):
8102 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
8103 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
8104 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
8105 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
8106 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
8108 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
8109 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
8111 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
8112 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
8114 o Minor features (geoip):
8115 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8116 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
8118 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
8119 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
8120 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
8122 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
8123 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
8124 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
8125 addresses. Implements 26992.
8127 o Minor features (modularity):
8128 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
8129 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
8131 o Minor features (performance):
8132 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
8133 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
8134 Closes ticket 28837.
8136 o Minor features (testing):
8137 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
8138 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
8139 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
8140 Implements ticket 29732.
8141 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
8142 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
8144 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
8145 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
8147 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
8148 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
8149 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
8150 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
8151 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8152 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8154 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
8155 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
8156 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
8157 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8159 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
8160 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
8161 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8162 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
8163 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
8164 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
8165 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8166 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
8167 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
8168 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8169 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
8170 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8171 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
8172 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
8173 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8174 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
8175 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
8176 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8178 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
8179 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
8180 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
8181 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8183 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
8184 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
8185 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
8186 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
8187 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
8189 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
8190 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
8191 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
8192 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8194 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8195 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
8196 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8197 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
8198 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
8199 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
8201 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
8202 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
8204 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8205 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
8206 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
8207 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
8208 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
8209 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
8210 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
8213 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8214 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
8215 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
8218 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8219 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
8220 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
8221 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8222 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
8223 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
8224 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
8225 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
8227 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
8228 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
8229 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8230 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
8231 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
8232 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
8233 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8235 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
8236 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
8237 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
8238 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
8239 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
8240 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8242 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8243 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
8244 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
8245 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
8246 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8248 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8249 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
8250 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8252 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
8253 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
8254 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
8257 o Minor bugfixes (python):
8258 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
8259 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
8260 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
8262 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8263 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
8264 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
8265 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
8266 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8268 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
8269 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
8270 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
8271 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
8272 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
8274 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8275 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
8276 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
8277 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8278 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
8279 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8280 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
8281 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8282 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
8283 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
8284 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
8285 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
8286 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8288 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
8289 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
8290 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
8291 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
8292 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8294 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8295 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
8296 port. Implements ticket 30007.
8297 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
8298 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
8299 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
8300 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
8301 string to directory connection with or without compression.
8302 Resolves issue 28816.
8303 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
8304 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
8305 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
8306 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
8307 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
8308 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
8309 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
8310 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
8311 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
8312 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
8313 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
8314 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
8315 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
8316 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
8317 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
8318 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
8319 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8320 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
8321 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8322 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
8323 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
8324 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
8325 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
8326 Closes ticket 29894.
8327 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
8328 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
8329 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
8330 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
8333 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
8334 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
8338 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
8339 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
8340 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
8341 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
8344 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8345 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
8346 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
8347 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
8348 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
8349 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
8350 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
8351 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
8352 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
8353 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
8354 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
8357 o Testing (chutney):
8358 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
8359 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
8360 Closes ticket 27251.
8363 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
8364 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
8365 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
8366 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
8367 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
8368 long-term maintainability.
8370 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
8371 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
8372 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
8373 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
8375 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
8376 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8378 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8379 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
8380 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
8381 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
8383 o Minor features (diagnostic):
8384 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
8385 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
8388 o Minor features (testing):
8389 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
8390 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
8393 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8394 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
8395 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8397 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
8398 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
8399 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
8400 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8402 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8403 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
8404 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
8406 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
8407 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
8408 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8411 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
8412 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
8413 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
8414 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
8416 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
8417 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
8418 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
8419 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
8420 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
8421 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8423 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
8424 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
8425 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
8426 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
8427 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
8429 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
8430 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
8431 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
8434 o Minor features (circuit padding):
8435 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
8436 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
8437 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
8438 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
8441 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8442 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
8443 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
8446 o Minor features (dormant mode):
8447 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
8448 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
8449 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
8450 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
8451 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
8452 background. Closes ticket 29357.
8454 o Minor features (geoip):
8455 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8456 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
8458 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
8459 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
8460 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
8461 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
8463 o Minor bugfixes (security):
8464 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
8465 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
8466 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
8467 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
8468 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
8469 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
8470 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
8471 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
8473 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
8474 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
8475 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
8476 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
8478 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
8479 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
8480 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
8481 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
8482 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
8484 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
8485 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
8486 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8488 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
8489 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
8490 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
8493 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8494 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
8495 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
8498 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
8499 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
8500 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8502 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
8503 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
8504 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8506 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8507 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
8508 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
8509 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
8510 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
8511 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
8514 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8515 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
8516 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
8517 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
8518 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8520 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8521 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
8522 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
8523 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8524 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
8525 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
8528 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
8529 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
8530 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
8531 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
8532 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
8533 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
8534 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
8535 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8537 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8538 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
8539 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
8540 Resolves issue 28816.
8541 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
8542 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
8545 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
8546 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
8549 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
8550 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
8551 bugs from earlier versions.
8553 o Minor features (address selection):
8554 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
8555 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
8556 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
8557 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
8558 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
8559 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
8560 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8562 o Minor features (geoip):
8563 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8564 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
8566 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
8567 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
8568 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
8569 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8571 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8572 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
8573 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
8574 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
8575 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8576 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
8577 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
8578 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
8579 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8580 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
8581 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8583 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
8584 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
8585 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
8586 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8588 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
8589 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
8590 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8592 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8593 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
8594 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
8597 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
8598 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
8599 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8601 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
8602 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
8603 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
8604 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
8605 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
8606 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
8607 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
8609 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
8610 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
8611 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
8614 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8615 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
8616 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
8617 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
8618 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
8619 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
8620 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
8621 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8622 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
8623 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8625 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
8626 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
8627 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
8628 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
8629 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
8630 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8633 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
8634 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
8635 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
8638 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8639 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8640 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8642 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8643 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8644 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8645 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8646 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8647 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8648 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8649 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8651 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8652 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8653 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8654 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8655 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8657 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8658 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8659 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8660 Patches from "Mangix".
8662 o Minor features (geoip):
8663 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8664 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8666 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8667 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8670 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8671 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8672 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8673 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8674 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8675 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8677 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8678 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8679 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8680 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8683 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8684 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8685 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8686 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8688 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8689 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8690 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8693 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8694 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8695 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8696 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8698 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8699 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8700 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8701 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8703 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8704 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8705 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8706 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8707 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8708 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8710 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8711 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8712 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8713 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8714 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8716 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8717 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8718 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8719 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8720 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8722 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8723 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8724 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8726 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8727 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8728 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8730 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8731 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8732 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8733 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8735 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8736 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8737 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8739 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8740 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8741 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8742 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8743 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8746 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8747 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8748 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8749 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8750 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8753 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8754 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8755 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8756 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8757 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8759 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8760 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8761 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8762 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8763 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8764 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8765 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8766 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8768 o Minor features (geoip):
8769 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8770 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8772 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8773 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8774 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8775 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8777 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8778 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8779 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8780 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8781 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8784 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8785 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8786 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8787 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8789 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8790 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8791 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8792 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8794 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8795 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8796 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8797 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8798 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8799 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8800 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8801 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8803 o Minor features (geoip):
8804 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8805 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8807 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8808 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8809 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8810 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8812 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8813 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8814 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8815 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8816 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8819 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
8820 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
8821 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
8822 backward compatibility.
8824 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8825 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8826 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8828 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8829 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8830 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8831 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8832 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8833 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8834 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8835 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8837 o Major bugfixes (networking):
8838 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8839 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8840 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8841 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8843 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
8844 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
8845 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
8846 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
8847 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
8848 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
8849 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8851 o Minor features (compilation):
8852 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8853 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8854 Patches from "Mangix".
8856 o Minor features (developer tooling):
8857 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
8858 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
8859 release. Closes ticket 27761.
8860 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
8861 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
8862 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
8865 o Minor features (directory authority):
8866 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
8867 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
8868 Closes ticket 26698.
8870 o Minor features (geoip):
8871 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8872 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8874 o Minor features (testing):
8875 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8878 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
8879 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8880 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8881 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8883 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8884 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
8885 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8886 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
8887 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8889 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8890 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8891 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8892 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8894 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
8895 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
8896 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
8898 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8899 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
8900 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8901 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8902 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8903 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8904 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8906 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8907 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8908 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8909 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8910 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8912 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8913 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8914 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8916 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8917 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8918 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8920 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8921 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8922 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8923 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8925 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
8926 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
8927 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
8928 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
8929 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
8932 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
8933 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
8934 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8935 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
8936 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
8937 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
8938 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8939 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8940 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8941 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8942 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8946 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
8947 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
8948 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
8951 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
8954 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
8955 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
8956 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
8957 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
8958 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
8959 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
8962 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
8963 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
8964 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
8965 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
8966 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
8967 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
8969 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
8970 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
8972 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
8973 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
8976 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
8977 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
8978 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
8979 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
8980 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
8981 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
8982 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
8983 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
8984 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
8987 o Major features (circuit padding):
8988 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
8989 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
8990 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
8991 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
8992 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
8993 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
8994 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
8995 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
8998 o Major features (refactoring):
8999 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
9000 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
9001 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
9002 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
9005 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
9006 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
9007 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
9008 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
9009 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
9012 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9013 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
9016 o Minor features (controller):
9017 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
9018 Implements ticket 28843.
9020 o Minor features (developer tooling):
9021 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
9022 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
9023 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
9025 o Minor features (directory authority):
9026 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
9027 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
9028 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
9029 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
9032 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
9033 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
9034 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
9035 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
9036 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
9037 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
9038 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
9040 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9041 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
9042 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
9044 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
9045 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
9046 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
9047 Closes ticket 28518.
9049 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
9050 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
9051 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
9052 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
9054 o Minor features (IPv6):
9055 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
9056 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
9057 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
9058 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
9059 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
9060 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9061 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
9062 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
9063 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
9064 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9066 o Minor features (log messages):
9067 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
9068 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
9071 o Minor features (memory usage):
9072 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
9073 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
9074 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
9075 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
9076 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
9078 o Minor features (parsing):
9079 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
9080 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
9081 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
9083 o Minor features (performance):
9084 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
9085 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
9086 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
9087 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
9089 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
9090 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
9091 Closes ticket 28852.
9092 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
9093 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
9094 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
9095 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
9096 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
9097 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
9099 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
9100 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
9101 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
9102 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
9103 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
9105 o Minor features (process management):
9106 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
9107 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
9108 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
9109 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
9110 module. Closes ticket 28847.
9112 o Minor features (relay):
9113 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
9114 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
9115 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
9117 o Minor features (required protocols):
9118 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
9119 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
9120 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
9121 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
9122 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
9123 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
9124 297; closes ticket 27735.
9126 o Minor features (testing):
9127 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
9128 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
9130 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
9131 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
9132 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9133 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
9134 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
9137 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9138 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
9139 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
9140 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9142 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
9143 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
9144 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9146 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
9147 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
9148 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
9149 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9151 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
9152 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
9153 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
9154 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
9155 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
9157 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
9158 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
9159 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
9160 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
9161 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
9162 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
9163 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9165 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
9166 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
9167 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
9168 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
9171 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9172 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
9173 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
9174 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
9175 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
9176 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
9178 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9179 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
9180 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
9181 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9183 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
9184 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
9185 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
9186 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
9187 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
9188 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9190 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
9191 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
9192 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
9193 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9195 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
9196 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
9197 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
9198 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
9199 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9201 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
9202 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
9203 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
9204 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
9205 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9207 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
9208 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
9209 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
9210 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
9211 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9213 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9214 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
9215 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
9216 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
9218 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
9219 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
9220 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
9221 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
9222 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
9223 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
9224 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
9225 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
9229 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
9230 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
9231 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
9232 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
9234 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
9237 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
9238 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
9239 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
9240 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
9241 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
9242 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
9243 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
9246 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
9248 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
9249 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
9251 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
9252 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
9253 code from client and service into one function. Closes
9256 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
9257 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
9259 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
9260 Resolves ticket 28006.
9261 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
9262 Resolves ticket 28012.
9263 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
9264 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
9265 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
9266 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
9270 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
9271 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9272 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
9273 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
9274 to this version, or to a later series.
9276 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
9277 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
9278 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
9279 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
9280 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
9281 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
9283 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9284 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9285 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9286 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9287 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9290 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9291 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9292 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9293 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9295 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9296 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9297 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9298 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9299 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9300 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9301 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9302 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9304 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9305 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9306 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9307 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9309 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9310 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9311 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9312 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9313 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9315 o Minor features (geoip):
9316 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9317 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
9319 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9320 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9321 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9322 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9323 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9324 Closes ticket 28973.
9326 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9327 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9328 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9329 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9331 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9332 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9333 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9336 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9337 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9338 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9340 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9341 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9342 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9343 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9345 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9346 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9347 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9348 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9350 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9351 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9352 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9353 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9354 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9355 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9358 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9359 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9360 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9363 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9364 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9365 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9366 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9367 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9369 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9370 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9371 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9372 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9373 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9375 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9376 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9377 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9378 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9379 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9380 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9382 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
9383 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
9384 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
9387 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9388 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9389 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9391 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9392 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9393 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9395 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9396 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9397 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9400 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9401 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9402 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9403 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9404 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9405 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9406 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9407 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9409 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9410 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9411 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9412 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9414 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9415 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9416 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9417 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9418 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9419 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9420 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9421 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9422 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9423 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9425 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9426 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9427 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9428 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9429 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9430 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9432 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9433 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9434 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9435 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9436 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9438 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9439 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9440 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9443 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
9444 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9445 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
9446 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
9449 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
9450 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
9451 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
9454 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9455 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9456 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9457 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9458 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9461 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9462 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
9463 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
9464 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
9465 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
9466 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
9467 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
9469 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9470 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
9471 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
9474 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9475 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
9476 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
9477 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
9478 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
9481 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9482 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9483 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9484 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9485 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9487 o Minor features (geoip):
9488 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9489 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
9491 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9492 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9493 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9494 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9495 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9496 Closes ticket 28973.
9498 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9499 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9500 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9501 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9503 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9504 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9505 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9506 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9507 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9510 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9511 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9512 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9513 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9515 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9516 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9517 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9519 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9520 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9521 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9522 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9524 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9525 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9526 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9527 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9528 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9529 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9532 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9533 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9534 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9536 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9537 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9538 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9539 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9540 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9542 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9543 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9544 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9545 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9546 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9547 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9549 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9550 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9551 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9552 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9554 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9555 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9556 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9559 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
9560 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9561 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
9562 affecting directory caches.
9564 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
9565 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
9566 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
9567 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
9568 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
9569 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
9570 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
9571 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
9573 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
9574 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
9575 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
9576 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
9577 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
9578 so it will recognize them.
9580 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
9581 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
9582 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
9583 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
9584 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
9585 with the latest stable release.)
9587 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
9588 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9590 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
9591 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
9592 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
9593 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
9594 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
9595 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
9596 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
9598 o Minor features (compilation):
9599 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
9600 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
9602 o Minor features (geoip):
9603 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9604 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
9606 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
9607 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9608 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9609 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9610 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9611 Closes ticket 28973.
9613 o Minor features (performance):
9614 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
9615 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
9616 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
9617 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
9618 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
9619 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
9620 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
9621 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
9622 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
9623 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
9625 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9626 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
9627 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9629 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9630 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
9631 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
9632 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
9633 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
9635 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9636 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
9637 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
9638 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
9639 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
9640 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
9641 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9643 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
9644 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
9645 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
9647 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9648 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9649 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9653 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
9654 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
9655 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
9656 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
9658 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
9659 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
9660 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
9663 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9664 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9665 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9666 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9667 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9669 o Minor features (geoip):
9670 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9671 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
9673 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9674 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
9675 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9677 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9678 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9679 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9680 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9682 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9683 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9684 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9685 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9686 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9687 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9689 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
9690 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
9691 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
9694 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9695 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
9696 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
9697 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9698 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
9699 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9700 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9702 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9703 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
9704 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
9705 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
9706 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
9707 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
9708 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
9709 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
9711 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
9712 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9713 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9714 reported by Keifer Bly.
9717 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9718 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9720 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9721 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9722 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9723 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9724 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9725 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9726 Closes ticket 19566.
9728 o Documentation (onion services):
9729 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9730 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9731 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9732 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9733 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9734 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9737 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
9738 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
9739 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
9742 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
9743 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9744 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9745 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9746 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9749 o Minor features (geoip):
9750 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9751 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
9753 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9754 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9755 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9756 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9758 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
9759 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9760 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9761 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9762 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9765 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9766 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9767 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9768 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9770 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9771 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9772 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9774 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9775 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
9776 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9778 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9779 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
9780 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
9783 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9784 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
9785 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
9788 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9789 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9790 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9792 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9793 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
9794 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
9795 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
9796 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
9797 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
9798 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
9799 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
9800 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
9801 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9804 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
9805 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
9806 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
9807 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
9808 acceptable long-term-support release.
9810 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
9811 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
9812 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
9813 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
9814 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
9815 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9817 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
9818 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
9819 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
9820 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
9821 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9823 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9824 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
9826 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
9827 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
9829 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
9830 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
9831 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
9833 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
9834 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9835 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9838 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9839 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
9840 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9842 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
9843 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
9844 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
9847 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9848 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
9849 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
9852 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
9853 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9854 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
9855 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9857 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9858 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
9859 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
9860 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
9863 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
9864 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
9865 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
9866 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9868 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9869 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
9870 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
9871 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
9872 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
9873 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
9874 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9876 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9877 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
9878 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
9881 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
9882 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
9885 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
9886 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
9887 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
9888 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
9889 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9891 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
9892 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9893 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9894 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9895 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9896 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9898 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
9899 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9900 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9901 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9902 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9904 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9905 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
9906 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9908 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
9909 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9910 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9911 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9912 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9914 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
9915 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9916 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9919 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9920 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9921 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9922 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9923 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9925 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9926 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9927 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9929 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9930 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9931 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9932 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9933 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9935 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9936 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9937 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9938 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9939 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9942 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9943 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9944 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9945 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9947 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9948 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9949 Implements ticket 27252.
9950 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9951 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9952 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9953 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9954 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9955 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9956 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9958 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9959 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9960 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9961 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9963 o Minor features (geoip):
9964 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9965 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9967 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9968 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9969 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9970 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9971 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9973 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9974 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9975 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9976 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9977 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9980 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9981 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9982 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9985 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9986 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9987 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9988 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9989 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9991 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9992 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9993 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9995 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9996 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9997 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9999 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10000 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
10001 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
10002 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10004 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10005 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
10006 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10008 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10009 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
10010 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
10013 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10014 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
10015 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10017 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10018 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
10019 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
10022 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
10023 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
10024 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
10025 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
10026 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10028 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10029 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
10030 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
10031 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
10032 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
10033 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10035 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10036 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
10037 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
10040 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10041 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
10042 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
10043 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
10044 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
10045 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10046 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
10047 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10049 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
10050 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
10051 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
10052 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10054 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10055 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
10056 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
10057 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
10058 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10060 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10061 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
10062 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10063 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
10064 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
10065 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10067 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10068 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
10069 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
10070 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
10071 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
10072 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10074 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10075 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
10076 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
10077 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
10080 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10081 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
10082 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
10083 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
10084 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10087 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
10088 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
10089 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
10090 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
10091 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
10092 getting closer and closer to stability.
10094 o Major features (onion services):
10095 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
10096 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
10097 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
10098 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
10099 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
10101 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10102 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
10103 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10105 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
10106 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
10107 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
10108 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10110 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
10111 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
10112 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
10113 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
10114 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10116 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10117 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
10118 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
10119 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
10120 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
10123 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10124 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
10125 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
10126 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
10127 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
10128 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
10131 o Minor features (geoip):
10132 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10133 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
10135 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
10136 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
10137 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
10140 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10141 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
10142 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
10143 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
10144 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
10145 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
10148 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
10149 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
10152 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
10153 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
10154 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
10155 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
10156 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
10158 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
10159 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
10160 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
10161 were the same, the default setting (0) for
10162 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
10163 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
10166 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10167 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
10168 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10170 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
10171 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
10172 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
10174 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
10175 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
10176 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10178 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10179 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
10180 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
10182 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
10183 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
10184 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
10185 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10186 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
10187 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
10188 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
10189 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
10190 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10192 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
10193 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
10194 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
10197 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10198 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
10199 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
10200 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
10202 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
10203 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10205 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10206 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
10207 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
10208 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
10209 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
10210 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
10211 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
10212 Closes ticket 27814.
10213 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
10214 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
10215 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
10216 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
10217 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
10218 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
10221 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
10222 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
10223 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
10224 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
10227 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
10228 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
10229 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
10230 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
10232 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
10233 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
10234 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
10235 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
10236 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
10237 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
10239 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
10240 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
10241 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
10242 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
10243 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
10246 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
10247 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
10248 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
10249 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
10250 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10252 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
10253 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
10254 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10255 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
10256 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10259 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10260 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
10261 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
10262 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
10263 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10265 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
10266 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
10267 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
10268 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
10270 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
10271 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
10272 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
10275 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10276 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
10277 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
10278 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10280 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10281 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
10282 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
10283 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10285 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10286 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
10287 Closes ticket 27799.
10290 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
10291 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
10292 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
10293 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
10294 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
10296 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
10297 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
10298 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
10299 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
10300 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
10301 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
10303 o Major features (relay, UI change):
10304 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
10305 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
10306 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
10307 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
10308 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10309 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
10310 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
10312 o Major features (bootstrap):
10313 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
10314 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
10315 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
10316 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
10318 o Major features (new code layout):
10319 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
10320 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
10321 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
10322 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
10323 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
10324 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
10325 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
10327 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
10328 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
10329 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
10331 o Major features (onion services v3):
10332 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
10333 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
10334 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
10335 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
10336 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
10337 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
10338 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
10339 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
10340 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
10341 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
10342 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
10343 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
10344 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
10346 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
10347 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
10348 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
10349 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
10350 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
10351 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
10352 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
10354 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
10355 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
10356 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
10357 (if present), and restart Tor.
10359 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10360 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
10361 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
10362 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
10365 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
10366 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
10367 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
10368 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10370 o Minor features (admin tools):
10371 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
10372 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
10375 o Minor features (build):
10376 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
10377 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
10378 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
10379 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
10381 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
10382 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
10383 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
10384 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
10385 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
10387 o Minor features (code layout):
10388 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
10389 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
10390 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
10391 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
10394 o Minor features (compilation):
10395 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
10396 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
10397 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
10398 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
10401 o Minor features (config):
10402 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
10405 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10406 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
10407 Implements ticket 27252.
10408 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10409 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10410 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
10411 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
10412 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
10413 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
10414 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
10415 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
10416 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
10418 o Minor features (controller):
10419 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
10420 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
10421 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
10422 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
10423 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
10424 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
10425 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
10426 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
10428 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
10429 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
10430 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
10431 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
10433 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10434 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
10435 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
10436 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10438 o Minor features (development):
10439 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
10440 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
10442 o Minor features (directory authority):
10443 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
10444 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
10445 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
10446 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
10448 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
10449 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
10452 o Minor features (embedding API):
10453 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
10454 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
10455 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
10456 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
10457 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
10458 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
10461 o Minor features (geoip):
10462 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10463 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
10465 o Minor features (memory management):
10466 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
10467 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
10470 o Minor features (memory usage):
10471 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
10472 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
10473 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
10475 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
10476 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
10477 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
10479 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
10480 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
10481 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
10482 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
10484 o Minor features (testing):
10485 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
10486 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
10488 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
10489 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
10490 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
10492 o Minor features (UI):
10493 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
10494 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
10495 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
10496 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
10497 Closes ticket 26703.
10499 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
10500 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
10501 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
10502 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10504 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10505 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
10506 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
10507 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10508 - Use time_t for all values in
10509 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
10510 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
10511 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10513 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
10514 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
10515 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
10516 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
10517 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
10520 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
10521 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
10522 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
10523 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
10524 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
10525 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10527 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
10528 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
10529 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
10530 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10532 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
10533 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
10534 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
10535 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
10536 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
10538 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10539 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
10540 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10542 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10543 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
10544 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
10545 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
10546 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
10549 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
10550 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
10551 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10553 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
10554 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
10555 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
10558 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
10559 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
10560 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
10561 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
10562 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10564 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10565 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
10566 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
10567 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
10568 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10569 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
10570 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
10572 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
10573 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
10574 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
10575 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
10576 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10578 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
10579 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
10580 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10582 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
10583 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
10584 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
10585 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
10588 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10589 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
10590 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
10593 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
10594 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
10595 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
10596 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
10597 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
10599 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
10600 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
10601 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
10602 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
10604 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10605 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
10606 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
10607 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
10609 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
10610 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
10611 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
10612 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
10613 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
10614 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10615 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10616 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
10617 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
10618 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10620 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
10621 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
10622 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
10623 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
10624 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
10625 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10626 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
10627 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10629 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10630 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
10631 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10632 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
10633 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
10634 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
10635 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
10636 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10637 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
10638 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
10639 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10640 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
10641 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10643 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10644 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
10645 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
10646 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
10647 directory within the top-level src directory.
10648 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
10649 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
10650 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
10651 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
10652 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
10653 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
10654 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
10655 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
10656 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
10657 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
10658 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
10659 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
10660 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
10661 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
10662 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
10663 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
10664 Closes ticket 21349.
10665 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
10666 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
10667 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
10668 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
10669 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
10670 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
10671 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
10673 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
10674 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
10675 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
10678 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
10679 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
10680 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
10681 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
10682 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
10684 o Removed features:
10685 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
10686 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
10687 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
10688 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
10689 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
10690 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
10691 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
10692 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
10693 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
10694 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
10695 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
10696 Closes ticket 26367.
10699 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
10700 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
10702 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10703 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10704 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10705 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10707 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10708 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10710 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10711 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10712 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10713 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10715 o Minor features (geoip):
10716 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10717 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10719 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10720 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10721 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10722 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10724 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10725 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10726 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10727 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10728 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10729 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10730 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10731 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10734 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10735 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10736 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10737 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10739 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10740 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10741 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10742 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10744 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10745 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10746 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10747 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10749 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10750 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10751 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10752 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10753 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10755 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10756 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10757 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10760 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10761 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10762 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10763 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10764 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10766 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10767 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10768 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10771 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10772 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10773 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10774 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10776 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10777 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10778 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10780 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10781 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10782 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10785 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10786 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10787 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10788 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10789 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10791 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10792 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10793 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10796 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
10797 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
10799 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10800 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10801 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10802 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10804 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10805 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10807 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10808 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10809 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10810 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10812 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10813 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10816 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10817 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10818 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10819 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10821 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10822 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10823 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10824 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10826 o Minor features (geoip):
10827 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10828 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10830 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10831 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10832 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10833 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10834 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10835 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10836 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10838 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10839 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10840 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10841 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10842 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10843 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10844 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10845 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10848 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10849 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10850 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10851 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10853 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10854 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10855 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10856 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10858 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10859 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10860 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10861 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10862 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10864 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10865 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10866 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10867 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10868 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10870 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10871 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10872 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10875 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10876 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10877 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10878 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10879 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10881 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10882 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10883 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10886 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10887 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10888 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10891 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10892 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10893 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10896 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10897 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10899 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10900 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10901 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10902 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10904 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10905 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10906 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10907 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10909 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10910 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10911 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10913 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10914 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10915 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10916 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10917 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10918 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10919 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10922 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10923 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
10924 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
10925 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
10926 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10928 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10929 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10930 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10931 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10932 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10934 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10935 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10936 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10939 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
10940 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
10942 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10943 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
10944 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
10945 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
10947 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10948 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10949 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10950 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10952 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10953 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
10954 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10956 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10957 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10958 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10959 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10961 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10962 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10965 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10966 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10967 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10968 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10970 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10971 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10972 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10973 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10975 o Minor features (geoip):
10976 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10977 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10979 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10980 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10981 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10982 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10983 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10984 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10985 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10987 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10988 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10989 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10990 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10991 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10992 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10993 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10994 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10997 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10998 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10999 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
11000 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11002 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11003 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
11004 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
11005 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
11007 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11008 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11009 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
11010 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
11011 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11013 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11014 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
11015 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11016 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
11017 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11019 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11020 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
11021 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
11024 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11025 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
11026 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
11027 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11029 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11030 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
11031 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
11032 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
11033 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
11035 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11036 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
11037 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
11040 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11041 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
11042 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
11045 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11046 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
11047 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
11050 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11051 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
11052 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
11053 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11055 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11056 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
11057 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
11060 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11061 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
11063 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
11064 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11065 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
11066 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
11067 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
11068 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
11069 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
11071 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
11072 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11073 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
11074 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
11075 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11077 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11078 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
11079 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
11080 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11082 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11083 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11084 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11086 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11087 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
11088 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
11089 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
11090 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11091 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
11092 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
11095 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11096 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
11097 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
11098 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
11099 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11101 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11102 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
11103 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
11104 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
11105 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11107 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11108 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
11109 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11112 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
11113 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
11114 compilation and portability fixes.
11116 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
11117 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
11118 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
11119 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
11120 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
11121 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
11122 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
11123 our anti-denial-of-service code.
11125 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
11126 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11128 o Minor features (compatibility):
11129 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
11130 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
11131 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
11133 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11134 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
11135 Implements ticket 27449.
11136 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
11137 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
11140 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11141 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
11142 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
11143 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
11144 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
11145 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
11146 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
11147 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
11150 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11151 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
11152 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
11153 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
11154 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
11155 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11156 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
11157 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11158 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
11159 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11161 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11162 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
11163 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
11166 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
11167 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
11168 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
11169 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
11170 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11171 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
11172 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
11175 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
11176 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11177 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11178 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11179 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11181 o Minor features (bug workaround):
11182 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
11183 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
11184 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
11186 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11187 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
11188 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11190 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
11191 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
11192 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
11193 Implements ticket 27275.
11194 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
11195 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
11197 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
11198 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11201 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11202 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
11203 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
11204 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
11206 o Minor features (geoip):
11207 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11208 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
11210 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
11211 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
11212 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
11213 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11215 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11216 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
11217 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
11218 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
11219 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11220 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
11221 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
11222 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11224 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
11225 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
11226 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
11227 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11229 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11230 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
11231 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
11232 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
11233 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
11235 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11236 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
11237 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
11240 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11241 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
11242 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
11245 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
11246 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
11248 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
11249 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11250 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
11251 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
11252 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
11253 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
11254 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
11256 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
11257 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11258 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
11259 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
11260 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11262 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
11263 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
11264 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
11265 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
11266 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11268 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
11269 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
11270 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
11271 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
11272 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11274 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
11275 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
11276 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11279 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
11280 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11281 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11282 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11283 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11285 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
11286 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
11287 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
11288 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
11289 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
11290 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11292 o Minor features (compilation):
11293 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11294 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11296 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
11297 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
11298 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11299 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
11300 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
11301 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
11303 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11304 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
11305 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
11306 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
11308 o Minor features (controller):
11309 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
11310 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
11311 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
11313 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11314 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
11315 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
11318 o Minor features (geoip):
11319 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11320 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11322 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
11323 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
11325 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11326 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
11327 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11328 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11329 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11330 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11331 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11333 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11334 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
11335 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11336 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
11337 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
11338 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11340 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
11341 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
11342 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
11345 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
11346 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11347 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11349 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11350 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
11351 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
11354 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11355 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
11356 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11357 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
11358 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
11359 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11361 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
11362 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
11363 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
11364 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11366 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11367 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11368 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11370 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
11371 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
11372 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
11373 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
11374 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
11375 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
11377 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
11378 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
11379 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
11380 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
11381 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11384 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
11385 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11386 bridge relays should upgrade.
11388 o Directory authority changes:
11389 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11390 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11391 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11394 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
11395 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11396 bridge relays should upgrade.
11398 o Directory authority changes:
11399 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11400 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11401 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11404 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
11405 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11406 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
11409 o Directory authority changes:
11410 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11411 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11412 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11414 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
11415 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11416 Closes ticket 26343.
11418 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11419 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11420 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11421 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11422 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11424 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11425 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11426 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11428 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11429 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11430 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11431 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11433 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11434 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
11435 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
11437 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11438 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11439 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11440 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11441 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11442 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11444 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11445 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11446 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11447 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11449 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11450 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11451 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11454 o Minor features (geoip):
11455 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11456 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11458 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11459 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11460 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11461 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11462 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11464 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11465 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11466 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11468 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11469 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11470 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11471 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11472 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11473 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11474 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11475 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11478 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11479 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11480 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11481 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11482 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11483 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11485 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11486 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11487 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11488 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11489 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11491 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11492 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11493 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11494 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11495 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11497 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11498 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11499 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11502 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11503 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11504 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11506 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11507 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11508 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11509 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11511 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11512 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11513 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11514 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11515 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11516 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11517 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11519 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11520 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11521 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11522 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11525 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11526 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11527 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11529 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11530 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11531 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11533 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11534 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11535 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11536 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11539 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11540 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11541 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11542 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11544 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11545 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11546 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11548 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11549 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11550 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11553 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
11554 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11555 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
11558 o Directory authority changes:
11559 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11560 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11561 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11563 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
11564 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11565 Closes ticket 26343.
11567 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11568 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11569 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11570 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11571 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11573 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11574 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11575 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11576 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11578 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11579 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11580 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11581 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11582 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11583 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11585 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11586 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11587 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11590 o Minor features (geoip):
11591 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11592 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11594 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11595 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11596 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11597 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11598 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11600 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11601 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11602 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11604 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11605 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11606 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11607 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11610 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11611 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11612 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11613 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11614 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11615 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11617 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11618 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11619 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11620 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11621 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11623 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11624 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11625 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11628 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11629 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11630 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11632 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11633 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11634 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11635 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11637 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11638 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11639 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11641 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11642 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11643 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11646 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
11647 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11648 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11649 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11650 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11652 o Minor features (compilation):
11653 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11654 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11657 o Minor features (geoip):
11658 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11659 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11661 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
11662 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
11664 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11665 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11666 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11667 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11668 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11670 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11671 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
11672 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11673 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
11674 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
11675 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11677 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
11678 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
11679 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
11682 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
11683 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11684 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11686 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
11687 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11688 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11689 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11690 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11691 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11692 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11693 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11697 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
11698 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
11699 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
11701 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11702 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
11703 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
11704 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
11706 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11707 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
11708 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
11711 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11712 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11713 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11716 o Minor features (geoip):
11717 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11718 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11720 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11721 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11722 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11723 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11725 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11726 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
11727 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
11728 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
11729 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
11732 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11733 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11734 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11735 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11736 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11738 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11739 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
11740 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
11741 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11743 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11744 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11745 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11747 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11748 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11749 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11750 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11753 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11754 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
11755 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
11756 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11758 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11759 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11760 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11761 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11762 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11763 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11764 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11765 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11769 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
11770 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
11771 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
11773 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11774 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
11775 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
11776 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
11778 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
11779 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
11780 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
11783 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
11784 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
11785 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
11786 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
11788 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
11789 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11790 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11791 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11793 o Minor features (unit tests):
11794 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
11795 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
11796 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
11799 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11800 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
11801 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
11802 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11803 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
11804 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
11805 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11806 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
11807 Closes ticket 26245.
11809 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11810 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
11811 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
11812 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
11813 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
11814 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11816 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11817 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11818 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11819 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11822 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11823 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
11824 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11825 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
11826 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
11827 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
11828 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
11829 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
11830 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11831 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
11832 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
11833 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
11834 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
11835 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11838 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
11839 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
11840 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
11842 o Directory authority changes:
11843 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11844 Closes ticket 26343.
11846 o Minor features (geoip):
11847 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11848 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
11850 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11851 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11852 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11853 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11854 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11855 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11857 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11858 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11859 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11861 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11862 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
11863 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
11864 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
11865 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11867 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11868 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11869 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11871 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11872 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
11873 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
11874 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
11875 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
11876 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
11879 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
11880 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
11881 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
11883 o Directory authority changes:
11884 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11885 Closes ticket 26343.
11887 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
11888 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
11889 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
11890 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
11891 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
11893 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11894 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
11895 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
11896 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
11898 o Minor features (geoip):
11899 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11900 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
11902 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
11903 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11904 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11905 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11906 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11907 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11909 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11910 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11911 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11912 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
11913 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11914 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
11915 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
11916 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11918 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11919 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
11920 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
11921 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
11924 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11925 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
11926 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
11927 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
11928 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11930 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
11931 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11932 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11934 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11935 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
11936 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11938 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
11939 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
11940 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
11941 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
11945 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
11946 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
11947 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11949 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
11950 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
11951 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
11952 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
11953 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
11954 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
11956 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
11957 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11959 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11960 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11961 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11962 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11963 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11965 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
11966 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
11967 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
11968 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
11969 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
11971 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11972 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
11973 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
11974 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11976 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11977 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
11978 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
11979 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11981 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11982 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11983 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11985 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11986 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
11987 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
11990 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11991 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
11992 Closes ticket 26006.
11994 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11995 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11996 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11997 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11998 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11999 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
12001 o Minor features (geoip):
12002 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
12003 database. Closes ticket 26104.
12005 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12006 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
12007 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
12010 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12011 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
12012 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
12013 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
12014 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12016 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12017 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
12018 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
12019 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
12020 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
12023 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12024 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
12025 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12027 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12028 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
12029 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12030 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
12031 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
12032 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
12033 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12035 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12036 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
12037 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12039 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12040 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
12041 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
12044 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
12045 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
12046 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
12047 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
12048 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
12049 other small features and bugfixes.
12051 o New system requirements:
12052 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
12053 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
12054 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
12055 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
12057 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
12058 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
12059 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
12060 To disable the module, the configure option
12061 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
12062 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
12064 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
12065 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
12066 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
12067 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
12068 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
12069 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
12070 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
12071 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
12072 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
12073 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
12074 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
12076 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
12077 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
12078 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
12079 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
12080 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
12081 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
12082 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
12083 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
12084 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
12085 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
12086 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
12087 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
12088 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
12089 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
12090 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
12091 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
12092 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
12093 Tor's uptime (26009).
12095 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
12096 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
12097 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
12098 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
12099 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12101 o Major bugfixes (crash):
12102 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
12103 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
12104 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12106 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
12107 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
12108 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
12109 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12111 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
12112 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
12113 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
12115 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
12116 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
12117 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
12118 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
12119 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
12120 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
12121 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
12122 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
12123 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
12124 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
12125 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
12126 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
12127 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
12128 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12130 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
12131 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
12132 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
12135 o Minor features (accounting):
12136 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
12137 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
12138 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
12139 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
12141 o Minor features (code quality):
12142 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
12143 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
12144 Closes ticket 25024.
12146 o Minor features (compatibility):
12147 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
12148 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
12149 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
12150 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
12151 Closes ticket 26006.
12153 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
12154 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
12155 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
12156 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
12157 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
12158 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
12160 o Minor features (configuration):
12161 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
12162 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
12163 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
12164 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
12165 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
12167 o Minor features (continuous integration):
12168 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
12169 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
12170 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
12171 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
12172 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
12174 o Minor features (control port):
12175 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
12176 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
12177 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
12178 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12179 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
12180 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
12181 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
12182 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
12183 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
12184 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
12186 o Minor features (directory authority):
12187 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
12188 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
12189 Closes ticket 23909.
12191 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
12192 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
12193 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
12194 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
12196 o Minor features (entry guards):
12197 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
12198 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
12200 o Minor features (geoip):
12201 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
12202 database. Closes ticket 26104.
12204 o Minor features (performance):
12205 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
12206 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
12207 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
12208 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
12210 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
12211 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
12213 o Minor features (testing):
12214 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
12215 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
12216 more deterministic.
12217 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
12218 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
12219 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
12220 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
12221 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
12222 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
12224 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
12225 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
12226 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
12227 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
12228 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
12230 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
12231 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
12232 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
12233 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
12234 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
12235 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
12237 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
12238 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
12239 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
12240 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
12242 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
12243 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
12244 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
12245 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
12246 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
12249 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12250 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
12251 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
12254 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
12255 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
12256 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12257 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
12258 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
12260 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
12261 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
12262 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
12263 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
12264 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12266 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12267 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
12268 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
12269 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
12270 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12272 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
12273 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
12274 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
12275 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
12276 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12278 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12279 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
12280 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12281 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
12282 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
12283 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
12286 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12287 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
12288 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
12289 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
12290 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
12293 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
12294 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
12295 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
12296 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
12297 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
12298 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
12299 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
12301 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12302 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
12303 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12305 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
12306 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
12307 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12308 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
12309 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
12310 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
12311 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12313 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12314 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
12315 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
12316 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
12317 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
12318 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12320 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12321 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
12322 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
12325 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
12326 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
12327 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
12328 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12330 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
12331 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
12332 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
12333 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
12334 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
12335 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
12336 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12338 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
12339 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
12340 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12342 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
12343 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
12344 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
12345 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12347 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12348 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
12349 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
12350 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
12351 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
12352 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12353 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
12354 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
12356 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
12357 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
12358 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12359 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
12360 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
12361 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
12362 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
12364 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
12365 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
12366 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
12367 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
12368 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
12370 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
12371 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
12372 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
12375 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
12376 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
12377 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
12378 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
12379 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
12380 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12382 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12383 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
12384 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
12385 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
12386 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
12387 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
12388 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
12389 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
12391 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
12392 confusing we renamed some functions and
12393 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
12394 router_should_check_reachability() and
12395 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
12396 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
12397 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
12398 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
12399 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
12401 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
12402 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
12404 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
12405 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
12406 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12407 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
12408 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
12409 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
12410 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
12411 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
12412 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
12413 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
12414 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
12415 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
12416 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
12417 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
12418 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
12419 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12420 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
12421 Closes ticket 25766.
12422 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
12423 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
12424 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
12425 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
12426 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
12427 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
12428 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
12429 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
12430 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
12431 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
12432 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12433 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
12434 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
12435 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
12437 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
12438 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
12439 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
12440 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
12441 before. Closes ticket 26016.
12442 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
12443 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
12444 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
12445 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
12447 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
12448 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
12449 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
12450 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12452 o Deprecated features:
12453 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
12454 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
12455 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
12456 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
12457 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
12458 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
12461 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
12462 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
12464 o Removed features:
12465 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
12466 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
12467 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
12468 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
12469 24378 and proposal 290.
12470 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
12471 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
12472 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
12473 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
12474 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
12475 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
12476 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
12477 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
12478 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
12479 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
12480 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
12481 their local router. Closes 25409.
12482 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
12483 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
12484 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
12485 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
12486 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
12487 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
12488 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
12489 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
12490 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
12491 Closes ticket 25268.
12494 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
12495 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
12496 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
12498 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
12499 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
12500 be nearly identical to this one.
12502 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
12503 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
12504 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
12505 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
12506 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
12507 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12509 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
12510 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
12511 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
12512 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
12513 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
12514 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
12515 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
12517 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
12518 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
12519 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
12521 o Minor features (config options):
12522 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
12523 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
12524 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
12527 o Minor features (geoip):
12528 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12529 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
12531 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12532 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
12533 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
12534 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
12535 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
12536 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12538 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12539 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
12540 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
12541 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12543 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
12544 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
12545 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
12546 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12547 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
12548 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
12549 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12551 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12552 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
12553 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
12554 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
12555 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
12556 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
12557 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12559 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
12560 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
12561 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
12562 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
12563 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
12565 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12566 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
12567 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
12569 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
12570 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
12571 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
12573 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12574 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
12575 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
12577 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
12578 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
12579 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
12583 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
12584 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
12585 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
12586 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
12588 o New system requirements:
12589 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
12590 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
12592 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
12593 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
12594 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
12595 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
12596 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12598 o Minor features (geoip):
12599 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12600 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
12602 o Minor features (log messages):
12603 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
12604 information about memory usage from the different compression
12605 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
12607 o Minor features (sandbox):
12608 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
12609 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
12610 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
12612 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
12613 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
12614 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
12615 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
12617 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
12618 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
12619 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
12621 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12622 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
12623 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
12624 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
12626 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
12627 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
12628 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
12629 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12631 o Major bugfixes (networking):
12632 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
12633 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
12634 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
12636 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
12637 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
12638 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
12640 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
12641 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
12642 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
12643 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
12644 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
12645 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12647 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12648 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
12649 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
12650 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
12652 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
12653 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
12654 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
12655 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
12657 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
12658 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
12659 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
12660 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
12663 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
12664 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
12665 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
12666 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
12667 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12669 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12670 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
12671 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
12675 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
12677 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
12678 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
12681 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
12682 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
12685 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12686 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12688 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12689 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12691 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12694 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
12695 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
12696 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
12698 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
12699 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
12700 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
12701 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
12704 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12705 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12706 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12707 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12710 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12711 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12712 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12713 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12714 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12715 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12716 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12717 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12718 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12719 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12720 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12721 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12722 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12724 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12725 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12726 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12728 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12729 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12730 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12731 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12732 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12733 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12734 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12736 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12737 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12738 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12740 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12741 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12742 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12743 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12744 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12745 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12746 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12748 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12749 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12750 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12751 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12753 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12754 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12755 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12756 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12758 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12759 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12760 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12761 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12762 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12763 Closes ticket 24978.
12765 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12766 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12767 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12768 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12769 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12770 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12771 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12772 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12773 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12775 o Minor features (geoip):
12776 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12779 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12780 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12781 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12782 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12783 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12785 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12786 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12787 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12788 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12789 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12791 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12792 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12793 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12794 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12795 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12798 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12799 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12800 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12801 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12802 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12803 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12804 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12805 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12806 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12807 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
12808 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
12811 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
12812 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12813 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12815 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12816 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12817 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12820 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12821 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12822 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12823 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12824 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12825 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12826 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12828 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12829 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12830 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12831 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12832 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12833 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12834 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12835 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12836 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12839 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12840 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12841 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12842 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12843 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12844 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12846 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12847 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12848 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12849 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12851 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
12852 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12853 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12854 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12855 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12858 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12859 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12860 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12861 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12862 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12863 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12865 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12866 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12867 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12868 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12869 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12870 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12871 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12872 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12873 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12874 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12875 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12876 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12878 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12879 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12880 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12881 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12883 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12884 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12885 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12886 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12888 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12889 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12890 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12891 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12894 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
12895 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
12896 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
12897 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
12898 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
12900 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12901 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12903 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12904 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12906 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12907 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12908 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12911 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
12912 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12913 later Tor releases.
12915 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12916 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12918 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12919 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12921 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12924 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
12925 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
12926 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
12928 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12929 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12930 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12931 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12934 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
12935 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12936 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12937 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12938 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12939 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12940 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12941 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12942 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12943 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12944 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12945 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12946 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12948 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12949 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12950 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12951 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12952 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12953 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12954 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12955 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12956 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12958 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
12959 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12960 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12961 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12962 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12963 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12964 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12966 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
12967 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12968 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12969 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12971 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
12972 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12973 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12974 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12975 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12976 Closes ticket 24978.
12978 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
12979 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12980 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12981 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12983 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12984 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12985 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12986 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12987 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12988 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12989 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12990 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12991 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12993 o Minor features (geoip):
12994 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12997 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12998 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12999 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
13001 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
13002 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13003 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13004 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13005 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13007 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
13008 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13009 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13010 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13011 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13013 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
13014 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
13015 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
13016 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
13017 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
13020 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13021 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
13022 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
13024 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13025 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
13026 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
13029 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13030 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13031 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13032 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13033 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13034 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13035 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13037 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
13038 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
13039 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
13040 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
13041 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
13044 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
13045 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
13046 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
13047 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
13048 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
13049 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13051 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
13052 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13053 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13054 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13056 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
13057 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
13058 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
13059 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
13060 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
13061 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
13062 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13063 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
13064 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
13065 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13066 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
13067 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13069 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
13070 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
13071 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
13072 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
13075 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13076 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
13077 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
13078 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
13079 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
13081 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13082 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13084 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13085 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13088 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
13089 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
13090 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
13093 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
13094 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
13096 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
13097 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
13098 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
13099 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
13100 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
13101 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
13104 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
13105 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
13107 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
13110 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
13111 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
13112 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
13113 the DoS mitigations.)
13115 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13116 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
13117 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
13118 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
13121 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13122 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
13123 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
13124 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13126 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13127 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13128 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13129 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13130 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13131 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13132 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13133 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13134 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13135 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13136 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13137 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13138 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13140 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13141 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13142 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13143 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13144 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13145 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13146 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13147 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
13148 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
13149 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
13150 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13152 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13153 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
13154 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13156 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13157 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
13158 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
13159 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
13160 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
13161 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
13162 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13164 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13165 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
13166 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
13167 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13169 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13170 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13171 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13172 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13174 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13175 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
13176 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
13177 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
13178 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
13179 Closes ticket 24978.
13181 o Minor features (geoip):
13182 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13185 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13186 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
13187 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
13190 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13191 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13192 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13193 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13194 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13196 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13197 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13198 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13199 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13200 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13201 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13202 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13204 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13205 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13206 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13207 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13208 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13210 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13211 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
13212 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
13213 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13215 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13216 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
13217 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
13218 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
13219 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13221 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13222 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
13223 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
13224 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13226 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13227 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
13228 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
13229 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13231 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13232 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13233 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13234 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13236 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13237 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13239 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13240 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13242 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13243 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
13244 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
13246 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13247 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
13248 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
13249 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
13250 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13252 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13253 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13254 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13256 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
13257 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
13258 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
13262 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
13263 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
13264 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
13265 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
13267 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
13268 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
13269 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
13270 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
13271 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
13272 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
13274 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
13277 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
13278 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
13279 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
13280 the DoS mitigations.)
13282 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
13283 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
13284 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
13285 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
13288 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
13289 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
13290 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
13291 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
13292 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
13293 Closes ticket 24978.
13295 o Minor features (logging):
13296 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
13297 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
13299 o Minor features (testing):
13300 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
13303 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
13304 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13305 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13306 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13307 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13308 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13309 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13311 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
13312 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
13313 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
13314 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
13315 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
13316 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
13319 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
13320 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
13321 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
13322 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
13324 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13325 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
13326 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
13327 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
13328 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
13331 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
13332 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13334 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13335 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13337 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
13338 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
13339 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
13340 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
13342 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13343 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13344 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13347 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
13348 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
13349 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
13350 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
13351 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
13352 it to older supported release series.
13354 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
13355 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13356 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13357 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13358 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13359 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13360 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13361 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13362 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13363 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13364 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13365 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13366 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13368 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
13369 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
13370 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
13371 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
13372 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
13373 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
13374 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
13375 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13377 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
13378 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
13379 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13381 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
13382 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
13383 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
13384 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13386 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
13387 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13388 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13389 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13391 o Minor features (directory authority):
13392 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
13393 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
13395 o Minor features (geoip):
13396 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13399 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
13400 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
13401 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
13404 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
13405 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13406 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13407 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13408 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13410 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
13411 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13412 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13413 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13414 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13416 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
13417 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
13418 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
13419 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
13421 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
13422 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
13423 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
13424 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
13425 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13427 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13428 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
13429 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
13430 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13432 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13433 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
13434 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
13435 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13436 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
13437 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
13438 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13440 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13441 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
13442 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
13443 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
13444 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13445 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
13446 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
13447 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
13449 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13450 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
13451 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
13452 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
13453 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
13454 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
13455 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13457 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
13458 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
13459 would call the Rust implementation of
13460 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
13461 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
13462 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
13463 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
13464 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13466 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13467 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
13468 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
13471 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
13472 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
13473 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
13474 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
13475 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
13476 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13478 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
13479 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
13480 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
13481 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
13482 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13484 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13485 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
13487 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
13488 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
13489 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
13492 o Documentation (man page):
13493 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
13494 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
13498 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
13499 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
13500 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
13501 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
13502 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
13503 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
13506 o Major features (embedding):
13507 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
13508 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
13509 Closes ticket 23684.
13510 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
13511 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
13512 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
13513 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
13514 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
13515 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
13517 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
13518 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
13519 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
13520 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
13521 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
13522 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
13523 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
13524 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
13525 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
13526 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
13527 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
13530 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
13531 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
13532 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
13533 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
13534 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
13535 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
13536 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
13538 o Major features (onion services):
13539 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
13540 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
13541 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
13542 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
13543 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
13546 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
13547 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
13548 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
13549 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
13550 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
13551 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
13552 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
13553 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
13555 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
13556 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
13557 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
13558 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
13559 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
13561 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
13562 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
13563 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
13564 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
13565 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
13566 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
13567 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
13569 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
13570 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13571 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13572 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13573 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13574 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13575 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13576 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
13577 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
13578 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
13579 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13581 o Major bugfixes (relays):
13582 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
13583 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
13584 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
13585 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
13586 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
13587 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13589 o Minor feature (IPv6):
13590 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
13591 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
13592 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
13593 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
13594 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
13595 Implements ticket 23827.
13597 o Minor features (cleanup):
13598 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
13599 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
13601 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13602 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
13603 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
13604 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
13605 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
13606 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
13607 once. Part of ticket 24337.
13608 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
13609 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
13610 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
13612 o Minor features (embedding):
13613 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
13614 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
13615 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
13616 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
13617 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
13618 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
13619 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
13620 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
13621 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
13622 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
13623 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
13624 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
13625 Closes ticket 23848.
13626 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
13627 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
13628 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
13630 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13631 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
13632 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
13633 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
13634 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
13635 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
13636 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
13637 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
13640 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
13641 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
13642 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
13643 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
13644 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
13645 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
13646 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
13648 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
13649 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
13650 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
13651 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
13652 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
13653 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
13654 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
13655 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
13656 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
13657 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
13658 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
13659 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
13661 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
13662 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
13663 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
13665 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
13666 Implements ticket 24791.
13668 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
13669 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
13670 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
13671 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
13672 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
13673 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
13675 o Minor features (heartbeat):
13676 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
13677 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
13680 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
13681 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
13682 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
13683 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
13684 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
13686 o Minor features (log messages):
13687 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
13688 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
13689 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
13690 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
13692 o Minor features (logging, android):
13693 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
13696 o Minor features (performance):
13697 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
13698 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
13699 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
13700 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
13702 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
13703 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
13704 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
13705 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
13706 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
13707 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
13708 Implements ticket 24374.
13710 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
13711 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
13712 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
13713 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
13714 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
13716 o Minor features (performance, windows):
13717 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
13718 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
13719 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
13722 o Major features (relay):
13723 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
13724 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
13725 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
13726 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
13727 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
13729 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
13730 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
13731 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
13732 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
13733 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
13734 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
13735 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
13736 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
13737 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
13739 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
13740 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
13741 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
13742 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13744 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
13745 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
13746 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
13747 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
13748 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
13749 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
13750 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13751 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
13752 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
13753 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
13754 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
13755 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
13758 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
13759 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
13760 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
13761 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
13764 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
13765 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
13766 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
13769 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
13770 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
13771 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
13773 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
13774 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13775 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
13776 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
13777 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
13779 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
13780 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
13781 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
13782 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13784 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
13785 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
13786 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13787 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
13788 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
13789 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13791 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13792 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
13793 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
13794 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13796 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13797 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
13798 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
13799 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
13800 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13801 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
13804 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
13805 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13806 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13807 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13809 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
13810 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
13811 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
13812 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13814 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
13815 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
13816 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
13817 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
13818 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
13819 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13820 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
13821 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
13822 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
13823 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
13824 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
13825 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13827 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13828 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
13829 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13830 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
13831 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
13833 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13834 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
13836 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
13837 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
13838 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
13839 "aruna1234" and teor.
13840 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
13841 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
13842 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
13843 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
13845 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
13846 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
13847 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
13848 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
13849 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
13850 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
13851 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
13852 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
13853 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
13854 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
13856 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
13857 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
13860 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
13861 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
13863 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
13864 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
13865 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
13866 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
13867 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
13868 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
13871 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
13872 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
13873 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
13874 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
13875 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
13877 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
13878 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
13879 adding very little except for unit test.
13881 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
13882 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
13883 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
13884 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
13886 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
13887 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
13888 const. Implements ticket 24489.
13891 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
13892 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
13894 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
13895 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
13896 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
13897 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
13898 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
13899 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
13901 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13902 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13903 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13904 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13905 with the 0.2.9 series.
13907 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
13908 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13910 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
13911 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
13912 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
13913 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
13914 information. Closes ticket 24801.
13915 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
13916 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
13917 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
13918 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
13920 o Minor features (geoip):
13921 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13924 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
13925 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
13926 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
13927 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
13928 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
13931 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13932 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
13933 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13935 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
13936 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
13937 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
13938 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
13942 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
13943 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
13944 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
13945 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
13946 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
13947 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
13948 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
13950 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
13951 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
13952 will be nearly identical to this.
13954 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
13955 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
13956 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
13957 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
13958 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
13959 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
13960 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13962 o Minor features (geoip):
13963 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13966 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
13967 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
13968 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
13969 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13971 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
13972 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
13973 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
13974 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
13975 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
13978 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13979 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
13980 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
13981 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
13982 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
13983 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13986 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
13987 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
13988 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
13990 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
13991 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
13992 be nearly identical to this.
13994 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
13995 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
13996 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
13997 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
13998 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
13999 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
14000 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14002 o Minor features (logging):
14003 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
14006 o Minor features (portability):
14007 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
14008 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
14011 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
14012 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
14013 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
14014 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
14015 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14016 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
14017 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
14018 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
14019 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14020 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
14021 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
14022 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
14023 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14025 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14026 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
14027 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
14029 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14030 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
14031 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
14032 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
14033 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
14034 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
14035 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
14038 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
14039 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
14040 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
14041 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
14042 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
14043 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
14044 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14046 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
14047 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
14048 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
14049 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
14050 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
14051 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
14052 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
14053 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14054 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
14055 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
14056 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14059 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
14060 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
14061 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
14062 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
14065 o Major bugfixes (security):
14066 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14067 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14068 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14069 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14070 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14071 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14072 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14073 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14074 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14075 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14077 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14078 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14079 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14080 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14081 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14082 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14083 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14086 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
14087 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14088 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14089 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14090 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14092 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
14093 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14094 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14095 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14096 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14097 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14098 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14099 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14100 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14102 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
14103 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
14104 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
14105 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
14107 o Minor features (directory authority):
14108 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14111 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14112 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
14113 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
14114 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14117 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
14118 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
14119 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
14120 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
14122 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14123 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14124 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14125 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14126 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14127 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14128 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14129 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14130 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14131 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14132 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14134 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14135 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14136 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14137 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14138 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14139 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14140 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14143 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14144 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14145 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14146 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14147 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14149 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14150 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14151 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14152 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14153 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14154 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14155 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14156 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14157 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14159 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14160 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14161 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14162 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14163 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14164 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14167 o Minor features (bridge):
14168 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14169 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14170 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14171 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14174 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14175 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14178 o Minor features (geoip):
14179 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14182 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14183 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14184 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14185 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14186 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14188 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14189 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14190 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14192 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14193 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14194 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14195 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14196 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14197 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14199 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
14200 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
14201 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
14204 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14205 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14206 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14207 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14208 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14211 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
14212 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14213 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14214 to another of the releases coming out today.
14216 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
14217 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14218 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14220 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14221 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14222 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14223 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14224 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14225 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14226 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14227 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14228 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14229 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14230 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14232 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14233 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14234 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14235 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14236 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14237 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14238 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14241 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14242 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14243 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14244 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14245 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14247 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14248 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14249 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14250 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14251 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14252 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14253 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14254 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14255 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14257 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14258 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14259 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14260 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14261 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14262 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14265 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14266 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14267 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14268 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14269 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14270 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14272 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14273 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14274 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14275 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14276 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14279 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14280 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14283 o Minor features (geoip):
14284 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14287 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14288 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14289 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14290 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14291 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14293 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14294 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14295 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14297 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14298 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14299 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14300 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14301 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14302 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14304 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14305 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14306 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14307 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14308 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14310 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14311 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14312 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14315 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
14316 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14317 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14318 to another of the releases coming out today.
14320 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14321 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14322 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14323 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14324 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14325 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14328 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14329 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14330 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14331 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14332 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14333 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14334 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14335 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14336 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14337 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14338 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14340 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14341 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14342 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14343 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14344 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14345 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14346 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14349 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14350 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14351 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14352 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14353 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14355 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14356 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14357 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14358 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14359 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14360 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14362 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14363 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14364 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14365 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14366 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14369 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14370 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14373 o Minor features (geoip):
14374 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14377 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14378 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14379 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14380 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14381 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14382 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14384 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14385 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14386 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14387 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14388 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14390 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14391 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14392 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14394 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14395 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14396 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14397 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14398 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14399 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14401 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14402 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14403 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14404 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14405 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14407 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14408 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14409 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14412 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
14413 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14414 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14415 to another of the releases coming out today.
14417 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14418 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
14419 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14421 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14422 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14423 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14424 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14425 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14426 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14427 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14428 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14429 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14430 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14431 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14432 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14433 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14434 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14435 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14438 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14439 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14440 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14441 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14442 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14444 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14445 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
14446 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
14447 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
14448 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
14451 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14452 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14453 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14454 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14455 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14458 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14459 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14462 o Minor features (geoip):
14463 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14466 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14467 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14468 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14471 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
14472 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14473 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14474 to another of the releases coming out today.
14476 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
14477 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
14478 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14480 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14481 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14482 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14483 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14484 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14485 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14486 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14487 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14488 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14489 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14490 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14491 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14492 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14493 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14494 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14497 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14498 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14499 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14500 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14501 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14502 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14504 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14505 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14506 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14507 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14508 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14511 o Minor features (geoip):
14512 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14516 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
14517 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
14518 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
14519 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
14520 since the 0.3.0.x series.
14522 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
14523 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
14526 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
14527 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
14528 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
14529 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
14530 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
14531 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
14532 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
14533 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
14534 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
14535 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
14536 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
14539 o Minor features (directory authority):
14540 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
14541 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
14542 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
14543 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
14545 o Minor features (geoip):
14546 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14549 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14550 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
14551 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
14553 o Minor features (logging):
14554 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
14555 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
14557 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
14558 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
14560 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14561 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
14562 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
14563 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14564 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
14565 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
14566 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
14567 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14569 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14570 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
14571 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
14574 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
14575 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
14576 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
14577 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14579 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
14580 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
14581 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14582 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
14583 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
14584 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
14585 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
14586 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
14587 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
14590 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14591 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
14592 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14593 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
14594 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
14595 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
14596 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14598 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
14599 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
14600 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
14601 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
14602 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
14603 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14605 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14606 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
14607 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
14608 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
14609 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14610 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
14611 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
14613 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
14614 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
14615 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14617 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14618 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
14619 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
14620 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
14621 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
14622 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
14623 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
14624 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
14627 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
14628 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
14629 section. Closes ticket 24254.
14632 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
14633 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
14634 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
14635 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
14638 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
14639 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14640 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14641 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14642 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14643 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14646 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
14647 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
14648 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
14649 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
14650 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14652 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
14653 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
14654 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
14655 Closes ticket 23753.
14657 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
14658 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
14659 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
14660 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
14661 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
14663 o Minor features (testing):
14664 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
14665 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
14667 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
14668 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
14669 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
14670 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
14671 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14673 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
14674 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
14675 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
14676 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
14677 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
14680 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
14681 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
14682 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
14683 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
14684 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14686 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
14687 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
14688 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
14689 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14691 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14692 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
14693 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
14695 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
14696 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14697 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
14699 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14700 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
14701 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
14702 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14703 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
14704 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14706 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
14707 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
14708 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
14709 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
14710 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
14711 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
14712 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14713 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
14714 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
14715 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14716 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
14717 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14719 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
14720 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14721 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14722 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14723 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14725 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14726 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
14727 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14728 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
14729 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
14730 Closes ticket 24109.
14733 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
14734 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
14735 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
14736 directory authority, Bastet.
14738 o Directory authority changes:
14739 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14740 Closes ticket 23910.
14741 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14742 Closes ticket 23592.
14744 o Minor features (bridge):
14745 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
14746 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
14747 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
14748 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
14749 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
14750 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
14751 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
14753 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
14754 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
14755 Resolves ticket 23670.
14757 o Minor features (geoip):
14758 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14761 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
14762 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
14763 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
14764 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14766 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14767 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
14768 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14770 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
14771 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
14772 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
14773 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
14774 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
14775 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14777 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
14778 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
14779 only fetch the service descriptor once.
14780 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
14781 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
14782 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14784 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14785 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
14786 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
14787 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
14789 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
14790 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
14791 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14793 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
14794 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
14795 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
14796 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
14797 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
14799 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
14800 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
14801 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14803 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14804 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
14805 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
14808 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14809 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
14810 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14811 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
14812 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14813 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
14814 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
14815 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
14817 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
14818 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
14819 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14820 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
14821 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
14824 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
14825 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
14826 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
14827 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
14828 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
14832 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
14833 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14834 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14836 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
14837 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
14838 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14840 o Directory authority changes:
14841 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14842 Closes ticket 23910.
14843 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14844 Closes ticket 23592.
14846 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14847 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14848 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14849 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14850 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14852 o Minor features (geoip):
14853 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14856 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14857 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14858 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14859 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14860 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14861 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14862 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14863 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14864 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14866 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14867 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14868 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14869 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14870 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14871 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14872 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14873 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14874 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14877 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
14878 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14879 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14880 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14882 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14883 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14884 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14886 o Directory authority changes:
14887 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14888 Closes ticket 23910.
14889 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14890 Closes ticket 23592.
14892 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14893 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14894 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14895 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14897 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14898 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14899 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14900 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14901 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14903 o Minor features (geoip):
14904 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14908 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
14909 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14910 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14911 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14913 o Directory authority changes:
14914 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14915 Closes ticket 23910.
14916 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14917 Closes ticket 23592.
14919 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14920 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14921 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14922 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14924 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14925 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14926 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14927 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14928 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14930 o Minor features (geoip):
14931 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14934 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14935 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14936 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14937 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14938 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14939 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14940 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14941 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14944 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14945 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14946 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14948 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14949 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14950 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14951 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14952 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14953 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14954 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14957 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
14958 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14959 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14960 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14962 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
14963 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14964 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14966 o Directory authority changes:
14967 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14968 Closes ticket 23910.
14969 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14970 Closes ticket 23592.
14972 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14973 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14974 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14975 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14977 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14978 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14979 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14980 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14981 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14983 o Minor features (geoip):
14984 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14987 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14988 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14989 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14990 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14991 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14992 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14993 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14994 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14997 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14998 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14999 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
15000 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15002 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
15003 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
15004 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15006 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
15007 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
15008 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
15009 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
15010 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
15011 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15012 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
15015 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
15016 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
15017 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
15018 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
15019 a new directory authority, Bastet.
15021 o Directory authority changes:
15022 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
15023 Closes ticket 23910.
15024 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
15025 Closes ticket 23592.
15027 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15028 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15029 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15030 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15032 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15033 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15034 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15035 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15036 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15038 o Minor features (geoip):
15039 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15042 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15043 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
15044 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15045 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
15047 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15048 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
15049 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
15052 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
15053 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
15054 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
15056 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15057 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
15058 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
15059 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15061 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
15062 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
15063 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15065 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15066 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
15067 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
15071 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
15072 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
15073 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
15074 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
15075 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
15076 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
15078 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
15079 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
15080 include better testing and logging.
15082 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
15085 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
15086 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15087 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15088 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15090 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
15091 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
15092 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
15093 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
15094 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
15095 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
15096 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15098 o Minor features (build, compilation):
15099 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
15100 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
15101 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
15102 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
15103 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
15104 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
15105 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
15106 Closes ticket 23643.
15108 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15109 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15110 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15111 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15112 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15114 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
15115 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
15116 the circuit identifier(s).
15117 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
15118 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
15120 o Minor features (logging):
15121 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
15122 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
15123 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
15124 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
15125 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
15127 o Minor features (relay):
15128 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
15129 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
15130 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
15131 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
15133 o Minor features (robustness):
15134 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
15135 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
15137 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
15138 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
15139 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
15140 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
15141 related to ticket 23080.
15143 o Minor features (testing):
15144 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
15145 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
15148 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
15149 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
15150 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
15152 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
15153 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
15156 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
15157 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
15158 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15159 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
15160 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
15161 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
15162 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
15163 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
15164 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15166 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
15167 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
15168 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
15171 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15172 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
15173 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
15174 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15176 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
15177 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
15178 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
15179 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
15180 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15181 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
15182 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
15183 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
15186 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
15187 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
15188 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
15189 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15191 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
15192 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
15193 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
15194 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
15195 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
15196 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15198 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
15199 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
15200 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
15201 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15202 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
15203 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
15204 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15205 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
15206 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15207 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
15208 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
15210 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
15211 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
15212 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
15213 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15214 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
15215 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15217 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15218 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
15219 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
15221 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
15222 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
15224 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
15225 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
15226 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15228 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15229 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
15230 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
15233 o Deprecated features:
15234 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
15235 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
15236 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
15239 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
15240 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15241 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
15242 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
15243 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
15244 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
15245 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
15246 Closes ticket 18736.
15249 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
15250 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
15251 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
15252 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
15253 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
15254 features and bugfixes here.
15256 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
15258 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
15259 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
15260 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
15261 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
15262 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
15263 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
15264 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
15265 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
15266 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
15267 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
15268 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
15269 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
15271 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
15272 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
15273 more information, see the design paper at
15274 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
15275 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
15276 Closes ticket 12541.
15278 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
15279 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
15280 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
15281 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
15282 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
15283 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
15286 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
15287 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
15289 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
15292 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
15295 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
15297 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
15299 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
15301 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
15302 they are 56 characters long, as in
15303 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
15305 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
15306 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
15307 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
15308 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
15309 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
15312 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
15313 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
15314 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
15315 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
15316 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
15317 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
15320 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
15321 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
15322 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
15323 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
15325 o Minor features (bug detection):
15326 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
15327 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
15328 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
15330 o Minor features (client):
15331 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
15332 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
15333 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
15334 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
15335 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
15336 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
15337 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
15338 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
15339 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
15340 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
15342 o Minor features (command line):
15343 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
15344 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
15345 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
15347 o Minor features (control port):
15348 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
15349 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
15350 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
15352 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
15353 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
15355 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
15356 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
15357 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
15358 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
15359 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
15360 Closes ticket 23237.
15361 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
15362 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
15364 o Minor features (development support):
15365 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
15366 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
15367 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
15368 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
15369 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
15370 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
15372 o Minor features (ed25519):
15373 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
15374 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
15375 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
15377 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
15378 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
15379 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
15381 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
15382 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
15383 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
15384 another program, regardless of the settings of
15385 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
15386 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
15387 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
15389 o Minor features (logging):
15390 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
15391 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
15392 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
15394 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
15395 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
15397 o Minor features (portability):
15398 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
15399 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
15400 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
15401 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
15403 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
15404 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
15405 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
15406 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
15407 results. Closes ticket 22731.
15409 o Minor features (startup, safety):
15410 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
15411 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
15414 o Minor features (static analysis):
15415 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
15416 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
15419 o Minor features (testing):
15420 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
15421 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
15422 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
15423 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
15424 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
15426 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
15427 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
15428 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
15429 Coverity as CID 1415728.
15431 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
15432 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
15433 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
15434 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
15435 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
15436 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
15437 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
15438 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15440 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15441 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
15442 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
15443 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
15444 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15445 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
15446 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
15447 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
15449 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15450 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
15451 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15453 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
15454 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
15455 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
15456 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
15458 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
15459 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
15460 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
15461 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
15462 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
15463 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
15465 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
15466 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
15469 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
15470 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
15471 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
15472 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15474 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
15475 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
15476 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
15477 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
15478 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
15479 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
15480 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
15483 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
15484 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
15485 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
15486 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15488 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
15489 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
15490 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15492 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15493 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
15494 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
15495 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15496 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
15497 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
15499 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
15500 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
15501 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
15503 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
15504 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
15505 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
15507 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
15508 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
15509 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
15510 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
15512 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15513 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
15514 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15516 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15517 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
15518 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
15519 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
15520 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
15521 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
15522 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
15523 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15525 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
15526 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
15527 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
15528 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15529 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
15530 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
15531 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15533 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
15534 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
15535 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
15536 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15538 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15539 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
15540 function from the general code to handle channel state
15541 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
15542 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
15543 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
15544 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
15545 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
15546 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
15547 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
15548 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
15550 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
15551 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
15553 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
15554 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
15555 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
15556 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
15557 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
15558 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
15559 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
15560 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
15561 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
15562 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
15563 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
15564 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
15566 o Deprecated features:
15567 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
15568 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
15569 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
15573 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
15574 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
15575 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
15576 Closes ticket 15645.
15577 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
15578 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
15579 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
15580 file. Closes ticket 21148.
15582 o Removed features:
15583 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
15584 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
15585 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
15586 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
15587 Closes ticket 21031.
15588 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
15589 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
15592 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
15593 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
15596 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15597 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15598 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15599 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15601 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
15602 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
15603 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
15604 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
15606 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15607 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15608 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15609 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15610 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15613 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15616 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15617 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15618 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15621 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15622 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15623 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15624 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15625 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15626 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15627 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15628 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15629 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15631 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15632 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15633 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15634 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15635 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15636 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15637 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15638 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15639 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15642 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
15643 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
15646 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15647 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15648 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15649 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15651 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
15652 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
15653 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
15654 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
15655 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
15656 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
15657 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
15659 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
15660 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
15661 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
15662 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15664 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
15665 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
15666 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15668 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15669 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15670 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15671 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15673 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15674 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15675 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15676 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15677 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15679 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15680 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15681 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15682 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15684 o Minor features (geoip):
15685 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15688 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15689 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15690 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15691 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15693 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15694 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
15695 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15696 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
15697 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15698 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
15699 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
15700 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15702 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15703 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
15704 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15706 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15707 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15708 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15711 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15712 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15713 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15714 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
15715 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15717 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15718 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15719 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15720 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15721 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15722 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15724 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15725 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15726 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15727 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15728 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15729 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15730 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15731 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15732 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15734 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15735 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15736 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15737 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15739 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15740 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15741 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15743 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15744 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15745 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15746 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15747 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15749 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
15750 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
15751 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
15754 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15755 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
15756 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
15757 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
15758 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15760 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15761 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15762 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15763 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15764 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15765 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15766 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15767 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15768 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15771 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
15772 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
15775 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15776 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15777 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15778 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15780 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15781 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15782 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15783 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15786 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15789 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15790 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
15791 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15793 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15794 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15795 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15796 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
15797 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15799 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15800 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15801 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15802 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15804 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
15805 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
15806 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
15808 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
15809 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
15810 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
15811 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
15814 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
15815 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
15817 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
15818 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
15819 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
15820 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
15821 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
15822 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
15823 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
15825 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
15826 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
15827 disabled. For more information, see
15828 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15830 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
15831 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
15832 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
15833 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
15834 with the 0.2.9 series.
15836 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
15837 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15839 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
15840 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
15841 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
15842 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
15843 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
15845 o Minor features (defensive programming):
15846 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
15847 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
15848 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
15851 o Minor features (diagnostic):
15852 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
15853 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
15854 attempt for bug 23105.
15856 o Minor features (geoip):
15857 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15860 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15861 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
15862 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15864 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15865 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15866 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15867 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
15868 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15870 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15871 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
15872 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
15873 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15875 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15876 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
15877 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
15881 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
15882 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
15883 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
15884 Windows directory caches.
15886 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
15887 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
15888 will be nearly identical to it.
15890 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
15891 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
15892 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
15893 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
15894 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
15895 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15897 o Minor features (directory authority):
15898 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
15899 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
15900 Closes ticket 22348.
15902 o Minor features (geoip):
15903 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15906 o Minor features (testing):
15907 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
15910 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
15911 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
15912 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15914 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15915 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
15916 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
15917 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
15918 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
15919 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
15920 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
15921 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
15922 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
15923 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15925 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
15926 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
15927 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
15929 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
15930 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
15931 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
15932 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
15934 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15935 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
15936 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
15937 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
15938 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15940 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
15941 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
15942 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
15943 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
15944 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
15945 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
15947 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
15948 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
15949 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15950 with the clang static analyzer.
15952 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15953 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
15954 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
15955 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
15956 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
15959 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
15960 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
15961 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
15962 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
15963 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
15964 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15965 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
15968 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
15969 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
15970 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
15971 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
15973 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15974 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15975 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15976 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15977 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15978 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15979 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15980 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15981 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15983 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15984 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15985 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15986 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15988 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15989 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15990 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15991 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15992 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15994 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15995 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15998 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
15999 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
16000 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
16001 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
16003 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16004 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
16005 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16006 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
16007 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16008 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
16009 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
16010 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
16013 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16014 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
16015 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
16018 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16019 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
16020 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
16021 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
16022 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
16023 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16025 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16026 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
16027 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
16028 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16030 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16031 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
16032 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16034 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
16035 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
16036 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16039 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
16040 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
16041 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
16042 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
16043 next version will be a release candidate.
16045 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
16046 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
16047 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
16048 one of those versions should upgrade.
16050 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
16051 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
16052 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
16053 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
16054 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
16055 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
16056 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
16057 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
16058 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
16060 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
16061 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
16062 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
16063 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
16064 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
16066 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
16067 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
16068 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
16069 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
16070 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
16071 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16073 o Minor features (bridge authority):
16074 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
16075 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
16077 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
16078 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
16079 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
16080 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
16081 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
16084 o Minor features (geoip):
16085 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16088 o Minor features (relay, performance):
16089 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
16090 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
16091 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
16092 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
16093 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
16096 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
16097 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
16098 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
16099 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
16100 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
16102 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
16103 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
16104 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
16105 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
16106 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16108 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
16109 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
16110 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16111 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
16112 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16113 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
16114 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
16115 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16116 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
16117 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
16118 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
16121 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
16122 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
16123 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
16124 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
16125 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
16126 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16128 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16129 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
16130 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
16131 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
16132 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
16133 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
16134 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
16135 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
16138 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
16139 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
16140 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
16143 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
16144 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
16145 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
16146 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16148 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16149 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
16150 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16152 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16153 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
16154 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
16155 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
16157 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16158 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
16159 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
16160 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
16161 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16162 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
16163 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16166 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
16167 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
16168 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
16169 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
16170 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
16173 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
16174 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
16177 o New dependencies:
16178 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
16179 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
16180 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
16181 close ticket 22623.)
16183 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
16184 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
16185 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
16186 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
16187 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
16188 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
16190 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
16191 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
16192 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
16193 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16195 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
16196 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
16197 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
16198 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
16199 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16201 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16202 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
16203 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
16204 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16206 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
16207 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
16208 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
16209 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
16211 o Minor features (geoip):
16212 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16215 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
16216 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
16217 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
16219 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
16220 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16221 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
16222 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
16223 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
16224 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
16226 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
16227 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
16229 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
16230 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
16231 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
16232 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
16233 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16235 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
16236 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
16237 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
16238 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
16239 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
16240 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
16241 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
16242 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
16243 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
16244 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
16245 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
16246 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
16248 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16249 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
16250 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
16251 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
16252 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16253 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
16254 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
16255 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
16256 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16258 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16259 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
16260 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
16261 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
16262 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
16263 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
16264 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
16265 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
16266 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
16267 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
16268 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16269 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
16270 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
16271 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
16272 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
16273 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16275 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
16276 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
16277 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
16278 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
16279 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
16280 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
16281 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
16285 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
16287 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
16288 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
16290 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
16291 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
16292 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
16296 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
16297 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
16298 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
16299 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
16300 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
16303 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
16306 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16307 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
16308 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
16309 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
16310 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
16311 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
16313 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16314 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
16315 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
16316 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16318 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16319 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
16320 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
16321 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16323 o Minor features (geoip):
16324 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16327 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16328 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
16329 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
16330 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
16331 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16333 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16334 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
16335 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
16336 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
16337 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16339 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16340 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
16341 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
16342 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
16343 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
16344 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
16345 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
16346 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
16347 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
16350 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
16351 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
16352 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16353 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16354 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
16356 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
16357 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16358 bugfixes described below.
16360 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16361 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
16362 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
16363 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16364 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16365 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16366 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16369 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
16370 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16371 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16372 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16373 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16374 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16375 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16378 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
16379 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
16380 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
16381 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
16382 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
16383 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
16384 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
16385 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16386 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
16387 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
16388 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
16389 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
16390 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
16393 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
16394 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
16395 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
16397 o Minor features (code style):
16398 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
16399 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
16400 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
16402 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16403 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
16404 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
16405 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
16406 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
16408 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16409 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16410 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16412 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
16413 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
16414 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16416 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
16417 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
16418 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
16419 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
16420 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
16421 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
16422 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16424 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
16425 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
16426 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
16427 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
16428 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16430 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16431 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
16432 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
16436 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
16439 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
16440 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
16441 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16442 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16443 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
16445 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
16446 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16447 bugfixes described below.
16449 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
16450 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16451 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
16452 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
16453 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16454 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16455 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16456 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16459 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16460 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16461 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16462 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16463 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16464 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16465 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16468 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16469 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
16470 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
16471 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
16472 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
16473 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
16474 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
16475 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16476 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
16477 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
16478 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
16479 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
16480 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
16483 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16484 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
16485 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
16488 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16489 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16490 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16491 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16492 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16494 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16495 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
16496 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16498 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16499 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16500 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16502 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16503 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
16504 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
16505 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
16506 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
16507 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
16508 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16510 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
16512 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16513 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16514 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16517 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
16518 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16519 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16520 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16521 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16522 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16524 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
16525 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16526 bugfixes described below.
16528 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
16529 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16530 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16531 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16532 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16535 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16536 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16537 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16538 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16539 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16540 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16541 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16544 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16545 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16546 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16547 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16548 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16550 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
16551 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
16552 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
16553 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
16554 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
16555 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
16556 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
16558 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
16559 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
16560 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
16561 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
16562 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
16564 o Minor features (geoip):
16565 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16568 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
16569 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
16570 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
16571 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16573 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16574 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16575 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16577 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
16578 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
16579 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
16580 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
16581 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
16584 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
16585 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
16586 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16587 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16588 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16590 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
16591 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16592 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16593 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16594 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16595 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16597 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16598 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16599 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16600 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16603 o Minor features (geoip):
16604 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16607 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16608 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16609 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16610 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16611 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16613 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16614 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16615 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16617 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
16618 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16619 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16620 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16621 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16622 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16624 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16625 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16626 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16627 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16630 o Minor features (geoip):
16631 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16634 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16635 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16636 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16639 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
16640 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16641 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16642 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16643 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16644 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16646 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16647 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16648 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16649 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16652 o Minor features (geoip):
16653 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16656 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16657 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16658 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16660 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
16661 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16662 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16663 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16664 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16665 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16667 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16668 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16669 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16670 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16673 o Minor features (geoip):
16674 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16677 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16678 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16679 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16681 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
16682 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16683 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16684 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16685 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16686 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16688 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16689 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16690 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16691 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16694 o Minor features (geoip):
16695 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16698 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16699 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16700 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16703 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
16704 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
16705 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
16706 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
16708 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
16709 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
16710 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
16711 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
16712 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16714 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16715 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
16716 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
16719 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
16720 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16721 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16722 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16725 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
16726 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
16727 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
16728 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
16729 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
16732 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
16733 security, correctness, and performance.
16735 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
16737 o Major features (directory protocol):
16738 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
16739 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
16740 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
16741 now request these documents when available. When both client and
16742 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
16743 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
16744 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
16745 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
16746 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
16747 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
16748 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
16749 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
16750 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
16751 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
16752 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
16753 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
16754 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
16756 o Major features (experimental):
16757 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
16758 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
16759 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
16760 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
16761 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
16762 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
16763 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
16765 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
16766 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
16767 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
16768 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
16769 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
16770 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
16773 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
16774 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
16775 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
16776 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
16777 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
16778 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
16779 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
16780 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
16781 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
16782 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
16783 multiples of 10000.
16785 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
16786 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
16787 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
16788 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
16789 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
16790 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
16791 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
16792 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
16793 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16794 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
16795 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
16796 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
16797 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
16798 Otherwise it is at info.
16800 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16801 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
16802 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
16803 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16805 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
16806 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
16807 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16808 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
16810 o Minor features (security, windows):
16811 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
16812 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
16813 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
16814 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
16815 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
16817 o Minor features (config options):
16818 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
16819 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
16820 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
16821 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
16822 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
16823 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
16824 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
16825 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
16827 o Minor features (controller):
16828 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
16829 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
16831 o Minor features (defaults):
16832 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
16833 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
16834 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
16835 can. Closes ticket 21407.
16836 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
16837 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
16838 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
16839 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
16840 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
16841 Closes ticket 21641.
16843 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
16844 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
16845 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
16846 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16847 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16848 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16849 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16851 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
16852 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
16853 introduction points than specified in
16854 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
16855 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
16856 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
16857 21594; closes ticket 21622.
16858 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
16859 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
16860 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
16861 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
16863 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16864 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
16865 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
16866 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
16867 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
16868 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
16869 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
16870 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
16871 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
16872 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
16874 o Minor features (logging):
16875 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
16876 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
16877 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
16878 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
16881 o Minor features (performance):
16882 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
16883 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
16885 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
16886 speed some controller functions.
16888 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
16889 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
16890 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
16891 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
16893 o Minor features (safety):
16894 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
16895 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
16896 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
16899 o Minor features (testing):
16900 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
16901 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
16902 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
16903 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
16904 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
16905 on. Closes ticket 21439.
16906 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
16907 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
16908 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
16909 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
16910 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
16911 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
16912 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
16913 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
16914 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
16915 21507. Partially implements 21470.
16917 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
16918 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
16919 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
16920 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
16922 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16923 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
16924 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
16925 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
16928 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16929 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
16930 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16932 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
16933 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
16934 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
16935 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
16936 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
16937 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
16938 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16939 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
16940 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
16941 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
16942 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
16943 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
16944 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
16945 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
16947 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16948 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
16949 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16950 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
16951 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
16952 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
16953 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
16954 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16956 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16957 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
16958 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
16959 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16960 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
16961 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
16962 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
16964 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
16965 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
16966 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
16967 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
16968 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
16970 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16971 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
16972 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16973 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
16974 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
16975 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16976 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
16977 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16978 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
16979 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
16980 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16982 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16983 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
16984 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
16985 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16986 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
16987 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
16988 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16990 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16991 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
16992 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16994 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
16995 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
16996 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
16997 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
16998 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
17000 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17001 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
17002 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
17003 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17004 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
17005 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17006 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
17007 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
17008 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
17009 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
17011 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
17012 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
17013 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
17014 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
17015 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17017 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
17018 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
17019 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17021 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17022 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
17023 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
17024 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
17025 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
17026 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
17027 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
17028 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
17029 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
17030 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
17031 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
17032 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
17034 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
17035 Resolves ticket 22213.
17036 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
17037 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
17038 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
17039 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
17040 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
17041 types. Closes ticket 21651.
17042 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
17043 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
17046 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
17047 Closes ticket 21873.
17048 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
17049 Closes ticket 21151.
17050 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
17051 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
17053 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
17054 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17055 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
17056 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
17058 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
17059 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
17060 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
17061 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
17062 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
17063 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
17064 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
17065 default behavior is now unavailable.
17066 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
17067 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
17068 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
17069 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
17070 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
17071 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
17072 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
17074 o Removed features (tools):
17075 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
17076 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
17077 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
17078 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
17079 required. Closes ticket 21842.
17082 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
17083 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
17084 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
17085 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
17086 clients are not affected.
17088 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
17089 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
17090 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
17091 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
17092 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
17093 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17096 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17099 o Minor features (future-proofing):
17100 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
17101 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
17102 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
17103 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
17104 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
17105 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
17107 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17108 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
17109 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
17110 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
17111 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
17115 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
17116 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
17118 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
17119 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
17120 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
17121 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
17122 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
17123 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
17126 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
17127 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
17129 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
17130 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
17131 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
17132 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
17133 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
17135 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
17136 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
17138 o Minor features (geoip):
17139 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17142 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
17143 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
17144 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
17145 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17147 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
17148 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
17149 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
17150 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17153 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
17154 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
17155 0.3.0 release series.
17157 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
17158 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
17159 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
17162 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
17163 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
17164 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
17165 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17167 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17168 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
17169 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
17170 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17171 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
17173 o Minor features (geoip):
17174 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17177 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
17178 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
17179 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
17180 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
17183 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17184 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
17185 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
17186 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17187 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
17188 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
17189 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
17190 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17192 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17193 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
17194 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17196 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17197 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
17198 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
17201 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
17202 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
17203 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
17204 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
17205 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17208 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
17209 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
17210 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
17214 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
17215 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
17216 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
17217 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17218 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
17221 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
17222 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
17223 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17225 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17226 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17227 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17228 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17229 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17230 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17231 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17233 o Minor features (geoip):
17234 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17238 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
17239 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17240 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
17241 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17244 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
17245 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17246 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17248 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17249 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17251 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17252 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17253 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17255 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17256 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17257 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17260 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17261 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17262 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17263 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17264 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17265 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17266 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17267 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17268 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17270 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17271 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17272 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17273 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17274 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17275 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17276 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17277 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17278 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17279 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17280 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17281 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17282 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17284 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17285 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17286 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17287 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17288 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17290 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17291 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17292 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17294 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17295 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17296 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17297 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17298 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17299 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17300 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17303 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17304 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17305 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17306 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17307 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17308 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17309 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17311 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17312 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17313 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17314 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17317 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17318 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17319 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17320 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17322 o Minor features (geoip):
17323 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17327 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
17328 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17329 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
17330 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17333 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
17334 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17335 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17337 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17338 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17340 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17341 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17342 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17344 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17345 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17346 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17349 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17350 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17351 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17352 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17353 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17354 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17355 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17356 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17357 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17359 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17360 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17361 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17362 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17363 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17364 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17365 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17366 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17367 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17369 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17370 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17371 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17372 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17373 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17375 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17376 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17377 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17378 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17379 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17382 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17383 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17384 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17385 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17386 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17388 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17389 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17390 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17392 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17393 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17394 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17395 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17396 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17397 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17400 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17401 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17402 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17403 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17404 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17405 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17406 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17409 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17410 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17411 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17412 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17413 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17414 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17415 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17417 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17418 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17419 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17420 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17423 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17424 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17425 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17426 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17428 o Minor features (geoip):
17429 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17432 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17433 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17434 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17437 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
17438 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17439 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
17440 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17443 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
17444 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
17445 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17447 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17448 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17450 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17451 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17452 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17454 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17455 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17456 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17459 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17460 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17461 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17462 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17463 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17464 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17465 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17466 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17467 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17469 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17470 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17471 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17472 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17473 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17474 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17475 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17476 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17477 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17479 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17480 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17481 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17482 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17483 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17485 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17486 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17487 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17488 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17489 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17492 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17493 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17494 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17495 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17496 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17498 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17499 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17500 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17502 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17503 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17504 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17505 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17506 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17507 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17510 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17511 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17512 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17513 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17514 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17515 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17516 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17519 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17520 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17521 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17522 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17523 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17524 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17525 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17527 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17528 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17529 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17530 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17533 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17534 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17535 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17536 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17538 o Minor features (geoip):
17539 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17542 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17543 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17544 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17546 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
17547 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17548 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17549 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17550 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17551 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17553 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17554 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17555 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17559 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
17560 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17561 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
17562 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17565 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
17566 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17567 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17569 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17570 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17572 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17573 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17574 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17576 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17577 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17578 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17581 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17582 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17583 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17584 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17585 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17586 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17587 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17588 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17589 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17591 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17592 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17593 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17594 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17595 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17596 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17597 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17598 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17599 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17601 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17602 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17603 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17604 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17605 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17608 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17609 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17610 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17611 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17612 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17614 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17615 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17616 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17618 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17619 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17620 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17621 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17622 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17623 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17626 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17627 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17628 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17629 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17630 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17631 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17632 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17635 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17636 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17637 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17638 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17639 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17640 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17641 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17643 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17644 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17645 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17646 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17649 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17650 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17651 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17652 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17654 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17655 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17656 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17657 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17659 o Minor features (geoip):
17660 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17663 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17664 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17665 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17667 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17668 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17669 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17673 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
17674 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
17675 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
17676 keep them from coming back.
17678 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
17679 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
17680 will be nearly identical to it.
17682 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
17683 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
17684 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
17685 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
17686 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
17687 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17689 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
17690 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
17691 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17693 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
17694 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
17695 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
17696 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
17697 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
17698 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
17699 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
17700 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
17701 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
17702 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17703 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17704 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17705 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17706 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17707 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17709 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
17710 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
17711 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
17713 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17714 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
17715 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
17717 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
17718 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
17719 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17720 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
17721 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
17722 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
17723 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
17725 o Minor features (geoip):
17726 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17729 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
17730 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
17731 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
17734 o Minor features (testing):
17735 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
17736 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
17737 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
17739 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
17740 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
17741 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
17743 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17744 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
17745 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
17746 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
17747 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
17748 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17750 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
17751 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
17752 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
17753 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17754 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
17755 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
17756 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
17759 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
17760 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
17761 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
17762 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17763 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
17764 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
17765 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17767 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17768 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
17769 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
17770 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
17771 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
17772 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17774 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17775 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
17776 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
17778 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
17779 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17780 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
17781 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
17782 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17785 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
17788 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
17789 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
17790 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
17791 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
17793 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
17794 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
17795 least January of 2020.
17797 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17798 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
17799 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
17800 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
17803 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17804 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
17805 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
17806 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
17807 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
17808 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
17809 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17811 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17812 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17813 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17814 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17815 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17816 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17817 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17819 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17820 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
17821 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
17823 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
17824 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
17825 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17827 o Minor features (geoip):
17828 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17831 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17832 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
17833 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
17835 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
17836 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
17838 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17839 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
17840 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
17842 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17843 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
17844 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
17845 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17846 Patch by "junglefowl".
17849 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
17850 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
17851 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
17852 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
17853 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
17854 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
17856 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
17857 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
17858 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
17861 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
17862 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
17863 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
17864 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
17866 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
17867 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
17868 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
17869 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
17870 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17872 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
17873 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
17874 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
17875 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
17876 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17878 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
17879 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
17880 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
17881 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
17882 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
17883 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
17884 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17886 o Minor feature (client):
17887 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
17888 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
17890 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
17891 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
17892 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
17893 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
17895 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
17896 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
17897 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
17898 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
17899 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
17901 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
17902 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
17903 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
17904 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
17905 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
17906 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
17907 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
17908 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
17909 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
17910 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
17912 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
17913 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
17914 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
17916 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
17917 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
17919 o Minor features (relay):
17920 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
17921 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
17922 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
17923 Written by Michael Sonntag.
17925 o Minor bugfix (logging):
17926 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
17927 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
17928 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
17929 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
17932 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17933 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
17934 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
17935 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17937 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
17938 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
17939 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
17941 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
17942 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17943 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
17944 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
17945 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17946 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
17947 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
17949 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
17950 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
17951 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
17952 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
17953 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
17954 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
17955 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
17958 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17959 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
17960 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17962 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17963 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
17964 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
17965 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
17966 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17967 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
17968 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
17969 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
17971 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
17972 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
17973 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17975 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17976 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
17977 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
17978 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
17980 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
17981 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
17982 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
17983 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17985 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
17986 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
17987 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
17988 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17989 Patch by "junglefowl".
17991 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
17992 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
17993 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
17997 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
17998 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
17999 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
18000 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
18001 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
18002 version should upgrade.
18004 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
18005 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
18006 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
18007 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
18008 the set of fallback directories, and more.
18010 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
18011 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
18012 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
18013 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
18014 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
18015 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
18018 o Major features (security):
18019 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
18020 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
18021 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
18022 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
18023 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
18024 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
18026 o Major features (directory authority, security):
18027 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
18028 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
18029 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
18031 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
18032 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
18033 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
18034 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
18035 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
18038 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
18039 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
18040 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
18041 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
18042 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
18043 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
18044 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
18045 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
18046 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
18047 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
18048 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18050 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
18051 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
18052 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18054 o Minor features (controller):
18055 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
18056 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
18058 o Minor features (entry guards):
18059 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
18060 break regression tests.
18061 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
18062 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
18064 o Minor features (fallback directories):
18065 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
18067 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
18068 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
18069 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
18070 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
18071 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
18072 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
18073 Closes ticket 20539.
18074 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
18076 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
18077 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
18078 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
18079 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
18080 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
18082 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
18083 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
18084 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
18085 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
18086 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
18087 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
18088 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
18089 Closes ticket 20822.
18090 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
18091 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
18093 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
18094 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
18097 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
18098 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
18099 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
18100 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
18102 o Minor features (linting):
18103 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
18104 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
18106 o Minor features (logging):
18107 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
18108 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
18110 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
18111 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
18112 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
18113 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
18114 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
18115 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
18117 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
18118 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
18119 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
18120 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
18122 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18123 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
18124 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
18127 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
18128 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
18129 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
18130 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18132 o Minor bugfixes (config):
18133 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
18134 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
18135 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
18136 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18138 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18139 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
18140 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
18143 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
18144 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
18145 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
18146 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
18147 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18149 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18150 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
18151 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
18153 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18154 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
18155 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18156 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
18157 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
18158 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
18159 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18160 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
18161 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18163 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
18164 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
18165 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
18166 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18168 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
18169 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
18170 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
18171 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18172 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
18173 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18175 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
18176 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
18177 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18178 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
18179 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
18180 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
18181 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
18182 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
18184 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
18185 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
18186 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18188 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
18189 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
18190 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
18191 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
18193 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
18194 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18196 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18197 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
18198 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
18199 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
18200 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
18202 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18203 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
18204 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18206 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18207 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
18208 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
18209 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
18210 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
18212 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18213 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
18214 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
18216 o Documentation (formatting):
18217 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
18218 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
18220 o Documentation (man page):
18221 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
18222 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
18225 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
18226 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
18227 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
18228 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
18229 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
18230 version should upgrade.
18232 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
18233 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
18235 o Major bugfixes (security):
18236 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
18237 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
18238 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
18239 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
18240 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
18241 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18243 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
18244 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
18245 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
18246 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
18247 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
18248 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
18249 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
18250 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
18251 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
18252 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
18253 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18255 o Minor features (geoip):
18256 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
18259 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18260 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
18261 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
18262 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
18264 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
18265 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18268 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
18269 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
18270 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
18271 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
18272 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
18273 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
18274 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
18275 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
18277 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
18279 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
18280 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
18281 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
18282 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
18283 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
18286 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
18287 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
18288 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
18289 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
18290 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
18291 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
18292 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
18293 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
18296 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
18297 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
18298 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
18299 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
18300 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
18302 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
18303 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
18304 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
18305 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
18306 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
18307 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
18308 15056; part of proposal 220.
18309 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
18310 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
18311 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
18312 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
18313 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
18315 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
18316 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
18317 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
18318 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
18319 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18321 o Minor features (controller):
18322 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
18323 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
18326 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
18327 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
18328 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
18331 o Minor features (directory authority):
18332 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
18333 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
18334 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
18335 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
18336 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
18338 o Minor features (directory cache):
18339 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
18340 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
18343 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
18344 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
18345 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
18346 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
18348 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
18349 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
18350 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
18351 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
18353 o Minor features (infrastructure):
18354 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
18355 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
18357 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18358 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
18359 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
18360 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
18362 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18363 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
18364 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18365 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
18366 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
18367 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
18369 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
18370 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
18371 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
18372 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
18373 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18375 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
18376 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
18377 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
18378 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
18379 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18381 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18382 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
18383 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
18384 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
18385 on all recent tor versions.
18386 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
18387 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
18388 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
18389 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18391 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
18392 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
18393 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18395 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18396 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
18397 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
18398 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
18401 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
18402 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
18403 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
18406 o Minor bugfixes (util):
18407 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
18408 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
18409 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
18410 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
18412 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
18413 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
18414 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
18415 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
18417 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18418 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
18419 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
18420 Closes ticket 19858.
18421 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
18422 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
18423 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
18424 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
18425 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
18426 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
18427 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
18428 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
18429 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
18430 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
18431 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
18432 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
18433 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
18434 redundant with the similar structures used in the
18435 channel abstraction.
18436 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
18437 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
18438 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
18439 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
18440 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
18441 replaced with code automatically generated by the
18445 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
18446 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18447 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
18448 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
18450 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
18451 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
18453 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
18454 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
18455 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
18456 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
18457 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
18460 o Removed features:
18461 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
18462 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
18463 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
18465 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
18466 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
18467 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
18470 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
18471 from "overcaffeinated".
18472 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
18473 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
18474 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
18475 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
18476 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
18480 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
18481 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
18482 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
18483 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
18484 become available for their systems.
18486 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
18489 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
18490 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
18492 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
18493 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
18494 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
18495 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
18496 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
18497 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
18498 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
18499 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
18500 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
18502 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
18503 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
18504 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
18505 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
18506 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
18508 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
18509 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18513 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
18514 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
18516 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
18517 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
18518 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
18519 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
18520 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
18521 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
18522 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
18523 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
18525 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
18527 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
18528 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
18529 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
18530 become available for their systems.
18532 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
18533 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
18535 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
18536 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
18537 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
18538 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
18539 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
18540 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
18541 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
18542 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
18543 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
18545 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
18546 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
18547 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
18548 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
18549 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
18552 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
18553 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
18554 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
18557 o Minor features (geoip):
18558 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18561 o Minor bugfix (build):
18562 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
18563 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
18564 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18566 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18567 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
18568 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
18569 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
18571 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
18572 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
18573 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
18575 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18576 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
18577 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
18580 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
18581 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
18582 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18583 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
18584 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
18585 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18587 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18588 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
18589 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
18590 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18592 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18593 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
18594 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
18596 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18597 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
18598 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
18599 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
18600 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
18601 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
18602 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18603 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
18604 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
18605 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
18608 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
18609 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
18610 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
18611 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
18614 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18615 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
18616 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
18617 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
18618 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
18619 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
18622 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18623 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
18624 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
18627 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
18628 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
18629 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
18630 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
18632 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18633 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
18634 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
18635 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18638 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18639 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
18640 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
18641 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18644 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
18645 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
18646 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
18649 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18650 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
18651 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18653 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18654 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
18655 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18657 o Minor features (geoip):
18658 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18661 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
18662 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
18663 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
18664 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
18665 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
18667 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
18668 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
18669 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
18670 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
18671 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
18672 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18674 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
18675 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
18676 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18678 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18679 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
18680 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
18681 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
18682 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
18683 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
18685 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18686 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
18687 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
18689 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
18690 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
18692 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
18693 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
18694 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
18695 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
18696 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
18697 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
18699 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18700 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
18701 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
18705 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
18706 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
18709 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
18710 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
18711 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
18712 everyone to test this release.
18714 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
18715 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
18716 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
18717 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18720 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
18721 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
18722 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
18723 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18726 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
18727 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
18728 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
18729 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
18730 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18731 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
18732 download, stop waiting for certificates.
18733 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
18734 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
18735 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
18737 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
18738 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
18739 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
18740 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18741 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
18742 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18743 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
18744 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
18745 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18746 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
18747 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
18748 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
18750 o Minor features (geoip):
18751 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18754 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
18755 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
18756 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
18757 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
18758 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
18759 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18761 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
18762 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
18763 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
18764 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18765 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
18766 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18768 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18769 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
18770 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
18771 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
18774 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18775 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
18776 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
18777 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
18778 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
18779 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18780 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
18781 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18783 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
18784 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
18785 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18787 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18788 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
18789 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18790 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
18791 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18792 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
18793 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
18794 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18796 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
18797 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
18798 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
18801 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18802 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
18803 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18806 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
18807 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18808 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
18809 tickets 19287 and 19290.
18812 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
18813 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
18814 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
18815 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
18816 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
18819 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
18820 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
18821 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
18822 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
18823 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
18824 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
18825 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
18826 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
18827 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
18829 o Minor features (geoip):
18830 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18834 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
18835 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
18836 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
18837 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
18838 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
18841 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
18842 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
18843 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
18844 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
18845 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
18846 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
18847 be a release candidate.
18849 o Major features (security fixes):
18850 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
18851 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
18852 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
18853 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
18854 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
18855 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
18856 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
18857 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
18859 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
18860 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
18861 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
18862 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
18863 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
18864 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
18865 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
18866 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
18867 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
18868 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
18869 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
18870 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
18871 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
18872 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
18875 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18876 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
18877 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18879 o Minor features (client, directory):
18880 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
18881 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
18882 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
18885 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
18886 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
18889 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
18890 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
18891 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
18894 o Minor features (geoip):
18895 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18898 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
18899 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
18900 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
18901 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
18902 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
18904 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
18905 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
18906 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
18907 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
18910 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
18911 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
18912 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
18913 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
18914 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
18916 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
18917 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
18918 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
18921 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
18922 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
18923 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
18924 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
18926 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18927 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
18928 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
18929 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
18931 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
18932 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
18933 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
18934 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
18937 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18938 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
18939 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
18943 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
18944 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
18946 o Required libraries:
18947 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
18948 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
18949 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
18952 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
18953 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
18954 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
18955 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
18956 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
18957 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
18958 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
18959 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
18961 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
18962 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
18963 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
18964 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
18965 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
18966 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18968 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
18969 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
18970 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
18971 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
18972 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
18975 o Major features (circuit building, security):
18976 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
18977 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
18978 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
18980 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
18981 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
18983 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
18984 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
18985 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
18986 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
18987 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
18988 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
18989 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
18990 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
18991 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
18992 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
18993 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
18995 o Major features (resource management):
18996 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
18997 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
18998 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
18999 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
19000 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
19001 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
19003 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
19004 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
19005 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
19006 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
19008 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
19009 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
19010 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
19011 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19013 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19014 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
19015 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
19016 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
19017 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
19018 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
19020 o Minor features (security, TLS):
19021 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
19022 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
19023 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
19024 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
19026 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
19027 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
19028 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
19029 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
19031 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
19032 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19035 o Minor feature (port flags):
19036 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
19037 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
19038 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
19039 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
19040 18693; patch by "teor".
19042 o Minor features (directory authority):
19043 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
19044 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
19045 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
19047 o Minor features (testing):
19048 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
19049 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
19050 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
19051 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
19053 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
19054 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
19055 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
19056 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
19057 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
19058 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
19059 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
19060 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
19061 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
19063 o Minor features (Tor2web):
19064 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
19065 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
19066 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
19068 o Minor features (unit tests):
19069 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
19070 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
19071 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
19072 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
19073 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
19074 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
19075 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
19076 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
19078 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
19079 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
19080 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
19081 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
19082 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
19083 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
19084 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
19085 assertion as a test failure.
19087 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
19088 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
19089 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
19090 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
19091 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
19092 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
19094 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
19095 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
19096 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
19097 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
19098 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
19099 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
19100 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
19101 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
19102 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
19103 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
19104 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19105 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19106 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
19107 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
19108 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
19109 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19111 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19112 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
19113 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
19114 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
19115 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19116 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
19117 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
19120 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19121 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
19122 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
19123 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
19124 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
19125 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
19126 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
19129 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19130 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
19131 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
19132 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
19134 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
19135 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
19136 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
19138 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19139 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
19140 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
19141 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
19142 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
19143 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19145 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19146 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
19147 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
19148 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
19150 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
19151 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
19152 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
19154 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
19155 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
19156 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
19157 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
19158 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
19159 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
19161 o Minor bugfixes (options):
19162 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
19163 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
19165 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
19166 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
19167 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19170 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
19171 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
19172 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
19173 19678. Patch by teor.
19175 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
19176 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
19177 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
19178 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
19179 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
19180 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
19182 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
19183 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
19187 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
19188 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
19189 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
19190 who select public relays as their bridges.
19192 o Major bugfixes (crash):
19193 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
19194 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
19195 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
19196 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
19197 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19199 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
19200 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
19201 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
19202 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
19203 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
19206 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
19207 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
19208 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
19209 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
19211 o Minor features (geoip):
19212 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19216 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
19217 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
19218 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
19219 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
19220 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
19221 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
19223 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
19224 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
19225 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
19227 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
19228 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
19229 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
19230 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
19231 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
19232 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19234 o Major features (user interface):
19235 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
19236 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
19237 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
19239 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
19240 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
19241 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
19242 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
19244 o Minor features (config):
19245 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
19246 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
19248 o Minor features (geoip):
19249 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19252 o Minor features (user interface):
19253 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
19254 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
19257 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
19258 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
19259 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19261 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19262 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
19263 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
19265 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
19266 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
19267 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
19268 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19270 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
19271 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
19272 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
19275 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
19276 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
19277 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
19278 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
19280 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19281 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
19282 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
19284 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
19285 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
19286 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19288 o Deprecated features:
19289 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
19290 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
19291 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
19292 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
19293 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
19294 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
19295 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
19296 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
19297 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
19298 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
19299 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
19300 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
19301 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
19302 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
19303 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
19304 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
19305 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
19306 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
19307 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
19308 and TransListenAddress.
19311 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
19312 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
19315 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
19316 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
19319 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
19320 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
19321 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
19322 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
19323 encouraged to upgrade.
19325 o Directory authority changes:
19326 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
19327 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
19329 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
19330 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
19331 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
19332 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
19333 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
19334 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19336 o Minor features (geoip):
19337 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19340 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19341 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
19342 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
19345 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19346 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
19347 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
19348 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
19351 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
19352 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
19353 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
19354 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
19355 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
19356 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
19357 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
19358 security, correctness, and performance.
19360 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
19362 o New system requirements:
19363 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
19364 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
19365 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
19366 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
19367 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
19368 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
19369 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
19370 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
19372 o Major features (build, hardening):
19373 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
19374 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
19375 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
19376 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
19377 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
19378 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
19379 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
19380 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
19381 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
19383 o Major features (compilation):
19384 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
19385 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
19386 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
19387 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
19389 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
19390 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
19391 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
19393 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
19394 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
19395 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
19396 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
19397 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
19398 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
19399 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
19400 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
19402 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
19403 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
19404 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
19405 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
19406 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
19407 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
19408 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
19410 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
19411 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
19412 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
19413 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
19414 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
19415 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
19416 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
19418 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
19419 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
19420 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
19421 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
19422 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
19424 o Minor features (build, hardening):
19425 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
19426 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
19427 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
19428 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
19429 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
19430 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
19431 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
19432 Closes ticket 18895.
19434 o Minor features (code safety):
19435 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
19436 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
19439 o Minor features (controller):
19440 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
19441 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
19442 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
19443 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
19444 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
19445 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
19446 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
19447 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
19449 o Minor features (directory authority):
19450 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
19451 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
19452 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
19453 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
19454 Implements ticket 18624.
19455 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
19456 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
19457 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
19460 o Minor features (hidden service):
19461 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
19462 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
19463 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
19466 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
19467 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
19468 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
19469 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
19470 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
19471 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
19472 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
19473 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
19474 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
19475 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
19476 Closes ticket 18365.
19478 o Minor features (logging):
19479 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
19480 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
19481 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
19482 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
19483 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
19484 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
19485 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
19486 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
19487 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
19488 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
19490 o Minor features (performance):
19491 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
19492 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
19493 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
19494 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
19495 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
19496 Closes ticket 18815.
19498 o Minor features (relay, usability):
19499 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
19500 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
19501 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
19502 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
19505 o Minor features (testing):
19506 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
19507 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19508 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
19509 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
19510 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
19511 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
19512 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
19513 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
19516 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
19517 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
19518 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
19519 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
19520 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19522 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19523 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
19524 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
19525 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
19526 patch from "cypherpunks".
19528 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
19529 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
19530 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19532 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19533 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
19534 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
19535 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19537 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19538 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
19539 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
19540 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19541 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
19542 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
19543 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
19544 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19546 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19547 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
19548 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19549 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
19550 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
19551 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
19552 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
19554 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
19555 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
19556 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
19559 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
19560 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
19561 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
19563 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
19564 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
19565 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
19568 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
19569 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
19570 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
19571 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
19574 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19575 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
19576 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
19578 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
19579 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
19580 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
19583 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19584 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
19585 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19586 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
19587 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
19588 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
19589 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19590 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
19591 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
19594 o Minor bugfixes (time):
19595 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
19596 bugfix on all released tor versions.
19597 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
19598 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
19599 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
19600 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19602 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
19603 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
19604 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
19605 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
19606 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
19608 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
19609 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19611 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19612 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
19614 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
19615 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
19616 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
19617 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
19620 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
19621 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
19623 o Removed features:
19624 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
19625 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
19626 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
19627 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
19628 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
19629 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
19630 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
19633 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
19634 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
19635 command-line options to enable them.
19636 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
19637 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
19640 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
19642 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
19644 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
19645 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
19646 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
19647 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
19648 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
19649 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
19651 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
19653 o Minor features (geoip):
19654 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19657 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19658 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
19659 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19661 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19662 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
19663 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
19664 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
19666 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19667 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
19668 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
19669 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
19670 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
19671 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
19672 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
19673 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19676 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
19677 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
19678 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
19679 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
19680 against previous versions.
19682 o Directory authority changes:
19683 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
19685 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
19686 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
19687 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
19688 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
19690 o Minor features (build):
19691 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19692 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
19693 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
19694 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19695 Patch from intrigeri.
19697 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
19698 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
19699 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
19702 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
19703 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
19704 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
19705 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
19706 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
19709 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19710 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
19711 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
19712 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19713 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
19714 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
19715 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19717 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
19718 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
19719 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
19720 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
19722 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
19723 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
19724 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
19725 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
19726 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
19727 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19729 o Fallback directory list:
19730 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
19731 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
19732 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
19733 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
19734 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
19735 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
19736 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
19737 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
19738 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
19741 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
19742 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
19743 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
19744 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
19747 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
19748 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
19749 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
19750 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19752 o Minor features (build):
19753 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19754 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
19756 o Minor features (geoip):
19757 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19760 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19761 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
19762 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19764 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
19765 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
19766 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
19767 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
19771 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
19772 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
19773 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
19774 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
19775 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
19778 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
19779 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
19780 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
19781 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
19782 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19784 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
19785 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
19786 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
19787 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
19788 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
19789 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
19791 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19792 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
19793 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
19794 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19796 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
19797 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
19798 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
19799 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
19800 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
19801 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
19802 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
19804 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
19805 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
19807 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
19808 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
19809 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
19811 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
19812 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
19813 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
19814 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
19815 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
19816 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19819 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
19820 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
19821 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
19824 o Major bugfixes (key management):
19825 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
19826 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
19827 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
19828 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
19829 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
19830 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
19833 o Major bugfixes (testing):
19834 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
19835 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19836 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
19837 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19839 o Minor features (clients):
19840 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
19841 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
19842 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
19844 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
19845 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
19846 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
19847 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
19848 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
19849 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
19850 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
19851 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
19852 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
19853 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
19855 o Minor features (geoip):
19856 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19859 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
19860 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
19861 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
19864 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
19865 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
19866 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19868 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19869 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
19870 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
19872 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
19873 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
19875 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
19876 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
19879 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19880 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
19881 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
19882 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
19883 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19884 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
19885 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
19886 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19888 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
19889 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
19890 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
19891 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
19892 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19894 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
19895 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
19896 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
19897 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19898 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19899 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
19902 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
19903 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
19904 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
19905 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
19906 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
19907 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19909 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19910 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
19911 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
19912 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19913 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
19914 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19915 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
19916 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19918 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19919 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
19920 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
19921 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
19923 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
19924 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
19925 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
19926 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
19927 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
19928 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
19931 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19932 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
19933 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
19935 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
19936 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
19937 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19939 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19940 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
19941 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
19943 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19944 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
19945 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
19946 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19947 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
19948 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
19949 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19951 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
19952 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
19953 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
19954 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19957 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
19958 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
19959 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
19960 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
19963 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
19964 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
19965 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
19966 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
19967 directory support should also be much improved.
19969 o New system requirements:
19970 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
19971 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
19972 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
19973 longer runs with, these versions.
19974 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
19975 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
19976 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
19978 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
19979 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
19980 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
19981 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
19982 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
19984 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
19985 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
19986 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
19987 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
19988 Reported by Guido Vranken.
19990 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
19991 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
19992 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
19993 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
19994 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
19996 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
19997 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
19998 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
19999 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20001 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
20002 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
20003 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20004 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
20005 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20007 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
20008 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
20009 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
20010 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
20011 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
20012 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20015 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
20016 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
20017 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20019 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
20020 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
20021 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
20022 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
20025 o Major bugfixes (voting):
20026 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
20027 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
20028 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
20029 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
20031 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
20032 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
20033 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
20034 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20035 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
20036 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
20037 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
20038 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
20039 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
20040 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20042 o Minor features (security, win32):
20043 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
20044 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
20047 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
20048 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
20049 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
20050 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
20052 o Minor features (build):
20053 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
20054 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
20055 Steven Chamberlain.
20057 o Minor features (code hardening):
20058 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
20059 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
20060 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
20063 o Minor features (crypto):
20064 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
20065 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
20068 o Minor features (geoip):
20069 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
20072 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
20073 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
20074 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
20075 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
20076 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
20078 o Minor features (IPv6):
20079 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
20080 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
20081 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
20082 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
20083 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
20084 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
20085 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
20087 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20088 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
20089 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
20090 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
20091 while fixing 18548.
20093 o Minor features (robustness):
20094 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
20095 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
20096 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
20098 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
20099 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
20100 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
20101 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
20102 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
20103 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
20104 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
20107 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
20108 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
20109 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
20110 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
20111 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
20113 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
20114 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
20115 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
20116 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
20118 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20119 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
20120 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
20122 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
20123 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
20124 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20125 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
20126 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
20127 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
20129 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
20130 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
20131 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
20132 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
20133 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20135 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20136 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
20137 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
20138 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
20141 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
20142 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
20143 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20145 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
20146 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
20147 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
20148 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20150 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20151 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
20152 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
20153 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
20154 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
20155 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20157 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
20158 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
20159 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
20160 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
20162 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
20163 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
20164 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
20165 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
20166 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
20168 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
20169 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
20170 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
20171 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
20172 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
20173 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
20174 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
20175 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
20176 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
20179 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
20180 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
20181 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
20182 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20184 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
20185 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
20186 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
20188 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20189 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
20190 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
20191 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20192 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
20193 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
20194 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20195 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
20196 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20198 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20199 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
20200 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
20201 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
20202 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
20203 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
20204 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
20205 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
20206 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
20207 Christian, patch by teor.
20209 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
20210 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
20211 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
20212 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
20214 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
20215 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
20216 patch by "cypherpunks".
20217 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
20219 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
20220 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20222 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
20223 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
20224 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
20225 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
20227 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
20228 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
20229 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
20232 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20233 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
20234 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
20235 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
20236 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
20237 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20239 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
20240 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
20241 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
20242 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
20244 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
20245 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
20246 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
20247 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
20249 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20250 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
20251 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
20252 17744. Patch from zerosion.
20253 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
20254 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
20255 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
20256 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
20257 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
20260 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
20261 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
20262 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
20264 o Removed features:
20265 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
20266 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
20267 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
20270 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
20272 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
20273 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
20276 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
20277 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
20278 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
20279 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
20280 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
20282 o Major features (security, Linux):
20283 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
20284 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
20285 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
20286 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
20287 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
20289 o Major features (directory system):
20290 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
20291 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
20292 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
20293 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
20294 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
20295 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
20296 "mikeperry" and "teor".
20297 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
20298 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
20299 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
20300 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
20301 15775. Patch by "teor".
20302 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
20303 "gsathya", and "karsten".
20304 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
20305 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
20306 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
20307 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
20308 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
20311 o Major key updates:
20312 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
20313 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
20316 o Minor features (security, clock):
20317 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
20318 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
20319 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
20320 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
20322 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
20323 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
20324 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
20325 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
20326 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
20327 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20329 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
20330 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
20331 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
20332 Implements ticket 17026.
20333 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
20334 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
20335 Implements feature 17986.
20336 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
20337 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
20338 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
20339 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
20340 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
20341 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
20344 o Minor features (security, RNG):
20345 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
20346 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
20347 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
20348 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
20349 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
20350 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
20351 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
20352 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
20353 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
20354 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
20357 o Minor features (accounting):
20358 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
20359 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
20360 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
20361 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
20363 o Minor features (build):
20364 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
20365 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
20366 patch from "cypherpunks."
20367 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
20368 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
20369 17549, 17921, and 17984.
20371 o Minor features (controller):
20372 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
20373 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
20374 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
20375 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
20376 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
20377 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
20378 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
20379 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
20382 o Minor features (crypto):
20383 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
20385 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
20386 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
20387 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
20388 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
20389 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
20390 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
20391 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
20392 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20394 o Minor features (directory downloads):
20395 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
20396 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
20397 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
20398 17864; patch by "teor".
20399 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
20400 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
20401 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
20403 o Minor features (geoip):
20404 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
20407 o Minor features (IPv6):
20408 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
20409 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
20410 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
20411 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
20412 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
20413 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
20414 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
20415 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
20416 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
20417 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
20418 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
20420 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
20421 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20422 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
20423 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
20425 o Minor features (logging):
20426 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
20427 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
20428 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
20429 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
20432 o Minor features (portability):
20433 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
20434 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
20436 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
20437 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
20438 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
20439 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
20440 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
20442 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
20443 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
20444 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
20445 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
20446 Resolves ticket 17951.
20448 o Minor features (replay cache):
20449 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
20450 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
20452 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
20453 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
20454 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
20455 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
20456 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20457 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
20458 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
20459 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
20460 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
20461 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
20462 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20463 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
20464 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
20465 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20467 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
20468 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
20469 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
20470 from "unixninja92".
20472 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20473 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
20474 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
20475 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20476 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
20477 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
20479 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
20482 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20483 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
20484 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
20485 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20486 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
20487 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
20488 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20489 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
20491 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
20492 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
20493 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
20494 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
20495 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
20496 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
20497 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20498 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
20500 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
20501 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20503 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
20504 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
20505 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20507 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
20508 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
20509 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
20510 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20512 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
20513 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
20514 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20516 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20517 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
20518 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20520 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20521 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
20522 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
20523 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
20524 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
20526 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
20527 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20529 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20530 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
20531 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
20534 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20535 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
20536 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
20537 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
20538 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
20539 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
20541 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
20542 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
20543 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
20544 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
20545 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
20547 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
20548 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
20549 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
20552 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
20553 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
20554 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
20555 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20556 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
20557 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
20558 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
20559 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
20562 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20563 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
20564 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
20565 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
20566 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
20567 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20568 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
20569 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
20570 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
20571 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
20573 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
20574 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20576 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20577 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
20578 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
20579 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
20580 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
20581 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
20582 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
20583 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
20584 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
20585 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
20587 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
20588 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
20589 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
20590 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
20592 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
20593 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
20594 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
20595 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
20596 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
20598 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
20599 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
20602 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
20603 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
20604 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
20605 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
20606 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
20607 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
20608 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
20611 o Removed features:
20612 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
20613 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
20614 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
20615 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
20616 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
20619 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
20620 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
20621 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
20622 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
20623 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
20624 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
20625 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
20626 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
20627 portion of ticket 16831.
20628 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
20629 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
20630 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
20632 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
20633 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
20636 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
20637 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
20638 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
20640 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
20641 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
20642 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
20643 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
20644 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
20645 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
20648 o Minor features (geoip):
20649 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20652 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20653 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
20654 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
20655 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
20656 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
20657 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
20659 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20660 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
20661 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
20662 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
20663 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
20664 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
20665 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
20666 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20667 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
20668 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20671 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
20672 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
20673 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
20674 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
20675 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
20676 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
20677 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
20678 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
20679 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
20680 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
20681 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
20682 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
20683 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
20684 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
20685 that would make him proud.
20687 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
20689 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
20690 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
20691 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
20692 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
20693 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
20694 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
20695 of Tor invoke which others.
20697 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
20700 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
20701 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
20702 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
20703 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
20704 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
20705 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
20706 release will the the official stable release.
20708 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
20709 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
20710 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
20711 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
20712 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
20715 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
20716 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
20717 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20719 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
20720 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
20721 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
20722 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
20723 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20724 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
20725 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
20727 o Minor features (geoIP):
20728 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20731 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20732 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
20733 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
20734 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
20735 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20736 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
20737 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
20739 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20740 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
20741 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
20744 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
20745 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
20746 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
20747 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
20749 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20750 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
20751 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
20752 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
20753 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
20754 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
20755 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
20756 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
20757 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
20758 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
20759 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
20763 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
20764 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
20768 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
20769 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
20770 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
20771 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
20772 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
20774 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
20775 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
20776 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
20777 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
20779 o Major features (security, hidden services):
20780 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
20781 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
20782 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
20783 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
20784 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
20785 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
20786 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
20788 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
20789 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
20790 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
20791 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
20792 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
20793 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
20796 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
20797 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
20798 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
20799 available. Implements ticket 16535.
20800 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
20801 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
20804 o Major features (performance testing):
20805 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
20806 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
20807 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
20809 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
20810 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
20811 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
20812 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
20814 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
20815 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
20816 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
20817 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
20818 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
20819 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
20821 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
20822 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
20824 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
20825 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
20826 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
20827 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
20828 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
20830 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
20831 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
20832 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
20833 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
20834 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
20835 own. Implements feature 15482.
20836 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
20837 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
20839 o Minor features (compilation):
20840 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
20841 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
20842 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
20843 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
20844 which started requiring ECC.
20846 o Minor features (geoip):
20847 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20850 o Minor features (hidden services):
20851 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
20852 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
20853 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
20854 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
20855 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
20856 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
20857 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
20858 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
20860 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
20861 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
20862 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
20865 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
20866 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
20867 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
20868 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
20870 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
20871 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
20872 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
20873 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
20874 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
20876 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
20877 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
20878 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
20879 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
20880 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20881 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
20882 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
20883 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
20884 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
20885 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
20886 Related to ticket 16069.
20887 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
20888 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
20889 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
20890 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
20891 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
20892 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20894 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
20895 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
20896 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20897 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
20898 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
20900 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
20901 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
20902 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20904 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
20905 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
20906 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
20907 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20909 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20910 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
20911 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
20912 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
20913 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20915 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
20916 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
20917 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
20918 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
20919 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20920 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
20921 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
20922 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
20923 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
20924 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
20925 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
20928 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
20929 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
20930 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20932 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20933 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
20934 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20935 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
20936 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20938 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
20939 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
20940 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
20941 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
20943 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20944 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
20945 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
20947 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
20948 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20949 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
20950 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
20951 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
20952 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20953 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
20954 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20956 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20957 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
20958 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
20959 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
20960 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
20962 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
20963 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
20966 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20967 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
20968 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
20969 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
20970 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
20971 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
20972 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
20973 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
20974 function. Closes ticket 16763.
20975 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
20976 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
20977 suite of other microdesc functions.
20978 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
20979 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
20980 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
20981 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
20982 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
20983 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
20984 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
20985 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
20986 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
20987 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
20989 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
20990 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
20992 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
20995 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
20996 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
20997 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
20998 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
21002 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
21003 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
21004 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
21005 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
21006 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
21007 Closes ticket 13338.
21008 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
21009 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
21010 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
21011 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
21012 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
21013 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
21016 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
21017 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
21018 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
21019 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
21020 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
21021 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
21022 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
21024 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
21025 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
21026 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
21027 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
21028 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
21029 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
21030 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
21031 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
21032 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
21033 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
21034 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
21035 network before we begin.
21036 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
21037 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
21038 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
21039 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
21040 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
21041 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
21042 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
21043 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
21046 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
21047 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
21048 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
21049 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
21050 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
21051 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
21053 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
21054 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
21055 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
21057 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
21058 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
21059 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
21060 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
21061 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
21062 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
21063 Implements part of ticket 12498.
21064 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
21065 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
21066 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
21067 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
21068 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
21069 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
21070 part of ticket 12498.
21071 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
21072 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
21073 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
21074 key). Closes ticket 13642.
21076 o Major features (Hidden services):
21077 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
21078 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
21079 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
21080 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
21081 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
21083 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
21084 introduction points, which used to change the number of
21085 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
21086 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
21088 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
21089 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
21090 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
21091 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
21092 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
21093 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
21095 o Major features (performance):
21096 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
21097 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
21098 Implements ticket 16467.
21099 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
21100 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
21101 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
21102 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
21104 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
21105 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
21106 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
21107 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
21108 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
21109 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
21111 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
21112 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
21113 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
21114 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
21115 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
21116 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
21117 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
21118 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
21121 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21122 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
21123 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
21124 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
21125 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
21126 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
21127 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
21130 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
21131 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
21132 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
21133 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
21134 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
21135 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21137 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
21138 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
21139 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
21140 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
21141 by "cypherpunks_backup".
21142 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
21143 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
21144 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
21147 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
21148 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
21149 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
21150 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
21151 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
21152 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
21153 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
21155 o Minor features (client):
21156 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
21157 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
21158 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
21160 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
21161 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
21162 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
21163 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21164 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
21165 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
21166 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
21169 o Minor features (control protocol):
21170 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
21171 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
21173 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21174 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
21175 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
21176 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
21177 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
21178 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
21180 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
21181 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21182 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21184 o Minor features (hidden services):
21185 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
21186 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
21187 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
21188 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
21191 o Minor features (portability):
21192 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
21193 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
21194 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
21196 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
21197 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
21198 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
21199 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
21201 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21202 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
21203 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
21204 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21206 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
21207 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
21208 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
21209 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
21210 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
21211 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
21213 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21214 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
21215 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
21216 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21217 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
21218 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
21219 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21221 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21222 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
21223 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21225 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
21226 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
21227 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
21228 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
21230 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
21231 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
21232 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
21233 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
21235 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
21236 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
21239 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
21240 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
21241 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21242 from "cypherpunks".
21244 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
21245 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
21246 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21247 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
21248 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
21249 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
21251 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
21252 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
21253 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21255 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
21256 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
21257 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
21259 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
21260 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
21261 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21262 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
21263 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21264 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
21265 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
21266 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
21267 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21269 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21270 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
21271 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
21272 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
21273 haven't supported that in ages.
21274 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
21275 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
21276 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
21277 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
21280 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
21281 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
21282 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
21283 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
21284 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
21285 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
21287 o Removed features:
21288 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
21289 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
21290 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
21291 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
21292 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
21293 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
21294 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
21295 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
21296 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
21297 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
21298 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
21299 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
21300 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
21301 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
21302 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
21303 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
21304 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
21307 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
21308 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
21309 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
21310 Closes ticket 15817.
21311 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
21312 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
21314 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
21315 default as a part of "make check".
21316 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
21317 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
21318 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
21319 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
21323 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
21324 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
21325 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
21326 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
21327 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
21328 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
21330 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
21331 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
21332 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
21333 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
21334 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
21335 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
21336 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
21337 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
21340 o Major bugfixes (stability):
21341 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
21342 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
21343 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
21344 by "cypherpunks_backup".
21345 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
21346 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
21347 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
21350 o Minor features (geoip):
21351 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21352 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21354 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
21355 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
21356 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
21357 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
21358 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
21359 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
21361 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21362 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
21363 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
21364 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
21367 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
21368 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
21369 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
21370 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
21371 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
21373 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
21374 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
21375 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
21376 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
21377 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21380 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
21381 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
21382 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
21383 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
21384 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
21385 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
21386 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
21388 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21389 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
21390 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
21391 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
21393 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21394 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
21395 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
21396 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
21397 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
21398 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
21401 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
21402 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
21403 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
21406 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
21407 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
21408 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
21409 authorities should upgrade.
21411 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
21412 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
21413 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
21414 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
21417 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
21418 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
21419 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
21422 o Minor features (geoip):
21423 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21424 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21428 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
21429 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
21430 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
21431 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
21432 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
21433 the hidden services subsystem.
21435 o New system requirements:
21436 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
21437 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
21440 o Major features (controller):
21441 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
21442 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
21444 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
21445 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
21446 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
21447 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
21448 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
21449 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
21450 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
21452 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21453 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
21454 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
21455 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
21458 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
21459 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
21460 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
21461 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
21462 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
21464 o Minor features (command-line interface):
21465 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
21466 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21467 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
21468 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
21470 o Minor features (controller):
21471 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
21472 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
21473 present. Implements ticket 14840.
21474 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
21475 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
21476 Closes ticket 14845.
21477 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
21478 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
21479 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
21481 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
21482 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
21483 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
21484 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
21486 o Minor features (geoip):
21487 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21488 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21491 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
21492 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
21493 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
21494 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
21495 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
21496 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
21497 Closes ticket 15745.
21499 o Minor features (logging):
21500 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
21501 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
21504 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
21505 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
21506 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
21507 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
21509 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
21510 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
21511 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
21512 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
21513 Resolves ticket 15435.
21515 o Minor features (testing):
21516 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
21517 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
21518 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
21519 files. Closes ticket 15180.
21520 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
21521 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
21522 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
21523 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
21524 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
21525 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
21526 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
21527 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
21528 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
21529 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
21530 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
21531 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
21533 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21534 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
21535 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
21538 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
21539 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
21540 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
21542 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
21543 stderr, not stdout.
21545 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
21546 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
21547 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
21548 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
21549 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
21550 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
21551 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
21552 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21554 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
21555 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
21556 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
21558 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
21559 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
21560 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
21563 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
21564 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
21565 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
21567 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
21568 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21570 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
21571 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
21572 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
21573 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
21576 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
21577 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
21578 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
21579 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
21580 recent enough Clang.
21582 o Minor bugfixes (network):
21583 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
21584 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
21585 unsuitable for public communications.
21587 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21588 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
21589 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
21590 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
21591 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
21592 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
21594 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
21595 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
21596 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
21597 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
21598 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
21599 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
21600 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
21601 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
21603 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21604 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
21605 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
21607 - Set the severity correctly when testing
21608 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
21609 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
21610 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
21611 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
21613 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21614 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
21615 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
21617 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
21618 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
21619 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
21620 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
21621 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
21624 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
21625 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
21627 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
21628 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21629 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
21630 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
21631 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
21634 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
21635 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
21636 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
21637 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
21638 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
21639 Closes ticket 14922.
21641 o Removed features:
21642 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
21643 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
21644 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
21645 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
21646 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
21647 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
21648 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
21649 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
21650 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
21651 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
21652 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
21655 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
21656 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
21657 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
21658 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
21659 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21661 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
21662 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21664 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21665 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21666 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21667 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21668 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21669 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21670 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21672 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21673 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21674 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21675 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21676 Resolves ticket 15515.
21679 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
21680 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
21681 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
21682 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
21683 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21685 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
21686 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21688 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21689 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21690 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21691 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21692 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21693 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21694 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21696 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21697 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21698 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21699 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21700 Resolves ticket 15515.
21703 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
21704 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
21705 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
21706 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
21707 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21709 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
21710 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21712 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21713 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21714 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21715 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21716 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21717 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21718 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21720 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21721 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21722 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21723 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21724 Resolves ticket 15515.
21725 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
21726 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
21727 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
21731 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
21732 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
21734 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
21735 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
21736 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
21737 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
21738 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
21739 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
21740 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
21741 bugs should be addressed.
21743 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21744 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
21745 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
21746 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21748 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
21749 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
21750 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
21752 o Major bugfixes (client):
21753 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
21754 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
21757 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
21758 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
21759 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
21760 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
21761 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
21762 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21764 o Major bugfixes (portability):
21765 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
21766 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
21769 o Minor features (heartbeat):
21770 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
21771 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
21772 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
21773 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
21775 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21776 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
21777 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
21780 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
21781 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
21783 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
21784 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
21785 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
21787 o Directory authority changes:
21788 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21789 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21790 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21791 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21792 closes ticket 14487.
21794 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
21795 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
21796 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
21799 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
21800 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21801 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
21802 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21803 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
21804 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21805 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21806 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21808 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
21809 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21810 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21811 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21813 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21814 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
21815 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
21816 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
21818 o Minor features (controller):
21819 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
21820 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
21821 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
21823 o Minor features (geoip):
21824 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21825 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21828 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
21829 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
21830 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
21831 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21832 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
21833 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21835 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21836 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
21837 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
21838 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
21840 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
21841 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
21842 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
21843 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
21844 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
21845 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
21846 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
21847 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21849 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21850 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
21851 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21853 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
21854 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
21855 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
21856 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
21857 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
21861 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
21862 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
21863 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
21866 o Directory authority changes:
21867 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21868 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21869 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21870 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21871 closes ticket 14487.
21873 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
21874 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21875 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21876 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21878 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
21879 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21880 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
21881 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21882 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
21883 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21884 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21885 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21887 o Minor features (geoip):
21888 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21889 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21892 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
21893 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
21894 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
21895 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
21896 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
21898 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
21899 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
21900 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
21903 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
21904 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21905 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
21906 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21907 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21908 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21909 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21910 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21912 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
21913 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
21914 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
21917 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21918 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
21919 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
21921 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
21922 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
21923 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
21924 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
21925 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
21927 o Minor features (controller):
21928 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
21929 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
21930 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
21932 o Minor features (geoip):
21933 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21934 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21937 o Minor features (logs):
21938 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
21941 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
21942 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
21943 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
21944 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21945 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
21946 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
21947 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
21948 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
21949 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
21951 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21952 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
21954 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
21957 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21958 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
21959 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
21961 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
21962 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
21963 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
21964 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21965 from "cypherpunks".
21966 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
21967 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
21970 o Directory authority IP change:
21971 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21972 closes ticket 14487.
21975 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
21976 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
21977 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
21981 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
21982 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
21983 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
21984 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
21985 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
21986 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
21988 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
21989 the next version will be a release candidate.
21991 o Deprecated versions:
21992 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
21993 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
21995 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
21996 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
21997 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
21998 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
21999 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
22000 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
22002 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
22003 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
22004 Implements ticket 11485.
22006 o Major features (changed defaults):
22007 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
22008 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
22009 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
22010 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
22011 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
22012 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
22014 o Major features (directory system):
22015 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
22016 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
22017 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
22018 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
22019 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
22020 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
22021 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
22022 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
22023 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
22024 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
22025 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
22026 227. Closes ticket 10395.
22028 o Major features (guards):
22029 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
22030 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
22031 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
22032 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
22033 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
22035 o Major features (performance):
22036 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
22037 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
22038 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
22039 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
22040 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
22041 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
22042 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
22043 Implements ticket 9682.
22045 o Major features (relay):
22046 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
22047 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
22048 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
22050 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
22051 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
22052 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
22053 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
22055 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
22056 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
22057 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
22058 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
22059 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
22060 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
22061 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
22063 o Minor features (build):
22064 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
22065 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
22066 Resolves ticket 13037.
22068 o Minor features (controller):
22069 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
22070 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
22072 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
22073 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
22074 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
22075 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
22076 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
22077 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
22079 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
22080 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
22081 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
22082 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
22083 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
22084 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
22085 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
22086 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
22087 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
22088 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
22090 o Minor features (geoip):
22091 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
22092 GeoLite2 Country database.
22094 o Minor features (guard nodes):
22095 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
22096 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
22097 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
22099 o Minor features (hidden service):
22100 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
22101 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
22102 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
22103 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
22104 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
22105 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
22106 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
22107 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
22109 o Minor features (interface):
22110 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
22111 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
22112 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
22114 o Minor features (logging):
22115 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
22116 Resolves ticket 6852.
22117 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
22118 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
22119 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
22121 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
22122 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
22124 o Minor features (stability):
22125 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
22126 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
22129 o Minor features (systemd):
22130 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
22131 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
22133 o Minor features (testing networks):
22134 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
22135 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
22136 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
22137 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
22138 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
22139 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
22141 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
22142 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
22143 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
22144 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
22145 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
22147 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
22148 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
22149 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
22150 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
22151 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
22153 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
22154 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
22155 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
22156 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22157 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
22158 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
22159 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
22160 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22162 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
22163 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
22164 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
22165 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22166 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
22167 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22168 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
22169 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
22171 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
22172 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
22173 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
22176 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
22177 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
22178 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
22179 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
22180 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
22182 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
22183 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
22184 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
22185 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
22186 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22188 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22189 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
22190 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
22191 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
22192 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
22193 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
22194 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
22195 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
22196 Addresses ticket 14188.
22197 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
22198 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
22199 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
22200 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
22201 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
22202 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
22203 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
22204 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
22205 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22207 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22208 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
22209 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
22210 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
22211 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
22212 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22213 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
22214 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22216 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
22217 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
22218 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
22219 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
22220 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
22221 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
22222 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
22223 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22224 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
22225 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22226 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
22227 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
22228 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22230 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
22231 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
22232 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
22233 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
22234 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
22235 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
22236 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
22237 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
22238 state, and key files.
22239 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
22240 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
22243 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22244 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
22245 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
22246 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
22247 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22248 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
22249 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
22250 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22251 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
22252 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
22253 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22255 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22256 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
22257 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22258 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
22260 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
22261 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
22263 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
22264 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
22265 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
22266 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
22267 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
22268 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22270 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
22271 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
22272 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
22273 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22274 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
22275 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
22276 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22277 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
22278 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
22279 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22281 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
22282 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
22283 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
22285 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
22286 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
22288 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
22289 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
22290 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
22291 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
22292 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22294 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
22295 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
22296 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
22297 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
22300 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
22301 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
22302 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
22305 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
22306 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
22307 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22309 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
22310 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
22311 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
22312 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
22313 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
22314 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
22315 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
22317 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
22318 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
22321 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
22322 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
22323 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
22325 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
22326 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
22327 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
22330 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22331 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
22332 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
22333 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
22334 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
22335 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
22336 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
22337 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
22338 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
22340 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
22341 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
22343 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
22347 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
22348 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
22349 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
22350 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
22351 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
22352 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
22354 o Downgraded warnings:
22355 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
22356 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
22358 o Removed features:
22359 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
22360 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
22361 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
22362 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
22363 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
22367 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
22368 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22369 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
22370 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
22371 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
22372 (existing behavior).
22373 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
22374 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
22375 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
22376 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
22377 Closes ticket 14107.
22378 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
22379 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22380 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
22381 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
22383 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
22384 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
22385 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22388 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
22389 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
22390 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
22391 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
22392 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
22393 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
22395 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
22396 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
22397 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
22398 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
22400 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
22401 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
22402 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
22403 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
22404 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
22405 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
22407 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
22408 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
22409 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
22410 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
22411 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
22412 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
22413 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
22416 o Major features (hidden services):
22417 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
22418 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
22419 Closes ticket 13667.
22420 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
22421 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
22422 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
22423 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
22424 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
22425 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
22426 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
22427 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
22428 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
22429 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
22430 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
22432 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
22433 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
22434 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
22435 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
22436 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
22437 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
22440 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22441 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
22442 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
22443 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
22444 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
22445 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
22447 o Directory authority changes:
22448 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
22449 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
22450 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
22452 o Major removed features:
22453 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
22454 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
22455 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
22456 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
22458 o Minor features (client):
22459 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
22460 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
22461 Resolves ticket 13315.
22463 o Minor features (controller):
22464 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
22465 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
22468 o Minor features (geoip):
22469 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22472 o Minor features (hidden services):
22473 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
22474 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
22475 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
22476 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
22477 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
22478 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
22480 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
22481 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
22482 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
22484 o Minor features (systemd):
22485 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
22486 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
22487 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
22488 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
22490 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
22491 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
22492 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
22493 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
22494 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
22497 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
22498 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
22499 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
22500 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
22501 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
22503 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
22504 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
22505 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
22508 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
22509 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
22510 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
22511 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
22512 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
22514 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
22515 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
22516 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22518 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22519 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
22520 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
22521 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
22522 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
22524 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
22525 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
22528 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22529 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
22530 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
22531 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
22532 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
22533 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
22534 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
22535 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
22536 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
22537 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
22538 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
22539 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
22540 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
22541 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
22544 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
22545 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
22546 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
22547 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
22548 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
22549 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
22551 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22552 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
22553 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
22554 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
22556 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
22557 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22559 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
22560 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
22561 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
22562 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
22565 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
22566 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
22567 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
22568 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
22569 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
22570 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
22572 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
22573 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
22574 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
22575 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
22576 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22577 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
22578 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
22579 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
22580 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
22581 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
22582 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
22583 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
22584 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
22585 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
22586 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
22587 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
22588 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
22589 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
22590 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
22591 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22592 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
22593 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
22594 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
22595 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
22596 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
22597 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
22598 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
22599 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22600 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
22601 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
22602 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
22603 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
22605 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
22606 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
22607 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
22608 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
22609 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22611 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22612 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
22613 with a function instead.
22614 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
22615 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
22616 Closes ticket 13172.
22617 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
22618 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
22619 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
22620 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
22621 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
22622 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
22623 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
22624 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
22625 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
22626 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
22627 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
22628 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
22632 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
22633 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
22634 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
22635 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
22636 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
22637 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
22638 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
22639 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
22640 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
22641 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
22642 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
22643 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
22646 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
22647 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
22648 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
22649 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
22650 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
22651 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
22653 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
22657 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
22658 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
22659 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
22660 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
22661 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
22662 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
22663 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
22664 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
22665 of introducing infinite download loops.
22667 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
22668 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
22669 with 0.2.5.x for now.
22671 o New compiler and system requirements:
22672 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
22673 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
22674 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
22675 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
22677 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
22678 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
22679 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
22680 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
22681 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
22682 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
22683 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
22684 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
22685 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
22687 o Removed platform support:
22688 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
22689 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
22690 Closes ticket 11446.
22692 o Major features (bridges):
22693 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
22694 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
22695 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
22698 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
22699 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
22700 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
22701 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
22704 o Major features (directory system):
22705 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
22706 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
22707 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
22708 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
22710 o Major features (sample torrc):
22711 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
22712 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
22713 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
22714 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
22715 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
22716 generally useful "sample torrc".
22718 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22719 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
22720 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22722 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
22723 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
22724 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
22725 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
22726 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22728 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
22729 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
22730 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
22731 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
22733 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
22734 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
22735 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
22736 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
22737 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
22738 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
22741 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
22742 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
22743 document. Implements feature 10427.
22745 o Minor features (client):
22746 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
22747 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
22748 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
22749 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
22751 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22752 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
22753 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
22754 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
22755 argument more than once.
22756 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
22757 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
22758 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
22759 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
22760 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
22761 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
22763 o Minor features (logging):
22764 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
22765 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
22766 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
22767 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
22768 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
22769 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
22770 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
22771 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
22772 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
22774 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
22775 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
22776 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
22777 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
22779 o Minor features (relay):
22780 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
22781 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
22782 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
22784 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
22785 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
22786 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
22787 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
22789 o Minor features (testing networks):
22790 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
22791 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
22792 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
22793 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
22794 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
22797 o Minor features (validation):
22798 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
22799 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
22800 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
22801 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
22802 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
22803 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
22804 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
22805 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
22807 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
22808 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
22809 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
22810 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22812 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22813 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
22814 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
22815 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22817 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
22818 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
22819 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
22821 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
22822 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
22823 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
22825 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
22826 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22827 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
22828 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
22829 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22830 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
22831 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22833 o Minor bugfixes (client):
22834 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
22835 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
22836 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22837 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
22838 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22839 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
22840 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
22841 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
22843 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
22844 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
22845 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
22846 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
22847 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
22849 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
22850 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
22851 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
22853 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22854 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
22855 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
22856 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
22857 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
22859 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
22860 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
22861 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
22862 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22863 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
22864 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
22865 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22866 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
22867 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
22868 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
22869 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
22872 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
22873 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
22874 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
22875 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
22876 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22878 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
22879 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
22880 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22881 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
22882 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
22885 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
22886 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
22887 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22888 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
22889 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
22890 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22892 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22893 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
22894 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
22895 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22897 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
22898 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
22899 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
22900 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22902 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
22903 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
22904 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
22905 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
22908 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
22909 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
22910 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22913 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
22914 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22915 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
22916 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
22917 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
22920 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22921 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
22922 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
22924 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
22925 Resolves ticket 12205.
22926 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
22927 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
22928 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
22929 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
22931 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
22932 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
22933 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
22935 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
22936 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
22938 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
22939 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
22940 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
22941 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
22942 or_options_t structure.
22945 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
22946 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
22947 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
22948 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
22951 o Removed features:
22952 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
22953 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
22954 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
22955 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
22956 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
22957 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
22958 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
22959 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
22960 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
22962 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
22963 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
22965 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
22966 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
22967 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
22968 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
22969 anymore, and ignore it.
22972 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
22973 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
22974 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
22975 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
22976 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
22977 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
22978 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
22979 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
22980 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
22981 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
22982 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
22983 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
22985 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
22986 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
22987 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
22989 o Distribution (systemd):
22990 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
22991 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
22992 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
22993 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
22994 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
22996 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
22997 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
22999 o Removed features (directory authorities):
23000 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
23001 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
23002 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
23003 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
23004 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
23005 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
23006 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
23007 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
23008 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
23010 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
23011 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
23012 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
23013 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
23016 o Testing (test-network.sh):
23017 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
23018 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
23020 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
23022 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
23023 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
23024 Partially implements ticket 13161.
23027 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
23028 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
23030 It adds several new security features, including improved
23031 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
23032 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
23033 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
23034 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
23035 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
23036 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
23037 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
23038 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
23039 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
23040 and features mentioned below.
23042 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
23043 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
23045 o Deprecated versions:
23046 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
23047 attention for some while.
23050 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
23051 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
23052 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
23053 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
23054 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
23055 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
23057 o Major security fixes:
23058 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
23059 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
23060 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
23062 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
23063 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
23064 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
23065 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
23068 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
23069 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
23070 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
23071 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23073 o Compilation fixes:
23074 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
23075 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
23076 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
23078 o Downgraded warnings:
23079 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
23080 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
23083 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
23084 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
23085 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
23086 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
23087 (which does affect Tor).
23089 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
23090 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
23091 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
23092 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
23094 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
23095 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
23096 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
23097 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
23100 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
23101 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
23102 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
23103 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
23104 the directory authorities.
23107 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
23108 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
23109 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
23110 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
23111 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
23112 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
23113 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
23114 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
23115 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
23116 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
23117 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
23118 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23120 o Directory authority changes:
23121 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23124 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
23125 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
23126 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
23127 the directory authorities.
23130 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
23131 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
23132 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
23133 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
23134 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
23135 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
23136 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
23137 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
23138 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
23139 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
23140 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
23141 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23143 o Directory authority changes:
23144 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23146 o Minor features (geoip):
23147 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23151 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
23152 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
23153 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
23154 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
23155 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
23157 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
23158 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
23159 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
23160 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
23161 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
23162 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
23163 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
23164 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
23165 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
23166 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
23167 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
23168 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
23169 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
23170 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23171 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
23172 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
23174 o Major bugfixes (relay):
23175 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
23176 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
23177 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
23178 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
23179 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
23180 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
23181 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23183 o Minor features (bridge):
23184 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
23185 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
23187 o Minor features (geoip):
23188 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23191 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
23192 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
23193 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
23194 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
23195 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
23196 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
23197 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23198 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
23199 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
23200 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
23201 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
23202 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
23203 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
23204 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
23205 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
23207 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
23208 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
23209 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
23210 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
23211 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
23213 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23214 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
23215 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23216 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
23217 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
23220 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23221 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
23222 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
23223 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
23224 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
23225 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
23226 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
23227 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
23228 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
23229 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
23230 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
23233 o Distribution (systemd):
23234 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
23235 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
23236 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
23237 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
23238 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
23239 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
23240 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
23241 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
23242 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
23246 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
23247 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
23249 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
23253 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
23254 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
23255 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
23256 us closer to a release candidate.
23258 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
23259 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
23260 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
23261 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
23262 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
23264 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
23265 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
23266 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
23267 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
23268 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
23269 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
23270 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
23271 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
23272 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
23276 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
23277 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
23278 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
23279 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
23280 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
23281 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
23282 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
23283 to build circuits".
23286 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
23287 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
23288 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
23289 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
23290 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
23291 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
23292 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
23293 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23295 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
23297 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
23298 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
23299 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
23300 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
23301 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
23302 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
23303 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
23304 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
23305 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
23306 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23309 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
23310 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
23311 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
23312 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
23314 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
23315 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
23316 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
23319 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
23320 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
23321 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
23322 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
23325 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
23326 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
23327 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
23328 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
23329 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
23330 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
23331 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
23332 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
23333 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
23334 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
23337 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
23338 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
23339 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
23340 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
23341 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
23342 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
23343 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
23344 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
23348 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
23349 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
23350 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
23351 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
23352 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
23353 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
23354 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
23355 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
23356 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23357 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
23358 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
23359 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
23360 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
23363 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23367 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
23368 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
23369 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
23370 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
23371 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
23372 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
23375 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
23376 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
23377 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
23378 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
23379 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
23380 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
23381 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
23382 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
23383 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
23384 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
23385 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
23386 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
23387 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23389 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
23390 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
23391 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
23392 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
23395 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
23396 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
23397 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
23399 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
23400 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
23401 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
23402 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
23403 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
23404 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
23405 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
23406 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
23407 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
23408 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
23409 router's identity is not forgeable.
23411 o Major bugfixes (relay):
23412 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
23413 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
23414 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
23415 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
23416 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
23417 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
23418 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
23419 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
23420 bugfix on every version of Tor.
23422 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
23423 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
23424 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
23425 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
23428 o Minor features (diagnostic):
23429 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
23430 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
23431 help diagnose bug 7164.
23432 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
23433 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
23434 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
23435 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
23436 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
23438 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
23439 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
23440 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
23441 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
23442 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
23443 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
23444 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
23446 o Minor features (security, memory management):
23447 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
23448 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
23449 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
23450 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
23451 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
23452 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
23454 o Minor features (security):
23455 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
23456 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
23457 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
23458 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
23460 o Minor features (build):
23461 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
23462 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
23463 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
23465 o Minor features (other):
23466 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23469 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
23470 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
23471 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
23472 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
23473 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23475 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
23476 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
23477 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
23478 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
23479 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
23480 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
23481 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
23482 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
23483 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23484 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
23485 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
23486 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
23488 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23489 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
23490 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23491 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
23492 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
23493 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
23494 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
23495 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
23496 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
23497 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
23498 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23499 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
23500 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
23501 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
23502 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
23503 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
23504 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
23505 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
23508 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
23509 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
23510 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
23511 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
23512 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
23513 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
23514 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
23516 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
23517 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
23518 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23519 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
23520 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23521 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
23522 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23523 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
23524 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
23526 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
23527 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
23529 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
23530 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
23532 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
23533 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
23534 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
23535 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
23536 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
23537 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23538 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
23539 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
23540 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
23542 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
23543 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
23544 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
23545 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
23546 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
23547 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23548 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
23549 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
23550 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23551 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
23552 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
23553 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23554 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
23555 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
23556 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
23557 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
23558 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
23559 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23561 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
23562 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
23563 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
23564 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
23565 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
23566 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23567 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
23568 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
23569 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
23572 o Minor bugfixes (client):
23573 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
23574 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
23575 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
23576 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23578 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
23579 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
23580 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
23581 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
23583 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
23584 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
23585 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
23586 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23587 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
23588 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
23589 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
23590 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
23592 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
23593 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
23594 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
23595 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
23598 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
23599 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
23600 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
23601 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
23602 versions. Found by "skruffy".
23603 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
23604 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
23605 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
23608 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
23609 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
23610 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
23611 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
23614 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
23615 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
23616 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
23617 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
23619 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
23620 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
23621 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
23623 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
23624 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
23625 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23627 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
23628 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
23629 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23630 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
23631 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
23635 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
23636 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
23637 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
23638 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
23641 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
23642 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
23643 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
23644 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
23646 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
23647 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
23649 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
23650 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
23651 caches don't get confused.
23654 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
23655 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
23656 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
23657 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
23658 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
23661 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
23662 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
23663 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
23664 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
23665 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
23666 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
23670 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
23671 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
23672 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
23673 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
23674 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
23675 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
23676 of RAM, and several others.
23678 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23679 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
23680 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
23681 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
23682 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
23684 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
23685 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
23686 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
23687 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
23690 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23691 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
23692 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
23693 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
23694 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
23695 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
23696 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23697 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
23698 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
23699 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
23700 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
23701 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
23702 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
23703 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
23704 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
23705 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
23706 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
23707 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
23708 Resolves ticket 11438.
23710 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
23711 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
23712 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
23713 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
23714 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
23715 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23717 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23718 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
23719 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23721 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23722 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
23723 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23725 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23726 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
23727 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
23728 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23730 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23731 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
23732 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
23734 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23735 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
23736 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23739 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
23740 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
23741 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
23742 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
23745 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23746 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
23747 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
23748 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
23750 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23751 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
23752 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
23753 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
23755 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23756 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
23757 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
23761 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
23762 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
23763 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
23764 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
23765 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
23766 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
23767 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
23768 the Linux sandbox code.
23770 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
23771 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
23772 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
23774 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
23775 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
23777 o Major features (security):
23778 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
23779 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
23780 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
23781 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
23782 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
23783 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
23784 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
23785 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
23787 o Major features (relay performance):
23788 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
23789 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
23790 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
23791 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
23792 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
23793 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
23794 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
23795 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
23796 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
23797 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
23799 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
23800 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
23801 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
23802 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
23803 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
23804 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
23805 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
23807 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
23808 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
23810 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
23811 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
23812 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
23813 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
23814 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
23815 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
23816 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23817 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
23818 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
23819 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
23820 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
23821 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
23822 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
23823 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
23824 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
23825 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
23826 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
23827 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
23828 Resolves ticket 11438.
23830 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
23831 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
23832 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
23833 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23835 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
23836 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
23837 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
23838 10267; patch from "yurivict".
23839 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
23840 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
23841 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
23842 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
23843 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
23844 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
23846 o Minor features (security):
23847 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
23848 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
23849 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
23850 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
23853 o Minor features (log verbosity):
23854 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
23855 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
23856 Resolves ticket 5286.
23857 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
23858 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
23859 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
23860 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
23861 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
23862 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
23863 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
23864 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
23865 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
23867 o Minor features (relay):
23868 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
23869 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
23870 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
23872 o Minor features (controller):
23873 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
23874 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
23876 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
23877 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
23878 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
23880 o Minor features (bridge client):
23881 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
23882 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
23883 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
23885 o Minor features (diagnostic):
23886 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
23887 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
23888 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
23889 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
23890 still referenced by a live node_t object.
23892 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
23893 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
23894 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
23895 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
23897 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
23898 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
23899 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
23900 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
23903 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
23904 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
23905 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23907 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
23908 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
23909 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
23910 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23911 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
23912 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
23913 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23915 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
23916 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
23917 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
23918 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23919 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
23920 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
23921 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23922 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
23923 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
23924 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
23925 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23926 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
23927 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
23930 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
23931 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
23932 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
23933 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
23934 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
23936 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
23937 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
23938 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
23941 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23942 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
23943 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23945 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
23946 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
23947 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23949 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23950 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
23951 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
23952 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23954 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
23955 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
23956 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23957 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
23958 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
23960 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
23961 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
23962 early. Fixes bug 10081.
23964 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
23965 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
23966 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23967 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
23968 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23969 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
23970 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
23971 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
23973 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
23974 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
23975 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
23976 should never have affected anyone in practice.
23978 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
23979 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
23980 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23982 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
23983 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
23984 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
23985 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
23986 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
23987 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
23988 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
23989 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
23990 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
23991 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
23992 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
23993 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
23994 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
23995 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
23997 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
23998 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
23999 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
24000 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
24001 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
24002 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
24003 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
24004 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
24008 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
24009 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
24010 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
24011 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24012 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
24013 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24014 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
24015 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
24017 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
24019 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24020 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
24021 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
24022 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
24023 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
24026 o Deprecated versions:
24027 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
24028 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
24029 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
24030 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
24033 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
24034 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
24035 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
24036 Patch from Dana Koch.
24039 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
24040 Resolves ticket 11070.
24043 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
24044 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
24045 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
24046 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
24047 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
24050 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
24051 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
24053 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
24054 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
24055 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
24056 streams attached to each circuit.
24058 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
24059 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
24060 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
24061 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
24062 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
24063 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
24064 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
24065 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
24066 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
24067 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
24068 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
24069 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
24070 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
24072 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
24073 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
24074 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
24076 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
24077 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
24078 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
24079 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
24080 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
24081 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
24082 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
24083 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
24084 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
24086 o Minor features (other):
24087 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
24088 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
24089 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
24090 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
24091 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
24092 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
24093 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
24094 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
24095 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
24098 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
24099 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
24100 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
24101 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
24102 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
24103 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
24104 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
24105 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24107 o Minor bugfixes (client):
24108 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
24109 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
24110 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
24111 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24112 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
24113 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
24114 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
24116 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
24117 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
24118 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
24119 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
24120 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
24121 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
24122 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
24123 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
24124 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24125 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
24126 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
24127 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24129 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
24130 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
24131 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
24132 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
24133 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
24134 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
24135 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
24136 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
24137 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24138 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
24139 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
24140 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
24141 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
24142 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
24144 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
24145 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
24147 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
24148 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
24149 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
24150 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
24151 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
24152 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
24153 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
24154 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
24155 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
24156 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
24157 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
24158 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
24159 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
24160 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
24162 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
24163 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
24164 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
24165 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24168 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
24169 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24170 the rest of bug 10841.
24173 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
24174 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
24175 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
24176 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
24177 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
24178 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
24179 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
24180 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
24181 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
24182 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
24183 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
24184 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24185 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
24186 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
24187 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24189 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24190 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
24191 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
24193 o Test infrastructure:
24194 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
24195 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
24196 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
24197 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
24200 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
24201 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
24202 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
24203 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
24205 o Major features (client security):
24206 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
24207 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
24208 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
24209 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
24210 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
24211 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
24214 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
24215 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
24216 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
24217 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24219 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24220 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
24221 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
24222 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
24223 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
24226 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
24227 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
24229 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
24230 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
24231 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
24232 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
24233 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
24234 GeoLite2 Country database.
24237 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
24238 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
24239 bugfix on every released Tor.
24240 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
24241 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
24242 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
24243 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24244 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
24245 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
24246 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24247 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
24248 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
24249 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24250 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
24251 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
24252 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24253 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
24254 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24256 o Documentation fixes:
24257 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
24258 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24261 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
24262 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
24263 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
24264 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
24265 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
24266 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
24267 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
24268 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
24270 o Major features (client security):
24271 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
24272 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
24273 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
24274 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
24275 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
24276 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
24277 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
24278 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
24279 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
24280 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
24281 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
24282 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
24284 o Major features (bridges):
24285 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
24286 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
24287 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
24288 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
24289 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
24290 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
24291 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
24292 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
24295 o Major features (other):
24296 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
24297 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
24298 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
24299 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
24300 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
24301 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
24302 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
24303 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
24304 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
24305 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
24306 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
24307 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
24310 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
24311 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
24312 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24313 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
24314 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
24315 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
24316 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24318 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
24319 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
24320 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
24321 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
24322 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
24323 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
24324 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24325 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
24326 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
24328 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
24329 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24330 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
24331 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
24332 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
24333 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24335 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24336 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
24337 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
24338 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24339 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
24340 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
24343 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
24344 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
24345 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
24346 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
24347 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
24348 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
24349 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
24351 o Minor features (security):
24352 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
24353 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
24356 o Minor features (config options and command line):
24357 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
24358 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
24359 Implements ticket 10060.
24360 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
24361 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
24362 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
24364 o Minor features (controller):
24365 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
24366 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
24367 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
24368 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
24369 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
24372 o Minor features (build):
24373 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
24374 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
24375 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
24376 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
24377 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
24378 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
24379 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
24381 o Minor features (testing):
24382 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
24383 the unit test scripts.
24384 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
24385 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
24386 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
24387 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
24389 o Minor features (log messages):
24390 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
24391 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
24392 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
24393 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
24394 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
24395 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
24396 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
24397 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
24398 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
24399 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24401 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24402 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
24403 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
24404 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
24405 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
24406 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
24407 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
24408 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
24409 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
24410 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24412 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24413 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
24414 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
24415 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
24418 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24419 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
24420 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
24421 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
24422 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24424 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24425 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
24426 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
24427 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
24428 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
24429 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
24430 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
24432 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
24433 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
24434 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
24435 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
24436 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
24437 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
24438 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24439 Reported by "mr-4".
24440 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
24441 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
24442 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
24443 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24445 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
24446 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
24447 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
24448 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
24449 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
24450 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
24451 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
24452 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
24453 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
24454 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
24455 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24457 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24458 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
24459 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
24460 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
24461 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
24462 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
24463 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
24464 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
24465 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
24466 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
24468 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24469 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
24470 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
24471 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
24474 o Minor bugfixes (build):
24475 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
24476 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
24477 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
24478 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
24479 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
24481 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
24482 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24484 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
24485 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
24486 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
24487 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24489 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24490 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
24491 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
24492 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24493 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
24494 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
24495 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
24496 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24497 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
24498 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
24499 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
24500 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
24501 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
24502 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
24504 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
24505 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
24506 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24507 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
24508 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
24509 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
24511 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24512 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
24513 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24514 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
24515 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
24516 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
24517 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
24518 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
24519 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
24520 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24521 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
24522 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24524 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24525 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
24526 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
24527 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
24528 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
24529 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24530 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
24531 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
24532 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24533 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
24534 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
24535 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
24536 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
24537 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
24538 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
24539 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
24542 o Removed code and features:
24543 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
24544 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
24545 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
24546 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
24547 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
24548 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
24550 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
24551 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
24552 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
24553 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
24554 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
24555 part of a fix for bug 10841.
24557 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24558 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
24559 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
24560 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
24561 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
24562 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
24563 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
24564 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
24565 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
24566 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
24567 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
24570 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
24571 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
24572 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
24573 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
24574 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24576 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24577 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
24578 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
24579 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
24580 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
24581 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
24582 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
24585 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
24586 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
24587 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
24590 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
24591 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
24592 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
24593 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
24594 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
24595 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
24596 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
24598 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
24599 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
24602 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
24603 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
24604 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
24605 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
24606 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
24607 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24608 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
24609 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
24611 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
24612 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24613 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
24614 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
24615 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
24616 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24619 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
24620 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24621 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
24622 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
24623 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
24626 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
24627 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
24628 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
24629 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
24630 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
24631 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
24632 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
24633 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
24635 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
24636 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
24637 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
24638 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
24639 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
24640 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
24641 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
24642 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
24643 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
24644 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
24645 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
24646 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
24647 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
24648 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
24649 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
24650 security, and privacy fixes.
24653 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
24654 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24655 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
24656 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
24659 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
24660 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
24661 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
24662 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
24663 them to solve bug 6033.)
24666 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
24667 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
24668 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24669 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
24670 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
24671 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24672 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
24673 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
24675 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
24676 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
24677 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
24678 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24680 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
24681 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
24682 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24683 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
24684 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
24685 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
24686 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
24687 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
24688 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
24689 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24690 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
24691 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24693 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
24694 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
24695 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
24696 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
24697 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
24698 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24699 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
24700 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
24701 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24702 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
24703 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
24704 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
24705 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
24706 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
24707 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
24708 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
24711 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
24712 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
24713 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
24714 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
24715 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
24716 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
24717 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
24718 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
24719 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
24720 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
24721 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
24722 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
24723 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
24724 Implements part of proposal 222.
24726 o Minor features (other):
24727 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
24728 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
24729 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
24730 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
24731 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
24732 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
24733 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
24734 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
24735 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24737 o Documentation fixes:
24738 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
24739 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
24740 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
24741 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
24742 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
24743 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
24746 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
24747 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
24748 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
24749 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
24750 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
24751 release of the new branch.
24753 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
24754 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
24755 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
24757 o Major features (security):
24758 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
24759 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
24760 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
24761 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
24762 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
24763 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
24764 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
24765 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
24766 Google Summer of Code.
24767 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
24768 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
24769 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
24770 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
24771 them to solve bug 6033.)
24773 o Major features (other):
24774 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
24775 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
24776 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
24777 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
24778 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
24780 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
24781 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
24782 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
24783 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
24784 Implements ticket 8530.
24785 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
24786 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
24789 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
24790 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
24791 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
24792 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
24793 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
24794 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24795 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
24796 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
24797 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24798 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
24799 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
24800 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
24801 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24804 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
24805 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
24806 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
24807 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
24808 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
24809 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
24810 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
24811 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
24812 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
24813 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
24817 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
24818 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
24819 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
24820 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
24821 invoking the other functions it calls.
24822 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
24823 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
24824 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
24825 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
24827 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
24828 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
24829 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
24830 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
24831 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
24832 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
24833 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
24834 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
24835 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
24836 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
24837 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
24838 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
24839 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
24840 Implements part of proposal 222.
24842 o Minor features (config options):
24843 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
24844 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
24845 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
24846 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
24847 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
24848 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
24849 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
24850 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
24851 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
24852 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
24853 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
24854 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
24855 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
24856 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
24857 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
24858 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
24859 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
24862 o Minor features (build):
24863 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
24864 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
24865 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
24866 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
24867 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
24870 o Minor features (other):
24871 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
24872 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
24873 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
24874 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
24875 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
24876 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
24877 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
24878 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
24879 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
24880 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
24881 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
24882 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
24883 Closes ticket 8109.
24884 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24887 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
24888 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
24889 bugfix on every released Tor.
24890 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
24891 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
24892 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
24893 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
24894 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
24895 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
24897 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
24898 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
24899 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
24900 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24901 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
24902 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
24903 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
24904 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24906 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
24907 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
24908 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
24909 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
24910 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
24912 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
24913 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24915 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
24916 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
24917 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
24919 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
24920 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
24921 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
24922 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
24923 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24925 o Minor code improvements:
24926 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
24927 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
24929 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
24930 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
24931 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
24932 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
24933 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
24935 o Removed features:
24936 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
24937 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
24938 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
24939 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
24941 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24942 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
24943 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
24944 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
24945 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
24946 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
24947 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
24948 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
24949 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
24950 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
24951 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
24952 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
24953 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
24954 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
24955 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
24956 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
24959 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
24960 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24961 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
24962 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
24963 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
24964 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
24965 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
24968 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
24969 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
24970 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
24971 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
24972 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
24973 Implements ticket 9574.
24976 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
24977 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
24978 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24979 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
24980 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
24981 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
24982 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
24983 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
24984 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24985 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
24986 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
24987 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
24991 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
24992 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
24993 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
24994 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
24996 o Minor fixes (config options):
24997 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
24998 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
24999 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
25000 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
25001 message is logged at notice, not at info.
25002 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
25003 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
25004 or we just won't work.)
25007 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
25008 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
25009 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
25010 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25013 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
25014 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
25015 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
25018 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
25019 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
25020 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25021 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
25022 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25023 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
25024 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
25026 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
25027 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25028 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
25029 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
25032 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
25033 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
25034 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25035 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
25036 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
25037 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
25038 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
25039 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
25040 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
25041 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
25042 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25043 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
25044 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
25047 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25050 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
25051 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
25052 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
25053 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
25056 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
25057 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
25058 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25061 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
25062 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
25063 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
25066 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
25067 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
25068 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
25071 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
25072 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
25073 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
25074 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
25075 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
25076 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
25078 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
25079 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
25080 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
25081 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
25082 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
25083 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
25085 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
25086 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
25087 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25090 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
25091 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
25092 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
25093 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
25094 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
25096 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
25097 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
25098 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
25099 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
25100 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
25101 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
25102 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
25104 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
25105 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
25106 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
25108 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
25109 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
25113 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
25114 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
25115 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
25117 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
25118 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
25119 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
25120 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
25121 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
25122 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
25124 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
25125 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
25126 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
25127 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
25128 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
25129 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
25130 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
25133 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
25134 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
25135 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
25136 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
25137 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
25138 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
25139 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25140 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
25141 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25142 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
25143 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
25144 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25145 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
25146 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
25148 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
25149 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
25150 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
25151 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
25154 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25155 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
25156 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
25157 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
25158 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
25159 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
25161 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
25162 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
25166 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
25167 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
25168 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
25169 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
25170 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
25171 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
25172 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25174 o Removed documentation:
25175 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
25176 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
25178 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25179 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
25180 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
25181 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
25184 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
25185 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
25186 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
25187 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
25188 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
25189 variety of other issues.
25192 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
25193 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
25194 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
25195 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
25196 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
25197 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25198 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
25199 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
25201 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
25202 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
25203 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
25205 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
25206 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
25207 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
25208 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25209 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
25210 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
25211 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25213 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
25214 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
25215 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
25216 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
25217 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
25218 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
25219 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
25220 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25221 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
25222 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
25223 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
25224 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
25225 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25226 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
25227 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
25228 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
25229 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
25230 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
25231 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
25232 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
25233 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25235 o Major bugfixes (other):
25236 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
25237 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
25238 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
25239 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25242 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
25243 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
25244 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
25245 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
25247 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
25248 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
25250 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25252 o Minor features (build):
25253 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
25254 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
25256 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
25257 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
25259 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
25260 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
25261 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
25264 o Minor bugfixes (build):
25265 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
25266 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
25267 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25268 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
25269 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
25270 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25271 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
25272 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
25273 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25274 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
25275 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
25276 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
25277 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
25280 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
25281 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
25282 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
25283 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
25284 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
25285 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
25286 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
25287 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
25288 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
25289 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
25290 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
25291 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
25292 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
25293 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25294 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25296 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25297 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
25298 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25299 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
25300 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
25301 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
25302 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
25303 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25304 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
25305 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
25306 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
25307 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
25308 Should help resolve bug 8235.
25309 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
25310 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
25311 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
25312 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25314 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
25315 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
25316 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
25317 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
25318 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
25319 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
25320 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
25321 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
25324 o Minor bugfixes (config):
25325 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
25326 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
25328 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
25329 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
25330 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25331 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
25332 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
25333 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
25334 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25335 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
25336 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
25337 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
25338 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
25339 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
25340 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25341 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
25342 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
25345 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
25346 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
25347 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
25348 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
25349 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
25350 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
25351 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
25352 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
25354 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
25355 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
25356 or at least make it more diagnosable.
25357 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
25358 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
25359 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
25360 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25362 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
25363 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
25364 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
25365 the relaxed timeout log message.
25366 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
25367 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
25368 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
25370 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
25371 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
25372 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25373 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
25374 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25375 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
25376 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
25379 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
25380 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
25381 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
25382 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
25383 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25384 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
25385 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25386 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
25387 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
25388 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
25389 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
25390 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
25391 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25392 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
25393 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
25394 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
25395 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25397 o Documentation fixes:
25398 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
25399 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
25400 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
25401 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
25402 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
25403 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
25404 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
25405 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
25408 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
25409 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
25413 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
25414 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
25415 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
25416 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
25418 o Major features (directory authorities):
25419 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
25420 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
25421 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
25422 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
25423 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
25424 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
25425 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
25426 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
25427 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
25428 Implements ticket 8151.
25430 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
25431 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
25432 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
25433 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
25434 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
25436 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25437 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
25438 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
25439 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
25440 whether authentication information is present, causing all
25441 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
25442 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
25444 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
25445 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
25446 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
25447 bugs 1913 and 1992.
25448 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
25449 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
25450 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
25451 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
25452 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
25453 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
25454 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
25455 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
25456 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
25457 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
25458 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
25459 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
25460 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
25461 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
25462 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
25463 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
25464 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
25465 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
25468 o Minor features (portability):
25469 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
25470 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25471 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
25472 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
25473 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
25474 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
25475 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
25476 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25478 o Minor features (other):
25479 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
25480 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
25481 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
25482 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
25483 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
25484 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
25485 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
25486 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
25488 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25490 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25491 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
25492 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
25493 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
25494 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
25495 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25496 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
25497 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
25498 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
25499 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
25501 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
25502 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
25503 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
25504 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25506 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25507 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
25508 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
25509 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
25510 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
25511 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
25512 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
25514 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
25515 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
25516 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
25517 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
25518 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
25520 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
25521 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
25522 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
25523 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
25525 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25526 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
25527 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
25530 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
25531 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
25532 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25533 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
25535 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
25536 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25537 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
25538 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25540 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
25541 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
25542 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
25543 this is CID 718634.
25544 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
25545 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
25546 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
25547 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
25549 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
25550 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
25551 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25552 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
25553 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
25554 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
25555 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25557 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25558 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
25562 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
25563 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
25564 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
25565 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
25566 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
25569 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
25570 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
25571 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
25572 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
25574 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
25575 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
25576 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
25580 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
25581 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
25582 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
25583 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
25584 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
25585 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
25586 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
25587 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
25588 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
25589 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25590 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
25591 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
25592 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
25595 o Major features (relay):
25596 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
25597 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
25598 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
25599 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
25600 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
25601 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
25602 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
25604 o Major features (portability):
25605 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
25606 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
25607 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
25608 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
25609 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25612 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
25613 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
25614 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
25615 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
25616 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
25617 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
25619 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
25620 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
25621 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
25622 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
25623 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
25624 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
25625 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
25626 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
25628 o Minor features (path selection):
25629 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
25630 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
25631 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
25632 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
25633 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
25634 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
25635 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
25636 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
25637 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
25638 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
25639 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
25640 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
25641 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
25642 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
25643 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
25644 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
25645 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
25646 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
25647 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
25649 o Minor features (log messages):
25650 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
25651 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
25652 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
25653 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
25656 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
25657 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
25658 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25659 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
25660 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
25661 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
25662 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
25663 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
25664 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
25665 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25666 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
25667 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25669 o Build improvements:
25670 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
25671 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
25672 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
25673 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
25674 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
25675 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
25676 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
25677 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
25678 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
25679 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
25680 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
25681 than to perform erroneously.
25683 o Removed features:
25684 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
25685 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
25686 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
25688 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
25689 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
25690 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
25693 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25694 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
25696 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
25697 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
25701 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
25702 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
25703 work more robustly.
25706 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
25707 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
25708 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
25712 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
25713 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
25714 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
25715 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
25718 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
25719 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
25720 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
25721 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
25722 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
25723 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
25724 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
25725 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
25726 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
25727 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
25728 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
25729 closes ticket 7199.
25731 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
25732 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
25733 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
25734 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
25735 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
25736 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
25737 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
25738 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
25739 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
25740 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
25741 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
25743 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
25744 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
25745 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
25747 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
25748 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
25749 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
25751 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
25753 o Major features (better link encryption):
25754 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
25755 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
25756 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
25757 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
25758 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
25759 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
25762 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
25763 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
25764 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
25765 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
25766 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
25767 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
25768 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
25770 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
25771 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
25772 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
25773 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
25775 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
25778 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
25779 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
25780 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25783 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
25784 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
25785 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
25786 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
25787 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
25788 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
25789 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
25790 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25791 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25793 o Minor features (testing):
25794 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
25795 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
25796 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
25798 o Minor features (path bias detection):
25799 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
25800 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
25801 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
25802 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
25803 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
25804 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
25805 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
25806 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
25807 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
25808 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
25809 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
25810 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
25811 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
25812 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
25813 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
25814 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
25815 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
25816 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
25817 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
25818 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
25819 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
25820 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
25821 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
25822 detection capability loss.
25824 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25825 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
25826 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
25827 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
25828 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25829 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
25830 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
25831 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
25834 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25835 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
25836 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
25837 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
25838 and the different handshakes it supports.
25839 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
25840 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
25841 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
25842 any encoding is overkill.
25845 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
25846 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
25847 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
25848 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
25849 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
25850 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
25851 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
25852 and fixes a variety of other issues.
25854 o Major features (client resilience):
25855 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
25856 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
25857 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
25858 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
25859 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
25860 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
25861 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
25862 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
25863 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
25864 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
25865 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
25866 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
25867 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
25868 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
25869 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
25871 o Major features (IPv6):
25872 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
25873 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
25874 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
25875 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
25876 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
25877 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
25878 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
25879 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
25881 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
25882 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
25884 o Major features (geoip database):
25885 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
25886 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
25887 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
25888 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
25889 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
25890 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
25891 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
25892 Country database, as modified above.
25894 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
25895 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
25896 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
25897 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
25898 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
25899 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
25900 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
25901 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
25902 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
25903 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
25904 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
25905 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
25906 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
25907 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
25908 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
25909 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
25910 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
25913 o Major bugfixes (other):
25914 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
25915 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
25916 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
25917 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
25918 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
25919 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
25920 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
25921 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
25923 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
25924 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
25927 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
25928 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
25929 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
25930 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
25931 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
25932 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
25933 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
25934 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
25936 o Minor features (IPv6):
25937 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
25938 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
25939 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
25940 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
25941 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
25942 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
25943 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
25944 connect to the wrong addresses.
25945 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
25946 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
25947 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
25948 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
25952 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
25953 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
25954 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
25955 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
25956 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
25957 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
25958 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
25960 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
25961 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
25962 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
25965 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
25966 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
25968 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25969 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
25970 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
25971 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
25972 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
25975 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
25976 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
25977 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
25978 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
25979 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
25980 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
25981 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
25982 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
25984 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
25985 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
25986 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
25987 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
25988 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
25989 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
25990 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
25991 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
25992 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
25993 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
25994 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
25997 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
25998 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
25999 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
26000 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
26001 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
26002 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
26003 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
26004 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
26005 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
26006 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
26009 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
26010 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
26014 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
26015 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
26016 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
26017 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
26020 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
26021 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
26023 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
26024 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
26025 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
26026 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
26027 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
26028 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
26029 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
26030 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
26031 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
26032 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
26035 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
26037 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
26038 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
26039 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
26040 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
26041 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
26044 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
26045 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
26046 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26047 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
26048 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
26050 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
26051 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26052 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
26053 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
26054 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
26055 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
26056 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
26058 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
26059 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
26060 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
26061 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
26062 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
26063 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
26064 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
26065 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
26067 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26068 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
26069 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
26070 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
26071 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
26072 present the same extensions.)
26075 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
26076 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
26077 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
26078 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
26079 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
26081 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26082 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
26083 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
26084 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
26086 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
26087 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
26088 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
26089 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26091 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26092 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
26093 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
26094 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
26095 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
26096 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
26097 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
26098 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
26099 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26101 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26102 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
26103 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
26104 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
26105 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26108 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
26109 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
26110 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
26112 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26113 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
26115 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
26116 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
26120 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
26121 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
26122 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
26123 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
26126 o Major bugfixes (security):
26127 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
26128 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
26129 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
26131 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
26132 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
26133 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
26134 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26137 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
26138 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
26139 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
26140 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
26141 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
26142 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
26143 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
26144 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26147 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
26148 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
26149 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
26150 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26153 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
26154 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
26155 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
26156 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
26157 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
26158 scheduling algorithms.
26160 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26161 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
26162 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
26164 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26165 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
26166 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
26167 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
26168 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
26169 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
26170 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
26171 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
26172 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
26173 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
26174 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
26176 o Internal abstraction features:
26177 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
26178 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
26179 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
26180 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
26181 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
26182 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
26183 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
26184 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
26185 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
26186 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
26187 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
26188 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
26189 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
26190 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
26191 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
26192 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
26193 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
26195 o Required libraries:
26196 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
26197 strongly recommended.
26200 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
26201 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
26202 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
26203 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
26204 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
26205 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
26206 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
26207 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
26208 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
26210 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26211 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
26212 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
26213 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
26214 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
26215 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
26216 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
26217 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26218 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
26219 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
26220 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
26221 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
26222 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
26223 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
26224 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
26227 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
26228 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
26229 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
26230 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
26231 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
26232 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
26233 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
26234 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
26235 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
26236 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
26237 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
26238 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26239 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
26240 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
26241 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26242 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
26243 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
26244 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
26245 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
26247 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
26248 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
26249 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
26250 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
26251 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
26252 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
26253 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
26256 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
26257 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
26258 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
26259 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
26261 o New directory authorities:
26262 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
26263 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
26265 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
26266 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
26267 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
26268 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
26269 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
26270 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
26271 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
26272 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
26273 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
26274 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
26275 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
26278 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
26279 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
26280 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
26282 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26283 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
26284 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
26285 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26286 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
26287 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
26288 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26289 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
26290 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
26292 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26293 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
26294 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
26295 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
26296 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
26297 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
26298 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
26299 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
26300 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
26301 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
26302 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
26303 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
26304 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26305 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
26306 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
26307 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
26308 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
26309 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
26311 o Documentation fixes:
26312 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
26315 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
26316 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
26317 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
26318 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
26321 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26322 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26323 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26326 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
26327 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
26328 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
26329 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
26330 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
26331 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
26332 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
26333 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26335 o Security features:
26336 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
26337 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
26338 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
26339 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
26340 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
26341 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
26342 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
26343 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
26344 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
26348 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
26349 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
26350 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
26353 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
26354 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
26355 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26356 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
26357 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26358 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
26359 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
26360 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
26361 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
26362 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
26363 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26364 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
26365 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
26366 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
26368 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
26369 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26370 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
26371 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
26372 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26374 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
26375 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
26376 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
26377 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26378 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
26379 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
26380 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26381 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
26382 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
26383 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
26384 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
26385 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
26386 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
26387 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26388 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
26389 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
26390 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26391 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
26392 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
26393 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
26395 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26396 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
26397 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
26398 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
26399 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
26400 testable, and a little less fragile too.
26401 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
26402 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
26404 o Documentation fixes:
26405 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
26406 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
26410 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
26411 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
26415 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26416 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26417 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26420 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
26421 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
26425 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
26426 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
26430 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26431 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26432 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26433 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
26434 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26435 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
26436 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
26440 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
26441 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
26442 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
26443 log messages less noisy.
26446 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
26447 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
26451 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
26452 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
26453 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
26454 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
26455 last time we raised it).
26458 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
26459 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
26461 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
26462 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
26463 part of ticket 6736.
26464 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
26465 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
26466 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
26470 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
26471 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
26472 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
26473 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
26474 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
26476 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
26477 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26478 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
26479 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
26480 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26481 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
26482 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
26483 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26484 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
26485 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26486 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
26487 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26489 o Removed features:
26490 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
26491 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
26492 bunch of compatibility code.
26494 o Code refactoring:
26495 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
26496 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
26497 the ORPort and the DirPort.
26500 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
26501 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
26502 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
26503 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
26505 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
26506 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
26507 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
26509 o Major features (bridges):
26510 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
26511 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
26512 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
26515 o Major features (IPv6):
26516 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
26517 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
26518 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
26519 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
26520 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
26521 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
26522 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
26523 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
26524 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
26526 o Major features (build):
26527 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
26528 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
26529 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
26530 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
26531 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
26532 fixes by Jim Meyering.
26533 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
26534 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
26535 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
26537 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
26538 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
26539 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
26540 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
26541 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
26542 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
26543 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
26544 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
26545 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
26546 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
26547 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
26549 o Minor features (streamlining);
26550 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
26551 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
26553 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
26554 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
26555 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
26556 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
26557 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
26558 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26560 o Minor features (controller):
26561 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
26563 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
26564 Implements ticket 4971.
26566 o Minor features (IPv6):
26567 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
26568 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
26569 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
26570 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
26571 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
26573 o Minor features (log messages):
26574 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
26575 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
26576 Resolves ticket 6758.
26577 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
26578 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
26579 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
26580 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26581 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
26582 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
26583 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
26585 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
26586 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
26587 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
26588 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
26589 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
26592 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26593 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
26594 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
26595 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
26596 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
26598 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
26599 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
26600 Implements ticket 5529.
26601 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
26602 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
26603 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
26604 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
26605 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
26606 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
26607 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
26608 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
26609 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
26610 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
26612 o New requirements:
26613 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
26614 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
26615 from a source distribution.)
26618 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
26619 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26620 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
26621 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
26622 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
26623 and cleans up other smaller issues.
26625 o Major bugfixes (security):
26626 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
26627 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
26628 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
26629 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
26630 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
26631 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
26632 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
26633 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
26634 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
26635 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
26636 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
26637 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
26638 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
26639 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26640 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
26641 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
26645 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
26646 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
26647 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
26648 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26649 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
26650 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
26651 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
26652 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
26653 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
26654 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26657 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
26658 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
26659 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
26660 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
26661 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26662 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
26663 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
26664 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
26665 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
26666 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
26667 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
26669 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
26670 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
26671 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
26673 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
26674 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
26675 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
26676 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
26677 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26678 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
26679 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
26680 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
26681 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26682 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
26683 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26684 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
26685 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
26686 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
26689 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
26690 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
26691 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
26692 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
26693 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26694 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
26695 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
26696 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
26697 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
26698 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
26699 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
26700 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
26701 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
26702 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
26703 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
26706 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
26707 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
26708 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
26709 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
26710 Resolves ticket 6732.
26713 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
26714 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
26715 attack that could in theory leak path information.
26718 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
26719 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
26720 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26721 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
26722 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
26723 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
26724 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
26725 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
26726 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
26727 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
26728 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
26729 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
26730 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
26731 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26734 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
26735 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26736 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
26737 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
26740 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
26741 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
26742 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26743 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
26744 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
26745 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26746 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
26747 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
26748 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
26749 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
26750 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
26751 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
26752 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
26753 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
26754 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
26755 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
26756 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26759 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
26760 a little more useful.
26761 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
26762 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26763 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
26764 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
26765 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
26766 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
26767 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
26770 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
26771 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26772 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
26773 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26774 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
26775 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
26779 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
26780 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
26781 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
26782 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
26783 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
26786 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
26787 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
26788 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
26791 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
26793 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
26795 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26796 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
26797 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
26798 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
26799 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
26802 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
26803 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26804 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
26805 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
26806 since the beginning of Tor.
26809 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
26810 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
26811 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
26812 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
26813 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
26814 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
26815 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
26816 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26817 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
26818 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
26821 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
26822 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
26825 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
26826 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26827 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
26828 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
26831 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
26832 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26833 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
26834 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
26835 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
26836 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26838 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26839 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
26840 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
26841 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
26842 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
26843 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
26844 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26845 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
26846 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
26847 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
26848 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
26849 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
26850 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
26851 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
26852 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
26853 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
26854 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26855 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
26856 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26858 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26859 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
26860 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
26862 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
26863 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26864 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
26865 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
26867 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
26868 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26869 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
26870 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26871 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
26872 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
26873 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26874 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
26875 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26876 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
26877 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26878 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
26879 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
26880 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26881 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
26882 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
26885 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
26886 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
26887 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
26888 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
26889 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
26892 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
26893 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
26894 options. Closes bug 4748.
26897 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
26898 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
26899 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
26900 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
26901 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
26905 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
26906 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
26908 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
26909 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
26910 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
26911 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
26912 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
26913 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
26914 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
26915 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
26916 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
26919 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
26920 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
26921 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
26922 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
26923 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
26924 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
26925 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
26926 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
26929 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
26930 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
26931 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
26932 case for flushing marked connections.
26933 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
26934 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
26935 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
26936 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
26937 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
26938 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
26939 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26940 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
26941 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26942 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
26943 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
26944 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
26945 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26946 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
26947 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
26948 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
26949 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26950 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
26951 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26952 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
26953 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
26954 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
26955 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26956 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
26957 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
26959 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
26960 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26961 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
26965 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
26966 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
26967 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
26968 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
26969 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
26970 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
26971 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
26972 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
26973 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
26974 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
26975 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
26976 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
26977 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
26978 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
26979 Addresses ticket 5458.
26980 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26982 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26983 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
26984 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
26987 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
26988 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
26989 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
26993 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
26994 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
26995 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
26996 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
26997 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
26998 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
26999 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27000 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
27001 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
27002 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
27003 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27006 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
27007 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
27010 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
27011 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
27014 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
27015 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
27016 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
27017 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
27018 that get us closer to a release candidate.
27020 o Major bugfixes (general):
27021 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
27022 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
27023 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
27024 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
27025 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
27026 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
27027 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27028 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
27029 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
27031 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
27032 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
27033 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
27034 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
27037 o Major bugfixes (clients):
27038 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
27039 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
27040 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
27041 which introduced predicted ports.
27042 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
27043 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
27044 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
27045 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27046 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
27047 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
27048 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
27049 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
27050 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
27051 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
27052 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27053 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
27054 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
27056 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
27057 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
27058 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
27059 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
27060 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
27061 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
27062 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
27063 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
27064 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
27065 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
27066 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
27070 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
27071 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
27072 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
27073 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
27074 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
27075 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
27076 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
27077 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
27078 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
27079 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
27080 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
27081 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
27082 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
27083 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
27085 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
27086 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
27087 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
27088 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
27089 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
27090 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
27091 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
27092 sure. Closes bug 5139.
27093 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
27094 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
27095 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
27096 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
27097 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
27098 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
27099 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27101 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
27102 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
27103 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
27104 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
27105 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
27106 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
27107 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
27108 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
27109 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
27110 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
27111 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
27112 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
27113 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
27114 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
27115 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
27116 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
27117 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
27118 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27119 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
27120 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
27122 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27123 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
27124 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
27125 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
27126 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
27127 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
27128 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
27129 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
27130 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
27131 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
27132 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
27133 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
27134 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
27136 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
27137 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27138 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
27139 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
27141 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
27142 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
27143 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27144 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
27145 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
27146 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27147 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
27148 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
27149 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
27150 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
27152 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
27153 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
27154 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
27156 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27157 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
27158 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
27159 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
27160 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
27161 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
27162 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
27163 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
27164 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
27165 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
27166 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
27167 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27168 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
27169 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
27170 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
27171 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27172 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
27173 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
27174 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
27175 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
27177 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
27178 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
27179 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27180 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
27181 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
27182 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
27184 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
27185 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
27186 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
27188 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
27189 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
27190 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
27191 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27192 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
27193 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27195 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27196 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
27197 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
27199 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
27200 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
27201 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27202 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
27203 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
27204 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27205 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
27206 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
27207 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
27208 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27209 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
27210 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
27211 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
27212 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
27213 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
27214 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
27216 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
27217 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
27218 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27219 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
27220 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
27221 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27222 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
27223 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27224 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
27225 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
27226 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
27227 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27228 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
27231 o Documentation fixes:
27232 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
27233 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
27234 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
27235 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
27236 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
27237 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
27240 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
27241 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
27245 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
27246 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
27247 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
27248 and fixes several crash bugs.
27250 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
27251 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
27252 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
27253 those packages and upgrade anyway.
27255 o Directory authority changes:
27256 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
27257 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
27261 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
27262 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
27263 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
27264 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
27265 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
27266 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
27267 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
27268 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
27269 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
27270 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
27271 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
27272 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
27273 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
27274 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
27275 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
27276 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
27277 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
27278 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
27279 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
27280 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
27281 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
27282 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
27283 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
27284 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
27285 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
27286 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
27287 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
27290 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
27291 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27292 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
27293 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
27295 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
27296 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
27298 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
27299 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
27300 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
27301 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
27302 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
27303 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
27304 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
27305 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
27308 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
27309 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
27310 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
27311 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
27312 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
27313 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
27314 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
27315 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
27316 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
27317 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
27318 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
27319 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
27320 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
27321 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
27322 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
27323 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
27324 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
27325 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
27326 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
27327 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
27328 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
27329 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
27330 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
27331 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
27332 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
27333 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
27334 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
27335 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
27336 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
27337 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
27338 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
27339 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
27340 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27341 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
27342 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27343 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
27344 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
27345 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
27346 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
27347 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27348 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
27349 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27350 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
27351 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
27352 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
27353 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27355 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
27356 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
27357 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
27358 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
27359 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
27360 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
27361 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
27362 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
27363 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
27364 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
27365 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27366 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
27367 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27368 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
27369 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
27372 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
27373 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
27374 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
27375 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
27377 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27380 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
27381 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
27382 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
27383 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
27384 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
27385 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
27386 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
27389 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
27390 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
27391 the development branch build on Windows again.
27393 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27394 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
27395 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
27396 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
27397 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
27398 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
27399 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
27400 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
27401 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
27402 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
27403 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
27404 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
27405 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27406 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
27407 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
27409 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27410 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
27411 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
27412 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27413 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
27414 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27415 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
27416 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27417 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
27418 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
27419 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
27420 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27423 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
27424 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
27425 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
27426 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
27427 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
27428 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
27429 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
27430 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
27431 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
27433 o Removed features:
27434 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
27435 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
27436 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
27437 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
27441 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
27442 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
27443 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
27444 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
27446 o Directory authority changes:
27447 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
27451 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
27452 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27453 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
27454 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
27456 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
27457 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
27458 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
27459 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
27460 documents entirely.
27461 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
27462 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
27463 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27465 o Major features (performance):
27466 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
27467 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
27468 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
27469 much faster than other AES implementations.
27471 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
27472 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
27473 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
27474 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
27475 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
27476 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
27477 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
27478 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
27479 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
27480 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
27481 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
27482 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
27483 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
27484 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
27485 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27486 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
27487 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
27488 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27490 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
27491 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
27492 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
27493 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27494 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
27495 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27496 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
27497 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
27498 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
27500 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
27501 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
27502 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27503 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
27504 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
27505 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27508 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
27509 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
27510 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
27511 please let us know about it.
27512 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
27513 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
27514 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
27515 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
27516 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27517 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27518 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
27519 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
27521 o Default torrc changes:
27522 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
27523 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
27525 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
27526 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
27527 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
27530 o Removed features:
27531 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
27532 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
27533 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
27534 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
27536 o Code refactoring:
27537 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
27538 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
27539 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
27540 it would be a bad idea to start.
27543 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
27544 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
27545 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
27546 that get us closer to a release candidate.
27548 o Directory authority changes:
27549 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
27552 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
27553 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
27554 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
27555 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
27556 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
27557 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
27558 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
27559 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
27560 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
27561 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
27562 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
27563 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
27564 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
27565 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
27566 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
27567 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
27569 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
27570 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
27571 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
27572 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
27573 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
27574 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27575 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
27576 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
27577 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27578 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
27579 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
27580 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
27582 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
27583 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
27584 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27585 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
27586 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
27588 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27589 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
27590 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
27591 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
27592 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
27593 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
27594 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
27595 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
27596 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
27597 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
27598 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
27599 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
27600 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27601 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
27602 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27603 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
27604 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
27605 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
27606 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
27607 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
27608 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
27609 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
27612 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27613 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
27614 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27615 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
27616 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
27617 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
27618 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
27619 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
27620 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27621 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
27622 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
27623 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
27624 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
27625 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
27626 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
27627 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
27628 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
27631 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
27632 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
27633 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27636 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
27637 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
27638 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
27639 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
27642 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
27643 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
27645 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
27646 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
27647 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
27648 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27649 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
27650 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
27651 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
27652 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27653 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
27654 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
27655 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
27656 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27659 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
27660 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
27661 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
27662 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
27663 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
27664 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
27665 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27668 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
27669 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
27670 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
27671 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27672 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
27673 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
27674 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
27675 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
27676 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
27677 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
27679 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
27680 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
27681 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
27682 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
27683 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
27684 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
27685 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
27686 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
27687 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
27690 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27691 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
27692 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
27696 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
27697 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
27698 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
27699 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
27700 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
27701 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
27704 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
27705 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
27706 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
27707 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
27708 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
27709 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
27710 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
27711 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
27713 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
27714 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
27715 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
27716 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
27717 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
27718 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
27719 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
27720 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
27722 o Major security workaround:
27723 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
27724 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
27725 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
27726 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
27727 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
27728 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
27729 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
27730 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
27731 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
27732 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
27733 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
27736 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
27737 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
27738 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
27739 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
27740 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
27741 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
27742 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
27743 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27744 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
27745 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
27746 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
27747 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
27748 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
27750 o Minor features (controller):
27751 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
27752 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
27753 file. Resolves bug 1101.
27754 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
27755 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
27756 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
27757 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
27758 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
27759 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
27761 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
27762 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
27763 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
27764 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
27765 part of ticket 3457.
27766 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
27767 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
27768 circuit-status' control-port command.
27770 o Minor features (directory authorities):
27771 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
27772 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
27773 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
27774 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
27776 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
27777 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
27778 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
27779 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
27780 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
27781 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
27782 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
27784 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
27785 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
27787 o Minor features (other):
27788 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
27789 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
27790 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
27791 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
27792 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
27793 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
27794 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
27795 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
27797 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
27798 them from the other auths.
27799 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
27800 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
27801 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
27802 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
27803 the 0.2.3.x series.
27804 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27806 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27807 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
27808 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
27809 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
27810 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
27811 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
27812 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
27813 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
27814 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
27815 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
27816 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27817 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
27818 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
27819 be disabled using the new
27820 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
27821 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27822 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
27823 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
27824 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
27825 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
27826 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
27827 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
27828 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
27829 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
27830 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
27831 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
27833 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
27834 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
27835 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
27838 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
27839 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
27840 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
27842 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
27843 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
27844 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
27845 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
27846 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27847 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
27848 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27850 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
27851 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
27852 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
27853 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
27854 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
27855 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
27856 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
27857 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
27859 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
27860 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
27861 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27862 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
27863 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
27864 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
27865 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
27866 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
27867 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
27870 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27871 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
27872 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
27873 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
27874 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
27875 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
27876 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
27877 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
27878 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27879 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
27880 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
27881 accidentally been reverted.
27882 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
27883 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
27884 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
27885 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
27886 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
27887 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
27888 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27889 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
27890 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
27891 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27892 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
27893 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
27894 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
27895 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
27896 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27897 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
27898 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27899 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
27900 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27903 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
27904 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
27905 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
27906 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
27907 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
27908 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
27909 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
27911 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27912 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
27913 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
27914 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
27915 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
27916 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
27917 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
27919 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
27920 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
27921 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
27922 invalid value, rather than just -1.
27923 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
27924 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
27925 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
27926 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
27927 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
27928 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
27929 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
27933 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
27934 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
27935 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
27937 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
27938 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
27939 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
27940 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
27941 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
27942 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
27943 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
27944 (which Tor does not do by default).
27946 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
27947 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
27948 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
27949 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
27950 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
27952 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
27956 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27957 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27958 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27959 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27962 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
27963 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
27964 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
27965 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
27966 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
27967 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
27968 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
27969 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
27970 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
27971 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
27972 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27975 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27978 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
27979 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
27980 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
27982 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
27983 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
27984 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
27985 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
27986 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
27987 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
27988 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
27989 (which Tor does not do by default).
27991 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
27992 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
27993 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
27994 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
27995 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
27997 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
27998 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
27999 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
28002 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
28003 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
28004 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
28005 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
28006 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
28008 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
28009 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
28012 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
28013 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
28014 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
28015 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
28016 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
28017 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
28018 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
28019 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
28021 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
28022 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
28023 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
28024 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
28025 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
28026 close based on processing a cell on it.
28027 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28028 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28029 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28030 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28031 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
28032 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
28033 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28034 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
28035 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
28036 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
28037 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
28038 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
28039 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
28040 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
28041 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
28044 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
28045 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
28046 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
28047 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
28048 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
28049 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
28050 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
28052 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
28053 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
28054 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
28055 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
28056 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
28057 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
28058 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
28059 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
28060 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28061 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
28062 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
28063 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
28064 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
28065 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28066 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
28067 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
28068 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
28069 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
28070 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28071 Reported by "troll_un".
28072 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
28073 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28074 Reported by "troll_un".
28075 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
28076 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
28077 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
28078 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
28081 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
28082 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
28083 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
28084 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
28085 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
28086 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
28087 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
28088 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
28089 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
28090 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
28091 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28093 o Packaging changes:
28094 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
28095 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
28098 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
28099 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
28100 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
28101 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
28102 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
28104 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
28105 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
28107 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28108 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28109 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28110 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28111 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28112 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
28113 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
28114 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
28115 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
28118 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28121 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
28122 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
28123 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
28124 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
28125 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
28126 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
28127 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
28130 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
28131 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
28132 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
28133 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
28134 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
28135 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
28136 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
28137 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
28138 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
28139 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
28140 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
28141 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
28142 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
28143 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
28144 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
28145 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
28146 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
28147 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
28148 Resolves ticket 4526.
28149 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
28150 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
28151 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
28152 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
28153 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
28154 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
28155 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
28156 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
28157 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
28158 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
28159 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
28160 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
28161 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
28162 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
28163 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
28164 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
28167 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
28168 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
28169 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
28170 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
28171 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
28172 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
28173 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
28174 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
28175 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
28176 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
28178 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
28179 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
28180 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
28181 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
28182 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
28183 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
28184 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
28185 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
28186 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
28188 o Minor features (new/different config options):
28189 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
28190 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
28191 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
28192 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
28193 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
28194 Implements issue 933.
28195 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
28196 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
28197 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
28198 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
28199 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
28200 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
28201 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
28202 appending to the list.
28203 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
28204 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
28205 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
28206 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
28208 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
28209 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
28210 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
28211 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
28212 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
28213 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
28214 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
28215 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
28218 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
28219 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
28220 Resolves ticket 2474.
28221 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
28222 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
28223 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
28224 Required by fix for bug 3460.
28225 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
28226 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
28227 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
28228 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
28229 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
28230 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
28231 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
28232 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
28233 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
28235 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28236 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
28237 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
28239 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
28241 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
28242 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
28244 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
28245 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
28246 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
28247 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
28248 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
28249 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
28250 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
28252 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
28253 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
28254 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28255 Reported by "troll_un".
28256 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
28257 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28258 Reported by "troll_un".
28259 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
28260 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
28261 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
28262 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
28264 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
28265 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
28267 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
28268 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
28269 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
28270 with help from wanoskarnet.
28271 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
28272 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
28275 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
28276 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
28277 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
28278 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28280 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
28281 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
28282 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
28283 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
28284 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
28285 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
28286 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
28287 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
28290 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
28291 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
28292 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
28293 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
28294 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
28295 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
28296 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
28297 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
28298 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
28301 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
28302 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
28303 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
28304 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
28306 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28307 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28308 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28309 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28310 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
28311 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
28312 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
28313 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
28314 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
28315 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
28316 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
28317 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
28318 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
28319 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
28320 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
28321 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
28322 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
28323 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
28324 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
28325 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
28326 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
28327 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
28328 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
28329 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
28332 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
28333 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
28334 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
28335 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
28336 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
28337 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28338 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
28339 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
28342 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28343 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
28344 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
28345 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
28346 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
28347 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
28348 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
28349 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
28350 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
28351 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
28352 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
28353 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
28354 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
28355 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
28356 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
28358 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
28359 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
28360 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
28361 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
28362 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
28363 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
28364 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
28365 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28366 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
28367 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
28368 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
28369 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
28370 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
28371 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28372 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
28373 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
28374 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28376 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
28377 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
28378 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
28379 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
28380 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28381 Found by frosty_un.
28382 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
28383 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
28384 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
28386 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
28387 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
28388 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
28390 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
28391 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
28393 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
28394 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28397 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
28398 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
28399 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
28400 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
28401 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
28402 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
28403 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
28404 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
28405 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
28406 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
28407 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
28408 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
28409 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
28410 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
28412 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
28413 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
28414 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28416 o Packaging changes:
28417 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
28418 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
28420 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28421 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
28422 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
28423 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
28424 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
28425 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
28426 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
28427 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
28428 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
28431 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
28433 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
28434 ./src/test/bench binary.
28435 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
28436 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
28439 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
28440 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
28441 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
28445 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
28446 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
28447 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
28448 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
28449 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
28450 close based on processing a cell on it.
28451 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
28452 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
28453 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28454 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
28455 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
28456 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
28457 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
28458 cells were introduced.
28461 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
28462 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
28465 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
28466 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
28467 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
28468 users. Everybody should upgrade.
28470 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
28471 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
28474 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
28475 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
28476 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
28477 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
28478 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
28479 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
28481 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
28482 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28483 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28484 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28485 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28486 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28487 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28488 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28489 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28490 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28491 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28492 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
28493 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
28494 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
28495 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
28496 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
28497 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
28498 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
28501 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
28502 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
28503 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
28504 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
28505 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
28506 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
28507 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
28508 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
28509 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
28510 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
28511 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
28512 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
28513 Partly fixes bug 3825.
28514 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
28515 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
28516 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
28517 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
28518 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
28519 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
28520 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
28522 o Major bugfixes (other):
28523 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28524 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28525 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28526 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28527 Found by "frosty_un".
28528 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
28529 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
28530 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
28531 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
28532 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
28533 immensely in tracking this bug down.
28534 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
28535 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
28538 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28539 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
28540 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
28541 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
28542 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
28543 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
28544 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
28545 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
28546 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
28547 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
28548 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
28549 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
28550 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
28551 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28552 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
28553 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
28554 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
28555 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
28556 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
28557 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
28558 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
28560 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
28561 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
28562 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
28563 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28564 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
28565 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
28566 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
28567 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
28568 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
28569 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
28570 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
28573 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
28574 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
28575 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
28576 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
28577 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
28578 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
28579 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
28580 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
28581 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
28582 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
28583 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
28584 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
28585 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
28586 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28588 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28589 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
28590 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
28591 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
28592 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
28593 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
28594 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
28595 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
28598 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
28599 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
28600 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
28602 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
28603 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
28604 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
28605 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
28606 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
28607 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
28608 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
28609 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
28610 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
28611 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
28612 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
28613 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
28614 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
28616 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
28617 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
28618 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
28619 currently connected to them.
28621 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
28622 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
28623 remain; see for example proposal 188.
28625 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
28626 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28627 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28628 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28629 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28630 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28631 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28632 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28633 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28634 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28635 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28636 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
28637 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
28638 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
28639 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
28640 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
28641 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
28642 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
28645 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
28646 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
28647 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
28648 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
28649 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
28650 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
28651 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
28652 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28653 when bridges were introduced.
28654 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28655 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28656 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28657 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28658 Found by "frosty_un".
28661 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
28662 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
28664 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
28665 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
28666 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
28667 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
28668 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
28669 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
28670 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
28673 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
28674 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
28675 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
28676 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
28677 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
28678 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
28679 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
28680 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
28681 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
28682 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
28683 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
28684 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
28685 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
28686 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
28687 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
28688 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
28689 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
28690 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
28692 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
28693 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
28694 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
28695 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28696 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
28697 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
28698 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
28699 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
28700 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
28701 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
28702 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
28703 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28706 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
28707 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
28708 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
28709 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28712 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
28713 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
28714 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
28715 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
28716 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
28718 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28719 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
28720 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
28721 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
28722 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
28723 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
28724 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
28725 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
28726 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
28727 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28729 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28730 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28731 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28732 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28733 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28734 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28735 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28736 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28737 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28738 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28739 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28740 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28741 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28742 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28743 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28744 Found by "frosty_un".
28745 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
28746 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
28747 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
28748 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
28749 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
28750 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
28751 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
28752 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
28753 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
28754 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
28755 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
28756 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
28757 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28758 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
28759 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
28760 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
28761 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
28762 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
28763 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
28765 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28766 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
28767 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
28768 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
28769 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
28770 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
28771 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
28772 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
28774 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
28775 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
28776 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
28777 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
28778 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
28779 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
28780 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
28781 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
28782 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
28783 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
28784 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
28785 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
28787 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
28788 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28789 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
28790 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28791 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
28792 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28793 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
28794 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
28795 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
28797 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
28799 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
28800 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
28801 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
28802 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28803 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
28804 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
28805 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
28806 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28808 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
28809 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
28810 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
28811 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
28812 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
28814 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28815 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28816 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28817 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
28818 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28821 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
28822 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
28823 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
28824 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
28825 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
28828 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
28829 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
28830 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
28831 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
28832 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
28833 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
28834 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28835 when bridges were introduced.
28838 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
28839 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
28840 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28842 o Major features (networking):
28843 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
28844 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
28845 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
28846 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
28847 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
28851 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
28852 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
28853 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
28855 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
28856 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
28857 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
28858 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
28859 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28861 o Minor features (diagnostics):
28862 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
28863 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
28866 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
28867 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
28868 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
28869 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
28870 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
28871 listed in the network consensus and republish.
28873 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28874 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
28875 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
28876 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28878 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
28879 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
28880 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
28881 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
28882 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
28883 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
28884 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
28885 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
28886 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
28887 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
28888 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
28890 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28891 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28892 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28893 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
28894 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
28895 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
28896 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
28897 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
28898 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
28899 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28901 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28902 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
28903 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
28904 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
28905 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
28906 fixes part of bug 2442.
28907 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
28908 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
28909 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
28911 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
28912 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
28913 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
28914 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
28915 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28917 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28918 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
28919 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
28920 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
28921 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
28924 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
28925 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
28926 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
28930 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
28931 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
28932 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
28933 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
28934 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
28935 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
28936 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
28939 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
28940 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
28941 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
28942 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
28943 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
28944 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
28945 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
28948 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
28949 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
28950 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
28951 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
28952 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
28953 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
28954 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
28955 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
28956 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28958 o Code refactoring:
28959 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
28960 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
28963 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
28964 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
28965 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
28966 reachable from Iran again.
28969 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
28970 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
28971 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28973 o Minor features (security):
28974 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
28975 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
28976 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
28977 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
28978 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
28979 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
28980 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
28981 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
28982 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
28983 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
28986 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28987 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28988 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
28989 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
28990 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
28991 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
28992 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
28993 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
28994 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28996 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
28997 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
28998 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
28999 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
29000 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
29001 raised by bug 3898.
29002 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
29003 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
29004 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
29005 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
29006 fixes part of bug 2442.
29007 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
29008 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
29009 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
29011 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
29012 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
29013 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
29014 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
29015 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29018 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
29019 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
29020 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
29021 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
29022 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
29023 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
29026 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
29027 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
29028 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
29029 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
29030 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
29031 bufferevent-based networking backend.
29033 o Major features (stream isolation):
29034 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
29035 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
29036 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
29037 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
29038 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
29039 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
29040 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
29041 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
29042 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
29043 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
29044 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
29045 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
29046 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
29047 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
29049 o Major features (other):
29050 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
29051 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
29052 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
29053 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
29054 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
29055 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
29056 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
29057 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
29058 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
29059 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
29060 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
29061 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
29062 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
29064 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29065 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
29067 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
29068 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
29069 Fixes part of bug 3752.
29070 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
29071 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
29072 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
29073 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
29074 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
29075 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
29076 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
29077 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
29078 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
29079 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
29080 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
29081 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
29082 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
29083 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
29084 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
29085 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
29086 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
29088 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29089 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
29090 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
29091 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
29092 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
29093 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
29096 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
29097 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
29098 user. Implements ticket 1692.
29099 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
29100 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
29101 best copy data out of a buffer.
29102 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
29103 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
29104 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
29106 o Minor features (build compatibility):
29107 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
29108 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
29109 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
29111 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29112 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29114 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
29115 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
29116 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
29117 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
29118 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
29119 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
29120 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
29122 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
29123 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
29124 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
29125 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
29126 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
29127 raised by bug 3898.
29128 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
29129 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
29130 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
29133 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29134 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
29135 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
29136 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
29137 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
29138 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
29139 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
29140 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
29141 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
29142 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
29143 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
29144 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29145 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
29146 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
29147 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
29148 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
29149 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
29150 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
29151 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
29154 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29155 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
29156 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
29160 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
29161 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
29162 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
29163 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
29164 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
29165 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
29168 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
29169 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
29170 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
29171 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
29172 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
29173 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
29174 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
29175 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
29176 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
29177 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
29179 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
29180 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
29181 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
29182 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
29183 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
29184 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
29185 many many other features and bugfixes.
29188 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
29189 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
29190 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
29193 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
29194 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
29195 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
29196 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
29197 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
29198 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
29199 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
29200 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
29203 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29206 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
29207 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
29208 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29209 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
29210 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
29211 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
29212 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
29213 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
29214 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
29215 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
29216 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
29217 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
29218 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
29219 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29220 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
29221 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
29222 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
29223 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
29227 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
29228 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
29229 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
29230 up a variety of recently introduced features.
29233 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
29234 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
29235 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
29236 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
29237 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
29238 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
29239 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
29240 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
29241 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
29242 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
29243 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
29244 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
29245 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
29246 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
29247 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
29248 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
29250 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29251 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
29252 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
29253 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
29254 order. Fixes bug 2798.
29255 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
29256 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
29257 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
29258 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
29259 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
29260 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
29264 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
29265 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
29266 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
29267 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
29269 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
29270 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
29271 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
29272 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
29273 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
29274 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
29275 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
29276 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
29277 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
29278 Implements ticket 3264.
29279 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
29280 implements ticket 3439.
29282 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29283 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
29284 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
29285 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
29286 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
29287 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
29288 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
29289 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
29290 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
29291 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
29292 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
29293 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
29294 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
29295 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
29296 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
29297 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
29298 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
29299 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
29300 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
29301 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
29302 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
29303 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
29304 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
29305 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
29306 fails. Spotted by coverity.
29307 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
29308 present. Found by coverity.
29309 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
29310 a directory cache that provides them.
29312 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
29313 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
29314 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
29315 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
29316 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
29317 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
29319 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
29320 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
29321 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
29322 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
29323 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
29324 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29325 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
29326 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
29328 o Code simplification and refactoring:
29329 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
29330 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
29331 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
29332 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
29333 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
29334 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
29336 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
29340 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
29341 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
29342 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
29345 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
29346 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
29347 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
29348 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
29351 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
29352 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
29353 discovered by katmagic.
29354 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
29355 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
29356 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
29357 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29358 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
29359 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
29360 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
29361 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29362 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
29363 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
29364 fixes part of bug 3465.
29365 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
29366 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
29370 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29373 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
29374 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
29375 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
29376 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
29377 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
29380 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
29381 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
29382 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
29383 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
29384 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
29387 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
29388 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
29389 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
29390 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
29391 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
29392 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
29395 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
29396 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
29397 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
29398 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29399 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
29400 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
29401 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
29402 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
29403 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
29404 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
29405 fixes part of bug 3407.
29406 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
29407 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
29408 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
29409 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
29410 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
29411 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
29412 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
29413 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
29414 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
29415 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
29417 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
29418 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
29419 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
29420 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
29423 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29425 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29426 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
29427 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
29429 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
29431 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
29434 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
29435 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
29436 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
29437 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
29438 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
29439 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
29443 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
29444 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
29445 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
29446 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29447 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
29448 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
29449 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
29451 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
29452 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
29453 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
29454 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
29455 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
29456 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
29457 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
29458 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
29459 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
29460 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
29461 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
29462 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
29463 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
29464 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
29465 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
29466 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
29467 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
29468 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
29469 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
29473 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
29474 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
29475 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
29476 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
29477 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
29478 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
29479 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
29480 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
29481 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
29485 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
29486 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
29487 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
29489 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
29491 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
29492 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
29493 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
29494 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
29495 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29496 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
29497 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
29498 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
29499 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
29501 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
29502 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
29503 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
29504 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
29505 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
29506 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
29508 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
29509 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
29511 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
29512 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
29513 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
29516 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
29517 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
29518 Resolves ticket 3252.
29519 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
29520 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
29521 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
29522 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
29523 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
29524 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
29527 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
29528 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
29531 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
29532 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
29533 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
29536 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
29537 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29538 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
29539 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
29540 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
29543 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
29544 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29545 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
29546 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
29547 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
29548 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
29549 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
29550 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
29551 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
29555 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
29556 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
29557 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
29558 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
29559 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
29561 o Security/privacy fixes:
29562 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
29563 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
29564 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
29565 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
29566 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
29567 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
29568 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
29569 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
29570 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
29571 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
29572 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
29573 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
29574 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
29575 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
29576 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29579 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
29580 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
29581 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
29582 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
29583 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
29584 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
29585 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
29586 part of ticket 3076.
29587 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
29588 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
29589 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
29593 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
29594 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
29595 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
29596 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
29597 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
29598 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
29599 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
29600 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
29602 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
29603 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
29604 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
29605 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
29606 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
29607 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
29608 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
29609 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
29610 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
29611 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
29612 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
29613 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
29614 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29617 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
29618 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
29619 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
29620 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
29621 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
29622 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
29623 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
29625 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
29626 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
29627 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
29628 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
29629 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
29630 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
29631 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
29632 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
29633 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
29634 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
29635 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
29636 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
29637 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
29638 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
29639 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
29640 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
29642 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
29643 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
29645 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
29646 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
29648 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
29649 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
29651 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
29652 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
29653 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29655 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
29656 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
29657 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
29658 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
29659 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29660 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
29661 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
29662 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
29663 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
29664 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
29665 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
29667 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
29668 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
29669 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
29670 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
29671 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
29672 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
29673 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
29674 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
29675 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
29676 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
29677 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29678 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
29679 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
29682 o Removed features:
29683 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
29684 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
29685 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
29689 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
29690 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
29691 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
29692 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
29693 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
29694 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
29696 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
29697 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
29698 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
29701 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
29702 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
29703 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
29704 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
29705 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
29706 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
29707 zero-copy transports where available.
29708 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
29709 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
29710 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
29711 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
29712 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
29713 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
29714 debug it as it breaks.
29715 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
29716 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
29717 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
29718 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
29719 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
29720 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
29721 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
29722 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
29723 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
29724 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
29725 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
29726 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
29727 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
29728 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
29729 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
29730 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
29731 PortForwarding option.
29732 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
29733 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
29734 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
29735 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
29736 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
29737 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
29738 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
29741 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
29742 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
29743 Implements enhancement 1668.
29744 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
29746 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
29747 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
29748 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
29749 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
29750 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
29751 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
29752 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
29754 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
29755 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
29756 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
29757 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
29758 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
29759 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
29760 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
29762 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
29763 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
29764 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
29765 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
29766 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
29767 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
29768 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
29770 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
29771 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
29772 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
29773 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
29774 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29775 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
29776 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
29777 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
29778 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
29779 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
29780 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
29781 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
29782 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
29783 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
29784 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
29787 o Minor features (controller):
29788 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
29789 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
29790 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
29791 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
29792 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
29793 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
29794 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
29797 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
29798 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
29799 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
29800 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
29801 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
29802 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
29803 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
29804 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
29806 o Minor packaging issues:
29807 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
29808 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
29810 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29811 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
29812 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
29813 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
29814 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
29815 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
29816 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
29817 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
29818 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
29819 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
29820 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
29821 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
29822 our library structure used to force them to link it.
29824 o Removed features:
29825 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
29826 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
29827 are no longer in use as servers.
29829 o Documentation fixes:
29830 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
29831 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
29832 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
29836 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
29837 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
29838 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
29839 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
29840 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
29841 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
29842 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
29843 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
29844 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
29845 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
29848 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
29849 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
29850 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
29851 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
29852 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
29853 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
29854 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
29855 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
29856 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
29857 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29858 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
29859 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
29860 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29861 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
29862 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
29863 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
29865 o Security and stability fixes:
29866 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
29867 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
29868 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
29869 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
29870 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
29871 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
29872 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
29873 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
29874 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
29875 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
29876 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
29877 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
29878 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29879 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
29880 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
29881 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
29884 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
29885 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
29886 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
29887 contributions to the network.
29889 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
29890 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
29891 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
29892 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
29893 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
29894 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
29895 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
29896 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
29897 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
29898 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
29899 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
29900 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
29901 connections to directory servers.
29902 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
29903 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
29904 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
29905 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
29906 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
29907 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
29908 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
29909 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
29910 information, or fetch directory information.
29911 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
29912 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
29913 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
29914 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
29915 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
29916 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
29917 unless you really want your Tor to break.
29918 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
29919 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
29920 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
29921 - When StrictNodes is 1:
29922 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
29923 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
29924 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
29925 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
29926 reachability self-tests.
29927 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
29928 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
29929 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
29930 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
29931 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29932 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
29933 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
29935 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
29936 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29937 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
29938 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
29939 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
29940 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29941 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
29942 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
29943 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
29944 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
29945 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
29948 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
29949 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
29950 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
29951 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
29952 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
29953 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
29954 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
29955 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
29956 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
29957 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
29958 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
29959 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29960 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
29961 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
29962 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
29963 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
29964 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
29966 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
29967 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
29968 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
29969 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
29970 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29971 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
29972 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29973 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
29974 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
29975 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
29976 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
29977 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
29978 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
29979 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
29980 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
29981 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
29982 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
29983 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
29984 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
29985 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
29988 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
29989 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
29990 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
29991 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
29992 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
29993 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
29994 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
29995 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
29996 Required by fix for bug 3000.
29997 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
29998 by fix for bug 3000.
29999 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
30000 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
30002 o Code simplification and refactoring:
30003 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
30004 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
30005 send a body too). Since only server versions before
30006 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
30007 keep the workaround in place.
30008 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
30009 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
30010 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
30011 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
30012 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
30013 want to do it differently.
30014 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
30015 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
30016 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
30017 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
30018 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
30022 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
30023 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
30024 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
30025 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
30026 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
30029 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
30030 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
30031 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
30032 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
30033 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
30035 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
30036 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
30037 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
30038 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
30039 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
30040 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
30041 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
30042 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
30043 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
30044 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
30045 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
30046 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
30049 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
30050 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
30051 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
30052 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
30053 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
30054 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
30055 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
30057 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
30058 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
30059 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
30060 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
30061 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
30062 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
30063 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
30064 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
30065 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
30066 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
30067 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
30068 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
30069 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
30070 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
30071 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
30072 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
30073 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
30074 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
30075 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
30076 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
30077 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
30078 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
30079 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30082 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
30083 networkstatus vote.
30084 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
30085 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
30086 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
30088 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
30089 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
30090 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
30091 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
30093 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
30094 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
30095 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
30096 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30099 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
30100 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
30102 o Documentation changes:
30103 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
30104 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
30106 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
30109 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
30110 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
30111 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
30112 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
30113 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
30114 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
30117 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30118 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
30119 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
30120 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
30121 the rest of bug 1074.
30122 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
30123 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
30124 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30125 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
30126 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
30127 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
30128 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30129 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
30130 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
30131 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
30132 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
30133 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
30134 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
30135 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30138 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
30139 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
30140 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
30141 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
30142 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
30143 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
30144 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
30145 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
30146 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
30147 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
30148 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
30149 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
30150 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
30151 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
30153 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30154 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
30155 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
30156 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
30157 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
30158 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
30160 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
30161 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
30162 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
30163 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
30164 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
30165 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
30166 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
30167 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
30168 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
30169 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
30170 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
30171 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
30172 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
30173 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
30174 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
30175 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
30176 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
30177 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
30178 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
30179 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
30180 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
30181 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
30182 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
30183 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30184 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
30185 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
30187 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
30188 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
30189 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
30190 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
30191 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
30192 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
30194 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
30195 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
30196 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
30198 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30199 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
30200 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
30201 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
30202 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
30203 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
30204 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
30205 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30206 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
30207 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
30208 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
30209 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
30210 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
30214 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
30215 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
30216 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
30217 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
30218 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
30219 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
30220 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
30221 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
30222 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
30223 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
30224 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
30225 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
30227 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30229 o Minor features (log subsystem):
30230 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
30231 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
30232 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
30234 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
30235 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
30237 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
30238 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
30239 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
30242 o Packaging changes:
30243 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
30244 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
30245 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
30248 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
30249 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
30250 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
30251 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
30252 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
30253 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
30256 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30257 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
30258 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
30259 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
30260 the rest of bug 1074.
30261 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
30262 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30263 Found by "piebeer".
30264 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
30265 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
30266 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
30267 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
30268 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
30269 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
30270 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30273 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
30275 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30278 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
30279 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
30280 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
30281 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
30282 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
30283 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
30284 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
30285 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
30286 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
30287 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
30288 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30290 o Packaging changes:
30291 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
30292 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
30293 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
30294 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
30295 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
30296 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
30299 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
30300 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
30301 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
30302 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
30303 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
30304 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
30307 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
30308 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30309 Found by "piebeer".
30310 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
30311 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
30312 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
30313 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
30316 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
30318 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
30319 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
30320 Implements ticket 2432.
30323 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
30324 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
30325 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
30328 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
30329 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
30330 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
30331 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
30332 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
30333 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
30335 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30336 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
30337 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
30338 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
30340 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
30341 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
30342 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
30343 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
30344 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
30345 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
30346 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
30347 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
30349 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30350 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
30351 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
30352 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
30353 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
30354 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
30355 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
30356 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
30357 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
30358 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
30359 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
30360 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
30361 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
30362 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
30365 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30366 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
30367 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
30368 bug reported by doorss.
30369 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
30370 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
30371 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30372 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
30373 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
30375 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
30376 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
30377 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
30378 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
30379 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30381 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
30382 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30383 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
30385 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
30386 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
30387 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
30388 Automake 1.7 or later.
30389 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
30390 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
30391 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
30392 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
30394 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30395 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
30396 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
30399 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30400 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
30401 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
30402 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
30404 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30405 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
30406 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
30407 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
30408 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
30409 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
30410 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
30411 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
30412 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
30414 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
30415 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
30416 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
30419 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30420 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
30421 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
30422 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
30423 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
30424 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
30425 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
30426 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
30427 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
30428 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
30429 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
30430 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
30431 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
30433 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30434 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
30438 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
30439 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
30440 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
30441 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
30442 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
30444 o Major bugfixes (security):
30445 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
30446 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
30447 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
30449 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
30450 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
30451 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
30452 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
30453 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
30454 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
30455 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
30456 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
30458 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30459 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
30460 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
30461 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
30462 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
30463 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
30464 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
30465 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
30466 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
30467 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
30468 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
30469 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
30470 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
30471 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
30474 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30475 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
30476 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
30477 bug reported by doorss.
30478 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
30479 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
30480 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30481 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
30482 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
30484 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
30485 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
30486 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
30487 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
30488 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30489 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
30490 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
30491 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
30492 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
30495 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30496 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
30499 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
30500 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
30501 Automake 1.7 or later.
30504 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
30505 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
30506 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
30507 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
30508 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
30511 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
30512 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
30513 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
30514 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
30515 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
30516 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
30517 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
30518 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
30519 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
30520 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
30521 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
30523 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
30524 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
30525 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
30526 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
30528 o Directory authority changes:
30529 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
30532 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
30533 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
30534 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
30535 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
30536 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
30537 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
30538 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
30539 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
30540 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
30543 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30544 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
30545 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
30546 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
30547 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
30548 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
30549 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
30550 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
30551 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
30552 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
30556 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
30557 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
30558 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
30559 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
30563 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
30564 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
30565 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
30566 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
30568 o Directory authority changes:
30569 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
30572 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30575 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
30576 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
30577 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
30578 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
30579 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
30582 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
30583 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
30584 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
30585 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
30586 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30587 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
30588 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
30589 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
30590 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
30591 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30592 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
30593 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
30594 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
30595 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
30596 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
30597 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
30598 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
30599 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30600 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
30601 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
30602 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
30603 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
30604 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
30607 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
30608 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
30609 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
30610 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
30612 o New directory authorities:
30613 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
30617 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
30618 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
30619 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
30621 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
30622 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30623 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
30624 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
30625 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
30626 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
30628 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
30629 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
30630 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
30633 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
30634 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
30635 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
30636 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
30637 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
30638 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
30639 Patch from mingw-san.
30642 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
30643 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
30644 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
30645 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
30646 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
30647 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
30650 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
30651 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
30652 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
30655 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
30656 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
30657 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
30658 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
30659 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30662 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
30663 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
30664 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
30665 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
30666 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
30667 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
30668 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
30669 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
30670 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
30673 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
30674 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
30675 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
30676 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
30677 to a stable release.
30680 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
30681 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
30682 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
30683 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30684 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
30685 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
30686 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
30687 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
30688 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30689 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
30690 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
30691 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
30692 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
30693 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
30694 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
30695 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
30696 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
30697 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
30698 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
30699 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
30700 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
30701 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
30702 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
30703 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
30704 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
30705 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
30706 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
30707 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
30708 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
30709 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
30710 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
30713 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30714 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
30715 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
30716 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
30717 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
30718 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
30719 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
30720 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
30721 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
30722 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
30723 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
30724 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
30725 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
30726 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30727 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
30728 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
30729 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
30731 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
30732 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30733 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
30734 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
30735 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
30737 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
30738 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
30739 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
30740 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
30743 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
30744 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
30745 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
30746 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
30747 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
30748 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
30749 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
30750 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30752 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30753 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
30754 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
30755 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
30756 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
30757 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
30758 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
30759 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
30760 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
30761 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
30762 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
30763 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
30764 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
30765 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
30766 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
30769 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
30770 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
30771 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
30772 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
30773 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
30774 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
30775 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
30776 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
30777 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
30780 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
30781 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
30782 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
30783 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
30784 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
30786 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
30787 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
30788 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
30789 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
30790 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
30791 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
30792 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
30793 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
30794 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
30795 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
30796 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
30797 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
30798 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
30799 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
30801 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30802 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
30804 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
30805 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30806 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
30807 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
30808 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
30809 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
30810 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
30811 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
30812 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
30813 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
30814 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
30815 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
30816 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
30817 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
30818 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
30819 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
30820 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
30821 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30823 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
30824 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
30825 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
30826 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
30827 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
30828 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
30829 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
30830 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
30831 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
30832 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
30833 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
30834 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
30835 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
30837 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
30838 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
30839 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
30840 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30843 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
30844 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
30845 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
30846 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
30847 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
30848 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
30849 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
30850 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
30851 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
30852 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
30853 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
30854 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
30855 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
30856 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
30857 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
30858 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
30859 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
30860 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
30861 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
30864 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30865 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
30866 based on the time during which we were active and not in
30867 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
30868 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
30869 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
30870 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
30871 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
30873 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30874 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
30875 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
30876 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
30877 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
30878 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
30879 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
30880 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
30881 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
30882 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
30885 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
30886 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
30887 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
30888 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
30890 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
30891 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
30892 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
30893 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
30894 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
30895 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
30896 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
30897 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
30898 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
30899 the longest-lived bug prize.
30900 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
30901 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
30902 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
30903 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
30904 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
30905 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
30907 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
30908 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
30909 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
30910 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
30911 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
30912 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
30916 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30917 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
30918 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
30919 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
30920 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
30921 got suppressed since the last warning.
30922 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
30923 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
30924 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
30925 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
30926 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
30927 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
30928 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
30929 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
30930 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
30931 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
30932 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
30933 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
30934 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
30935 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
30936 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
30937 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
30938 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
30939 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
30940 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
30942 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
30943 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
30944 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
30946 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30947 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
30948 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
30949 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
30950 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
30951 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
30952 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
30953 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
30954 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
30955 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
30956 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
30957 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
30958 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
30959 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
30960 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
30962 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
30963 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
30964 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
30965 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
30966 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
30967 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30968 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
30970 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
30971 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
30972 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
30973 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
30974 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
30977 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30978 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
30979 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
30980 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
30981 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
30982 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
30983 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
30984 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
30985 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
30986 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
30987 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30988 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
30989 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
30990 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
30991 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
30992 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
30993 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
30994 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
30997 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
31000 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
31001 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
31002 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
31003 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
31004 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
31008 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
31009 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
31010 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
31011 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
31012 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
31013 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
31014 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
31015 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
31016 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
31017 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
31018 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
31019 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
31020 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
31021 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
31022 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
31023 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
31024 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
31027 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
31028 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
31029 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
31030 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
31031 they first get the Guard flag.
31032 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
31036 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
31037 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
31038 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
31039 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
31040 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
31041 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
31042 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
31043 Patch from mingw-san.
31044 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
31045 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
31047 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
31048 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
31049 Implements enhancement 1790.
31051 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
31052 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
31053 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
31054 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
31055 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
31056 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
31057 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
31058 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
31059 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
31060 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
31061 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
31062 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
31063 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
31064 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
31065 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
31066 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
31067 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
31068 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
31069 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
31070 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
31072 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
31073 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
31074 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
31075 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
31076 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
31077 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
31078 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
31079 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
31080 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
31081 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
31082 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
31083 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
31084 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
31086 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
31087 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
31088 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
31089 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
31090 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
31091 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31093 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31094 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
31095 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
31096 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
31097 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
31098 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
31099 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
31100 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
31101 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
31102 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
31103 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
31104 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
31106 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
31107 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
31108 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
31109 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
31110 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
31111 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
31112 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
31114 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
31116 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
31117 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31118 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
31119 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
31120 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
31121 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
31123 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31124 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
31125 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
31126 structures and defines in or.h for now.
31127 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
31128 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
31129 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
31130 statistics code to be more easily tested.
31131 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
31132 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
31133 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
31136 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
31137 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
31138 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
31139 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
31140 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
31141 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
31145 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
31146 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
31147 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
31148 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
31149 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
31150 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
31151 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
31152 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
31153 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
31154 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
31155 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
31156 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
31157 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
31159 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
31160 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
31161 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
31162 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
31163 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
31164 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
31165 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
31166 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
31167 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
31168 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
31169 can be controlled by the consensus.
31172 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
31173 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
31174 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
31175 more accurate data for many African countries.
31176 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
31177 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
31178 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
31179 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
31180 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
31181 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
31182 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
31183 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
31184 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
31185 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
31186 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
31187 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
31189 o New directory authorities:
31190 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
31194 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
31195 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
31196 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
31197 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
31198 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
31199 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
31200 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
31201 what should go in a patch.
31202 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
31203 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
31204 over our stored history.
31205 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
31206 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
31207 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
31208 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
31209 file. Fixes bug 1296.
31210 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
31211 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
31212 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
31216 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
31218 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
31219 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
31220 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
31221 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
31222 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
31223 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
31224 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
31225 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
31226 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
31227 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
31228 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
31229 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31230 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
31231 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
31232 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
31233 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
31234 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
31235 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
31236 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
31237 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
31238 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
31239 two-hop circuits are actually created.
31240 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
31241 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31242 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
31243 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31246 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
31247 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
31248 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
31249 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
31250 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
31252 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
31253 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
31256 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
31257 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
31258 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
31259 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
31260 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
31261 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
31262 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
31263 their directory fetches over TLS).
31264 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
31265 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
31266 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
31267 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
31268 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
31269 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
31270 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
31271 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
31274 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
31275 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
31279 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
31280 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31281 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
31282 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
31283 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
31284 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
31285 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31288 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
31289 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
31290 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
31291 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
31292 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
31295 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
31296 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
31297 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
31298 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
31299 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
31300 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
31301 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
31302 their directory fetches over TLS).
31305 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
31306 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
31308 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
31309 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
31310 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
31311 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
31312 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
31313 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
31314 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
31315 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
31316 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
31317 hour of their uptime.
31320 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
31321 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
31322 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
31326 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
31327 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
31328 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
31329 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
31330 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
31331 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
31333 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
31334 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
31335 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
31337 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
31338 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
31342 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
31343 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
31344 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
31348 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
31349 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
31350 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
31353 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
31354 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
31355 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
31356 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
31357 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
31358 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
31359 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
31360 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
31361 about the option without breaking older ones.
31362 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
31363 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
31364 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
31365 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
31368 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
31369 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
31370 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
31371 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
31373 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
31374 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
31375 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
31378 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
31379 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
31381 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
31382 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
31383 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
31384 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
31385 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
31386 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
31387 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31388 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
31389 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
31390 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
31391 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
31394 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
31395 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31396 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
31397 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
31398 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
31399 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
31400 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31403 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
31404 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
31405 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
31406 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
31407 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
31408 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
31411 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
31412 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
31413 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
31414 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
31416 o Major features (performance):
31417 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
31418 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
31419 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
31420 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
31421 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
31422 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
31423 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
31425 o Minor features (performance):
31426 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
31427 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
31428 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
31429 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
31430 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
31434 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
31435 speeds up the build considerably.
31437 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31438 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
31439 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31440 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
31441 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31442 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
31443 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
31444 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31446 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
31447 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
31448 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
31450 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
31451 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
31452 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
31453 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
31455 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31456 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
31457 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
31458 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
31459 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
31460 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
31463 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
31464 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
31465 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
31467 o Directory authority changes:
31468 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
31469 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
31470 service directory authority) from the list.
31473 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
31474 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
31475 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
31476 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
31477 libraries in a security patch.
31478 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
31479 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
31480 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
31481 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
31483 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
31484 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
31485 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
31486 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
31487 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
31488 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
31489 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
31492 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
31493 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
31494 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
31495 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
31496 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
31497 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
31498 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
31499 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
31500 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
31501 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
31502 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
31503 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
31504 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
31506 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
31507 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
31508 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
31509 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
31510 control-spec.txt said they were.
31511 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
31512 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
31513 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
31514 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
31515 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31517 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31518 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
31519 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
31520 produce nicer HTML.
31521 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
31522 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
31523 iPhone SDK versions.
31524 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
31525 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
31526 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
31527 projects directory in svn.
31528 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
31529 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
31530 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
31531 high latency links.
31534 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
31535 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
31536 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
31538 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
31539 to the circuit build timeout.
31540 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
31541 arguments we do not recognize.
31542 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
31543 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
31544 open() without checking it.
31547 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
31548 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
31549 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
31550 several minor potential security bugs.
31553 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
31554 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
31555 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
31556 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
31557 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
31558 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
31559 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
31562 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
31563 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
31565 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
31566 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
31567 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
31568 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
31572 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
31573 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
31577 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
31578 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
31579 customized patches to run/build.
31582 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
31583 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
31584 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
31587 o Major bugfixes (performance):
31588 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
31589 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
31590 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
31591 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
31592 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
31593 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
31594 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
31597 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
31598 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
31599 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
31600 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
31601 libraries in a security patch.
31602 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
31603 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
31604 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
31605 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
31608 o Directory authority changes:
31609 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
31610 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
31611 service directory authority) from the list.
31614 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
31615 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
31618 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
31619 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
31620 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
31621 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
31622 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
31625 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
31626 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
31627 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
31631 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
31632 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
31633 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
31634 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
31635 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31638 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
31639 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
31640 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
31644 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
31645 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
31646 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
31647 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
31648 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
31650 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
31651 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
31653 o Directory authority changes:
31654 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
31657 o Major features (performance):
31658 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
31659 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
31660 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
31661 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
31662 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
31663 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
31664 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
31665 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
31666 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
31667 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
31668 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
31669 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
31670 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
31672 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
31673 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
31674 but never per-conn write limits.
31675 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
31676 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
31677 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
31678 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
31680 o Major features (relay selection options):
31681 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
31682 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
31683 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
31684 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
31685 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
31686 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
31687 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
31689 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
31690 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
31692 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
31693 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
31694 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
31695 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
31696 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
31697 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
31698 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
31699 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
31700 the network changes.
31703 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
31704 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
31705 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31708 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
31709 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
31710 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
31711 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
31712 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
31713 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
31714 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
31715 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
31716 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
31717 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
31718 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
31719 generated while acting as a relay.
31720 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
31721 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
31722 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
31723 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
31724 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
31725 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
31727 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
31728 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
31729 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
31730 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
31731 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
31732 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
31735 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
31736 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
31737 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
31739 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
31740 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
31741 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
31743 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
31744 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
31746 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
31747 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
31748 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
31750 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
31751 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
31754 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31755 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
31756 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
31757 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
31758 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
31759 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
31760 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
31761 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
31762 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
31764 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
31767 o Removed features:
31768 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
31769 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
31770 hidden service usage.
31773 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
31774 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
31775 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
31776 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
31777 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
31779 o Directory authority changes:
31780 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
31784 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
31785 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
31786 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31789 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
31790 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
31791 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
31792 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
31793 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
31796 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
31797 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31798 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
31799 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
31800 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
31801 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
31802 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
31805 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
31806 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
31807 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31808 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
31809 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
31810 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
31812 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
31813 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
31816 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
31817 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
31818 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
31819 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
31820 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
31821 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
31824 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
31825 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
31826 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
31828 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
31829 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
31830 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
31831 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
31832 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
31833 download consensus + microdescriptors".
31834 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
31835 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
31836 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
31837 hash algorithm in the future.
31838 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
31839 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
31840 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
31841 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
31842 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
31843 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
31844 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
31845 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
31846 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
31849 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
31850 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31851 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
31852 won't work unless we say we are.
31855 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
31856 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
31857 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
31858 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
31859 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
31860 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
31861 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
31862 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
31863 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31864 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
31865 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
31866 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
31867 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
31868 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
31869 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
31870 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
31871 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
31872 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
31873 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
31874 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
31875 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
31876 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
31879 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
31880 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
31881 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
31882 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
31884 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
31885 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
31887 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
31888 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
31889 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
31890 in the Vidalia Settings window.
31893 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
31894 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
31895 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
31896 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
31897 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
31899 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
31900 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
31902 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
31903 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
31904 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
31907 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
31908 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
31909 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
31911 o New directory authorities:
31912 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
31914 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
31917 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
31918 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
31920 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
31921 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
31922 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31923 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
31924 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
31925 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
31926 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31927 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
31928 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
31929 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
31930 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
31931 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
31932 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
31933 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
31934 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
31935 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
31936 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
31938 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
31939 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
31940 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
31942 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
31943 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
31947 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
31948 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
31949 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
31950 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
31951 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
31954 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
31955 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31958 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31960 o Directory authorities:
31961 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
31965 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
31966 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
31967 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
31968 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
31969 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
31972 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
31973 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
31974 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
31975 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
31977 o New directory authorities:
31978 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
31981 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
31982 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
31983 SSL handshake issues.
31984 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
31985 during the TLS handshake.
31986 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
31987 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
31988 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
31989 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
31990 none of which are very big.
31993 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
31995 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
31996 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31997 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
31998 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
31999 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
32000 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
32001 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
32002 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
32005 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32006 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
32007 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
32008 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
32009 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
32012 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
32013 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
32016 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
32017 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
32020 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
32021 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
32022 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
32025 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
32026 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
32027 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
32028 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
32029 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
32030 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
32033 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
32034 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
32035 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
32036 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
32037 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
32038 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
32039 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
32040 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
32041 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
32042 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
32043 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
32044 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
32045 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
32046 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
32047 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
32048 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
32049 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
32050 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
32053 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
32054 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
32058 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
32059 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
32060 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
32061 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
32062 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
32063 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
32064 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32065 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
32066 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
32067 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
32068 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32069 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
32070 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
32071 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
32072 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
32073 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
32074 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
32075 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
32076 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
32077 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
32078 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
32080 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
32081 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
32082 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
32083 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32084 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
32085 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
32087 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
32088 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
32089 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
32092 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
32093 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
32094 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
32095 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
32096 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
32097 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
32100 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
32101 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
32102 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
32103 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
32104 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
32107 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
32108 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
32109 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
32112 o New directory authorities:
32113 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
32117 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
32118 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
32119 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
32120 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
32121 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
32124 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
32125 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
32126 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
32127 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
32128 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
32131 o New options for gathering stats safely:
32132 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
32133 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
32134 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
32135 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
32136 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
32137 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
32138 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
32139 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
32140 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
32142 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
32143 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
32144 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
32145 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
32147 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
32148 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
32149 their extra-info documents.
32152 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
32153 source files Tor was built with.
32154 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
32155 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
32156 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
32157 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
32158 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
32159 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
32161 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
32162 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
32163 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
32164 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
32165 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
32167 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
32168 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
32171 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
32172 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
32173 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
32174 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
32175 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
32177 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
32178 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
32180 o Deprecated and removed features:
32181 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
32182 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
32183 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
32184 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
32185 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
32186 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
32187 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
32188 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
32190 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
32191 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
32192 via application-level web tricks.
32194 o Packaging changes:
32195 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
32196 installer bundles. See
32197 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
32198 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
32199 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
32200 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
32201 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
32202 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
32203 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
32204 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
32205 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
32206 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
32207 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
32208 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
32211 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
32212 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
32213 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
32216 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
32217 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
32218 part of patch provided by "optimist".
32221 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
32222 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
32223 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
32224 and confuse fewer users.
32227 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
32228 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
32229 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
32230 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
32231 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
32232 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
32233 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
32236 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
32237 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
32238 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
32239 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
32240 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
32241 other features and bug fixes.
32244 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
32247 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
32248 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
32249 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
32250 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
32251 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
32254 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
32255 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
32256 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
32257 failure message (oops).
32260 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
32261 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
32262 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
32263 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
32267 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
32268 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
32269 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
32270 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
32271 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
32272 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
32273 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32274 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
32275 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
32276 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
32277 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
32278 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
32279 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
32280 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
32281 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
32284 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
32285 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
32286 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
32287 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
32288 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
32289 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
32290 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
32291 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
32292 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
32293 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
32294 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
32295 Workaround for bug 1024.
32296 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
32300 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
32301 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
32302 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
32305 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
32307 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
32308 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
32309 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
32310 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
32311 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
32314 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
32315 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
32316 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
32317 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
32318 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
32319 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
32320 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
32321 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
32322 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
32323 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
32326 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
32327 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
32328 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
32329 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
32330 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
32331 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
32332 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
32333 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
32336 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
32337 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
32338 a bunch of minor bugs.
32341 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
32342 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
32343 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
32345 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
32346 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
32347 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
32348 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
32350 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
32354 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
32355 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
32356 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
32358 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32359 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
32361 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
32362 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
32364 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
32365 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
32366 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
32367 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
32368 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
32369 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
32370 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
32371 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
32373 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32374 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
32375 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
32377 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
32378 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
32379 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
32380 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
32381 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
32385 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
32386 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
32387 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
32388 of more minor bugs.
32390 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32391 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
32392 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
32393 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
32395 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32396 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
32397 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
32398 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32399 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
32400 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
32401 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
32402 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
32403 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
32404 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
32405 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
32406 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32407 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
32408 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
32409 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
32410 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
32411 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
32413 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
32414 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
32415 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
32416 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32418 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32419 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
32420 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
32423 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
32424 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
32425 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
32426 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
32427 addresses to fall out of the directory.
32430 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
32431 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
32432 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
32433 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
32435 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
32436 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
32437 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
32438 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
32439 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
32440 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
32441 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
32442 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
32443 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
32444 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
32445 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
32446 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
32447 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
32448 patch by Sebastian.
32449 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
32450 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
32453 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
32454 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
32455 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
32456 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
32457 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
32458 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
32460 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
32461 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
32462 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
32463 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
32464 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
32466 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
32469 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
32470 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
32472 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
32473 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
32474 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32475 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32476 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
32477 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
32479 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
32480 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32481 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
32482 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
32483 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
32484 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32485 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
32486 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
32487 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
32488 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
32489 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
32490 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
32494 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
32495 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
32496 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
32499 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
32500 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
32501 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32503 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
32504 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
32505 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
32506 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
32507 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
32508 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
32509 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
32510 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
32511 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
32512 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
32513 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
32514 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32515 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
32516 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
32517 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
32518 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
32519 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
32520 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
32521 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
32522 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
32523 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
32524 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
32525 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
32526 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
32527 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
32528 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
32530 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
32531 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
32532 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
32533 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
32534 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
32535 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
32536 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
32537 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
32538 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
32539 of 0. Suggested by lark.
32541 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32542 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
32543 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
32544 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
32545 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
32548 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
32550 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
32551 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
32552 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
32553 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
32556 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
32557 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
32558 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
32559 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
32560 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
32562 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
32563 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
32564 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
32565 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
32568 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
32569 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32570 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
32571 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
32572 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
32573 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
32574 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
32575 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
32578 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
32579 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
32580 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
32581 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
32584 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
32585 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
32586 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
32587 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
32588 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
32589 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
32592 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
32593 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32594 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
32595 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
32596 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
32597 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32600 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
32601 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
32602 reported by Matt Edman.
32603 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
32605 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
32606 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
32607 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
32608 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
32610 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
32611 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32612 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
32613 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32614 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
32615 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
32616 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
32617 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
32618 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
32619 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
32620 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
32621 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
32622 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
32623 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32624 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
32625 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32626 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
32627 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
32628 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32631 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
32632 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
32633 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
32634 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
32637 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
32638 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
32639 the letter of C99's alias rules.
32642 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
32643 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
32644 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
32645 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
32647 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
32648 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
32649 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
32652 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
32653 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
32656 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
32657 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
32658 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
32659 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
32660 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
32661 reported by "wood".
32662 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
32663 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
32664 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
32665 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
32666 identify a connection.
32667 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
32668 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
32669 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
32670 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
32671 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
32672 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
32673 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32674 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
32675 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
32676 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
32678 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
32679 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
32680 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
32681 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
32682 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
32683 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
32684 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
32687 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
32688 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
32690 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
32691 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
32692 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
32693 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
32694 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
32695 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
32696 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32697 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
32699 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
32700 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
32701 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
32702 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
32703 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
32704 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
32705 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
32706 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
32707 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
32708 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
32709 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
32710 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
32711 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
32712 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
32713 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32714 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
32715 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
32716 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32717 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
32718 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
32719 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
32720 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
32721 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
32722 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
32723 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
32724 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
32725 840. Patch from rovv.
32726 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
32727 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
32728 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
32730 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
32731 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
32732 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
32733 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
32734 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
32735 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
32736 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
32738 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32739 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
32740 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
32743 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
32744 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
32746 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
32747 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
32748 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
32749 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
32750 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
32751 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
32752 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
32753 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
32754 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
32756 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
32758 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
32759 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
32763 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
32764 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
32765 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
32766 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
32767 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
32768 have had some time to upgrade.)
32771 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
32772 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
32775 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
32776 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
32777 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
32778 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
32779 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
32782 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
32783 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
32785 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
32786 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32787 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
32788 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
32789 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
32790 entirely. Patch from coderman.
32793 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
32794 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
32795 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
32796 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
32797 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
32798 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32799 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
32803 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
32804 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
32805 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
32806 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
32807 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
32808 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
32809 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
32812 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
32813 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
32814 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
32815 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
32816 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
32818 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
32819 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
32820 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
32821 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
32822 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
32823 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
32824 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32825 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
32826 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
32827 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
32831 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
32832 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
32833 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
32835 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
32836 without support for deprecated functions.
32837 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
32839 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32840 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
32841 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
32842 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
32843 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32844 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
32845 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
32846 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
32847 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
32848 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
32849 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
32850 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
32851 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
32852 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
32853 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
32854 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
32855 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
32856 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
32857 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
32858 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
32859 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
32860 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
32861 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
32863 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32864 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
32865 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
32866 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
32867 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
32868 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
32870 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
32871 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
32872 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
32873 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
32874 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
32876 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
32877 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
32878 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
32880 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
32881 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
32884 o Deprecated and removed features:
32885 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
32886 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
32887 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
32890 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32891 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
32892 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
32893 with log.h on Android.
32894 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
32895 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
32898 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
32899 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
32901 o New directory authorities:
32902 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
32906 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
32907 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
32908 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
32909 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
32910 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
32911 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32914 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
32915 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
32916 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
32917 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
32918 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
32919 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
32920 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
32921 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
32922 reported by "wood".
32923 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
32924 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
32925 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
32926 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
32929 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
32930 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
32932 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
32933 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
32934 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
32935 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
32936 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
32937 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
32938 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
32939 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
32940 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
32941 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
32942 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
32943 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
32944 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
32945 Implements proposal 148.
32946 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
32947 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
32948 system to do it for us.
32949 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
32950 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
32951 this fix will be slightly helpful.
32952 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
32953 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
32954 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
32955 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
32956 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
32957 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
32958 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
32959 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
32960 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
32963 o Minor features (controller):
32964 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
32965 been fetched and validated.
32966 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
32967 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
32968 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
32969 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
32970 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
32971 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
32974 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
32975 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32976 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
32977 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
32978 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
32980 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
32981 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
32982 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32983 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
32984 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
32985 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32986 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
32987 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
32988 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
32990 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32991 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
32992 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
32993 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
32994 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
32995 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
32996 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
32997 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
32999 o Deprecated and removed features:
33000 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
33002 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
33003 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
33004 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
33006 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33007 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
33008 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
33010 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
33011 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
33012 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
33013 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
33014 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
33015 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
33018 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
33019 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
33020 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
33021 fixes a variety of other issues.
33024 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
33025 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
33026 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
33027 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
33030 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
33031 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
33032 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
33033 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
33036 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
33037 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33038 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
33042 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
33044 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
33045 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
33046 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
33047 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
33048 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
33049 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
33050 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
33052 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
33053 rest, and don't automatically fail.
33054 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
33055 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
33056 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
33057 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
33059 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
33060 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
33061 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
33062 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
33063 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
33064 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
33065 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
33066 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
33067 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
33068 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
33070 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
33074 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
33075 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
33076 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
33078 o Minor features (controller):
33079 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
33083 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
33084 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
33085 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
33086 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
33087 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
33088 variety of other issues.
33091 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
33092 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
33093 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
33094 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
33095 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
33096 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
33097 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
33098 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
33099 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
33100 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
33101 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
33102 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
33105 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
33106 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33108 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
33109 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
33110 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
33111 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
33112 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
33113 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
33114 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
33115 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
33116 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
33117 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
33118 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
33119 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
33120 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
33121 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
33122 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
33126 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
33127 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
33128 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
33129 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
33130 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
33131 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
33132 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
33133 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
33134 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
33135 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
33136 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
33137 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
33138 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
33139 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
33140 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
33141 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
33142 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
33143 list. It has been gone for many months.
33144 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
33145 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
33146 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
33149 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33150 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
33151 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
33154 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
33155 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
33156 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
33157 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
33158 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
33159 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
33160 variety of other issues.
33163 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
33164 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
33165 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
33166 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
33167 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
33168 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
33169 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
33170 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
33171 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
33172 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
33173 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
33174 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
33175 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
33176 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
33179 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
33180 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
33181 Suggested by Lucky Green.
33182 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
33183 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
33184 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
33185 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
33186 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
33187 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
33189 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
33190 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
33192 o Hidden service performance improvements:
33193 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
33194 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
33195 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
33196 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
33197 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
33198 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
33199 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
33200 faster after restart.
33203 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
33204 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
33205 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
33206 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
33207 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
33208 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
33209 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
33210 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
33211 840. Patch from rovv.
33212 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
33213 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
33214 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
33215 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
33216 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
33217 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
33218 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
33219 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
33220 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
33222 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
33223 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
33224 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
33225 have already been marked for close.
33226 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
33227 introduction points.
33228 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
33229 memory performance during directory parsing.
33230 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
33231 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
33232 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
33233 because of a pending download.
33236 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
33237 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
33238 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
33239 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33242 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
33243 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
33244 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
33245 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
33246 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
33247 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
33248 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
33249 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
33250 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
33251 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
33252 lookups more reliable.
33253 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
33254 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
33255 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
33256 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
33257 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
33258 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
33259 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
33262 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
33263 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
33264 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33265 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
33266 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
33267 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
33268 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
33269 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
33270 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
33271 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
33272 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
33274 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
33275 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
33276 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
33277 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
33278 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
33279 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
33280 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
33281 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
33282 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33285 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
33286 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
33287 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
33288 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
33289 locked down these days.
33290 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
33291 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
33292 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
33293 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
33294 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
33296 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
33297 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
33298 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
33299 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
33300 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
33301 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
33302 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
33303 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
33304 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
33305 people find host:port too confusing.
33306 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
33307 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
33308 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
33311 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33313 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
33314 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
33315 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
33316 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
33317 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
33319 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
33320 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
33321 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
33322 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
33323 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
33324 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
33325 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
33326 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
33327 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
33328 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
33329 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
33330 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
33332 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
33333 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
33334 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
33335 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
33336 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
33337 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
33338 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
33339 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
33340 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
33342 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
33343 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
33344 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
33345 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
33346 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
33347 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33348 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
33349 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
33350 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
33351 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
33352 bug 820, reported by seeess.
33353 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
33354 list. It has been gone for many months.
33356 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33357 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
33358 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
33359 actual mistakes we're making here.
33360 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
33361 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
33362 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
33363 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
33366 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
33367 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
33368 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
33369 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33372 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
33373 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
33374 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
33375 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
33376 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
33377 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
33379 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
33380 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
33381 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
33382 pointed out by rovv.
33385 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
33386 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33387 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
33388 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33389 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
33390 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
33391 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
33392 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
33393 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
33394 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33395 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
33396 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
33397 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
33398 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33399 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
33400 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
33401 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
33402 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
33403 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
33404 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
33405 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
33408 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
33409 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
33410 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
33411 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
33412 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
33413 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
33414 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33417 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
33419 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
33420 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
33421 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
33422 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
33423 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
33424 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
33425 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
33427 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
33428 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
33429 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
33430 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
33431 known descriptor before building circuits.
33433 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
33434 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
33435 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
33436 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
33437 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
33438 identify a connection.
33439 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
33440 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
33441 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
33443 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
33444 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
33445 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
33446 pointed out by rovv.
33449 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
33450 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33451 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
33452 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
33453 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
33454 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33455 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
33456 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33457 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
33458 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
33459 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
33460 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
33461 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
33462 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
33463 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33466 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
33467 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
33468 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
33469 answer sections match.
33470 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
33471 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
33474 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
33475 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33478 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
33479 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
33480 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
33482 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
33483 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
33484 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33487 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
33488 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
33489 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
33490 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
33493 o Removed features:
33494 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
33495 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
33498 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
33499 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
33500 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
33501 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
33502 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
33503 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
33505 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
33506 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
33507 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
33510 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
33511 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
33512 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
33513 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
33514 be sent using an "early" cell.
33517 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
33518 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
33519 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
33520 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
33521 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
33522 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
33523 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
33526 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
33527 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
33528 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
33529 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
33530 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
33531 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
33532 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
33533 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
33534 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
33535 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
33536 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
33537 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
33538 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
33539 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
33540 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
33541 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
33544 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
33545 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
33546 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
33547 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
33548 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
33549 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
33550 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
33551 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
33552 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
33554 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
33555 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
33556 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
33557 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
33558 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
33561 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33562 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
33563 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
33564 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
33566 o Removed features:
33567 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
33568 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
33572 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
33574 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
33575 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
33576 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
33579 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
33580 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
33581 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
33584 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
33585 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
33586 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33587 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
33588 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33589 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
33590 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
33591 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
33592 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33593 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
33594 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
33595 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
33596 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
33597 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
33598 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
33599 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
33600 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
33601 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
33602 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
33603 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
33604 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
33605 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
33606 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
33609 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
33610 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
33612 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
33613 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
33614 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
33615 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
33616 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
33617 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
33618 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
33620 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
33621 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
33622 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
33623 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
33624 found by Geoff Goodell.
33627 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
33628 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
33629 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
33630 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
33631 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
33632 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
33635 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
33636 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
33637 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
33640 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
33641 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
33642 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33643 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
33644 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33645 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
33646 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
33647 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
33648 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33649 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
33650 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
33651 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
33652 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
33653 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
33656 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
33657 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
33658 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
33660 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
33661 fingerprints with or without space.
33662 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
33663 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
33664 partway through and wants to catch up.
33665 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
33666 state to start out in.
33669 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
33670 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
33671 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
33672 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
33673 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
33676 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
33677 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
33678 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
33679 some of the connection attempts fail.
33680 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
33681 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
33682 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
33683 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
33684 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
33685 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
33687 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
33688 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
33689 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
33692 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
33693 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
33694 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
33695 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
33696 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
33697 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
33698 and adds a variety of smaller features.
33701 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
33702 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
33703 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
33704 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
33706 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
33707 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
33708 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
33709 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
33711 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
33712 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
33713 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
33714 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
33715 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
33716 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
33717 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
33720 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
33721 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
33722 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
33723 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
33724 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
33726 o Memory fixes and improvements:
33727 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
33728 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
33729 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
33730 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
33731 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
33732 on a typical directory cache.
33733 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
33734 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
33735 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
33736 and may reduce fragmentation.
33737 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
33738 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
33739 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
33741 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
33742 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
33743 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
33745 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
33746 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
33750 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
33751 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
33752 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
33753 done that for a long time.
33754 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
33755 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
33756 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
33757 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
33760 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
33761 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
33762 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
33763 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
33764 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
33765 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
33767 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
33768 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
33769 output to messages of warning and error severity.
33770 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
33771 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
33772 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
33773 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
33774 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
33775 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
33776 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
33777 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
33778 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
33779 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
33780 directory requests we should expect to see.
33781 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
33783 - Lots of new unit tests.
33784 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
33785 two parallel lists in lockstep.
33788 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
33789 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
33790 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
33793 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
33794 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
33795 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
33796 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
33797 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
33798 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
33799 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
33802 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
33803 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
33804 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
33808 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
33809 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
33810 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
33813 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
33814 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
33815 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
33817 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
33818 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
33820 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
33821 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
33822 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
33823 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
33824 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33825 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
33826 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
33828 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
33829 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
33830 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
33831 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
33832 - Fix compile on Windows.
33835 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
33836 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
33837 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
33838 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
33839 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
33840 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
33841 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
33844 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
33845 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
33848 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
33849 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
33850 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
33851 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
33853 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
33854 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
33855 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
33858 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
33859 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
33860 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
33861 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
33865 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
33866 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
33867 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
33868 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
33870 o Major security fixes:
33871 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
33872 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
33873 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
33874 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
33875 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
33878 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
33879 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33882 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
33883 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
33886 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
33887 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
33890 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
33891 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
33892 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
33895 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
33896 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33899 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
33900 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
33901 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
33902 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
33903 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
33905 o New directory authorities:
33906 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
33907 it has been down for months.
33908 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
33912 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
33913 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
33915 o Minor features (security):
33916 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
33917 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
33918 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
33921 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
33922 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
33923 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
33924 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
33925 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
33926 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
33927 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
33928 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
33929 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33931 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
33932 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
33933 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33934 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
33935 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
33936 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
33937 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33938 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
33939 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
33941 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33942 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
33943 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
33944 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
33945 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
33946 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
33947 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
33948 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
33949 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
33950 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
33951 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33952 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
33953 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
33954 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
33955 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
33956 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
33957 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
33958 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
33959 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
33962 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
33963 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33964 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
33965 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
33968 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
33969 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
33970 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
33971 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
33974 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
33975 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33976 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
33977 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
33978 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
33981 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
33982 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
33983 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
33984 certain censored countries by default again.
33987 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
33988 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33989 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
33990 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
33991 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33992 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
33993 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
33994 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
33996 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
33997 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
33998 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
33999 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
34000 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
34001 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
34002 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
34003 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
34004 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
34005 a directory. Fix from lodger.
34007 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
34008 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
34009 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
34010 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
34011 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
34012 RelayBandwidth* values.
34013 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
34014 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
34015 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
34016 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
34017 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
34018 get_interface_address6().
34019 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
34020 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
34021 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
34023 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
34024 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
34025 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
34026 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34027 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
34028 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
34029 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
34030 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
34031 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
34032 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34035 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
34036 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
34037 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
34040 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
34041 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
34042 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
34043 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
34044 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
34047 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
34048 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
34049 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
34050 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
34051 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
34052 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
34053 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
34054 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
34055 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
34058 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
34059 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
34060 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
34061 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
34064 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
34065 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
34066 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
34067 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
34068 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
34069 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
34070 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
34073 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
34074 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
34075 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
34076 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
34077 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
34078 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
34079 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
34081 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
34082 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
34083 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
34084 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
34085 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
34088 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
34089 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
34090 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
34091 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
34092 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
34093 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
34094 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34095 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
34096 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
34097 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
34098 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
34099 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
34100 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
34101 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
34102 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
34103 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34104 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
34105 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34106 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34107 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
34108 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
34109 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
34110 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
34111 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
34112 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
34113 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
34115 o Minor features (performance):
34116 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
34118 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
34119 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
34120 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
34121 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
34122 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
34123 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
34124 non-system include paths.
34125 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
34126 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
34129 o Minor features (other):
34130 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
34132 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
34133 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
34134 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
34137 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
34138 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
34139 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
34140 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
34142 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
34143 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
34144 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
34145 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
34146 Should fix bug 537.
34147 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
34148 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
34149 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34150 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
34151 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34153 o Minor bugfixes (other):
34154 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
34155 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
34156 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
34157 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
34158 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
34159 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
34160 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
34161 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
34162 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
34163 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
34164 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
34165 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
34166 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
34167 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
34168 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34169 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
34170 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
34171 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
34172 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
34173 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
34174 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
34175 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
34176 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
34177 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
34180 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34181 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
34182 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
34186 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
34187 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
34188 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
34189 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
34190 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
34193 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
34194 Tor's x509 certificates.
34197 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
34198 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
34199 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34200 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
34201 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
34202 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34204 o Minor features (security):
34205 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
34206 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
34208 o Minor features (directory authority):
34209 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
34210 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
34211 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
34212 bandwidthburst values.
34214 o Minor features (controller):
34215 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
34216 processes from running us out of memory.
34218 o Minor features (misc):
34219 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
34220 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
34221 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
34222 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
34224 o Deprecated features (controller):
34225 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
34226 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
34227 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
34230 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
34231 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
34233 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
34234 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
34235 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34236 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
34237 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
34238 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34239 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
34240 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
34242 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
34243 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34244 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
34245 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34246 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
34247 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
34248 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
34249 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
34251 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
34252 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
34253 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
34254 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
34255 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34256 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
34257 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34258 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
34259 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34260 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
34261 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
34262 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34264 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34265 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
34267 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
34268 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
34269 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
34270 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
34271 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
34272 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
34275 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
34276 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
34277 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
34278 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
34279 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
34281 o New directory authorities:
34282 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
34286 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
34287 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
34288 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
34289 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
34290 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
34291 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
34292 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
34293 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
34297 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
34298 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
34299 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
34300 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
34301 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
34302 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
34303 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
34304 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
34305 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
34306 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
34309 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
34310 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
34311 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
34312 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
34316 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
34317 the request isn't encrypted.
34318 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
34319 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
34320 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
34321 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
34322 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
34325 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
34326 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
34329 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
34332 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
34333 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
34334 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
34336 o New directory authorities:
34337 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
34340 o Major performance improvements:
34341 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
34342 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
34343 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
34344 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
34345 memory fragmentation.
34348 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
34349 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
34350 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
34351 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
34352 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
34353 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
34354 bodies when they receive them.
34355 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
34356 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
34357 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
34359 o Minor performance improvements:
34360 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
34361 of them were actually distinct.
34362 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
34363 interested in a given message.
34366 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
34367 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
34368 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
34369 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
34370 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
34371 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
34372 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
34373 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
34374 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
34375 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
34376 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
34378 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
34379 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
34380 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
34381 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
34382 this country" and "1 person from this country".
34383 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
34384 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
34385 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
34386 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
34387 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
34389 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
34390 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
34391 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
34393 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
34394 but client versions are not.
34395 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
34396 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
34398 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
34399 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
34400 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
34401 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
34402 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
34404 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
34405 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
34406 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
34409 o Minor features (controller):
34410 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
34411 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
34412 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
34413 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
34415 o Minor features (directory authorities):
34416 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
34417 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
34418 running a test network on a single host.
34419 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
34420 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
34422 o Minor features (bridges):
34423 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
34424 unencrypted connections.
34426 o Minor features (other):
34427 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
34428 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
34429 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
34430 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
34433 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
34434 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
34435 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
34436 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
34439 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
34440 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
34441 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
34442 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
34443 on network address.
34446 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
34447 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
34448 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
34449 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
34450 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
34451 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
34452 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
34453 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
34454 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
34455 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
34456 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
34457 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
34460 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
34461 rebuild our server descriptor.
34462 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
34463 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
34464 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
34465 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
34466 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
34467 nonstandard integer types.
34468 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
34469 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
34470 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
34471 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
34472 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
34474 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
34475 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
34476 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
34477 when they receive them.
34478 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
34479 This includes some 64-bit systems.
34480 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
34481 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
34482 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
34483 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
34484 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
34485 router_get_by_hexdigest().
34486 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
34487 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
34491 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
34492 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
34493 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
34496 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
34497 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
34498 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
34499 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
34500 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
34501 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
34502 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
34503 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34506 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
34507 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
34508 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
34509 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
34511 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
34512 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
34515 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
34516 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
34519 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
34521 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
34522 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
34524 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
34525 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
34526 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
34527 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34528 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
34529 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
34530 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
34531 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
34532 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
34533 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
34537 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
34538 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
34539 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
34542 - Make the unit tests build again.
34543 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
34544 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
34545 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
34546 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
34547 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
34548 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34549 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
34550 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
34551 the next one as a duplicate.
34554 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
34555 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
34556 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
34557 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
34560 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
34561 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
34562 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
34565 o New directory authorities:
34566 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
34570 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
34571 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
34572 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
34573 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
34574 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
34575 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
34576 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
34578 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
34579 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
34581 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
34582 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
34583 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
34584 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
34585 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
34586 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
34588 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
34589 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
34590 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
34591 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
34592 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
34593 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34596 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
34597 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
34598 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
34599 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
34600 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
34601 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
34602 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
34603 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
34604 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
34605 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
34606 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
34607 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
34608 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
34609 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
34610 where Tor is blocked.
34611 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
34612 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
34613 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
34614 to a file periodically.
34615 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
34616 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
34617 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
34621 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
34622 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
34623 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
34624 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
34625 in the relevant networkstatus document.
34626 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
34627 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
34628 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34629 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
34630 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
34631 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
34632 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
34633 by Karsten Loesing.
34634 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
34635 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
34636 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
34637 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
34638 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
34639 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34640 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
34641 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
34642 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
34643 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34644 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
34645 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
34646 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
34647 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34648 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
34649 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
34650 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
34651 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
34652 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
34653 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34654 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34655 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
34656 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34657 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
34658 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
34659 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34660 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
34661 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34664 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
34665 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
34666 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
34667 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
34668 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
34669 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
34670 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
34671 even if your DirPort isn't on.
34672 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
34673 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
34674 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
34676 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
34677 multiple controller passwords.
34678 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
34679 router based on the router's purpose.
34680 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
34681 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
34682 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
34683 the approved-routers file.
34686 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
34687 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
34688 well as a few minor bugs.
34691 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
34692 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
34693 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
34695 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
34696 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
34697 rebuild our server descriptor.
34699 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
34700 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
34701 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
34702 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
34703 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
34704 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
34705 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
34706 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
34707 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
34708 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
34710 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
34711 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
34712 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
34713 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
34714 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
34715 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
34716 then be flexible about families.
34719 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
34720 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
34721 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
34725 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
34726 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
34727 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
34728 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
34729 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
34732 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
34733 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
34734 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
34735 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
34736 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34739 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
34740 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
34742 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
34743 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
34744 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
34745 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
34746 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
34747 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
34748 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34750 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
34751 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
34752 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
34753 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
34756 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
34757 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
34760 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
34761 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
34762 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34765 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
34766 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
34767 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
34768 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
34769 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
34770 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
34771 addresses many more minor issues.
34773 o New directory authorities:
34774 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
34777 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
34778 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
34779 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
34780 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
34782 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
34783 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
34784 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
34785 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
34786 and are reaching it.
34787 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
34788 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
34789 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
34790 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
34791 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
34792 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
34795 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
34796 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
34798 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
34799 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
34800 no longer work for clients.
34801 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
34802 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
34804 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
34805 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
34806 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
34807 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
34808 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
34809 enough directory information to build a circuit.
34810 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
34811 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
34812 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
34813 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
34814 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
34815 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
34817 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
34818 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
34819 requests for all of them.
34820 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
34822 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
34823 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
34824 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
34826 o New requirements:
34827 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
34828 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
34832 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
34833 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
34834 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
34835 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
34836 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
34837 networkstatuses that we already have.
34838 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
34839 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
34840 we start knowing some directory caches.
34841 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
34842 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
34843 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
34844 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
34845 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
34846 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
34847 Good in combination with --hash-password.
34848 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
34849 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
34851 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
34852 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
34853 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
34855 o Minor features (bridges):
34856 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
34857 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
34858 back to trying the bridge directly.
34859 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
34860 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
34862 o Minor features (controller):
34863 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
34864 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
34865 report the value as a "minimum skew."
34868 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
34869 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
34873 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
34874 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
34875 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
34876 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
34877 reported by tup and ioerror.
34878 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
34879 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
34881 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
34882 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
34884 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
34885 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
34886 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
34888 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
34889 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34890 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
34891 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34892 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
34893 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34894 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
34896 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
34897 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
34898 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34900 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
34901 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
34902 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
34903 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
34904 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
34907 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
34908 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
34909 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
34910 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
34911 lists for a few hours each day.
34913 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34914 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
34915 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
34916 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
34917 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
34918 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
34919 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
34920 rend_process_relay_cell().
34922 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
34923 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
34924 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
34925 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
34926 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
34927 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
34928 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
34929 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
34931 o Major bugfixes (other):
34932 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
34933 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
34934 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
34935 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
34936 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
34937 circuit cannibalization).
34938 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
34939 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
34940 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
34941 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
34942 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
34943 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
34946 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
34947 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
34949 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
34950 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
34951 absent. Resolves bug 467.
34952 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
34953 a way to trigger this remotely.)
34954 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
34955 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
34956 were reporting the dir port.)
34957 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
34958 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
34959 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
34960 the future. Fixes bug 434.
34961 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
34963 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
34964 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
34965 the onion key from getting rotated.
34966 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
34967 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
34968 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
34969 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
34970 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
34971 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
34972 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
34973 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
34974 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
34977 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
34978 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
34979 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
34980 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
34981 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
34982 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
34984 o Major features (directory system):
34985 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
34986 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
34987 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
34988 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
34989 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
34990 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
34991 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
34992 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
34993 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
34994 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
34995 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
34996 Partially implements proposal 122.
34997 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
34998 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
35001 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
35002 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
35003 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
35004 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
35006 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
35007 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
35008 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
35009 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
35010 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
35011 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35012 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
35013 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
35014 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
35016 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
35017 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
35019 - Allow certificates to include an address.
35020 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
35021 and download operations.
35022 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
35023 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
35024 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
35025 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
35026 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
35027 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
35029 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
35030 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
35033 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
35034 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
35035 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
35036 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
35038 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
35039 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
35040 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
35042 o Minor features (performance):
35043 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
35044 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
35045 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
35046 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
35047 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
35048 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
35049 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
35052 o Minor features (compilation):
35053 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
35054 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
35056 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
35057 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
35058 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
35059 stick around indefinitely.
35060 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
35062 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
35063 v3 directory authority.
35064 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
35065 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
35067 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
35068 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
35069 "moria on moria:9031."
35070 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
35071 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
35072 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
35073 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
35074 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
35075 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
35076 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
35077 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
35079 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
35080 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
35081 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
35082 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
35083 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
35084 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
35085 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
35086 downloads than for other types.
35088 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
35089 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
35091 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
35092 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
35093 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35095 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35096 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
35097 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35098 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
35099 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
35100 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
35101 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
35102 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
35104 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35105 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
35106 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
35107 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
35108 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35109 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
35110 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
35111 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
35112 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
35113 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
35114 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
35116 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
35117 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
35120 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35121 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
35122 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
35123 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
35124 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
35125 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
35126 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
35127 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
35128 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
35129 so that they all take the same named flags.
35132 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
35133 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
35134 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
35137 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
35138 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
35139 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
35140 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
35141 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
35142 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
35144 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
35145 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
35146 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
35147 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
35148 annotations along with descriptors.
35149 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
35150 source, and its purpose.
35151 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
35153 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
35154 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
35155 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
35156 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
35159 o Major features (directory authorities):
35160 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
35162 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
35163 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
35164 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
35165 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
35166 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
35167 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
35169 o Major features (v3 directory system):
35170 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
35171 and download the descriptors listed in them.
35172 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
35173 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
35174 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
35176 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35177 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
35178 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
35179 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
35182 o Major bugfixes (performance):
35183 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
35184 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
35185 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
35186 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
35188 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
35189 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
35190 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
35191 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
35192 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
35193 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
35195 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
35196 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
35198 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
35199 certificate is requested.
35200 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
35201 certificate requests.
35203 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
35204 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
35205 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
35206 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
35209 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35210 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
35211 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
35212 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35214 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
35215 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
35217 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
35218 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
35219 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35220 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
35221 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
35222 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
35223 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
35224 downloads more sensible.
35225 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
35226 another when serving certificates.
35228 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35229 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
35230 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
35231 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
35233 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
35234 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35235 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
35237 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
35238 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35240 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
35241 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
35242 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
35243 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
35244 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35246 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
35247 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
35248 WARN-severity events.
35249 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
35250 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
35251 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
35253 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
35254 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
35255 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
35257 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
35258 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
35259 circuit cannibalization).
35261 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35262 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
35263 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
35264 new module, networkstatus.c.
35265 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
35266 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
35267 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
35268 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
35269 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
35270 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
35271 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
35272 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
35273 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
35275 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
35277 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
35278 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35281 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
35282 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
35283 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
35284 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
35286 o New directory authorities:
35287 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
35288 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
35290 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35291 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
35292 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35294 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
35295 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
35296 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
35297 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
35298 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35299 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
35300 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
35301 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
35302 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
35303 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
35304 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35306 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
35307 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
35308 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
35309 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
35310 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
35311 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
35312 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
35313 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
35314 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
35316 o Minor features (security):
35317 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
35318 address maps to an internal address space.
35319 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
35320 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
35322 o Minor features (guard nodes):
35323 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
35324 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
35325 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
35326 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
35328 o Minor features (speed):
35329 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
35330 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
35331 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
35332 on big-endian hosts.)
35334 o Minor features (controller):
35335 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
35336 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
35337 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
35338 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
35341 o Removed features:
35342 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
35343 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
35344 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
35345 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
35346 implementation of proposal 104.
35347 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
35348 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
35349 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
35350 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
35351 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
35352 patch from Karsten Loesing.
35353 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
35354 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
35357 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
35358 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
35359 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35360 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
35361 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35362 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
35363 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
35364 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
35365 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
35366 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35367 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
35368 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
35369 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
35370 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35371 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
35372 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
35373 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
35374 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35375 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
35376 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
35378 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35379 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
35380 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
35382 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
35383 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
35384 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
35385 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
35388 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
35389 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
35390 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
35391 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
35392 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
35395 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
35396 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
35399 o Major bugfixes (security):
35400 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
35401 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
35402 become more of a headache than it's worth.
35404 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
35405 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
35406 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
35408 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
35409 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
35410 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
35411 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
35412 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
35413 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
35415 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
35416 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
35417 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
35418 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
35419 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
35421 o Minor features (controller):
35422 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
35423 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
35424 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
35425 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35427 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35428 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
35429 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
35430 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
35431 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
35432 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
35433 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
35434 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
35436 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35437 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
35438 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
35439 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
35440 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
35441 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
35442 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
35443 if we ran off the end of the list.
35444 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
35445 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
35446 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
35447 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
35448 every time we change any piece of our config.
35449 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
35450 encourage people using them to stop.
35451 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
35453 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
35454 servers to choose a circuit.
35455 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
35456 unparseable piece of it.
35459 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
35460 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
35461 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
35462 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
35465 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
35466 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
35467 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
35468 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
35469 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
35471 o New directory authorities:
35472 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
35475 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
35476 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
35477 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
35478 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
35480 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
35481 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
35482 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
35484 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
35485 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
35486 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
35487 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
35488 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
35489 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
35491 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
35492 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
35493 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
35496 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
35497 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
35498 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
35499 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
35503 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
35504 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
35505 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
35506 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
35508 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
35509 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
35511 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
35512 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
35513 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
35514 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
35515 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
35516 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
35517 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35518 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
35519 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35520 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
35523 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
35524 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
35525 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
35526 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
35527 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
35528 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
35530 o Removed features:
35531 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
35532 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
35533 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
35534 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
35537 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
35538 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
35539 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
35540 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
35541 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
35544 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
35545 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
35546 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
35547 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
35548 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
35549 reported by lodger.
35551 o Minor features (directory servers):
35552 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
35553 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
35555 o Minor features (directory voting):
35556 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
35559 o Minor features (security):
35560 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
35561 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
35562 encourage people using them to stop.
35564 o Minor features (controller):
35565 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
35566 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
35567 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
35568 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35569 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
35570 cookie authentication file, and config option
35571 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
35573 o Minor features (unit testing):
35574 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
35575 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
35576 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
35577 logging for the unit tests.
35579 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
35580 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
35581 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
35582 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
35583 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
35584 every time we change any piece of our config.
35585 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
35586 the future. Fixes bug 434.
35587 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
35589 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
35590 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
35591 the onion key from getting rotated.
35592 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
35593 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
35594 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
35597 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
35598 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
35599 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
35601 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
35602 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
35603 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
35604 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
35607 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
35608 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
35609 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
35610 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
35611 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
35612 TorK, etc. Or worse.
35614 o Major security fixes:
35615 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
35616 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
35619 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
35620 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
35621 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
35622 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
35624 o Major security fixes:
35625 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
35626 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
35628 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
35629 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
35632 o Minor features (performance):
35633 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
35634 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
35635 performance-intensive.
35636 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
35637 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
35638 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
35639 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
35640 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
35641 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
35645 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
35646 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
35647 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
35648 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
35652 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
35653 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
35654 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
35655 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
35656 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
35658 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
35659 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
35660 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
35661 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
35663 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
35664 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
35665 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
35666 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
35667 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
35669 o Major features (experimental):
35670 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
35671 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
35672 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
35673 handling before it's ready for use.
35676 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
35677 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
35678 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
35679 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35680 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
35681 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
35683 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
35684 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
35685 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
35686 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
35687 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
35689 o Major bugfixes (directory):
35690 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
35691 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35693 o Minor features (controller):
35694 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
35695 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35696 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
35697 from Robert Hogan.)
35698 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
35699 from Robert Hogan.)
35700 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
35701 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
35703 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
35704 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
35705 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
35706 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
35707 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35708 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
35709 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
35712 o Minor features (misc):
35713 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
35715 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
35716 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
35717 the authority identity key.
35718 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
35720 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
35721 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
35722 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
35725 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
35726 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
35727 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
35728 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
35729 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
35730 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
35731 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
35732 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35734 o Performance improvements:
35735 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
35737 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
35738 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
35741 o Deprecated and removed features:
35742 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
35743 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
35744 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
35745 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
35747 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35748 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
35749 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35750 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
35751 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
35752 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35753 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
35754 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
35755 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
35758 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
35759 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
35760 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35761 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
35762 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
35764 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
35765 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
35768 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35769 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
35770 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
35771 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
35772 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
35773 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
35774 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
35775 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
35776 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
35779 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
35780 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
35781 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
35782 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
35784 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
35785 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
35787 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35788 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
35789 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
35790 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
35791 routerlist while inserting a new router.
35792 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
35793 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
35795 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
35796 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
35797 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
35799 o Major bugfixes (security):
35800 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
35802 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
35803 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
35804 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
35805 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
35806 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
35807 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
35808 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
35809 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
35810 guard list unless we need to.
35812 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
35813 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
35814 don't get overused as guards.
35816 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35817 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
35818 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
35819 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
35820 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
35822 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
35823 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
35824 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
35827 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35828 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
35829 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
35830 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
35831 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
35832 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
35833 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
35834 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
35837 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
35838 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
35839 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
35840 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
35842 o Minor features (directory):
35843 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
35844 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
35845 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
35846 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
35848 o Minor build issues:
35849 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
35850 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
35851 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
35852 in the tarball, not as "x".
35855 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
35856 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
35857 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
35858 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
35859 forward on a lot of fronts.
35861 o Major features, server usability:
35862 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
35863 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
35864 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
35865 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
35867 o Major features, client usability:
35868 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
35869 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
35870 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
35871 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
35872 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
35873 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
35874 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
35875 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
35877 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
35878 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
35879 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
35880 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
35881 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
35882 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
35884 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
35885 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
35886 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
35888 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
35889 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
35890 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
35891 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
35892 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
35894 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
35895 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
35896 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
35897 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
35899 o Major features, other:
35900 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
35901 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
35902 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
35903 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
35904 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
35907 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
35908 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
35909 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
35912 o Minor fixes (resource management):
35913 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
35914 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
35915 our allocated connection limit.
35916 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
35917 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
35918 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
35919 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
35920 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
35922 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
35923 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
35924 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
35926 o Minor features (build):
35927 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
35928 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
35929 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
35930 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
35932 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
35933 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
35934 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
35935 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
35936 Use this version consistently in log messages.
35938 o Minor features (logging):
35939 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
35940 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
35941 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
35942 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
35943 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
35946 o Minor features (directory system):
35947 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
35948 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
35949 not to serve V2 directory information.
35950 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
35951 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
35952 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
35954 o Minor features (controller):
35955 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
35956 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
35958 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
35959 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
35960 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
35961 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
35962 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
35963 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
35965 o Minor features (hidden services):
35966 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
35967 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
35968 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
35969 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
35971 o Minor features (other):
35973 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
35974 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
35975 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
35976 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
35977 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
35978 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
35979 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
35980 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
35981 longer a completely silly thing to do.
35982 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
35983 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
35984 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
35985 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
35987 o Removed features:
35988 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
35989 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
35990 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
35991 back an error and close the connection.
35992 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
35993 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
35996 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
35997 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
35998 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
35999 makes the log messages nicer.
36000 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
36001 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
36002 partial results on small file reads.
36004 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
36005 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
36006 more often than they are allowed to appear.
36007 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
36008 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
36010 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
36011 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
36012 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
36013 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
36015 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36016 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
36017 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
36018 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
36019 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
36020 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
36021 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
36022 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
36023 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
36024 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
36025 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
36027 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
36028 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
36029 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
36031 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
36032 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
36033 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
36034 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
36036 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36037 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
36038 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
36040 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
36041 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
36044 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
36045 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
36046 implicit in other procedure arguments.
36047 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
36048 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
36049 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
36050 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
36051 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
36052 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
36053 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
36054 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
36055 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
36058 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
36059 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
36060 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
36061 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
36063 o Directory authority changes:
36064 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
36065 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
36066 or use hidden services.
36068 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
36069 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
36070 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
36071 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
36072 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
36073 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
36074 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
36075 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
36076 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
36079 o Major bugfixes (security):
36080 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
36081 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
36082 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
36084 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
36085 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
36086 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
36087 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
36088 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
36089 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
36090 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
36091 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
36092 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
36093 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
36096 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
36097 purpose=controller.
36098 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
36099 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
36101 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
36102 having a hard time downloading.
36103 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
36104 partial results on small file reads.
36105 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
36106 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
36107 the gaps in the store get very large.
36110 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
36111 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
36113 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
36114 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
36117 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
36118 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
36119 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
36120 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
36121 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
36122 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
36124 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
36125 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
36126 free speech on the Internet.
36129 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
36130 get one we don't recognize.
36131 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
36132 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
36135 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
36137 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
36138 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
36139 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
36140 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
36143 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
36144 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
36147 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
36148 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
36149 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
36150 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
36151 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
36152 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
36153 ask for GUARDS too.
36156 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
36157 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
36158 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
36159 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
36160 on Win98 and friends again.
36162 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36163 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
36164 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
36167 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
36168 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
36169 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
36170 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
36171 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
36172 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
36173 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
36174 and maybe also bug 397.)
36176 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
36177 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
36178 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
36180 o Minor bugfixes (server):
36181 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
36184 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
36185 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
36186 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
36187 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
36188 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
36190 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
36191 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
36192 load on authorities.
36194 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36195 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
36196 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
36197 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
36199 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
36201 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
36202 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
36203 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
36204 the last of bug 326.)
36205 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
36206 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
36210 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
36211 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
36212 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
36213 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
36214 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
36215 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
36216 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
36218 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
36219 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
36221 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
36222 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
36223 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
36225 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
36226 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
36227 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
36229 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36230 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
36231 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
36232 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
36234 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
36235 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
36237 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
36238 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
36239 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
36242 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36243 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
36244 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
36245 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
36246 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
36247 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
36248 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
36249 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
36250 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
36251 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
36252 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
36253 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
36254 other than file-not-found.
36255 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
36256 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
36257 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
36258 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
36259 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
36260 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
36261 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
36262 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
36263 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
36264 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
36265 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
36266 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
36267 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
36268 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
36269 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
36271 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
36273 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
36274 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
36276 o Minor features (controller):
36277 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
36278 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
36279 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
36281 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
36282 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
36283 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
36284 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
36285 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
36286 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
36287 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
36288 connected or resolved cell.
36290 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
36291 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
36292 some profiles, but not others.)
36293 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
36294 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
36295 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
36298 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
36300 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
36301 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
36302 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
36303 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
36304 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
36305 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
36306 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
36307 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
36308 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
36309 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
36310 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
36311 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
36312 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
36313 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
36314 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
36316 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
36319 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
36320 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
36321 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
36322 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
36323 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
36324 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
36325 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
36327 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
36328 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
36329 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
36330 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
36331 buckets go absurdly negative.
36332 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
36333 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
36336 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
36337 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
36338 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
36339 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
36340 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
36341 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
36342 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
36343 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
36346 o Major bugfixes (other):
36347 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
36348 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
36349 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
36350 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
36352 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
36354 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
36355 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
36357 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
36358 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
36359 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
36360 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
36361 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
36362 to wait for 0.2.0.)
36364 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
36365 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
36366 possible memory-stomping bugs.
36367 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
36368 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
36370 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
36371 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
36372 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
36373 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
36374 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
36375 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
36377 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36378 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
36379 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
36380 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
36382 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
36383 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
36384 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
36385 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
36386 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
36387 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
36388 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
36389 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
36390 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
36391 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
36392 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
36393 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
36394 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
36396 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
36397 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
36398 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
36399 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
36400 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
36401 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
36402 to the resulting address.
36405 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
36406 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
36407 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
36408 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
36411 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
36412 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
36414 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
36415 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
36416 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
36417 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
36418 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
36419 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
36420 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
36421 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
36422 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
36423 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
36424 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
36425 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
36426 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
36427 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
36428 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
36429 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
36430 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
36433 o Minor features (controller):
36434 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
36435 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
36436 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
36437 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
36438 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
36439 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
36440 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
36444 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
36446 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
36447 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
36448 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
36449 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
36450 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
36451 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
36454 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
36455 weren't planning to resolve.
36456 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
36457 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
36458 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
36459 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
36460 the controller from learning about current events.
36462 o Minor features (more controller status events):
36463 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
36464 learn when our address changes.
36465 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
36466 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
36467 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
36468 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
36470 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
36471 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
36472 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
36473 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
36474 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
36475 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
36476 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
36477 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
36478 are accepted by a directory.
36479 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
36480 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
36481 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
36482 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
36483 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
36485 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
36486 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
36487 about changes to DNS server status.
36489 o Minor features (directory):
36490 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
36491 too much load to the exit nodes.
36494 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
36496 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
36497 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
36498 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
36499 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
36500 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
36502 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
36503 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
36504 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
36506 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
36507 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
36508 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
36509 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
36510 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
36511 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
36512 config options if you like.
36514 o Minor features (config and docs):
36515 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
36516 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
36517 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
36518 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
36519 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
36521 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
36522 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
36523 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
36524 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
36525 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
36527 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
36528 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
36529 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
36530 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
36531 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
36532 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
36533 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
36534 documentation: "make check-docs".
36535 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
36536 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
36538 o Minor features (DNS):
36539 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
36540 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
36541 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
36542 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
36543 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
36544 our tests for DNS hijacking.
36546 o Minor features (directory):
36547 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
36548 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
36549 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
36550 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
36551 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
36552 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
36553 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
36554 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
36555 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
36556 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
36557 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
36558 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
36559 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
36560 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
36561 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
36562 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
36563 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
36564 for the thing we're trying to download.
36565 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
36566 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
36567 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
36569 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
36570 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
36571 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
36574 o Minor features (controller):
36575 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
36576 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
36578 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
36579 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
36580 entry guard status as it changes.
36582 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
36583 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
36584 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
36585 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
36586 to set log options.
36587 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
36588 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
36589 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
36590 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
36593 o Major bugfixes (security):
36594 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
36595 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
36596 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
36597 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
36599 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
36600 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
36601 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
36602 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
36603 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
36605 o Major bugfixes (other):
36606 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
36607 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
36608 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
36609 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
36611 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
36612 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
36613 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
36614 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
36615 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
36616 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
36620 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
36621 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
36622 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
36623 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
36624 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
36626 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
36627 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
36629 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
36630 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
36631 family lists conveniently.
36632 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
36633 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
36634 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
36636 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
36637 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
36639 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
36640 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
36641 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
36642 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
36643 if their identity keys are as expected.
36644 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
36645 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
36646 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
36648 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36649 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
36650 reported by Mike Perry.
36651 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
36652 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
36653 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
36654 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
36657 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
36658 o Security bugfixes:
36659 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
36660 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
36661 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
36662 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
36666 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
36667 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
36668 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
36671 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
36673 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
36674 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
36675 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
36678 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
36679 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
36680 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
36681 watching for STREAM events.
36682 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
36683 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
36684 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
36685 operations, for profiling.
36688 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
36689 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
36690 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
36691 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
36692 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
36693 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
36695 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
36699 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
36700 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
36701 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
36702 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
36703 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
36705 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
36706 correctly in the Windows installer.
36707 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
36708 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
36709 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
36710 MIPSpro C compiler.
36711 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
36712 when we're running as a client.
36715 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
36717 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
36718 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
36719 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
36720 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
36721 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
36722 its circuits on demand.
36723 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
36724 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
36725 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
36726 connections more stable on average.
36727 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
36728 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
36729 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
36731 o Security bugfixes:
36732 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
36733 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
36736 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
36738 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
36739 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
36740 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
36741 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
36742 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
36743 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
36744 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
36745 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
36748 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
36750 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
36751 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
36752 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
36753 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
36754 routers for even longer.
36755 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
36756 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
36757 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
36758 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
36759 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
36760 caching HTTP proxies.
36761 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
36764 o Minor features, controller:
36765 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
36766 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
36767 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
36768 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
36770 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
36771 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
36772 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
36773 working much like those for circuit events.
36774 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
36775 about the current status of a router.
36776 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
36777 a router's status has changed.
36778 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
36779 can tell which events and features are supported.
36780 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
36781 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
36783 o Security bugfixes:
36784 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
36785 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
36788 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
36789 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
36790 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
36791 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
36792 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
36793 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
36794 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
36795 long nicknames where appropriate.
36796 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
36797 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
36798 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
36799 chews through many circuits before giving up.
36800 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
36801 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
36802 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
36803 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
36804 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
36805 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
36807 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
36808 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
36809 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
36811 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
36812 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
36813 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
36814 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
36815 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
36816 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
36817 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
36818 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
36819 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
36820 (reported by fookoowa).
36821 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
36822 and reported by some Centos users.
36823 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
36824 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
36825 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
36826 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
36827 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
36828 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
36829 before we check for libevent.
36832 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
36834 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
36835 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
36836 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
36837 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
36838 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
36839 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
36840 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
36841 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
36842 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
36843 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
36844 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
36845 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
36846 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
36847 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
36848 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
36849 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
36850 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
36851 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
36852 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
36853 lets you turn it off.
36854 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
36855 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
36856 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
36857 us into the directory more quickly.
36859 o New/improved config options:
36860 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
36861 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
36862 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
36863 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
36864 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
36865 all the machines on the same subnet.
36866 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
36867 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
36868 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
36869 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
36870 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
36871 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
36872 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
36873 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
36874 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
36875 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
36877 o Minor features, controller:
36878 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
36879 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
36880 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
36881 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
36882 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
36883 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
36884 for more information.
36885 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
36886 best guess to the user.
36887 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
36888 descriptor has changed.
36889 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
36891 o Minor features, other:
36892 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
36893 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
36894 useful to the network.
36895 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
36896 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
36897 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
36898 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
36899 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
36900 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
36901 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
36902 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
36903 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
36904 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
36905 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
36906 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
36907 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
36908 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
36909 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
36911 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
36912 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
36913 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
36914 could return an unnamed server instead.
36915 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
36916 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
36917 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
36918 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
36919 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
36920 a more attractive target for compromise.)
36921 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
36922 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
36923 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
36925 o Major bugfixes, other:
36926 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
36927 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
36928 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
36929 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
36930 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
36931 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
36932 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
36933 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
36934 its circuits on demand.
36935 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
36936 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
36937 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
36938 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
36940 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
36941 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
36942 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
36943 we don't recognize.
36944 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
36946 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
36947 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
36948 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
36949 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
36950 "extendcircuit" request.
36951 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
36952 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
36953 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
36955 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
36956 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
36957 instead of "X resolved to X".
36958 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
36959 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
36960 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
36961 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
36962 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
36963 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
36964 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
36965 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
36966 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
36968 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
36969 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
36970 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
36971 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
36972 result more than once.
36973 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
36974 non-versioning dirservers.
36975 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
36976 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
36978 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
36979 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
36980 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
36981 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
36982 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
36983 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
36984 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
36985 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
36986 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
36988 o Packaging, features:
36989 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
36990 now universal binaries.
36991 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
36992 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
36993 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
36995 o Packaging, bugfixes:
36996 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
36997 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
36998 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
36999 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
37001 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
37002 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
37003 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
37006 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
37007 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
37008 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
37012 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
37014 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
37015 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
37016 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
37017 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
37018 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
37019 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
37020 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
37021 it can't resolve its hostname.
37024 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
37025 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
37026 "extendcircuit" request.
37027 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
37028 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
37029 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
37030 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
37032 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
37033 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
37034 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
37036 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
37037 methods: these are known to be buggy.
37038 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
37039 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
37040 we don't recognize.
37043 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
37045 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
37046 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
37047 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
37048 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
37049 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
37050 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
37051 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
37052 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
37053 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
37054 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
37055 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
37056 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
37057 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
37058 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
37059 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
37060 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
37061 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
37062 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
37063 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
37064 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
37065 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
37066 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
37067 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
37068 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
37071 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
37072 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
37073 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
37074 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
37075 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
37076 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
37077 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
37078 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
37079 recommendation system saner.)
37080 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
37082 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
37083 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
37084 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
37085 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
37086 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
37087 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
37088 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
37089 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
37090 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
37091 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
37092 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
37093 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
37094 your ORPort is set.
37095 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
37096 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
37097 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
37098 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
37099 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
37100 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
37101 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
37102 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
37103 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
37104 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
37105 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
37106 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
37108 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
37109 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
37110 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
37111 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
37112 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
37113 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
37116 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
37117 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
37118 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
37119 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
37120 our DirPort now, etc.
37121 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
37122 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
37123 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
37124 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
37125 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
37126 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
37127 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
37129 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
37130 whether the config options are bad or good.
37131 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
37132 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
37133 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
37134 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
37135 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
37136 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
37137 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
37138 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
37141 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
37142 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
37143 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
37144 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
37145 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
37146 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
37147 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
37148 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
37149 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
37150 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
37151 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
37152 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
37153 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
37154 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
37155 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
37156 of it), is not therefore "up".
37157 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
37158 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
37159 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
37160 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
37161 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
37162 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
37165 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
37167 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
37168 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
37169 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
37170 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
37171 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
37172 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
37173 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
37174 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
37175 test reachability, so you won't publish.
37178 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
37179 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
37180 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
37181 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
37182 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
37184 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
37185 own server descriptor yet.
37188 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
37190 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
37191 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
37192 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
37193 make sure to test via one of these.
37194 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
37195 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
37196 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
37197 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
37198 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
37200 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
37201 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
37202 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
37205 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
37206 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
37207 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
37208 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
37209 directory authority.
37210 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
37211 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
37212 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
37213 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
37216 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
37217 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
37218 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
37220 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
37221 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
37222 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
37223 current guards when picking a new guard.
37224 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
37225 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
37226 when we had more than one pending.
37227 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
37228 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
37229 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
37230 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
37231 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
37232 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
37233 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
37234 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
37235 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
37236 debug the reachability problems better.
37238 o Log / documentation fixes:
37239 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
37240 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
37241 about protocol violations by others.
37242 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
37243 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
37244 about what happened to our old torrc.
37247 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
37249 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
37251 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
37252 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
37253 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
37254 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
37257 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
37259 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
37260 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
37261 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
37262 old ORPort and receive connections.
37263 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
37265 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
37266 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
37267 and network-statuses.
37268 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
37269 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
37270 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
37271 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
37273 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
37276 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
37277 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
37278 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
37281 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
37283 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
37284 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
37285 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
37286 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
37287 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
37290 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
37291 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
37293 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
37294 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
37295 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
37296 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
37297 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
37298 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
37299 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
37300 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
37301 rather than not sending anything back at all.
37302 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
37303 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
37304 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
37305 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
37306 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
37307 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
37308 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
37309 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
37310 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
37311 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
37312 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
37313 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
37314 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
37315 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
37316 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
37317 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
37318 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
37319 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
37320 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
37321 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
37322 default ulimit -n is 1024.
37325 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
37326 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
37327 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
37328 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
37331 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
37333 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
37334 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
37335 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
37336 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
37337 entry guards running these flawed versions.
37338 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
37339 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
37340 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
37341 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
37342 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
37345 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
37346 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
37348 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
37349 and it is confusing some users.
37350 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
37351 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
37352 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
37353 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
37354 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
37357 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
37359 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
37360 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
37361 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
37362 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
37363 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
37364 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
37365 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
37366 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
37367 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
37368 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
37369 dirport is set for now.
37371 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
37372 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
37373 unattached before we fail it?
37374 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
37375 at least this many seconds ago.
37376 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
37377 at least this many seconds ago.
37380 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
37381 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
37382 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
37383 or resolve-wait stream.
37384 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
37385 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
37386 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
37387 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
37388 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
37389 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
37390 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
37391 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
37393 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
37394 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
37395 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
37396 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
37397 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
37398 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
37399 given as hex digests.
37400 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
37401 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
37402 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
37403 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
37404 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
37405 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
37406 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
37407 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
37410 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37411 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
37412 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
37413 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
37414 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
37415 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
37416 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
37417 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
37418 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
37419 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
37420 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
37423 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
37424 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
37425 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
37426 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
37427 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
37428 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
37429 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
37432 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
37433 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
37434 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
37435 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
37436 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
37437 misreading their logs.
37438 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
37439 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
37440 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
37441 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
37442 valid router descriptors.
37443 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
37444 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
37445 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
37446 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
37447 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
37448 silently resetting it to its default.
37449 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
37451 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
37454 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
37455 use clean circuits.
37456 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
37457 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
37458 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
37459 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
37460 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
37462 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
37463 because older Tors do not understand it.
37464 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
37468 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
37469 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37470 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
37471 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
37472 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
37473 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
37474 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
37475 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
37476 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
37477 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
37478 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
37480 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
37481 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
37482 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
37483 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
37485 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
37486 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
37489 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
37490 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
37491 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
37492 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
37493 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
37494 without getting overloaded.
37495 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
37497 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
37498 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
37499 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
37500 be forward-compatible.
37501 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
37502 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
37503 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
37504 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
37506 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
37507 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
37508 and OR conns to port 443.
37509 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
37510 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
37512 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
37513 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
37514 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
37515 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
37516 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
37517 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
37518 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
37521 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
37522 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37523 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
37524 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
37526 o Other important bugfixes:
37527 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
37528 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
37529 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
37530 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
37532 o Backported features:
37533 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
37534 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
37535 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
37536 without getting overloaded.
37537 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
37538 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
37539 503's whenever they feel busy.
37540 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
37541 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
37542 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
37543 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
37544 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
37547 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
37548 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
37549 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
37550 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
37551 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
37552 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
37553 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
37554 know if the crashes continue.
37555 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
37556 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
37557 seg faults in at least some cases.)
37558 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
37559 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
37560 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
37563 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
37564 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
37565 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
37566 try to be a bit more fair.
37567 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
37568 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
37569 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
37570 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
37571 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
37572 bug that let it go negative.
37573 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
37574 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
37575 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
37576 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
37577 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
37578 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
37579 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
37580 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
37581 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
37582 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
37583 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
37586 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
37588 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
37589 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
37590 service descriptors.
37593 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
37594 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
37595 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
37596 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
37598 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
37599 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
37600 versions *are* still recommended.
37601 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
37602 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
37603 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
37604 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
37605 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
37606 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
37607 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
37608 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
37610 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
37611 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
37612 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
37613 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
37614 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
37615 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
37616 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
37617 on it. Not used by clients yet.
37618 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
37619 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
37620 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
37621 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
37622 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
37623 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
37624 established a circuit.
37625 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
37626 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
37627 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
37628 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
37631 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
37632 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37633 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
37634 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
37635 quickly enough. Oops.
37636 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
37638 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37639 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
37642 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
37643 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
37644 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
37645 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
37646 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
37647 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
37648 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
37649 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
37650 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
37651 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
37652 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
37653 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
37654 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
37655 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
37656 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
37657 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
37658 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
37661 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
37662 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
37663 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
37664 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
37665 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
37666 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
37667 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
37668 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
37669 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
37670 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
37671 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
37672 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
37673 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
37674 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
37675 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
37676 connections more reliable.
37679 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
37680 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
37681 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
37682 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
37683 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
37684 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
37685 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
37686 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
37687 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
37688 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
37689 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
37690 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
37691 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
37692 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
37696 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
37697 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
37698 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
37699 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
37700 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
37701 need to be uint64_t's.
37702 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
37703 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
37704 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
37706 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
37708 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
37709 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
37710 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
37711 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
37712 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
37713 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
37714 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
37716 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
37717 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
37718 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
37719 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
37720 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
37721 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
37722 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
37723 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
37724 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
37725 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
37726 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
37727 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
37728 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
37731 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
37732 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
37733 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
37734 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
37735 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
37736 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
37737 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
37739 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
37740 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
37741 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
37742 can answer v2 directory requests too.
37743 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
37744 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
37745 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
37746 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
37748 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
37749 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
37750 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
37751 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
37752 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
37753 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
37754 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
37755 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
37756 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
37757 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
37758 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
37759 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
37760 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
37761 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
37762 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
37764 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
37765 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
37768 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
37769 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37770 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
37771 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
37772 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
37773 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
37774 too -- so detect and avoid this.
37775 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
37777 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
37778 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
37779 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
37780 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
37781 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
37782 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
37783 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
37784 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
37785 rendezvous circuits.
37786 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
37788 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37789 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
37790 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
37791 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
37792 advertising it because of hibernation.
37793 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
37794 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
37795 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
37796 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
37797 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
37798 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
37799 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
37800 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
37801 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
37802 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
37803 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
37804 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
37805 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
37806 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
37809 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
37810 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37811 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
37812 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
37813 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
37814 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
37815 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
37816 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
37817 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
37818 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
37819 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
37820 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
37821 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
37822 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
37823 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
37824 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
37825 connections once a week.
37826 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
37827 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
37828 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
37829 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
37830 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
37831 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
37833 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
37834 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
37835 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
37837 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37838 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
37839 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
37840 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
37841 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
37842 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
37843 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
37844 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
37845 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
37846 firewall options forbid.
37847 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
37848 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
37849 can only proxy to certain destinations.
37850 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
37851 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
37852 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
37853 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
37854 aids some statistical attacks.
37855 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
37856 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
37857 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
37858 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
37860 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37861 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
37862 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
37863 server descriptor sometimes.
37864 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
37865 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
37866 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
37867 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
37868 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
37869 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
37870 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
37871 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
37873 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
37874 case the controller wants to change that too.
37875 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
37876 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
37877 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
37878 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
37880 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
37881 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
37882 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
37884 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
37885 descriptors that they know they will reject.
37887 o Features and updates:
37888 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
37889 significantly faster.
37890 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
37891 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
37892 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
37893 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
37894 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
37895 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
37896 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
37897 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
37898 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
37899 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
37900 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
37901 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
37902 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
37903 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
37904 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
37905 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
37906 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
37907 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
37908 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
37909 as authoritative dirserver.
37910 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
37911 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
37912 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
37915 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
37916 o Usability improvements:
37917 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
37918 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
37920 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
37921 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
37922 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
37924 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
37925 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
37926 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
37927 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
37928 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
37929 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
37930 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
37931 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
37932 memory leaks better.
37933 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
37934 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
37935 their operators to pay close attention.
37936 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
37937 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
37939 o Performance improvements:
37940 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
37941 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
37942 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
37943 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
37944 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
37945 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
37946 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
37947 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
37948 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
37949 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
37950 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
37951 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
37952 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
37953 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
37954 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
37955 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
37956 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
37958 o Security improvements:
37959 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
37960 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
37961 fingerprint of server.
37962 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
37963 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
37964 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
37966 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37967 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
37968 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
37969 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
37970 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
37971 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
37972 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
37973 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
37974 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
37975 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
37976 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
37977 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
37978 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
37979 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
37980 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
37981 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
37982 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
37983 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
37984 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
37985 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
37986 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
37988 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
37989 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
37990 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
37992 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
37993 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
37995 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
37996 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
37997 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
37998 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
37999 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
38000 of the controller protocol.
38001 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
38002 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
38003 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
38006 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
38007 o New features (major):
38008 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
38009 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
38010 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
38011 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
38012 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
38013 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
38014 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
38015 we're using a default DirPort.
38016 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
38018 o New features (minor):
38019 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
38020 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
38021 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
38022 mirrors still cache and serve it).
38023 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
38024 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
38025 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
38026 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
38027 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
38028 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
38029 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
38030 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
38031 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
38032 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
38033 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
38034 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
38035 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
38036 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
38037 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
38039 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
38040 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
38041 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
38042 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
38043 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
38044 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
38045 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
38046 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
38048 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
38049 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
38050 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
38051 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
38052 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
38053 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
38054 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
38055 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
38056 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
38057 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
38059 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
38060 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
38061 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
38062 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
38063 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
38065 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38066 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
38067 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
38069 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
38070 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
38072 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
38073 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
38074 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
38075 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
38076 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
38077 don't warn twice about the same name.
38078 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
38079 if we've not heard of the server.
38080 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
38081 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
38084 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
38085 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38086 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
38087 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
38088 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
38089 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
38090 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
38091 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
38092 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
38093 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
38094 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
38095 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
38096 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
38097 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
38098 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
38101 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
38102 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
38103 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
38104 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
38105 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
38107 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
38108 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
38109 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
38110 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
38111 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
38112 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
38116 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
38117 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
38118 nickname) is reachable by you.
38119 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
38122 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38123 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
38124 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
38125 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
38126 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
38127 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
38128 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
38129 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
38130 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
38131 we fail to connect).
38132 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
38133 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
38134 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
38135 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
38137 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
38138 it was self-testing that told us so.
38141 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
38142 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
38143 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
38144 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
38145 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
38146 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
38147 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
38148 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
38149 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
38150 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
38151 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
38152 exit policy using him for any exits.
38153 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
38156 o New controller features/fixes:
38157 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
38158 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
38159 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
38160 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
38161 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
38162 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
38163 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
38164 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
38165 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
38167 o Start on the new directory design:
38168 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
38169 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
38171 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
38172 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
38173 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
38174 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
38176 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
38177 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
38178 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
38179 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
38180 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
38181 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
38182 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
38183 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
38186 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
38187 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
38188 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
38189 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
38190 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
38191 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
38192 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
38193 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
38194 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
38195 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
38197 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
38198 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
38199 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
38200 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
38201 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
38202 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
38203 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
38204 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
38205 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
38207 o Config option changes:
38208 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
38209 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
38210 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
38211 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
38212 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
38213 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
38215 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38216 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
38217 people have started using them for spam too.
38218 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
38219 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
38220 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
38221 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
38222 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
38223 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
38224 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
38225 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
38226 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
38227 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
38228 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
38229 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
38230 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
38231 services faster on the service end.
38232 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
38233 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
38234 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
38235 it a fair shake next time we try.
38236 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
38237 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
38238 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
38239 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
38240 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
38241 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
38242 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
38243 able to discover them.
38244 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
38245 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
38246 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
38247 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
38248 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
38249 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
38250 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
38251 testing for reachability.
38252 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
38253 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
38255 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
38257 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
38258 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
38261 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
38262 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
38264 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38265 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
38266 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
38267 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
38270 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
38271 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38272 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
38274 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
38275 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
38278 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
38279 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
38282 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
38283 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
38284 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
38285 options, getinfo keys.
38288 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
38289 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38290 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
38291 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
38292 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
38293 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
38294 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
38296 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
38297 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
38301 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
38302 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
38303 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
38305 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
38307 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
38308 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
38309 circuit events and we go offline.
38310 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
38311 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
38312 you don't have enough intro points already.
38314 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
38315 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
38316 many bytes we've used in this time period.
38317 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
38318 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
38319 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
38320 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
38321 enabled by default yet.
38323 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
38324 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
38325 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
38326 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
38327 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
38330 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
38331 o New directory servers:
38332 - tor26 has changed IP address.
38334 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38335 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
38336 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
38337 pthreads libraries.
38338 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
38339 claims its dirport is 0.
38340 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
38341 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
38345 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
38346 o New directory servers:
38347 - tor26 has changed IP address.
38349 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
38350 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
38352 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
38353 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
38354 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
38355 ports that have changed.
38356 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
38358 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
38359 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
38360 Windows-style errno back.
38361 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
38363 want to make it an NT service.
38364 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
38365 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
38366 name, give the full name in our response.
38367 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
38368 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
38369 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
38370 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
38371 pthreads libraries.
38373 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
38374 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
38378 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
38379 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
38380 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
38381 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
38382 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
38385 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
38386 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38387 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
38388 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
38389 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
38390 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
38391 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
38392 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
38395 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
38397 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
38398 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
38399 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
38400 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
38401 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
38402 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
38404 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
38405 temporarily unreachable.
38406 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
38410 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
38411 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
38412 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
38413 our protocol works.
38414 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
38418 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
38419 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
38420 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
38421 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
38422 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
38426 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
38427 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
38428 libevent before 1.1a.
38431 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
38433 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
38434 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
38435 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
38436 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
38437 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
38439 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
38440 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
38441 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
38442 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
38443 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
38444 of CPU time plus memory.
38445 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
38446 normal web requests.
38447 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
38448 tor_lookup_hostname().
38449 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
38450 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
38451 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
38452 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
38453 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
38454 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
38456 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
38457 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
38458 HttpProxyAuthenticator
38459 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
38460 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
38461 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
38463 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
38464 the user asks you to.
38465 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
38466 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
38467 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
38468 their descriptors are being rejected.
38469 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
38473 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
38475 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
38476 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
38477 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
38479 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
38481 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
38483 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
38484 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
38485 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
38486 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
38487 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
38488 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
38489 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
38490 keys) from the exit server's process.
38491 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
38492 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
38493 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
38494 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
38495 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
38496 point at your Tor server.
38497 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
38498 you're not sending a socks reply back.
38501 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
38502 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
38503 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
38504 to make it easier to write controllers.
38507 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
38509 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
38510 installing on Tiger.
38511 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
38512 complain during installation.
38513 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
38514 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
38515 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
38516 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
38517 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
38518 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
38520 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
38521 something more reasonable when first installing.
38522 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
38525 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
38527 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
38528 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
38530 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
38531 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
38532 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
38533 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
38534 when using the default exit policy.
38535 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
38536 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
38537 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
38538 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
38539 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
38540 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
38541 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
38542 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
38543 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
38544 we fetched a new directory.
38545 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
38546 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
38549 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
38550 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
38551 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
38552 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
38553 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
38554 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
38555 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
38556 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
38558 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
38559 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
38560 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
38561 save memory on systems that need to fork.
38562 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
38563 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
38564 is valid without actually launching Tor.
38565 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
38566 rather than just rejecting it.
38569 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
38571 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
38572 we didn't like its cert.
38574 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
38575 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
38576 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
38577 on patch from Adam Langley.
38578 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
38579 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
38580 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
38581 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
38583 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
38584 directory every time you regenerate it.
38585 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
38586 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
38589 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
38590 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38591 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
38592 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
38593 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
38596 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
38598 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
38599 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
38600 TLS errors better in other situations too.
38601 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
38602 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
38603 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
38604 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
38605 and don't log when you are.
38606 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
38607 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
38609 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
38610 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
38611 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
38612 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
38613 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
38616 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
38617 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
38618 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
38619 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
38620 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
38621 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
38622 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
38623 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
38624 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
38625 nickname+key are allowed.
38626 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
38627 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
38628 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
38629 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
38630 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
38631 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
38632 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
38633 have quite wrong clocks).
38634 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
38635 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
38636 - Efficiency improvements:
38637 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
38638 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
38639 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
38640 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
38641 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
38642 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
38643 lowercase and be done with it.
38644 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
38645 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
38646 to abandon partially built circuits.
38647 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
38648 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
38650 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
38652 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
38653 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
38654 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
38655 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
38657 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
38658 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
38660 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
38661 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
38662 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
38663 obeying the exit policy internally.
38664 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
38665 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
38667 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
38668 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
38669 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
38670 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
38672 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
38673 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
38674 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
38675 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
38676 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
38678 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
38679 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
38680 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
38681 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
38682 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
38683 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
38684 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
38685 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
38686 descriptors we just dropped.
38687 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
38688 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
38689 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
38690 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
38691 artificially capped at 500kB.
38694 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
38695 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38696 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
38697 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
38698 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
38699 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
38700 busy for more than 100 seconds.
38703 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
38704 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
38705 - Fixes on reachability detection:
38706 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
38707 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
38708 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
38709 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
38710 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
38711 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
38712 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
38713 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
38714 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
38715 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
38716 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
38717 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
38718 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
38719 server not already connected to them.
38720 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
38721 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
38722 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
38724 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
38726 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
38727 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
38728 are in a different state than they actually are.
38729 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
38730 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
38731 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
38733 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
38734 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
38735 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
38737 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
38738 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
38739 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
38740 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
38741 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
38742 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
38743 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
38745 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
38746 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
38747 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
38748 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
38751 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
38752 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38753 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
38754 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
38755 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
38756 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
38757 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
38758 creating actual system users.
38759 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
38760 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
38764 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
38766 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
38767 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
38768 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
38769 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
38770 hidden services better.
38771 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
38773 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
38774 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
38775 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
38776 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
38777 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
38778 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
38779 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
38780 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
38781 patch by Matt Edman).
38782 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
38783 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
38784 required exit node for certain sites.
38785 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
38786 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
38787 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
38788 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
38789 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
38790 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
38791 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
38792 rather than just "success" or "failure".
38793 - A more sane version numbering system. See
38794 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
38795 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
38796 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
38798 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
38799 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
38800 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
38801 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
38802 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
38803 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
38804 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
38806 o Robustness/stability fixes:
38807 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
38808 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
38809 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
38811 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
38812 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
38813 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
38815 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
38816 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
38817 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
38819 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
38820 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
38821 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
38822 that will want high uptime circuits.
38823 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
38824 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
38825 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
38826 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
38827 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
38828 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
38829 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
38830 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
38831 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
38832 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
38833 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
38834 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
38835 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
38836 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
38837 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
38838 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
38839 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
38840 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
38841 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
38842 when we try to launch one.
38843 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
38844 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
38845 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
38846 "ShutdownWaitLength".
38847 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
38848 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
38849 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
38850 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
38851 and to take errno into account where possible.
38854 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
38855 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
38856 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
38857 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
38858 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
38859 file more reasonable.
38860 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
38861 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
38862 addresses -- it won't.
38863 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
38864 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
38865 for google.com" problem.
38866 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
38867 so it's not just "unknown platform".
38868 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
38869 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
38870 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
38871 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
38873 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
38874 they could use instead.
38875 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
38876 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
38877 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
38878 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
38879 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
38880 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
38881 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
38882 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
38883 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
38885 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
38889 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
38890 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
38892 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
38893 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
38894 private-IP addresses.
38895 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
38896 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
38898 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
38899 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
38900 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
38901 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
38902 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
38903 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
38904 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
38906 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
38907 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
38908 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
38909 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
38910 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
38911 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
38912 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
38913 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
38915 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
38917 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
38918 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
38919 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
38920 whether the server is hibernating.
38923 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
38924 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
38925 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
38926 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
38927 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
38928 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
38929 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
38930 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
38931 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
38932 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
38933 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
38934 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
38935 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
38936 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
38937 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
38939 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
38940 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
38941 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
38942 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
38943 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
38944 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
38945 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
38946 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
38947 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
38948 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
38949 existing torrc files.
38950 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
38953 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
38954 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38955 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
38956 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
38957 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
38958 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
38959 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
38960 the win32 SYSTEM account.
38961 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
38962 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
38963 file descriptors available.
38964 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
38965 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
38966 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
38969 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
38970 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38971 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
38972 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
38974 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
38975 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
38976 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
38977 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
38978 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
38980 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
38981 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
38982 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
38983 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
38984 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
38985 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
38986 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
38987 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
38988 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
38989 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
38990 800kB/s of capacity.
38991 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
38994 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
38995 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38996 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
38997 need as much processor time.
38998 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
38999 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
39000 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
39001 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
39002 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
39003 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
39004 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
39005 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
39006 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
39007 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
39008 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
39009 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
39011 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
39012 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
39013 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
39014 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
39015 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
39016 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
39017 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
39020 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
39021 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
39022 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
39024 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
39025 style address, then we'd crash.
39026 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
39027 a dirserver is broken.
39028 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
39030 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
39031 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
39032 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
39034 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
39035 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
39036 name out of the warning/assert messages.
39037 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
39038 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
39039 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
39041 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
39042 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
39043 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
39045 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
39047 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
39048 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
39049 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
39050 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
39051 values at once couldn't work.
39052 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
39053 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
39054 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
39055 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
39056 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
39057 they can handle any number of routers.
39058 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
39059 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
39060 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
39061 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
39062 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
39063 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
39064 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
39065 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
39066 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
39069 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
39070 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
39071 - Make hibernation actually work.
39072 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
39073 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
39074 don't use the stream status code.
39077 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
39079 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
39080 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
39082 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
39085 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
39086 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
39087 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
39088 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
39089 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
39090 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
39091 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
39092 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
39093 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
39094 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
39096 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39097 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
39098 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
39099 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
39100 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
39101 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
39102 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
39103 - Make unit tests work on win32.
39106 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
39107 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
39108 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
39110 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
39111 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
39112 than just chopping them off.
39113 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
39115 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39116 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
39117 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
39118 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
39119 right after sending the begin cell.
39120 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
39121 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
39122 exit nodes too. Oops.
39125 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
39126 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
39127 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
39128 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
39129 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
39130 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
39131 the user knows which one it's talking about.
39132 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
39133 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
39134 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
39137 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
39138 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39139 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
39140 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
39142 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
39144 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
39145 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
39146 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
39148 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
39149 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
39150 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
39151 Clip rather than rejecting.
39152 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
39153 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
39156 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
39157 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
39158 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
39159 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
39161 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
39164 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
39165 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39166 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
39167 win32 socket errors better.
39169 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39170 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
39173 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
39174 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39175 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
39176 so we don't see those messages days later.
39178 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39179 - Make tor-resolve work again.
39180 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
39181 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
39184 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
39185 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39186 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
39187 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
39189 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
39190 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
39191 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
39194 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
39195 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39196 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
39197 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
39198 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
39199 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
39200 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
39201 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
39202 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
39204 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
39205 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
39206 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
39207 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
39209 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
39210 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
39213 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
39214 hibernation properties by
39215 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
39216 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
39217 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
39218 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
39219 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
39220 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
39221 get back to normal.)
39222 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
39224 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
39225 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
39226 to fill the last cell completely.
39227 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
39230 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
39231 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39232 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
39233 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
39234 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
39235 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
39236 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
39237 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
39238 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
39239 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
39240 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
39242 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
39243 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
39244 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
39245 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
39246 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
39247 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
39248 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
39249 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
39251 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
39252 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
39253 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
39254 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
39255 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
39256 have it on start-up.
39259 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
39260 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
39261 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
39262 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
39263 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
39264 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
39265 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
39266 configuration to torrc.
39267 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
39268 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
39269 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
39270 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
39271 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
39273 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
39274 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
39275 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
39276 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
39277 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
39278 log more informatively.
39279 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
39280 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
39281 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
39282 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
39283 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
39284 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
39285 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
39286 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
39287 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
39288 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
39289 from each other, to hinder linkability.
39292 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
39293 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
39294 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
39295 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
39296 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
39297 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
39298 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
39300 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
39301 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
39302 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
39303 they ran out of file descriptors.
39304 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
39305 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
39306 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
39307 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
39308 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
39309 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
39310 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
39312 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
39315 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
39316 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
39317 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
39318 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
39319 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
39320 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
39321 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
39322 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
39323 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
39324 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
39325 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
39326 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
39327 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
39328 with the control port.
39329 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
39330 use in authenticating to the control interface.
39331 - New log format in config:
39332 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
39333 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
39336 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
39337 from their dirserver.
39338 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
39340 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
39341 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
39342 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
39343 them act more like real nodes.
39344 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
39345 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
39347 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
39348 nickname to its identity key.
39349 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
39350 not on the command line.
39351 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
39352 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
39353 1024) file descriptors.
39355 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
39356 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
39358 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
39359 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
39360 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
39363 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
39364 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
39365 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
39366 exit policy, not reject *:*.
39367 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
39368 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
39369 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
39370 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
39371 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
39372 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
39373 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
39376 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
39377 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
39378 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
39379 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
39380 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
39381 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
39382 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
39385 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
39386 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39387 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
39388 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
39389 the ones we find in directories.)
39390 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
39392 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
39393 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
39395 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
39396 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
39397 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
39399 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
39400 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
39401 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
39402 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
39404 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
39405 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
39406 any more exit policy lines.
39409 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
39410 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
39411 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
39412 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
39413 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
39414 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
39415 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
39416 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
39417 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
39418 will be able to get a directory.
39419 - Http proxy support
39420 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
39421 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
39422 be routed through this host.
39423 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
39424 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
39425 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
39426 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
39429 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
39431 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
39432 clients/servers with an open dirport.
39433 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
39434 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
39435 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
39436 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
39437 intermittent connections.
39438 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
39439 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
39441 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
39442 in reporting stats locally.
39443 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
39444 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
39445 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
39448 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
39450 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
39451 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
39454 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
39456 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
39457 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
39458 if you don't want it open.
39459 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
39460 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
39461 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
39462 intermittent connections.
39463 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
39465 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
39466 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
39467 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
39468 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
39469 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
39470 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
39471 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
39472 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
39473 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
39474 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
39475 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
39476 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
39477 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
39478 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
39479 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
39480 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
39483 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
39484 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
39485 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
39486 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
39487 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
39489 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
39491 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
39492 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
39493 specified in HTTP 1.0.
39494 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
39495 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
39496 than once per minute.
39497 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
39498 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
39501 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
39502 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
39505 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
39506 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
39507 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
39508 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
39511 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
39512 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
39514 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
39515 don't put it into the client dns cache.
39516 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
39517 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
39518 until we get our next directory.
39520 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
39521 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
39522 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
39523 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
39524 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
39525 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
39526 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
39527 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
39528 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
39529 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
39530 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
39532 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
39534 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
39535 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
39537 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
39538 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
39539 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
39541 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
39543 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
39544 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
39545 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
39546 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
39547 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
39548 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
39549 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
39550 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
39553 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
39554 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
39555 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
39556 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
39559 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
39560 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
39561 ask them to resolve the host "".
39564 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
39565 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
39566 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
39567 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
39568 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
39569 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
39570 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
39571 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
39572 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
39573 clients don't use this yet.)
39574 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
39575 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
39576 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
39577 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
39578 for pointing out this bug.)
39579 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
39580 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
39581 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
39582 kazaa, gnutella ports.
39583 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
39585 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
39586 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
39587 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
39588 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
39589 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
39590 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
39591 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
39592 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
39593 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
39594 wolf unpredictably.
39595 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
39596 that's still handshaking.
39597 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
39598 you'll choose it for your path.
39599 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
39600 end relay cell, etc.
39601 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
39602 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
39603 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
39606 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
39607 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
39609 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
39610 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
39611 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
39612 list to decide who's running or verified.
39613 - Bugfixes and features:
39614 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
39615 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
39616 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
39617 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
39618 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
39619 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
39621 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
39622 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
39623 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
39624 know you might want to get it verified.
39625 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
39628 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
39630 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
39631 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
39632 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
39633 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
39635 o Protocol changes:
39636 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
39637 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
39638 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
39639 hadn't heard of before.
39642 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
39643 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
39644 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
39645 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
39646 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
39647 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
39648 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
39649 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
39650 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
39651 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
39652 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
39653 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
39654 - Directory caching.
39655 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
39656 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
39657 directory they've pulled down.
39658 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
39659 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
39660 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
39661 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
39662 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
39663 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
39664 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
39666 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
39667 This isn't used yet.
39668 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
39669 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
39670 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
39671 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
39672 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
39673 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
39674 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
39675 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
39676 - File and name management:
39677 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
39678 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
39680 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
39681 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
39682 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
39683 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
39684 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
39685 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
39686 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
39688 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
39689 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
39690 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
39691 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
39692 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
39694 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
39695 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
39696 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
39697 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
39698 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
39699 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
39700 - New docs in the tarball:
39702 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
39705 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
39706 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
39707 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
39710 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
39711 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
39712 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
39715 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
39716 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
39719 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
39720 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
39721 - Make it build on Win32 again.
39722 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
39723 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
39727 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
39729 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
39730 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
39731 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
39732 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
39733 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
39734 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
39735 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
39736 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
39737 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
39738 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
39741 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
39744 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
39745 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
39746 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
39747 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
39749 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
39750 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
39751 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
39753 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
39754 hidden service per 15-minute period.
39755 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
39756 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
39757 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
39758 o Fixes for security bugs:
39759 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
39760 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
39761 a trusted dirserver.
39763 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
39764 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
39765 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
39766 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
39767 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
39768 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
39769 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
39770 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
39771 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
39772 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
39774 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
39775 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
39776 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
39777 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
39779 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
39780 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
39781 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
39782 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
39783 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
39784 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
39785 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
39786 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
39787 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
39788 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
39789 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
39790 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
39791 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
39794 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
39795 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
39796 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
39797 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
39800 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
39801 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
39802 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
39803 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
39804 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
39805 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
39806 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
39810 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
39811 [version bump only]
39814 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
39815 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
39816 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
39817 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
39818 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
39820 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
39823 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
39824 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
39825 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
39826 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
39827 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
39828 o Better debugging for tls errors
39829 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
39830 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
39831 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
39832 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
39833 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
39834 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
39835 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
39836 o win32's close can't close a socket.
39839 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
39840 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
39841 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
39842 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
39843 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
39844 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
39845 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
39846 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
39847 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
39848 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
39849 just close the circ.
39850 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
39851 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
39852 (this was quite rare).
39855 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
39856 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
39857 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
39858 if you decrypted them correctly.
39859 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
39860 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
39861 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
39864 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
39865 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
39866 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
39867 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
39868 a second one and it works.
39869 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
39870 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
39871 alice would just have to wait to time out.
39872 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
39873 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
39874 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
39875 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
39876 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
39877 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
39878 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
39879 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
39880 i'd still like to find the bug though.
39881 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
39883 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
39887 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
39888 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
39889 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
39890 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
39891 he retries a couple of times
39892 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
39893 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
39894 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
39895 too long (they were sticking around forever).
39896 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
39900 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
39901 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
39902 - make hup work again
39903 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
39904 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
39905 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
39906 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
39907 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
39908 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
39910 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
39911 o changes from 0.0.5:
39912 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
39913 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
39914 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
39915 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
39916 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
39918 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
39919 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
39920 in-memory directories too
39923 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
39924 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
39927 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
39929 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
39930 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
39931 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
39932 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
39935 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
39936 [version bump only]
39939 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
39940 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
39942 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
39943 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
39944 but that aren't warnings
39947 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
39948 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
39949 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
39950 the dns farm to do it.
39951 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
39952 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
39954 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
39955 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
39956 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
39959 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
39960 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
39961 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
39962 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
39963 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
39964 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
39965 expect it to have a nickname.
39966 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
39967 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
39970 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
39971 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
39975 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
39976 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
39977 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
39978 - include missing header fcntl.h
39979 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
39980 - deal with hardware word alignment
39981 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
39982 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
39983 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
39984 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
39985 by kill -USR1 currently.
39986 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
39987 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
39988 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
39991 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
39992 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
39993 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
39996 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
39998 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
39999 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
40000 - And fix a few endian issues.
40003 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
40005 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
40006 try that circuit again: try a new one.
40007 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
40008 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
40009 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
40010 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
40011 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
40012 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
40014 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
40015 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
40016 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
40018 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
40020 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
40021 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
40022 side isn't reading right then.
40023 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
40024 RecommendedVersions
40025 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
40026 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
40027 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
40030 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
40032 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
40033 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
40036 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
40040 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
40042 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
40043 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
40044 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
40045 connection is finished.
40046 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
40047 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
40048 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
40049 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
40050 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
40051 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
40052 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
40053 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
40054 rather than warn and continue.
40055 - Make --version work
40056 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
40059 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
40061 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
40062 knows it's working.
40063 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
40064 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
40066 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
40067 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
40068 so you can collect coredumps there.
40070 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
40071 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
40072 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
40073 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
40074 dns cache actually gets populated.
40075 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
40076 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
40077 end cell down it first.
40078 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
40079 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
40082 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
40084 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
40085 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
40087 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
40088 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
40089 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
40090 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
40091 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
40092 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
40094 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
40096 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
40097 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
40098 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
40099 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
40100 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
40101 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
40103 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
40104 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
40107 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
40109 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
40110 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
40111 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
40112 tor. It even has a man page.
40113 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
40114 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
40115 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
40116 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
40118 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
40120 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
40123 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
40125 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
40126 it, apt-getters. :)
40127 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
40128 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
40129 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
40130 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
40131 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
40132 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
40133 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
40134 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
40135 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
40136 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
40137 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
40139 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
40140 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
40143 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
40145 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
40146 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
40149 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
40151 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
40152 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
40153 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
40154 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
40155 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
40156 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
40157 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
40158 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
40159 logfile so you know it's working.
40160 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
40161 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
40164 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
40166 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
40167 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
40168 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
40171 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
40173 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
40174 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
40175 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
40178 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
40179 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
40180 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
40182 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
40183 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
40185 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
40186 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
40187 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
40189 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
40190 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
40194 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
40196 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
40197 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
40198 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
40201 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
40202 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
40203 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
40204 - Add port ranges to exit policies
40205 - Add a conservative default exit policy
40206 - Warn if you're running tor as root
40207 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
40208 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
40209 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
40210 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
40212 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
40215 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
40216 o Robustness and bugfixes:
40217 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
40218 really screw things up.
40219 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
40221 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
40222 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
40224 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
40225 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
40226 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
40227 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
40228 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
40229 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
40232 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
40235 - Change default loglevel to warn.
40236 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
40237 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
40239 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
40242 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
40243 o Robustness and bugfixes:
40244 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
40245 - to get ownership/permissions right
40246 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
40247 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
40248 pull down a directory again
40249 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
40250 causing server crashes
40251 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
40252 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
40253 - exit if bind() fails
40254 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
40255 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
40256 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
40257 - fix minor bias in PRNG
40258 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
40261 - Wrote the design document (woo)
40263 o Circuit building and exit policies:
40264 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
40266 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
40267 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
40268 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
40269 exists, rather than failing
40270 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
40271 which AP connections are standing by
40272 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
40273 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
40274 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
40276 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
40277 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
40280 - APPort is now called SocksPort
40281 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
40283 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
40284 hardcoded (for dirservers)
40285 - Reloads config on HUP
40286 - Usage info on -h or --help
40287 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
40290 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
40291 o General stability:
40292 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
40293 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
40294 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
40295 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
40296 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
40297 to take down the network when I approve a new router
40298 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
40301 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
40302 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
40304 o Autoconf improvements:
40305 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
40306 - Make install now works
40307 - create var/lib/tor on make install
40308 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
40309 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
40311 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
40312 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
40313 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
40314 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup