ChangeLog (2118550B)
1 Changes in version 0.4.9.5 - 2026-02-12 2 This first stable release in the 0.4.9 series introduces a new 3 circuit-level encryption design for better client security, as well 4 as a more scalable way for large relay operators to annotate which 5 relays they run so clients can avoid using too many of them in a 6 single circuit. 7 8 o Major features (cryptography): 9 - Clients and relays can now negotiate Counter Galois Onion (CGO) 10 relay cryptography, as designed by Jean Paul Degabriele, 11 Alessandro Melloni, Jean-Pierre Münch, and Martijn Stam. CGO 12 provides improved resistance to several kinds of tagging attacks, 13 better forward secrecy, and better forgery resistance. Closes 14 ticket 41047. Implements proposal 359. 15 16 o Major features (path selection): 17 - Clients and relays now support "happy families", a system to 18 simplify relay family operation and improve directory performance. 19 With "happy families", relays in a family share a secret "family 20 key", which they use to prove their membership in the family. 21 Implements proposal 321; closes ticket 41009. Note that until 22 enough clients are upgraded, relay operators will still need to 23 configure MyFamily lists. But once clients no longer depend on 24 those lists, we will be able to remove them entirely, thereby 25 simplifying family operation, and making microdescriptor downloads 26 approximately 80% smaller. For more information, see 27 https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/post-install/family-ids/ 28 29 o Major bugfixes (conflux): 30 - Ensure conflux guards obey family and subnet restrictions. Fixes 31 bug 40976; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 32 33 o Major bugfixes (controller events): 34 - Fix spikes occurring in bandwidth cache events on control connection. 35 Fixes bug 31524; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 36 37 o Major bugfixes (sandbox): 38 - Fix sandbox to work on architectures that use Linux's generic 39 syscall interface, extending support for AArch64 (ARM64) and 40 adding support for RISC-V, allowing test_include.sh and the 41 sandbox unit tests to pass on these systems even when building 42 with fragile hardening enabled. Fixes bugs 40465 and 40599; bugfix 43 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 44 45 o Minor features (client security, reliability): 46 - When KeepaliveIsolateSOCKSAuth is keeping a circuit alive, expire 47 the circuit based on when it was last in use for any stream, not 48 (as we did before) based on when a stream was last attached to it. 49 Closes ticket 41157. Implements a minimal version of Proposal 368. 50 51 o Minor features (exit relays): 52 - Implement reevaluating new exit policy against existing 53 connections. This is controlled by new config option 54 ReevaluateExitPolicy, defaulting to 0. Closes ticket 40676. 55 - Implement a token-bucket based rate limiter for stream creation 56 and resolve request. It is configured by the DoSStream* family of 57 configuration options. Closes ticket 40736. 58 - Add Monero ports to the ReducedExitPolicy. Closes ticket 41168. 59 60 o Minor features (bridges): 61 - Save complete bridge lines to 'datadir/bridgelines'. Closes 62 ticket 29128. 63 64 o Minor features (client extensibility): 65 - Implement new HTTPTunnelPort features for interoperability with 66 Arti's HTTP CONNECT proxy. This work adds new headers to requests 67 to and replies from the HttpConnectPort, support for OPTIONS 68 requests, tightens the expected syntax for Proxy-Authorization, 69 and increases defense-in-depth against some kinds of cross-site 70 HTTP attacks. Closes ticket 41156. Implements proposal 365. 71 - Detect invalid SOCKS5 username/password combinations according to 72 new extended parameters syntax. (Currently, this rejects any 73 SOCKS5 username beginning with "<torS0X>", except for the username 74 "<torS0X>0". Such usernames are now reserved to communicate 75 additional parameters with other Tor implementations.) Implements 76 proposal 351. 77 78 o Minor features (sandboxing): 79 - Allow the fstatat64 and statx syscalls on i386 architecture when 80 glibc >= 2.33. On i386, glibc uses fstatat64 instead of newfstatat 81 for stat operations, and statx for time64 support. Without this, 82 SIGHUP configuration reload fails when using sandbox mode with 83 %include directives on i386 with Debian Bookworm or newer. 84 - Allow the lstat64 syscall on i386 architecture. This syscall is 85 used by glob() in glibc 2.36+ when processing %include directives 86 with directory patterns. 87 88 o Minor features (security): 89 - Increase the size of our finite-field Diffie Hellman TLS group 90 (which we should never actually use!) to 2048 bits. Part of 91 ticket 41067. 92 - Require TLS version 1.2 or later. (Version 1.3 support will be 93 required in the near future.) Part of ticket 41067. 94 - Update TLS 1.2 client cipher list to match current Firefox. Part 95 of ticket 41067. 96 - Verify needle is smaller than haystack before calling memmem. 97 Closes ticket 40854. 98 99 o Minor features (onion services): 100 - Add 3 more keywords to the ADD_ONION control command: 101 PoWDefensesEnabled, PoWQueueRate and PoWQueueBurst which correspond 102 to HiddenServicePoWDefensesEnabled, HiddenServicePoWQueueRate and 103 HiddenServicePoWQueueBurst from torrc. 104 - Reduce the minimum value of hsdir_interval to match recent tor- 105 spec change. 106 107 o Minor feature (directory authority): 108 - Introduce MinimalAcceptedServerVersion to allow configuring 109 the minimum accepted relay version without requiring a new tor 110 release. Closes ticket 40817. 111 112 o Minor features (metrics port): 113 - New metrics on the MetricsPort for the number of BUG() calls that 114 occurred at runtime. Fixes bugs 40839 and 41104; bugfix on 115 0.4.7.1-alpha. 116 - Handle rephist tracking of ntor and ntor_v3 handshakes 117 individually such that MetricsPort exposes the correct values. 118 Fixes bug 40638; bugfix on 0.4.7.11. 119 - Add new metrics for relays on the MetricsPort namely the count of 120 drop cell, destroy cell and the number of circuit protocol 121 violation seen that lead to a circuit close. Closes ticket 40816. 122 123 o Minor features (forward-compatibility): 124 - We now correctly parse microdescriptors and router descriptors 125 that do not include TAP onion keys. (For backward compatibility, 126 authorities continue to require these keys.) Implements part of 127 proposal 350. 128 129 o Minor features (portability, android): 130 - Use /data/local/tmp for data storage on Android by default. Closes 131 ticket 40487. Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner. 132 133 o Minor features (directory authority): 134 - Export unsigned consensus documents once we have seen a threshold 135 of signatures, as a step toward the consensus transparency 136 experiment. 137 138 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 139 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 12, 2026. 140 141 o Minor features (geoip data): 142 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, 143 as retrieved on 2026/02/12. 144 145 o Minor features (windows): 146 - Various compilation fixes for our Windows CI. Closes ticket 41214. 147 148 o Minor bugfixes (exit relays): 149 - Clip every returned DNS TTL to 60 (RESOLVED) in order to mitigate 150 an exit DNS cache oracle. Fixes bug 40979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 151 152 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance): 153 - Set the length field correctly on RELAY_COMMAND_CONFLUX_SWITCH 154 messages. Previously, it was always set to the maximum value. 155 Fixes bug 41056; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 156 - Do not treat "15" as a recognized remote END reason code. 157 Formerly, we treated it as synonymous with a local ENTRYPOLICY, 158 which isn't a valid remote code at all. Fixes bug 41171; bugfix 159 on 0.2.0.8-alpha. 160 161 o Minor bugfixes (tooling): 162 - Fix a false positive valgrind related to inspecting a bitfield 163 next to another uninitialized bitfield. Fixes bug 41182; bugfix 164 on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 165 - Fix minor warnings from newer versions of shellcheck and clang. 166 Fixes bug 41166; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha and several 167 other versions. 168 - Fix a warning when compiling with GCC 14.2. Closes 41032. 169 170 o Minor bugfixes (threads): 171 - Make thread control POSIX compliant. Fixes bug 41109; bugfix 172 on 0.4.8.17. 173 174 o Minor bugfix (client DNS): 175 - Handle empty DNS reply without sending back an error and instead 176 send back NOERROR (RFC1035 error code 0x0). Fixes bug 40248; 177 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 178 179 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): 180 - After we added layer-two vanguards, directory authorities wouldn't 181 think any of their vanguards were suitable for circuits, leading 182 to a "Failed to find node for hop #2 of our path. Discarding this 183 circuit." log message once per second from startup until they made 184 a fresh consensus. Now they look to their existing consensus on 185 startup, letting them build circuits properly from the beginning. 186 Fixes bug 40802; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha. 187 188 o Minor bugfixes (tests): 189 - Fix a test failure with OpenSSL builds running at security level 1 190 or greater, which does not permit SHA-1 certificates. Fixes bug 191 41021; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 192 193 o Minor bugfixes (bridges): 194 - Don't warn when BridgeRelay is 1 and ExitRelay is explicitly set 195 to 0. Fixes bug 40884; bugfix on 0.4.8.3-rc. 196 197 o Minor bugfixes (conflux, client): 198 - Avoid a non fatal assert caused by data coming in on a conflux set 199 that is being freed during shutdown. Fixes bug 40870; bugfix 200 on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 201 202 o Minor bugfixes (testing network): 203 - Enabling TestingTorNetwork no longer forces fast hidden service 204 intro point rotation. This reduces noise and errors when using 205 hidden services with TestingTorNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 40922; 206 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 207 208 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 209 - Refuse to overwrite an existing *.secret_family_key when running 210 tor --keygen-family. Fixes bug 41184; bugfix on 0.4.9.1-alpha. 211 212 o New system requirements: 213 - When built with LibreSSL, Tor now requires LibreSSL 3.7 or later. 214 Part of ticket 41059. 215 - When built with OpenSSL, Tor now requires OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later. 216 (We strongly recommend 3.0 or later, but still build with 1.1.1, 217 even though it is not supported by the OpenSSL team, due to its 218 presence in Debian oldstable.) Part of ticket 41059. 219 220 o Removed features (relays): 221 - Relays no longer support clients that falsely advertise TLS 222 ciphers they don't really support. (Clients have not done this 223 since 0.2.3.17-beta). Part of ticket 41031. 224 - Relays no longer support clients that require obsolete v1 and v2 225 link handshakes. (The v3 link handshake has been supported since 226 0.2.3.6-alpha). Part of ticket 41031. 227 - Relays no longer support the obsolete TAP circuit extension 228 protocol. (For backward compatibility, however, relays still 229 continue to include TAP keys in their descriptors.) Implements 230 part of proposal 350. 231 - Relays no longer support the obsolete "RSA-SHA256-TLSSecret" 232 authentication method, which used a dangerously short RSA key, and 233 which required access TLS session internals. The current method 234 ("Ed25519-SHA256-RFC5705") has been supported since 0.3.0.1-alpha. 235 Closes ticket 41020. 236 237 o Removed features (directory authorities): 238 - Directory authorities no longer support consensus methods before 239 method 32. Closes ticket 40835. 240 - We include a new consensus method that removes support for 241 computing "package" lines in consensus documents. This feature was 242 never used, and support for including it in our votes was removed 243 in 0.4.2.1-alpha. Finishes implementation of proposal 301. 244 245 246 Changes in version 0.4.9.4-rc - 2026-01-28 247 Finally, the release candidate for the 0.4.9.x series. It consists of minor 248 features and several bugfixes. Nothing major has been added since the alpha. 249 If everything goes well, the next version will be the first stable. 250 251 o Minor features (security, reliability): 252 - When KeepaliveIsolateSOCKSAuth is keeping a circuit alive, expire 253 the circuit based on when it was last in use for any stream, not 254 (as we did before) based on when a stream was last attached to it. 255 Closes ticket 41157. Implements a minimal version of Proposal 368. 256 257 o Minor feature (Exit): 258 - Add Monero ports to the ReducedExitPolicy. Closes ticket 41168. 259 260 o Minor features (HTTPTunnelPort): 261 - Implement new HTTPTunnelPort features for interoperability with 262 Arti's HTTP CONNECT proxy. This work adds new headers to requests 263 to and replies from the HttpConnectPort, support for OPTIONS 264 requests, tightens the expected syntax for Proxy-Authorization, 265 and increases defense-in-depth against some kinds of cross-site 266 HTTP attacks. Closes ticket 41156. Implements proposal 365. 267 268 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 269 - Allow the fstatat64 and statx syscalls on i386 architecture when 270 glibc >= 2.33. On i386, glibc uses fstatat64 instead of newfstatat 271 for stat operations, and statx for time64 support. Without this, 272 SIGHUP configuration reload fails when using sandbox mode with 273 %include directives on i386 with Debian Bookworm or newer. 274 - Allow the lstat64 syscall on i386 architecture. This syscall is 275 used by glob() in glibc 2.36+ when processing %include directives 276 with directory patterns. 277 278 o Minor bugfixes (DNS, exit): 279 - Clip every returned DNS TTL to 60 (RESOLVED) in order to mitigate 280 an exit DNS cache oracle. Fixes bug 40979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 281 282 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance): 283 - Do not treat "15" as a recognized remote END reason code. 284 Formerly, we treated it as synonymous with a local ENTRYPOLICY, 285 which isn't a valid remote code at all. Fixes bug 41171; bugfix 286 on 0.2.0.8-alpha. 287 288 o Minor bugfixes (tooling): 289 - Fix a false positive valgrind related to inspecting a bitfield 290 next to another uninitialized bitfield. Fixes bug 41182; bugfix 291 on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 292 293 o Minor bugfixes (warnings): 294 - Fix minor warnings from newer versions of shellcheck and clang. 295 Fixes bug 41166; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha and several 296 other versions. 297 298 299 Changes in version 0.4.8.22 - 2026-01-28 300 This is likely the very last release of the 0.4.8.x series. Three major 301 bugfixes detailed below including two affecting directory servers (basically 302 all relays). We strongly recommend upgrading as soon as possible. 303 304 o Major bugfixes (security): 305 - Avoid an out-of-bounds read error that could occur with 306 V1-formatted EXTEND cells. Fixes bug 41180; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 307 This is tracked as TROVE-2025-016. 308 309 o Major bugfixes (directory servers): 310 - Allow old clients to fetch the consensus even if they use version 311 0 of the SENDME protocol. In mid 2025 we changed the required 312 minimum version of the "FlowCtrl" protocol to 1, meaning directory 313 caches hang up on clients that send a version 0 SENDME cell. Since 314 old clients were no longer able to retrieve the consensus, they 315 couldn't learn about this required minimum version -- meaning 316 we've had many many old clients loading down directory servers for 317 the past months. Fixes bug 41191; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 318 - Don't count networkstatus serves until they finish. When we 319 started serving a consensus document but the client didn't receive 320 all of it, we were still counting that as a success in our stats. 321 This mistake, which can be triggered for example by obsolete 322 clients or by DPI-based censorship, led to wildly inflated user 323 counts because we estimate total users in the world based on 324 successful consensus fetches. Fixes bug 41192; bugfix 325 on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 326 327 o Minor feature (testing, CI): 328 - Bump the CI version of chutney to the current version as of 329 2026-01-21 (3338f5c). 330 331 o Minor features (debugging, compression): 332 - Do not check for compression bombs for buffers smaller than 5MB 333 (increased from 64 KB). Fixes ticket 40739; bugfix on 0.2.1.29. 334 335 o Minor features (directory servers): 336 - Track how many times directory servers begin serving networkstatus 337 documents, so we can compare it to the number of times we finish 338 serving them. Motivated by the fixes in ticket 41192. 339 340 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 341 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 28, 2026. 342 343 o Minor features (geoip data): 344 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 345 retrieved on 2026/01/28. 346 347 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 348 - Downgrade "Error relaying cell across rendezvous" log warn to info 349 as the error condition is possible under normal circumstances. Fixes 350 bug 40951; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 351 352 o Code simplification and refactoring: 353 - Simplify SOCKS4a parsing to avoid the (false) appearance of 354 integer underflows, and to make the logic more obvious. Fixes bug 355 41190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 356 357 358 Changes in version 0.4.8.21 - 2025-11-17 359 This release is a continuation of the previous one and addresses additional 360 Conflux-related issues identified through further testing and feedback from 361 relay operators. We strongly recommend upgrading as soon as possible. 362 363 o Major bugfixes (conflux, exit): 364 - When dequeuing out-of-order conflux cells, the circuit could be 365 closed in between two dequeues, which could lead to mishandling 366 a NULL pointer. Fixes bug 41162; bugfix on 0.4.8.4. 367 368 o Minor feature (compiler flag): 369 - Add -mbranch-protection=standard for arm64. 370 371 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 372 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 17, 2025. 373 374 o Minor features (geoip data): 375 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 376 retrieved on 2025/11/17. 377 378 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transport): 379 - Fix a bug causing the initial tor process to hang instead of 380 exiting with RunAsDaemon, when pluggable transports are used. 381 Fixes bug 41088; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 382 383 384 Changes in version 0.4.8.20 - 2025-11-10 385 This release fixes several bugs related to Conflux edge cases as well as 386 adding a new hardening compiler flag if supported. 387 388 o Minor feature (compiler flag): 389 - Add -fcf-protection=full if supported by the compiler. 390 Implements ticket 41139. 391 392 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 393 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2025. 394 395 o Minor features (geoip data): 396 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 397 retrieved on 2025/11/10. 398 399 o Minor bugfixes (conflux fragile asserts): 400 - Fix the root cause of some conflux fragile asserts when a control 401 port listener is attached. Fixes bug 41037; bugfix on 0.4.8.16. 402 403 o Minor bugfixes (conflux, relay): 404 - Fix a series of conflux edge cases about sequence number 405 arithmetic and OOM handler kicking in under heavy memory pressure. 406 Fixes bug 41155; bugfix on 0.4.8.4. 407 408 409 Changes in version 0.4.8.19 - 2025-10-06 410 This release provides major bugfixes for a LibreSSL issue and a flow control 411 C-tor specific problem (not protocol). We strongly recommend you upgrade as 412 soon as possible. 413 414 o Major bugfixes (client, TLS): 415 - Fix some clients not being able to connect to LibreSSL relays. 416 Fixes bug 41134; bugfix on 0.4.8.17. 417 418 o Minor bugfixes (stream flow control performance): 419 - Use a 5 ms grace period to allow an edge connection to flush its 420 stream data to the socket before sending an XOFF. This 421 significantly reduces the number of XON/XOFF messages sent when 422 (1) the application is reading stream data at a fast rate, and (2) 423 conflux is enabled. Fixes part of bug 41130; bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha. 424 425 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 426 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on October 06, 2025. 427 428 o Minor features (geoip data): 429 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 430 retrieved on 2025/10/06. 431 432 o Minor bugfix (process): 433 - Avoid closing all possible FDs when spawning a process (PT). On 434 some systems, this could lead to 3+ minutes hang. Fixes bug 40990; 435 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 436 437 438 Changes in version 0.4.9.3-alpha - 2025-09-16 439 This is the third alpha release and likely the last before going stable. 440 This release contains the new CGO circuit encryption. See proposal 359 for 441 more details. Several TLS minor fixes which will strengthen the link 442 security. 443 444 o New system requirements: 445 - When built with LibreSSL, Tor now requires LibreSSL 3.7 or later. 446 Part of ticket 41059. 447 - When built with OpenSSL, Tor now requires OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later. 448 (We strongly recommend 3.0 or later, but still build with 1.1.1, 449 even though it is not supported by the OpenSSL team, due to its 450 presence in Debian oldstable.) Part of ticket 41059. 451 452 o Major features (cell format): 453 - Tor now has (unused) internal support to encode and decode relay 454 messages in the new format required by our newer CGO encryption 455 algorithm. Closes ticket 41051. Part of proposal 359. 456 457 o Major features (cryptography): 458 - Clients and relays can now negotiate Counter Galois Onion (CGO) 459 relay cryptography, as designed by Jean Paul Degabriele, 460 Alessandro Melloni, Jean-Pierre Münch, and Martijn Stam. CGO 461 provides improved resistance to several kinds of tagging attacks, 462 better forward secrecy, and better forgery resistance. Closes 463 ticket 41047. Implements proposal 359. 464 465 o Major bugfixes (onion service directory cache): 466 - Preserve the download counter of an onion service descriptor 467 across descriptor uploads, so that recently updated descriptors 468 don't get pruned if there is memory pressure soon after update. 469 Additionally, create a separate torrc option MaxHSDirCacheBytes 470 that defaults to the former 20% of MaxMemInQueues threshold, but 471 can be controlled by relay operators under DoS. Also enforce this 472 threshold during HSDir uploads. Fixes bug 41006; bugfix 473 on 0.4.8.14. 474 475 o Minor features (security): 476 - Increase the size of our finite-field Diffie Hellman TLS group 477 (which we should never actually use!) to 2048 bits. Part of 478 ticket 41067. 479 - Require TLS version 1.2 or later. (Version 1.3 support will be 480 required in the near future.) Part of ticket 41067. 481 - Update TLS 1.2 client cipher list to match current Firefox. Part 482 of ticket 41067. 483 484 o Minor features (security, TLS): 485 - When we are running with OpenSSL 3.5.0 or later, support using the 486 ML-KEM768 for post-quantum key agreement. Closes ticket 41041. 487 488 o Minor feature (client, TLS): 489 - Set the TLS 1.3 cipher list instead of falling back on the 490 default value. 491 492 o Minor feature (padding, logging): 493 - Reduce the amount of messages being logged related to channel 494 padding timeout when log level is "notice". 495 496 o Minor features (bridges): 497 - Save complete bridge lines to 'datadir/bridgelines'. Closes 498 ticket 29128. 499 500 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 501 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 16, 2025. 502 503 o Minor features (geoip data): 504 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 505 retrieved on 2025/09/16. 506 507 o Minor features (hidden services): 508 - Reduce the minimum value of hsdir_interval to match recent tor- 509 spec change. 510 511 o Minor features (hsdesc POW): 512 - Tolerate multiple PoW schemes in onion service descriptors, for 513 future extensibility. Implements torspec ticket 272. 514 515 o Minor features (performance TLS): 516 - When running with with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or later, support using 517 X25519 for TLS key agreement. (This should slightly improve 518 performance for TLS session establishment.) 519 520 o Minor features (portability): 521 - Fix warnings when compiling with GCC 15. Closes ticket 41079. 522 523 o Minor bugfix (conflux): 524 - Remove the pending nonce if we realize that the nonce of the 525 unlinked circuit is not tracked anymore. Should avoid the non 526 fatal assert triggered with a control port circuit event. Fixes 527 bug 41037; bugfix on 0.4.8.15. 528 529 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transport): 530 - Fix a bug causing the initial tor process to hang instead of 531 exiting with RunAsDaemon, when pluggable transports are used. 532 Fixes bug 41088; bugfix on 0.4.9.1-alpha. 533 534 o Minor bugfixes (circuit handling): 535 - Prevent circuit_mark_for_close() from being called twice on the 536 same circuit. Fixes bug 40951; bugfix on 0.4.8.16-dev. 537 - Prevent circuit_mark_for_close() from being called twice on the 538 same circuit. Second fix attempt Fixes bug 41106; bugfix 539 on 0.4.8.17 540 541 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 542 - Fix linking on systems without a working stdatomic.h. Fixes bug 543 41076; bugfix on 0.4.9.1-alpha. 544 545 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings): 546 - Make sure the two bitfields in the half-closed edge struct are 547 unsigned, as we're using them for boolean values and assign 1 to 548 them. Fixes bug 40911; bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha. 549 550 o Minor bugfixes (logging, metrics port): 551 - Count BUG statements for the MetricsPort only if they are warnings 552 or errors. Fixes bug 41104; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha. Patch 553 contributed by shadowcoder. 554 555 o Minor bugfixes (protocol): 556 - Set the length field correctly on RELAY_COMMAND_CONFLUX_SWITCH 557 messages. Previously, it was always set to the maximum value. 558 Fixes bug 41056; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 559 560 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 561 - Fix a crash when FamilyKeyDir is a path that cannot be read. Fixes 562 bug 41043; bugfix on 0.4.9.2-alpha. 563 564 o Minor bugfixes (threads): 565 - Make thread control POSIX compliant. Fixes bug 41109; bugfix 566 on 0.4.8.17-dev. 567 568 o Removed features: 569 - Relays no longer support clients that falsely advertise TLS 570 ciphers they don't really support. (Clients have not done this 571 since 0.2.3.17-beta). Part of ticket 41031. 572 - Relays no longer support clients that require obsolete v1 and v2 573 link handshakes. (The v3 link handshake has been supported since 574 0.2.3.6-alpha). Part of ticket 41031. 575 576 577 Changes in version 0.4.8.18 - 2025-09-16 578 This is a minor release with a major onion service directory cache (HSDir) 579 bug fix. A series of minor bugfixes as well. As always, we strongly recommend 580 to upgrade as soon as possible. 581 582 o Major bugfixes (onion service directory cache): 583 - Preserve the download counter of an onion service descriptor 584 across descriptor uploads, so that recently updated descriptors 585 don't get pruned if there is memory pressure soon after update. 586 Additionally, create a separate torrc option MaxHSDirCacheBytes 587 that defaults to the former 20% of MaxMemInQueues threshold, but 588 can be controlled by relay operators under DoS. Also enforce this 589 threshold during HSDir uploads. Fixes bug 41006; bugfix 590 on 0.4.8.14. 591 592 o Minor feature (padding, logging): 593 - Reduce the amount of messages being logged related to channel 594 padding timeout when log level is "notice". 595 596 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 597 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 16, 2025. 598 599 o Minor features (geoip data): 600 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 601 retrieved on 2025/09/16. 602 603 o Minor bugfix (conflux): 604 - Remove the pending nonce if we realize that the nonce of the 605 unlinked circuit is not tracked anymore. Should avoid the non 606 fatal assert triggered with a control port circuit event. Fixes 607 bug 41037; bugfix on 0.4.8.15. 608 609 o Minor bugfixes (circuit handling): 610 - Prevent circuit_mark_for_close() from being called twice on the 611 same circuit. Second fix attempt Fixes bug 41106; bugfix 612 on 0.4.8.17. 613 614 615 Changes in version 0.4.8.17 - 2025-06-30 616 This is a minor providing a series of minor features especially in the realm 617 of TLS. It also brings a new set of recommended and required sub protocols. 618 And finally, few minor bugfixes, nothing major. As always, we strongly 619 recommend you upgrade as soon as possible. 620 621 o Minor features (security, TLS): 622 - When we are running with OpenSSL 3.5.0 or later, support using the 623 ML-KEM768 for post-quantum key agreement. Closes ticket 41041. 624 625 o Minor feature (client, TLS): 626 - Set the TLS 1.3 cipher list instead of falling back on the 627 default value. 628 629 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 630 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 30, 2025. 631 632 o Minor features (geoip data): 633 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 634 retrieved on 2025/06/30. 635 636 o Minor features (hsdesc POW): 637 - Tolerate multiple PoW schemes in onion service descriptors, for 638 future extensibility. Implements torspec ticket 272. 639 640 o Minor features (performance TLS): 641 - When running with with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or later, support using 642 X25519 for TLS key agreement. (This should slightly improve 643 performance for TLS session establishment.) 644 645 o Minor features (portability): 646 - Fix warnings when compiling with GCC 15. Closes ticket 41079. 647 648 o Minor features (recommended protocols): 649 - Directory authorities now vote to recommend that clients support 650 certain protocols beyond those that are required. These include 651 improved support for connecting to relays on IPv6, NtorV3, and 652 congestion control. Part of ticket 40836. 653 654 o Minor features (required protocols): 655 - Directory authorities now vote to require clients to support the 656 authenticated SENDME feature, which was introduced in 657 0.4.1.1-alpha. Part of ticket 40836. 658 - Directory authorities now vote to require relays to support 659 certain protocols, all of which have been implemented since 660 0.4.7.4-alpha or earlier. These include improved support for 661 connecting to relays on IPv6, NtorV3, running as a rate-limited 662 introduction point, authenticated SENDMEs, and congestion control. 663 Part of ticket 40836. 664 665 o Minor bugfix (conflux): 666 - Avoid a non fatal assert when describing a conflux circuit on the 667 control port after being prepped to be freed. Fixes bug 41037; 668 bugfix on 0.4.8.15. 669 670 o Minor bugfixes (circuit handling): 671 - Prevent circuit_mark_for_close() from being called twice on the 672 same circuit. Fixes bug 40951; bugfix on 0.4.8.16-dev. 673 674 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings): 675 - Make sure the two bitfields in the half-closed edge struct are 676 unsigned, as we're using them for boolean values and assign 1 to 677 them. Fixes bug 40911; bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha. 678 679 o Minor bugfixes (threads, memory): 680 - Improvements in cleanup of resources used by threads. Fixes bug 681 40991; bugfix on 0.4.8.13-dev. 682 - Rework start and exit of worker threads. 683 684 685 Changes in version 0.4.9.2-alpha - 2025-04-02 686 This is the second alpha of the 0.4.9.x series. We have several new minor 687 features and a big one, the happy families that was long awaited by relay 688 operators. This release also fixes a number of bugs including major ones. 689 690 o Major feature (happy families): 691 - Clients and relays now support "happy families", a system to 692 simplify relay family operation and improve directory performance. 693 With "happy families", relays in a family shares a secret "family 694 key", which they use to prove their membership in the family. 695 Implements proposal 321; closes ticket 41009. Note that until 696 enough clients are upgraded, relay operators will still need to 697 configure MyFamily lists. But once clients no longer depend on 698 those lists, we will be able to remove them entirely, thereby 699 simplifying family operation, and making microdescriptor downloads 700 approximately 80% smaller. For more information, see 701 https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/post-install/family-ids/ 702 703 o Major features (client): 704 - Clients now respect "happy families" per proposal 321. This 705 feature will eventually allow a much more compact representation 706 for relay families, for a significant savings in directory 707 download size. 708 709 o Minor feature (onion service, control port): 710 - Add 3 more keywords to the ADD_ONION control command: 711 PoWDefensesEnabled, PoWQueueRate and PoWQueueBurst which correspond 712 to HiddenServicePoWDefensesEnabled, HiddenServicePoWQueueRate and 713 HiddenServicePoWQueueBurst from torrc. 714 715 o Minor feature (testing, CI): 716 - Use a fixed version of chutney (be881a1e) instead of its current 717 HEAD. This version should also be preferred when testing locally. 718 719 o Minor features (compilation): 720 - Fix a warning when compiling with GCC 14.2. Closes 41032. 721 722 o Minor features (continuous integration): 723 - Upgrade CI runners to use Debian Bookworm instead of Bullseye. 724 Closes ticket 41029. 725 726 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 727 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 05, 2025. 728 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on March 20, 2025. 729 730 o Minor features (geoip data): 731 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 732 retrieved on 2025/02/05. 733 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 734 retrieved on 2025/03/20. 735 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 736 retrieved on 2025/03/24. 737 738 o Minor features (recommended protocols): 739 - Directory authorities now vote to recommend that clients support 740 certain protocols beyond those that are required. These include 741 improved support for connecting to relays on IPv6, NtorV3, and 742 congestion control. Part of ticket 40836. 743 744 o Minor features (required protocols): 745 - Directory authorities now vote to require clients to support the 746 authenticated SENDME feature, which was introduced in 747 0.4.1.1-alpha. Part of ticket 40836. 748 - Directory authorities now vote to require relays to support 749 certain protocols, all of which have been implemented since 750 0.4.7.4-alpha or earlier. These include improved support for 751 connecting to relays on IPv6, NtorV3, running as a rate-limited 752 introduction point, authenticated SENDMEs, and congestion control. 753 Part of ticket 40836. 754 755 o Major bugfix (control-events, bw-cache): 756 - Fixes spikes occurring in bandwidth cache on control connection. 757 Fixes bug 31524; bugfix on 0.4.8.12-dev. 758 759 o Major bugfixes (conflux): 760 - Ensure conflux guards obey family and subnet restrictions. Fixes 761 bug 40976; bugfix on 0.4.8.13. 762 763 o Major bugfixes (onion service directory cache): 764 - When the OOM killer kicks in, cleanup the descriptor cache of an 765 HSDir by looking at the lowest downloaded count instead of time in 766 cache. Fixes bug 40996; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 767 768 o Minor bugfix (client DNS): 769 - Handle empty DNS reply without sending back an error and instead 770 send back NOERROR (RFC1035 error code 0x0). Fixes bug 40248; 771 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 772 773 o Minor bugfix (conflux): 774 - Avoid a non fatal assert when describing a conflux circuit on the 775 control port after being prepped to be freed. Fixes bug 41037; 776 bugfix on 0.4.8.15. 777 778 o Minor bugfix (dirauth): 779 - Fix typo in flag assignment approved-routers file. Fixes bug 780 41035; bugfix on 0.4.8.15 781 782 o Minor bugfixes (control port): 783 - Correctly report conflux pair information to controller fields 784 Fixes bug 40872; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha 785 786 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): 787 - After we added layer-two vanguards, directory authorities wouldn't 788 think any of their vanguards were suitable for circuits, leading 789 to a "Failed to find node for hop #2 of our path. Discarding this 790 circuit." log message once per second from startup until they made 791 a fresh consensus. Now they look to their existing consensus on 792 startup, letting them build circuits properly from the beginning. 793 Fixes bug 40802; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha. 794 795 o Minor bugfixes (relay flag usage): 796 - Fix client usage of the MiddleOnly flag so that MiddleOnly relays 797 are not used as HS IP or RP by clients or services. Additionally, 798 give dirauths the ability to remove specific flags, as an 799 alternative to MiddleOnly. Fixes bug 41023; bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha 800 801 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, bwauth): 802 - Fix sandbox to work for bandwidth authority. Fixes bug 40933; 803 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha 804 805 o Minor bugfixes (tests): 806 - Fix a test failure with OpenSSL builds running at security level 1 807 or greater, which does not permit SHA-1 certificates. (Fixes bug 808 41021; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.) 809 810 o Minor bugfixes (threads, memory): 811 - Improvements in cleanup of resources used by threads. Fixes bug 812 40991; bugfix on 0.4.8.13-dev. 813 - Rework start and exit of worker threads. 814 815 o Removed features: 816 - Relays no longer support the obsolete "RSA-SHA256-TLSSecret" 817 authentication method, which used a dangerously short RSA key, and 818 which required access TLS session internals. The current method 819 ("Ed25519-SHA256-RFC5705") has been supported since 0.3.0.1-alpha. 820 Closes ticket 41020. 821 822 823 Changes in version 0.4.8.16 - 2025-03-24 824 This is a quick second release since 0.4.8.15 due to a typo in a directory 825 authority rule file. This only affects directory authorities. 826 827 o Minor features (geoip data): 828 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 829 retrieved on 2025/03/24. 830 831 o Minor bugfix (dirauth): 832 - Fix typo in flag assignment approved-routers file. Fixes bug 833 41035; bugfix on 0.4.8.15. 834 835 836 Changes in version 0.4.8.15 - 2025-03-20 837 This is a minor release fixing a sandbox issue for bandwidth authority and a 838 conflux issue on the control port. It also has a client fix about relay flag 839 usage. 840 841 o Minor feature (testing, CI): 842 - Use a fixed version of chutney (be881a1e) instead of its current 843 HEAD. This version should also be preferred when testing locally. 844 845 o Minor features (continuous integration): 846 - Upgrade CI runners to use Debian Bookworm instead of Bullseye. 847 Closes ticket 41029. 848 849 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 850 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on March 20, 2025. 851 852 o Minor features (geoip data): 853 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 854 retrieved on 2025/03/20. 855 856 o Minor bugfixes (control port): 857 - Correctly report conflux pair information to controller fields. 858 Fixes bug 40872; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 859 860 o Minor bugfixes (relay flag usage): 861 - Fix client usage of the MiddleOnly flag so that MiddleOnly relays 862 are not used as HS IP or RP by clients or services. Additionally, 863 give dirauths the ability to remove specific flags, as an 864 alternative to MiddleOnly. Fixes bug 41023; bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha. 865 866 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, bwauth): 867 - Fix sandbox to work for bandwidth authority. Fixes bug 40933; 868 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 869 870 871 Changes in version 0.4.8.14 - 2025-02-05 872 Minor release fixing a major bug affecting onion service directory cache, 873 also known as HSDir. Furthermore, the fallbackdir list had more than 25% of 874 its entries unreachable or gone from the consensus. As usual, we strongly 875 recommend to update to this version as soon as possible. 876 877 o Major bugfixes (onion service directory cache): 878 - When the OOM killer kicks in, cleanup the descriptor cache of an 879 HSDir by looking at the lowest downloaded count instead of time in 880 cache. Fixes bug 40996; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 881 882 o Minor feature (testing): 883 - test-network now unconditionally includes IPv6 instead of trying 884 to detect IPv6 support. 885 886 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 887 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 05, 2025. 888 889 o Minor features (geoip data): 890 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 891 retrieved on 2025/02/05. 892 893 o Minor bugfixes (memory): 894 - Fix a pointer free that wasn't set to NULL afterwards which could 895 be reused by calling back in the free all function. Fixes bug 896 40989; bugfix on 0.4.8.13. 897 898 899 Changes in version 0.4.9.1-alpha - 2024-12-03 900 This is the first alpha of the 0.4.9.x series. This release mostly consists 901 of bugfixes including some major ones. There are several minor features in 902 this release but no large new subsystem. 903 904 o Major bugfixes (sandbox): 905 - Fix sandbox to work on architectures that use Linux's generic 906 syscall interface, extending support for AArch64 (ARM64) and 907 adding support for RISC-V, allowing test_include.sh and the 908 sandbox unit tests to pass on these systems even when building 909 with fragile hardening enabled. Fixes bugs 40465 and 40599; bugfix 910 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 911 912 o Minor feature (defense in depth): 913 - Verify needle is smaller than haystack before calling memmem. 914 Closes ticket 40854. 915 916 o Minor feature (directory authority): 917 - Introduce MinimalAcceptedServerVersion to allow modification of 918 minimal accepted version for relays without requiring a new tor 919 release. Closes ticket 40817. 920 921 o Minor feature (exit policies): 922 - Implement reevaluating new exit policy against existing 923 connections. This is controlled by new config option 924 ReevaluateExitPolicy, defaulting to 0. Closes ticket 40676. 925 926 o Minor feature (exit relay, DoS resistance): 927 - Implement a token-bucket based rate limiter for stream creation 928 and resolve request. It is configured by the DoSStream* family of 929 configuration options. Closes ticket 40736. 930 931 o Minor feature (metrics port): 932 - New metrics on the MetricsPort for the number of BUG() that 933 occurred at runtime. Closes MR 760. 934 935 o Minor feature (metrics port, relay): 936 - Add new metrics for relays on the MetricsPort namely the count of 937 drop cell, destroy cell and the number of circuit protocol 938 violation seen that lead to a circuit close. Closes ticket 40816. 939 940 o Minor feature (testing): 941 - test-network now unconditionally includes IPv6 instead of trying 942 to detect IPv6 support. 943 944 o Minor feature (testing, CI): 945 - Use a fixed version of chutney (be881a1e) instead of its current 946 HEAD. This version should also be preferred when testing locally. 947 948 o Minor features (forward-compatibility): 949 - We now correctly parse microdescriptors and router descriptors 950 that do not include TAP onion keys. (For backward compatibility, 951 authorities continue to require these keys.) Implements part of 952 proposal 350. 953 954 o Minor features (portability, android): 955 - Use /data/local/tmp for data storage on Android by default. Closes 956 ticket 40487. Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner. 957 958 o Minor features (SOCKS): 959 - Detect invalid SOCKS5 username/password combinations according to 960 new extended parameters syntax. (Currently, this rejects any 961 SOCKS5 username beginning with "<torS0X>", except for the username 962 "<torS0X>0". Such usernames are now reserved to communicate 963 additional parameters with other Tor implementations.) Implements 964 proposal 351. 965 966 o Minor bugfix (MetricsPort, relay): 967 - Handle rephist tracking of ntor and ntor_v3 handshakes 968 individually such that MetricsPort exposes the correct values. 969 Fixes bug 40638; bugfix on 0.4.7.11. 970 971 o Minor bugfix (process): 972 - Avoid closing all possible FDs when spawning a process (PT). On 973 some systems, this could lead to 3+ minutes hang. Fixes bug 40990; 974 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 975 976 o Minor bugfix (relay, sandbox): 977 - Disable a sandbox unit test that is failing on Debian Sid breaking 978 our nightly packages. Fixes bug 40918; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 979 980 o Minor bugfixes (bridge): 981 - Don't warn when BridgeRelay is 1 and ExitRelay is explicitly set 982 to 0. Fixes bug 40884; bugfix on 0.4.8.3-rc. 983 984 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings): 985 - Make sure the two bitfields in the half-closed edge struct are 986 unsigned, as we're using them for boolean values and assign 1 to 987 them. Fixes bug 40911; bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha. 988 989 o Minor bugfixes (conflux, client): 990 - Avoid a non fatal assert caused by data coming in on a conflux set 991 that is being freed during shutdown. Fixes bug 40870; bugfix 992 on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 993 994 o Minor bugfixes (memory): 995 - Fix a pointer free that wasn't set to NULL afterwards which could 996 be reused by calling back in the free all function. Fixes bug 997 40989; bugfix on 0.4.8.13. 998 999 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, bwauth): 1000 - Fix sandbox to work for bandwidth authority. Fixes bug 40933; 1001 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha 1002 1003 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 1004 - Enabling TestingTorNetwork no longer forces fast hidden service 1005 intro point rotation. This reduces noise and errors when using 1006 hidden services with TestingTorNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 40922; 1007 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 1008 1009 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve): 1010 - Create socket with correct family as given by sockshost, fixes 1011 IPv6. Fixes bug 40982; bugfix on 0.4.9.0-alpha. 1012 1013 o Removed features: 1014 - Directory authorities no longer support consensus methods before 1015 method 32. Closes ticket 40835. 1016 1017 o Removed features (directory authority): 1018 - We include a new consensus method that removes support for 1019 computing "package" lines in consensus documents. This feature was 1020 never used, and support for including it in our votes was removed 1021 in 0.4.2.1-alpha. Finishes implementation of proposal 301. 1022 1023 o Removed features (obsolete): 1024 - Relays no longer support the obsolete TAP circuit extension 1025 protocol. (For backward compatibility, however, relays still 1026 continue to include TAP keys in their descriptors.) Implements 1027 part of proposal 350. 1028 - Removed some vestigial code for selecting the TAP circuit 1029 extension protocol. 1030 1031 1032 Changes in version 0.4.8.13 - 2024-10-24 1033 This minor release fixes an important client circuit building (conflux 1034 related) bug which led to performance degradation and extra load on the 1035 network. Some minor memory leaks fixes as well as an important minor feature 1036 for pluggable transports. We strongly recommend to update as soon as possible 1037 for clients in order to neutralize this conflux bug. 1038 1039 o Major bugfixes (circuit building): 1040 - Conflux circuit building was ignoring the "predicted ports" 1041 feature, which aims to make Tor stop building circuits if there 1042 have been no user requests lately. This bug led to every idle Tor 1043 on the network building and discarding circuits every 30 seconds, 1044 which added overall load to the network, used bandwidth and 1045 battery from clients that weren't actively using their Tor, and 1046 kept sockets open on guards which added connection padding 1047 essentially forever. Fixes bug 40981; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1048 1049 o Minor feature (bridges, pluggable transport): 1050 - Add STATUS TYPE=version handler for Pluggable Transport. This 1051 allows us to gather version statistics on Pluggable Transport 1052 usage from bridge servers on our metrics portal. Closes 1053 ticket 11101. 1054 1055 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1056 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on October 24, 2024. 1057 1058 o Minor features (geoip data): 1059 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1060 retrieved on 2024/10/24. 1061 1062 o Minor bugfixes (memleak, authority): 1063 - Fix a small memleak when computing a new consensus. This only 1064 affects directory authorities. Fixes bug 40966; bugfix 1065 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1066 1067 o Minor bugfixes (memory): 1068 - Fix memory leaks of the CPU worker code during shutdown. Fixes bug 1069 833; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1070 1071 1072 Changes in version 0.4.8.12 - 2024-06-06 1073 This is a minor release with couple bugfixes affecting conflux and logging. 1074 We also have the return of faravahar directory authority with new keys and 1075 address. 1076 1077 o Minor feature (dirauth): 1078 - Add back faravahar with a new address and new keys. Closes 40689. 1079 1080 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1081 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 06, 2024. 1082 1083 o Minor features (geoip data): 1084 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1085 retrieved on 2024/06/06. 1086 1087 o Minor bugfix (circuit): 1088 - Remove a log_warn being triggered by a protocol violation that 1089 already emits a protocol warning log. Fixes bug 40932; bugfix 1090 on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1091 1092 o Minor bugfixes (conflux): 1093 - Avoid a potential hard assert (crash) when sending a cell on a 1094 Conflux set. Fixes bug 40921; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1095 - Make sure we don't process a closed circuit when packaging data. 1096 This lead to a non fatal BUG() spamming logs. Fixes bug 40908; 1097 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1098 1099 1100 Changes in version 0.4.8.11 - 2024-04-10 1101 This is a minor release mostly to upgrade the fallbackdir list. 1102 Directory authorities running this version will now automatically 1103 reject relays running the end of life 0.4.7.x version. 1104 1105 o Minor features (directory authorities): 1106 - Reject 0.4.7.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40896. 1107 1108 o Minor feature (dirauth, tor26): 1109 - New IP address and keys. 1110 1111 o Minor feature (directory authority): 1112 - Allow BandwidthFiles "node_id" KeyValue without the dollar sign at 1113 the start of the hexdigit, in order to easier database queries 1114 combining Tor documents in which the relays fingerprint does not 1115 include it. Fixes bug 40891; bugfix on 0.4.7 (all supported 1116 versions of Tor). 1117 1118 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1119 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 10, 2024. 1120 1121 o Minor features (geoip data): 1122 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1123 retrieved on 2024/04/10. 1124 1125 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): 1126 - Add a warning when publishing a vote or signatures to another 1127 directory authority fails. Fixes bug 40910; bugfix 1128 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 1129 1130 1131 Changes in version 0.4.8.10 - 2023-12-08 1132 This is a security release fixing a high severity bug (TROVE-2023-007) 1133 affecting Exit relays supporting Conflux. We strongly recommend to update as 1134 soon as possible. 1135 1136 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2023-007, exit): 1137 - Improper error propagation from a safety check in conflux leg 1138 linking led to a desynchronization of which legs were part of a 1139 conflux set, ultimately causing a UAF and NULL pointer dereference 1140 crash on Exit relays. Fixes bug 40897; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1141 1142 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1143 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 08, 2023. 1144 1145 o Minor features (geoip data): 1146 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1147 retrieved on 2023/12/08. 1148 1149 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, statistics): 1150 - Correctly report statistics for client count over pluggable 1151 transports. Fixes bug 40871; bugfix on 0.4.8.4. 1152 1153 1154 Changes in version 0.4.8.9 - 2023-11-09 1155 This is another security release fixing a high severity bug affecting onion 1156 services which is tracked by TROVE-2023-006. We are also releasing a guard 1157 major bugfix as well. If you are an onion service operator, we strongly 1158 recommend to update as soon as possible. 1159 1160 o Major bugfixes (guard usage): 1161 - When Tor excluded a guard due to temporary circuit restrictions, 1162 it considered *additional* primary guards for potential usage by 1163 that circuit. This could result in more than the specified number 1164 of guards (currently 2) being used, long-term, by the tor client. 1165 This could happen when a Guard was also selected as an Exit node, 1166 but it was exacerbated by the Conflux guard restrictions. Both 1167 instances have been fixed. Fixes bug 40876; bugfix 1168 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 1169 1170 o Major bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2023-006): 1171 - Fix a possible hard assert on a NULL pointer when recording a 1172 failed rendezvous circuit on the service side for the MetricsPort. 1173 Fixes bug 40883; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1174 1175 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1176 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 09, 2023. 1177 1178 o Minor features (geoip data): 1179 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1180 retrieved on 2023/11/09. 1181 1182 1183 Changes in version 0.4.8.8 - 2023-11-03 1184 We are releasing today a fix for a high security issue, TROVE-2023-004, that 1185 is affecting relays. Also a few minor bugfixes detailed below. Please upgrade 1186 as soon as possible. 1187 1188 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2023-004, relay): 1189 - Mitigate an issue when Tor compiled with OpenSSL can crash during 1190 handshake with a remote relay. Fixes bug 40874; bugfix 1191 on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 1192 1193 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1194 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 03, 2023. 1195 1196 o Minor features (geoip data): 1197 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1198 retrieved on 2023/11/03. 1199 1200 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): 1201 - Look at the network parameter "maxunmeasuredbw" with the correct 1202 spelling. Fixes bug 40869; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. 1203 1204 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards addon support): 1205 - Count the conflux linked cell as valid when it is successfully 1206 processed. This will quiet a spurious warn in the vanguards addon. 1207 Fixes bug 40878; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1208 1209 1210 Changes in version 0.4.8.7 - 2023-09-25 1211 This version fixes a single major bug in the Conflux subsystem on the client 1212 side. See below for more information. The upcoming Tor Browser 13 stable will 1213 pick this up. 1214 1215 o Major bugfixes (conflux): 1216 - Fix an issue that prevented us from pre-building more conflux sets 1217 after existing sets had been used. Fixes bug 40862; bugfix 1218 on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1219 1220 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1221 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 25, 2023. 1222 1223 o Minor features (geoip data): 1224 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1225 retrieved on 2023/09/25. 1226 1227 1228 Changes in version 0.4.8.6 - 2023-09-18 1229 This version contains an important fix for onion services regarding 1230 congestion control and its reliability. Apart from that, unneeded BUG 1231 warnings have been suppressed especially about a compression bomb seen 1232 on relays. 1233 1234 o Major bugfixes (onion service): 1235 - Fix a reliability issue where services were expiring their 1236 introduction points every consensus update. This caused 1237 connectivity issues for clients caching the old descriptor and 1238 intro points. Bug reported and fixed by gitlab user 1239 @hyunsoo.kim676. Fixes bug 40858; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha. 1240 1241 o Minor features (debugging, compression): 1242 - Log the input and output buffer sizes when we detect a potential 1243 compression bomb. Diagnostic for ticket 40739. 1244 1245 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1246 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 18, 2023. 1247 1248 o Minor features (geoip data): 1249 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1250 retrieved on 2023/09/18. 1251 1252 o Minor bugfix (defensive programming): 1253 - Disable multiple BUG warnings of a missing relay identity key when 1254 starting an instance of Tor compiled without relay support. Fixes 1255 bug 40848; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 1256 1257 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority): 1258 - When reporting a pseudo-networkstatus as a bridge authority, or 1259 answering "ns/purpose/*" controller requests, include accurate 1260 published-on dates from our list of router descriptors. Fixes bug 1261 40855; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1262 1263 o Minor bugfixes (compression, zstd): 1264 - Use less frightening language and lower the log-level of our run- 1265 time ABI compatibility check message in our Zstd compression 1266 subsystem. Fixes bug 40815; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 1267 1268 1269 Changes in version 0.4.8.5 - 2023-08-30 1270 Quick second release after the first stable few days ago fixing minor 1271 annoying bugfixes creating log BUG stacktrace. We also fix BSD compilation 1272 failures and PoW unit test. 1273 1274 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1275 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 30, 2023. 1276 1277 o Minor features (geoip data): 1278 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1279 retrieved on 2023/08/30. 1280 1281 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, compilation): 1282 - Fix compilation issue on NetBSD by avoiding an unnecessary 1283 dependency on "huge" page mappings in Equi-X. Fixes bug 40843; 1284 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1285 1286 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, testing): 1287 - Fix test failures in "crypto/hashx" and "slow/crypto/equix" on 1288 x86_64 and aarch64 NetBSD hosts, by adding support for 1289 PROT_MPROTECT() flags. Fixes bug 40844; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1290 1291 o Minor bugfixes (conflux): 1292 - Demote a relay-side warn about too many legs to ProtocolWarn, as 1293 there are conditions that it can briefly happen during set 1294 construction. Also add additional set logging details for all 1295 error cases. Fixes bug 40841; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1296 - Prevent non-fatal assert stacktrace caused by using conflux sets 1297 during their teardown process. Fixes bug 40842; bugfix 1298 on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1299 1300 1301 Changes in version 0.4.8.4 - 2023-08-23 1302 Finally, this is the very first stable release of the 0.4.8.x series making 1303 Proof-of-Work (prop#327) and Conflux (prop#329) available to the entire 1304 network. Some major bugfixes since the release candidate detailed below. 1305 1306 o Major feature (denial of service): 1307 - Extend DoS protection to partially opened channels and known 1308 relays. Because re-entry is not allowed anymore, we can apply DoS 1309 protections onto known IP namely relays. Fixes bug 40821; bugfix 1310 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1311 1312 o Major bugfixes (conflux): 1313 - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug 1314 40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds 1315 additional log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug 1316 40834; bugfix on 0.4.8.3-rc. 1317 1318 o Major bugfixes (proof of work, onion service, hashx): 1319 - Fix a very rare buffer overflow in hashx, specific to the dynamic 1320 compiler on aarch64 platforms. Fixes bug 40833; bugfix 1321 on 0.4.8.2-alpha. 1322 1323 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1324 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 23, 2023. 1325 1326 o Minor features (geoip data): 1327 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1328 retrieved on 2023/08/23. 1329 1330 o Minor features (testing): 1331 - All Rust code is now linted (cargo clippy) as part of GitLab CI, and 1332 existing warnings have been fixed. - Any unit tests written in Rust now 1333 run as part of GitLab CI. 1334 1335 o Minor bugfix (FreeBSD, compilation): 1336 - Fix compilation issue on FreeBSD by properly importing 1337 sys/param.h. Fixes bug 40825; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1338 1339 o Minor bugfixes (compression): 1340 - Right after compression/decompression work is done, check for 1341 errors. Before this, we would consider compression bomb before 1342 that and then looking for errors leading to false positive on that 1343 log warning. Fixes bug 40739; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch 1344 by "cypherpunks". 1345 1346 1347 Changes in version 0.4.8.3-rc - 2023-08-04 1348 This is the first release candidate (and likely the only) of the 0.4.8.x 1349 series. We fixed a major conflux bugfix which was a fatal asserts on the 1350 relay Exit side. See below for more details. Couple minor bugfixes. Until 1351 stable, name of the game here is stabilization. 1352 1353 o Major bugfixes (conflux): 1354 - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux 1355 circuit between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on 1356 the conflux set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back- 1357 pointer when the last leg is removed. Additional checks and log 1358 messages have been added to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827; 1359 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1360 1361 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1362 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 04, 2023. 1363 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on July 26, 2023. 1364 1365 o Minor features (geoip data): 1366 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1367 retrieved on 2023/07/26. 1368 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1369 retrieved on 2023/08/04. 1370 1371 o Minor features (bridge): 1372 - warn when a bridge is also configure to be an exit relay. 1373 Closes ticket 40819. 1374 1375 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 1376 - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change. 1377 Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1378 1379 o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn): 1380 - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP 1381 addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1382 1383 1384 Changes in version 0.4.8.2-alpha - 2023-07-12 1385 This is our second alpha containing some minor bugfixes and one major bugfix 1386 about L2 vanguard rotation. We believe this will be the last alpha before the 1387 rc in a couple of weeks. 1388 1389 o Major bugfixes (vanguards): 1390 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the 1391 Stable or Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in 1392 the L2 vanguard list but never use them, and if all of our 1393 vanguards end up like this we wouldn't have any middle nodes left 1394 to choose from so we would fail to make onion-related circuits. 1395 Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha. 1396 1397 o Minor feature (hs): 1398 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang. 1399 Closes ticket 40800. 1400 1401 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1402 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on July 12, 2023. 1403 1404 o Minor features (geoip data): 1405 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1406 retrieved on 2023/07/12. 1407 1408 o Minor bugfix (congestion control): 1409 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc' 1410 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569; 1411 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha. 1412 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation 1413 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug 1414 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha. 1415 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus. 1416 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha. 1417 1418 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 1419 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that 1420 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773; 1421 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha 1422 1423 o Minor bugfixes (conflux): 1424 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This 1425 avoids infinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building 1426 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in 1427 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets. 1428 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1429 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that 1430 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix 1431 on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1432 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so 1433 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link 1434 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801; 1435 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1436 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT 1437 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix 1438 on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1439 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be 1440 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix 1441 on 0.4.8.1-alpha. 1442 1443 o Minor bugfixes (KIST): 1444 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither 1445 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate 1446 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay 1447 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms. 1448 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 1449 1450 1451 Changes in version 0.4.8.1-alpha - 2023-06-01 1452 This is the first alpha of the 0.4.8.x series. Two major features in this 1453 version which are Conflux and onion service Proof-of-Work (PoW). There are 1454 also many small features in particular, worth noting, the MetricsPort is now 1455 exporting more relay and onion service metrics. Finally, there are 1456 also numerous minor bugfixes included in this version. 1457 1458 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work): 1459 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting 1460 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work 1461 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several 1462 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this 1463 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634. 1464 1465 o Major features (conflux): 1466 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits 1467 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol. 1468 These circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre- 1469 built conflux pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used. 1470 When using conflux circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency 1471 circuit to send data to the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the 1472 client, it maximizes throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits 1473 in a multiplexed fashion. Alternatively, clients can request that 1474 the Exit optimize for latency when transmitting to them, by 1475 setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX latency'. Onion services 1476 are not currently supported, but will be in arti. Many other 1477 future optimizations will also be possible using this protocol. 1478 Closes ticket 40593. 1479 1480 o Major features (dirauth): 1481 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with 1482 directory authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they 1483 would continue to upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to 1484 the hard-coded address in the configuration. Now, if the directory 1485 authority is listed in the consensus at a different address, they 1486 will direct queries to this new address. Implements ticket 40705. 1487 1488 o Minor feature (CI): 1489 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners. 1490 1491 o Minor feature (client, IPv6): 1492 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning 1493 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785. 1494 1495 o Minor feature (compilation): 1496 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version 1497 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD 1498 or NetBSD. 1499 1500 o Minor feature (cpuworker): 1501 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the 1502 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a 1503 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1504 1505 o Minor feature (lzma): 1506 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741. 1507 1508 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay): 1509 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes 1510 ticket 40546. 1511 1512 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service): 1513 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting 1514 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73". 1515 1516 o Minor features (directory authorities): 1517 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr 1518 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote. 1519 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave. 1520 Implements ticket 40753. 1521 1522 o Minor features (directory authority): 1523 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on 1524 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a 1525 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for 1526 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket 1527 40130; implements proposal 275. 1528 1529 o Minor features (network documents): 1530 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time 1531 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting 1532 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in 1533 the future. Part of ticket 40130. 1534 1535 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1536 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023. 1537 1538 o Minor features (geoip data): 1539 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1540 retrieved on 2023/06/01. 1541 1542 o Minor features (hs, metrics): 1543 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time 1544 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time 1545 durations. Part of ticket 40757. 1546 1547 o Minor features (metrics): 1548 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758. 1549 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request 1550 failures. Closes ticket 40755. 1551 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757. 1552 1553 o Minor features (pluggable transports): 1554 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when 1555 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669. 1556 1557 o Minor features (portability, compilation): 1558 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5 1559 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71). 1560 1561 o Minor features (relay): 1562 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non- 1563 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691. 1564 1565 o Minor features (relays): 1566 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves 1567 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested, 1568 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597; 1569 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71). 1570 1571 o Minor features (tests): 1572 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit 1573 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu. 1574 1575 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging): 1576 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning 1577 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha. 1578 1579 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 1580 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes 1581 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha. 1582 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug 1583 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 1584 1585 o Minor bugfixes (metrics): 1586 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit 1587 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12. 1588 1589 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows): 1590 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to 1591 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug 1592 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 1593 1594 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 1595 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit 1596 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix 1597 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1598 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in 1599 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes 1600 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc. 1601 1602 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox): 1603 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when 1604 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1605 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of 1606 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are 1607 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of 1608 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599; 1609 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha. 1610 1611 o Minor bugfixes (state file): 1612 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes 1613 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437; 1614 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1615 1616 o Removed features: 1617 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in 1618 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed 1619 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 1620 1621 1622 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12 1623 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for 1624 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the 1625 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress. 1626 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important 1627 congestion control fix detailed below. 1628 1629 o Major bugfixes (congestion control): 1630 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not 1631 fully in use. This prevents overshoot in cases where long periods 1632 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and 1633 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload. 1634 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732; 1635 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha. 1636 1637 o Major bugfixes (relay): 1638 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not 1639 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we 1640 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other 1641 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously 1642 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to 1643 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch 1644 from "cypherpunks". 1645 1646 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client): 1647 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and 1648 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe 1649 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on 1650 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1651 1652 o Minor feature (authority): 1653 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664. 1654 1655 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1656 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023. 1657 1658 o Minor features (geoip data): 1659 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1660 retrieved on 2023/01/12. 1661 1662 o Minor features (relays): 1663 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing 1664 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more 1665 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to 1666 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex 1667 Xu (Hello71). 1668 1669 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics): 1670 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes 1671 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12. 1672 1673 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority): 1674 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus- 1675 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729; 1676 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1677 1678 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 1679 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what 1680 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix 1681 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha. 1682 1683 1684 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12 1685 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix, 1686 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our 1687 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th, 1688 2023. 1689 1690 o Major bugfixes (relay): 1691 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not 1692 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we 1693 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other 1694 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously 1695 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to 1696 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch 1697 from "cypherpunks". 1698 1699 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client): 1700 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and 1701 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe 1702 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on 1703 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1704 1705 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1706 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023. 1707 1708 o Minor features (geoip data): 1709 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1710 retrieved on 2023/01/12. 1711 1712 1713 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06 1714 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new 1715 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control 1716 subsystem. 1717 1718 o Directory authority changes (moria1): 1719 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They 1720 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys 1721 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid 1722 confusion. Closes ticket 40722. 1723 1724 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics): 1725 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control. 1726 Closes ticket 40724. 1727 1728 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1729 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022. 1730 1731 o Minor features (geoip data): 1732 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1733 retrieved on 2022/12/06. 1734 1735 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay): 1736 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being 1737 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1738 1739 1740 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06 1741 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a 1742 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x 1743 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023. 1744 1745 o Directory authority changes (dizum): 1746 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687. 1747 1748 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar): 1749 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online 1750 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688. 1751 1752 o Directory authority changes (moria1): 1753 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They 1754 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys 1755 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid 1756 confusion. Closes ticket 40722. 1757 1758 o Major bugfixes (OSX): 1759 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where 1760 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to 1761 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which 1762 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix 1763 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 1764 1765 o Major bugfixes (relay): 1766 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL 1767 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1768 1769 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1770 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022. 1771 1772 o Minor features (geoip data): 1773 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1774 retrieved on 2022/12/06. 1775 1776 1777 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10 1778 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against 1779 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort 1780 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance 1781 and attacks. 1782 1783 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays 1784 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS. 1785 1786 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar): 1787 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687. 1788 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online 1789 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688. 1790 1791 o Major bugfixes (geoip data): 1792 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after 1793 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network 1794 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated 1795 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13. 1796 1797 o Major bugfixes (onion service): 1798 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous 1799 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to 1800 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694; 1801 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1802 1803 o Major bugfixes (OSX): 1804 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where 1805 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to 1806 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which 1807 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix 1808 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 1809 1810 o Major bugfixes (relay): 1811 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL 1812 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1813 1814 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build): 1815 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make 1816 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED` 1817 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the 1818 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on 1819 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683. 1820 1821 o Minor feature (metrics): 1822 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes 1823 ticket 40708. 1824 1825 o Minor feature (performance): 1826 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note 1827 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug 1828 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1829 1830 o Minor feature (relay): 1831 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a 1832 consensus parameter. 1833 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in 1834 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc 1835 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus 1836 parameter. Closes ticket 40704. 1837 1838 o Minor feature (relay, DoS): 1839 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit 1840 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two 1841 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and 1842 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680. 1843 1844 o Minor feature (relay, metrics): 1845 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort. 1846 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort. 1847 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type, 1848 are currently opened and how many were created. 1849 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort. 1850 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort. 1851 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort. 1852 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total. 1853 - Related to ticket 40194. 1854 1855 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1856 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022. 1857 1858 o Minor features (geoip data): 1859 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1860 retrieved on 2022/11/10. 1861 1862 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox): 1863 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when 1864 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1865 1866 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth): 1867 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight 1868 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be 1869 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for 1870 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In 1871 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a 1872 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the 1873 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for 1874 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth 1875 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700; 1876 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha. 1877 1878 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client): 1879 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an 1880 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix 1881 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1882 1883 o Minor bugfixes (onion service): 1884 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being 1885 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix 1886 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1887 1888 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics): 1889 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when 1890 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only 1891 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include 1892 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines 1893 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create 1894 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha. 1895 1896 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges): 1897 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug 1898 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 1899 1900 1901 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12 1902 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location 1903 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this 1904 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly 1905 affected. 1906 1907 o Major bugfixes (geoip data): 1908 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after 1909 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We 1910 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022. 1911 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9. 1912 1913 1914 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12 1915 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location 1916 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this 1917 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly 1918 affected. 1919 1920 o Major bugfixes (geoip data): 1921 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after 1922 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We 1923 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022. 1924 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11. 1925 1926 1927 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12 1928 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location 1929 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this 1930 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly 1931 affected. 1932 1933 o Major bugfixes (geoip data): 1934 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after 1935 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We 1936 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022. 1937 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13. 1938 1939 1940 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11 1941 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on 1942 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to 1943 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays. 1944 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node 1945 selection. 1946 1947 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays 1948 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS. 1949 1950 o Major bugfixes (congestion control): 1951 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was 1952 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly 1953 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the 1954 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen 1955 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a 1956 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard 1957 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits 1958 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix 1959 on 0.4.7.5-alpha. 1960 1961 o Major bugfixes (relay): 1962 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections 1963 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and 1964 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604; 1965 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 1966 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we 1967 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to 1968 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. 1969 1970 o Major bugfixes (vanguards): 1971 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer 1972 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each 1973 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them 1974 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix 1975 on 0.4.7.1-alpha. 1976 1977 o Minor features (dirauth): 1978 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold 1979 percentile. Closes ticket 40652. 1980 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to 1981 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs. 1982 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS 1983 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast. 1984 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, 1985 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable 1986 from torrc. 1987 1988 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 1989 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022. 1990 1991 o Minor features (geoip data): 1992 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 1993 retrieved on 2022/08/11. 1994 1995 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control): 1996 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen 1997 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked, 1998 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non- 1999 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion 2000 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security 2001 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha. 2002 2003 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth): 2004 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more 2005 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe 2006 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645; 2007 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 2008 2009 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 2010 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when 2011 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug 2012 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. 2013 2014 2015 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11 2016 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on 2017 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for 2018 stability or safety purposes. 2019 2020 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is 2021 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest 2022 stable of the 0.4.7.x series. 2023 2024 o Major bugfixes (relay): 2025 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections 2026 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and 2027 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604; 2028 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 2029 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we 2030 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to 2031 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. 2032 2033 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2034 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022. 2035 2036 o Minor features (geoip data): 2037 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 2038 retrieved on 2022/08/11. 2039 2040 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 2041 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34 2042 and later. Closes ticket 40590. 2043 2044 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias): 2045 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the 2046 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias 2047 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell 2048 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a 2049 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 2050 2051 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth): 2052 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more 2053 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe 2054 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645; 2055 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 2056 2057 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 2058 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash 2059 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug 2060 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11. 2061 2062 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service): 2063 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now 2064 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion 2065 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of 2066 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 2067 2068 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client): 2069 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by 2070 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 2071 2072 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS): 2073 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack 2074 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack 2075 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately 2076 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers 2077 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 2078 2079 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 2080 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when 2081 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug 2082 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. 2083 2084 2085 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11 2086 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on 2087 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for 2088 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to 2089 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series. 2090 2091 o Major bugfixes (relay): 2092 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections 2093 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and 2094 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604; 2095 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 2096 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we 2097 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to 2098 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. 2099 2100 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2101 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022. 2102 2103 o Minor features (geoip data): 2104 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 2105 retrieved on 2022/08/11. 2106 2107 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 2108 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34 2109 and later. Closes ticket 40590. 2110 2111 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias): 2112 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the 2113 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias 2114 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell 2115 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a 2116 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 2117 2118 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth): 2119 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more 2120 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe 2121 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645; 2122 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 2123 2124 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 2125 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash 2126 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug 2127 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11. 2128 2129 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service): 2130 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now 2131 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion 2132 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of 2133 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 2134 2135 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client): 2136 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by 2137 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 2138 2139 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS): 2140 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack 2141 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack 2142 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately 2143 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers 2144 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 2145 2146 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 2147 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when 2148 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug 2149 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. 2150 2151 2152 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17 2153 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue 2154 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version 2155 should upgrade to this version. 2156 2157 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001): 2158 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously 2159 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This 2160 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered 2161 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes 2162 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha. 2163 2164 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2165 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022. 2166 2167 o Minor features (geoip data): 2168 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 2169 retrieved on 2022/06/17. 2170 2171 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 2172 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash 2173 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug 2174 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11. 2175 2176 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 2177 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to 2178 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough 2179 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes 2180 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha. 2181 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info 2182 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will 2183 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612; 2184 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha. 2185 2186 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging): 2187 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info 2188 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha. 2189 2190 2191 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27 2192 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series includes 2193 several major bugfixes from previous series and one massive new feature: 2194 congestion control. 2195 2196 Congestion control should improve traffic speed and stability on the network 2197 once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more details about it in 2198 proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository. 2199 2200 For a complete list of changes since 0.4.6.10, see the ReleaseNotes file. 2201 2202 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2203 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022. 2204 2205 o Minor features (geoip data): 2206 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 2207 retrieved on 2022/04/27. 2208 2209 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs): 2210 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down to 2211 info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix on 2212 0.4.5-alpha. 2213 2214 2215 Changes in version 0.4.7.6-rc - 2022-04-07 2216 This is the first release candidate of the 0.4.7.x series. Only one minor 2217 bugfix went in since the last alpha couple weeks ago. We strongly recommend 2218 anyone running an alpha version to upgrade to this version. Unless major 2219 problems are found, the next release will finally be the stable! 2220 2221 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2222 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 07, 2022. 2223 2224 o Minor features (geoip data): 2225 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 2226 retrieved on 2022/04/07. 2227 2228 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 2229 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34 2230 and later. Closes ticket 40590. 2231 2232 2233 Changes in version 0.4.7.5-alpha - 2022-03-25 2234 This version contains, of what we hope, the final work for congestion 2235 control paving the way to the stable version. We expect this to be the last 2236 alpha version of the 0.4.7.x series. Mostly minor bugfixes except one major 2237 bugfix that changes how Tor behaves with DNS timeouts for Exit relays. As 2238 always with an alpha, we recommend all relay operators to upgrade from 2239 previous alpha to this one. 2240 2241 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control): 2242 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control 2243 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586; 2244 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha. 2245 2246 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS): 2247 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2 2248 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were 2249 added to control these values. This change should improve observed 2250 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug 2251 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 2252 2253 o Minor features (control port): 2254 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control 2255 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568. 2256 2257 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2258 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on March 25, 2022. 2259 2260 o Minor features (geoip data): 2261 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 2262 retrieved on 2022/03/25. 2263 2264 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode): 2265 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug 2266 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 2267 2268 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service): 2269 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all 2270 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates 2271 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix 2272 on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 2273 2274 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control): 2275 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to 2276 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could 2277 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time. 2278 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha. 2279 2280 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client): 2281 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem 2282 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; 2283 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 2284 2285 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload): 2286 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and 2287 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single 2288 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false 2289 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha. 2290 2291 2292 Changes in version 0.4.7.4-alpha - 2022-02-25 2293 This version contains the negotiation congestion control work which is the 2294 final part needed before going stable. There are also various bugfixes 2295 including two major ones detailed below. Last, the Exit notice page layout 2296 has been modernized but the text is unchanged. We recommend that all relay 2297 operators running any previous alpha upgrade to this one. 2298 2299 o Major features (relay, client, onion services): 2300 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion 2301 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the 2302 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444. 2303 2304 o Major bugfixes (client): 2305 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we 2306 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect 2307 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an 2308 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based 2309 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try 2310 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha. 2311 2312 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload): 2313 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after 2314 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload. 2315 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha. 2316 2317 o Minor feature (authority, relay): 2318 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes 2319 ticket 40559. 2320 2321 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2322 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 25, 2022. 2323 2324 o Minor features (geoip data): 2325 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 2326 retrieved on 2022/02/25. 2327 2328 o Minor bugfix (logging): 2329 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544; 2330 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 2331 2332 o Minor bugfix (relay): 2333 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so 2334 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509; 2335 bugfix on 0.3.5.17. 2336 2337 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling): 2338 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write. 2339 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No 2340 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix 2341 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 2342 2343 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 2344 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes 2345 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha. 2346 2347 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings): 2348 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug 2349 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 2350 2351 o Documentation: 2352 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for 2353 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but 2354 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and 2355 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529. 2356 2357 2358 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04 2359 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays 2360 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level. 2361 2362 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2363 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022. 2364 2365 o Minor features (geoip data): 2366 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 2367 retrieved on 2022/02/04. 2368 2369 o Minor bugfix (logging): 2370 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544; 2371 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 2372 2373 o Minor bugfix (relay): 2374 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so 2375 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509; 2376 bugfix on 0.3.5.17. 2377 2378 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus): 2379 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service 2380 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 2381 2382 2383 Changes in version 0.4.5.12 - 2022-02-04 2384 This version contains mostly minor bugfixes for which you can find the 2385 details below. The previous release (0.4.5.11) was suppose to update the 2386 GeoIP and fallbackdir lists but a problem in our release pipeline prevented 2387 those files to be updated correctly. Thus, this release regenerates up to 2388 date lists. Furthermore, another fix to highlight is that relays don't 2389 advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level. 2390 2391 o Minor feature (reproducible build): 2392 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the 2393 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes 2394 ticket 26299. 2395 2396 o Minor features (compilation): 2397 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of 2398 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility 2399 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of 2400 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes 2401 ticket 40511. 2402 2403 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2404 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022. 2405 2406 o Minor features (geoip data): 2407 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 2408 retrieved on 2022/02/04. 2409 2410 o Minor bugfix (logging): 2411 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544; 2412 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 2413 2414 o Minor bugfix (relay): 2415 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so 2416 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509; 2417 bugfix on 0.3.5.17. 2418 2419 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 2420 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler 2421 that does not support expanding statically initialized const 2422 values in macro's. Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha 2423 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3: 2424 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than 2425 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug 2426 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13. 2427 2428 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus): 2429 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service 2430 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 2431 2432 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 2433 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces 2434 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to 2435 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494; 2436 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 2437 2438 2439 Changes in version 0.4.7.3-alpha - 2021-12-15 2440 This third alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series fixes several bugs including 2441 two major ones affecting Bridges and Relays (see below). If you are running 2442 an earlier 0.4.7.x version, you should upgrade to this version. 2443 2444 o Major bugfixes (bridges): 2445 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges 2446 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem 2447 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both 2448 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but 2449 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch 2450 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to 2451 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc 2452 and 0.3.2.1-alpha. 2453 2454 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload): 2455 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in 2456 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective 2457 and not the DNS server itself. 2458 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and 2459 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well. 2460 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now. 2461 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state. 2462 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to 2463 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network 2464 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. 2465 2466 o Minor feature (reproducible build): 2467 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the 2468 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes 2469 ticket 26299. 2470 2471 o Minor features (compilation): 2472 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of 2473 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility 2474 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of 2475 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes 2476 ticket 40511. 2477 2478 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2479 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021. 2480 2481 o Minor features (geoip data): 2482 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 2483 retrieved on 2021/12/15. 2484 2485 o Minor features (portability): 2486 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that 2487 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration. 2488 Closes ticket 40355. 2489 2490 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport): 2491 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations 2492 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing 2493 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 2494 2495 o Minor bugfixes (bridges): 2496 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges, 2497 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry 2498 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can 2499 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't 2500 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to 2501 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes 2502 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha. 2503 2504 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 2505 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3: 2506 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than 2507 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug 2508 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13. 2509 2510 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias): 2511 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the 2512 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias 2513 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell 2514 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a 2515 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 2516 2517 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 2518 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the 2519 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not 2520 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the 2521 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message 2522 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 2523 2524 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS): 2525 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack 2526 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack 2527 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately 2528 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers 2529 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 2530 2531 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 2532 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces 2533 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to 2534 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494; 2535 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 2536 2537 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox): 2538 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the 2539 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the 2540 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and 2541 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 2542 2543 o Documentation (man, relay): 2544 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504; 2545 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. 2546 2547 2548 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15 2549 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important 2550 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal. 2551 See below for more details. 2552 2553 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload): 2554 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state. 2555 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to 2556 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network 2557 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. 2558 2559 o Minor feature (reproducible build): 2560 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the 2561 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes 2562 ticket 26299. 2563 2564 o Minor features (compilation): 2565 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of 2566 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility 2567 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of 2568 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes 2569 ticket 40511. 2570 2571 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2572 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021. 2573 2574 o Minor features (geoip data): 2575 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 2576 retrieved on 2021/12/15. 2577 2578 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 2579 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3: 2580 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than 2581 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug 2582 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13. 2583 2584 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 2585 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces 2586 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to 2587 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494; 2588 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 2589 2590 o Documentation (man, relay): 2591 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504; 2592 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. 2593 2594 2595 Changes in version 0.4.7.2-alpha - 2021-10-26 2596 This second alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series adds two major 2597 features: congestion control (prop324) for network performance, and 2598 the MiddleOnly flag (prop335) voted by the authorities to pin relays 2599 to the middle position for various network health reasons. This 2600 release also fixes numerous bugs. 2601 2602 The congestion control feature, detailed in proposal 324, still needs 2603 more work before we can enable it by default. It is currently in its 2604 testing and tuning phase which means that you should expect more 2605 0.4.7.x alphas as congestion control gets stabilized and tuned for 2606 optimal performance. And so, at this release, it can not be used 2607 without a custom patch. 2608 2609 o Major features (congestion control): 2610 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled 2611 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450. 2612 2613 o Major features (directory authority): 2614 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When 2615 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged 2616 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and 2617 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag 2618 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335. 2619 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly". 2620 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against 2621 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements 2622 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan. 2623 2624 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics): 2625 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by 2626 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug 2627 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug 2628 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha. 2629 2630 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state): 2631 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors 2632 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before 2633 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which 2634 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10 2635 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus 2636 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. 2637 2638 o Minor feature (authority, relay): 2639 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x, 2640 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480. 2641 2642 o Minor feature (onion service v2): 2643 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor 2644 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a 2645 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side. 2646 Closes ticket 40476. 2647 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for 2648 details on how to transition from v2 to v3. 2649 2650 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2651 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes 2652 ticket 40493. 2653 2654 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat): 2655 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it, 2656 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts 2657 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and 2658 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each 2659 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be 2660 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400. 2661 2662 o Minor features (testing): 2663 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion 2664 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes 2665 ticket 40488. 2666 2667 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 2668 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug 2669 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto. 2670 2671 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner): 2672 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter 2673 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory 2674 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by 2675 Neel Chauhan. 2676 2677 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox): 2678 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux 2679 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the 2680 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side 2681 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open 2682 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the 2683 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be 2684 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 2685 2686 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 2687 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a 2688 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a 2689 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4. 2690 2691 o Minor bugfixes (onion service): 2692 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion 2693 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes 2694 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 2695 2696 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service): 2697 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500; 2698 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 2699 2700 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config): 2701 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur 2702 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly. 2703 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 2704 2705 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008): 2706 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute 2707 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk 2708 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was 2709 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue. 2710 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8. 2711 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this 2712 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the 2713 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE. 2714 2715 o Minor bugfixes (usability): 2716 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie" 2717 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can 2718 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit 2719 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix 2720 on 0.1.1.13-alpha. 2721 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at 2722 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we 2723 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already 2724 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell. 2725 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. 2726 2727 o Code simplification and refactoring: 2728 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent" 2729 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a 2730 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug 2731 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 2732 2733 o Testing: 2734 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves 2735 issue 16803. 2736 2737 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust): 2738 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and 2739 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469. 2740 2741 o Testing (CI, chutney): 2742 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to 2743 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes 2744 ticket 40485. 2745 2746 2747 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26 2748 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One 2749 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general 2750 relay overload. 2751 2752 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state): 2753 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors 2754 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before 2755 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which 2756 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10 2757 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus 2758 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. 2759 2760 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2761 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes 2762 ticket 40493. 2763 2764 o Minor features (testing): 2765 - On a testing network, relays can now use the 2766 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest 2767 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed 2768 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For 2769 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing 2770 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337. 2771 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently 2772 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a 2773 fix for ticket 40337. 2774 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths 2775 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had 2776 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337. 2777 2778 o Minor bugfix (onion service): 2779 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload 2780 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory 2781 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead 2782 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building 2783 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 2784 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476; 2785 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. 2786 2787 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service): 2788 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500; 2789 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 2790 2791 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility): 2792 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no 2793 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this 2794 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe 2795 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix 2796 on 0.2.1.7-alpha. 2797 2798 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008): 2799 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute 2800 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk 2801 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was 2802 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue. 2803 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8. 2804 2805 2806 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26 2807 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now 2808 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this 2809 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the 2810 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services. 2811 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or 2812 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11, 2813 or 0.4.6.8. 2814 2815 o Major feature (onion service v2): 2816 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for 2817 details on how to transition from v2 to v3. 2818 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow 2819 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service 2820 with ADD_ONION. 2821 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a 2822 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or 2823 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service 2824 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476. 2825 2826 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8): 2827 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at 2828 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a 2829 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477. 2830 2831 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2832 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes 2833 ticket 40493. 2834 2835 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5): 2836 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they 2837 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We 2838 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they 2839 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175. 2840 2841 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8): 2842 - On a testing network, relays can now use the 2843 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest 2844 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed 2845 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For 2846 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing 2847 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337. 2848 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently 2849 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a 2850 fix for ticket 40337. 2851 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths 2852 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had 2853 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337. 2854 2855 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service): 2856 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500; 2857 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 2858 2859 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8): 2860 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload 2861 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory 2862 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead 2863 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building 2864 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 2865 2866 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8): 2867 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no 2868 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this 2869 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe 2870 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix 2871 on 0.2.1.7-alpha. 2872 2873 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc): 2874 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently 2875 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory 2876 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest 2877 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 2878 2879 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8): 2880 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute 2881 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk 2882 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was 2883 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue. 2884 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8. 2885 2886 2887 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26 2888 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now 2889 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this 2890 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the 2891 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services. 2892 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or 2893 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11, 2894 or 0.4.6.8. 2895 2896 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11): 2897 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for 2898 details on how to transition from v2 to v3. 2899 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow 2900 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service 2901 with ADD_ONION. 2902 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a 2903 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or 2904 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service 2905 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476. 2906 2907 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8): 2908 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at 2909 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a 2910 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477. 2911 2912 o Minor features (fallbackdir): 2913 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes 2914 ticket 40493. 2915 2916 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8): 2917 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no 2918 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this 2919 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe 2920 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix 2921 on 0.2.1.7-alpha. 2922 2923 2924 Changes in version 0.4.7.1-alpha - 2021-09-17 2925 This version is the first alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series. One 2926 major feature is Vanguards Lite, from proposal 333, to help mitigate 2927 guard discovery attacks against onion services. It also includes 2928 numerous bugfixes. 2929 2930 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm): 2931 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2" 2932 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits. 2933 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging 2934 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and 2935 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion 2936 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards 2937 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket 2938 40363; implements proposal 333. 2939 2940 o Minor features (bridge testing support): 2941 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached 2942 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure 2943 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209. 2944 2945 o Minor features (fuzzing): 2946 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags 2947 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we 2948 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407. 2949 2950 o Minor features (testing configuration): 2951 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on 2952 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338. 2953 - On a testing network, relays can now use the 2954 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest 2955 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed 2956 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For 2957 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing 2958 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337. 2959 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently 2960 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a 2961 fix for ticket 40337. 2962 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths 2963 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had 2964 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337. 2965 2966 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding): 2967 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has 2968 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug 2969 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 2970 2971 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility): 2972 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no 2973 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this 2974 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe 2975 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix 2976 on 0.2.1.7-alpha. 2977 2978 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox): 2979 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp 2980 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to 2981 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 2982 Patch by Daniel Pinto. 2983 2984 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat): 2985 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to 2986 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay. 2987 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 2988 2989 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay): 2990 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not 2991 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays. 2992 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 2993 2994 o Minor bugfixes (onion service): 2995 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload 2996 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory 2997 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to 2998 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path 2999 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 3000 3001 o Minor bugfixes (statistics): 3002 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where 3003 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394; 3004 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 3005 3006 o Minor bugfixes (tests): 3007 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct 3008 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 3009 3010 o Documentation: 3011 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to 3012 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from 3013 Emily Bones. 3014 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page. 3015 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 3016 3017 3018 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16 3019 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, 3020 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone 3021 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion 3022 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7. 3023 3024 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security): 3025 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between 3026 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature 3027 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered 3028 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue 3029 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 3030 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and 3031 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence. 3032 3033 o Minor feature (fallbackdir): 3034 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447. 3035 3036 o Minor features (geoip data): 3037 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 3038 retrieved on 2021/08/12. 3039 3040 o Minor bugfix (crypto): 3041 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. 3042 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry 3043 de Valence. 3044 3045 o Minor bugfixes (onion service): 3046 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid 3047 Address) for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix 3048 on 0.4.6.2-alpha. 3049 3050 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 3051 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW 3052 in order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 3053 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 3054 3055 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping): 3056 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t 3057 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most 3058 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm 3059 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function, 3060 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting 3061 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 3062 3063 3064 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16 3065 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, 3066 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone 3067 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion 3068 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7. 3069 3070 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security): 3071 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between 3072 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature 3073 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered 3074 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue 3075 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 3076 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and 3077 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence. 3078 3079 o Minor feature (fallbackdir): 3080 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447. 3081 3082 o Minor features (geoip data): 3083 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 3084 retrieved on 2021/08/12. 3085 3086 o Minor features (testing): 3087 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the 3088 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix 3089 on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 3090 3091 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7): 3092 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. 3093 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry 3094 de Valence. 3095 3096 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7): 3097 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. 3098 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 3099 3100 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.7): 3101 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t 3102 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most 3103 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm 3104 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function, 3105 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting 3106 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 3107 3108 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.6): 3109 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some 3110 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 3111 3112 3113 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16 3114 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, 3115 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone 3116 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion 3117 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7. 3118 3119 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security): 3120 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between 3121 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature 3122 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered 3123 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue 3124 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 3125 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and 3126 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence. 3127 3128 o Minor feature (fallbackdir): 3129 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447. 3130 3131 o Minor features (geoip data): 3132 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 3133 retrieved on 2021/08/12. 3134 3135 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7): 3136 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. 3137 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry 3138 de Valence. 3139 3140 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7): 3141 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. 3142 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 3143 3144 3145 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30 3146 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that 3147 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should 3148 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor 3149 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need. 3150 3151 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 3152 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler 3153 that does not support const variables in static initializers. 3154 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5. 3155 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some 3156 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 3157 3158 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 3159 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the 3160 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix 3161 on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 3162 3163 3164 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14 3165 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a 3166 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another 3167 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to 3168 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5. 3169 3170 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5): 3171 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on 3172 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which 3173 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end 3174 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389; 3175 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021- 3176 003 and CVE-2021-34548. 3177 3178 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5): 3179 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code. 3180 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG 3181 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself. 3182 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice 3183 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug 3184 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as 3185 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero. 3186 3187 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5): 3188 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against 3189 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look 3190 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this 3191 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create 3192 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a 3193 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on 3194 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and 3195 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero. 3196 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor 3197 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion 3198 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit 3199 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also 3200 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei 3201 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero. 3202 3203 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc): 3204 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was 3205 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking 3206 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes 3207 ticket 40399. 3208 3209 o Minor features (geoip data): 3210 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 3211 retrieved on 2021/06/10. 3212 3213 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc): 3214 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp 3215 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to 3216 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large 3217 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the 3218 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by 3219 Daniel Pinto. 3220 3221 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc): 3222 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open 3223 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix 3224 on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 3225 3226 3227 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14 3228 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a 3229 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another 3230 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to 3231 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5. 3232 3233 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is 3234 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody 3235 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later. 3236 3237 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5): 3238 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on 3239 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which 3240 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end 3241 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389; 3242 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021- 3243 003 and CVE-2021-34548. 3244 3245 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5): 3246 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code. 3247 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG 3248 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself. 3249 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice 3250 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug 3251 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as 3252 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero. 3253 3254 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5): 3255 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against 3256 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look 3257 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this 3258 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create 3259 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a 3260 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on 3261 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and 3262 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero. 3263 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor 3264 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion 3265 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit 3266 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also 3267 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei 3268 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero. 3269 3270 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc): 3271 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was 3272 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking 3273 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes 3274 ticket 40399. 3275 3276 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha): 3277 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set 3278 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265. 3279 3280 o Minor features (geoip data): 3281 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 3282 retrieved on 2021/06/10. 3283 3284 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha): 3285 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string, 3286 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem. 3287 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc. 3288 3289 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc): 3290 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1. 3291 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 3292 3293 3294 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14 3295 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a 3296 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another 3297 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to 3298 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5. 3299 3300 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5): 3301 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on 3302 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which 3303 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end 3304 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389; 3305 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021- 3306 003 and CVE-2021-34548. 3307 3308 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5): 3309 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code. 3310 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG 3311 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself. 3312 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice 3313 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug 3314 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as 3315 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero. 3316 3317 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5): 3318 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against 3319 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look 3320 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this 3321 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create 3322 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a 3323 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on 3324 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and 3325 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero. 3326 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor 3327 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion 3328 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit 3329 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also 3330 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei 3331 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero. 3332 3333 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc): 3334 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1. 3335 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 3336 3337 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc): 3338 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was 3339 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking 3340 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes 3341 ticket 40399. 3342 3343 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha): 3344 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set 3345 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265. 3346 3347 o Minor features (geoip data): 3348 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 3349 retrieved on 2021/06/10. 3350 3351 3352 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14 3353 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x 3354 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant 3355 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve 3356 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are 3357 overloaded. 3358 3359 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues, 3360 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, 3361 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should 3362 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5. 3363 3364 Below are the changes since 0.4.6.4-rc. For a complete list of changes 3365 since 0.4.5.8, see the ReleaseNotes file. 3366 3367 o Major bugfixes (security): 3368 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on 3369 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which 3370 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end 3371 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389; 3372 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021- 3373 003 and CVE-2021-34548. 3374 3375 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth): 3376 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code. 3377 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG 3378 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself. 3379 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice 3380 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug 3381 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as 3382 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero. 3383 3384 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service): 3385 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against 3386 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look 3387 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this 3388 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create 3389 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a 3390 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on 3391 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and 3392 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero. 3393 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor 3394 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion 3395 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit 3396 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also 3397 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei 3398 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero. 3399 3400 o Minor features (geoip data): 3401 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 3402 retrieved on 2021/06/10. 3403 3404 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic): 3405 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they 3406 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We 3407 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they 3408 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175. 3409 3410 3411 Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28 3412 Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope, 3413 the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are 3414 found, the next release will be stable. 3415 3416 o Minor features (compatibility): 3417 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was 3418 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking 3419 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes 3420 ticket 40399. 3421 3422 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling): 3423 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently 3424 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory 3425 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest 3426 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 3427 3428 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox): 3429 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp 3430 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to 3431 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large 3432 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the 3433 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by 3434 Daniel Pinto. 3435 3436 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port): 3437 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open 3438 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix 3439 on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 3440 3441 o Removed features: 3442 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory 3443 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2 3444 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374. 3445 3446 3447 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10 3448 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes 3449 from the 0.4.6.x series. 3450 3451 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc): 3452 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly 3453 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the 3454 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow. 3455 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs. 3456 3457 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc): 3458 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions 3459 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335. 3460 3461 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha): 3462 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set 3463 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265. 3464 3465 o Minor features (geoip data): 3466 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 3467 retrieved on 2021/05/07. 3468 3469 o Minor features (onion services): 3470 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion 3471 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will 3472 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373. 3473 3474 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha): 3475 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge 3476 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360; 3477 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc. 3478 3479 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc): 3480 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build 3481 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but 3482 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 3483 3484 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha): 3485 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string, 3486 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem. 3487 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc. 3488 3489 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc): 3490 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1. 3491 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 3492 3493 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha): 3494 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses 3495 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug 3496 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 3497 3498 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc): 3499 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten 3500 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes 3501 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 3502 3503 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha): 3504 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths 3505 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by 3506 Daniel Pinto. 3507 3508 3509 Changes in version 0.4.6.3-rc - 2021-05-10 3510 Tor 0.4.6.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes 3511 a few small bugs from previous versions, and adds a better error 3512 message when trying to use (no longer supported) v2 onion services. 3513 3514 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between 3515 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will 3516 be fairly simple. There will likely be at least one more release 3517 candidate before 0.4.6.x is stable. 3518 3519 o Major bugfixes (onion service, control port): 3520 - Make the ADD_ONION command properly configure client authorization. 3521 Before this fix, the created onion failed to add the client(s). 3522 Fixes bug 40378; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. 3523 3524 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox): 3525 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly 3526 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the 3527 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow. 3528 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs. 3529 3530 o Minor features (compilation): 3531 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions 3532 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335. 3533 3534 o Minor features (geoip data): 3535 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 3536 retrieved on 2021/05/07. 3537 3538 o Minor features (onion services): 3539 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer 3540 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373. 3541 3542 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation): 3543 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build 3544 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but 3545 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 3546 3547 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings): 3548 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1. 3549 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 3550 3551 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay): 3552 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't 3553 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 3554 3555 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak): 3556 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten 3557 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes 3558 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 3559 3560 3561 Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15 3562 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several 3563 small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had 3564 enabled denial-of-service attacks and affected integration with 3565 other tools. 3566 3567 o Minor features (client): 3568 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter 3569 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close 3570 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for 3571 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271. 3572 3573 o Minor features (command line): 3574 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing 3575 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by 3576 Daniel Pinto. 3577 3578 o Minor features (dormant mode): 3579 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained 3580 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from 3581 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228. 3582 3583 o Minor features (fallback directory list): 3584 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set 3585 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265. 3586 3587 o Minor features (geoip data): 3588 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as 3589 retrieved on 2021/04/13. 3590 3591 o Minor features (logging): 3592 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the 3593 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch 3594 from 'cypherpunks'. 3595 3596 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport): 3597 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge 3598 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360; 3599 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc. 3600 3601 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS): 3602 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string, 3603 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem. 3604 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc. 3605 3606 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 3607 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building 3608 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug 3609 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto. 3610 3611 o Minor bugfixes (configuration): 3612 - Fix pattern-matching for directories on all platforms when using 3613 %include options in configuration files. This patch also fixes 3614 compilation on musl libc based systems. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix 3615 on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 3616 3617 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 3618 - Move the "overload-general" line from extrainfo to the server 3619 descriptor. Fixes bug 40364; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. 3620 3621 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD): 3622 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths 3623 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by 3624 Daniel Pinto. 3625 3626 o Documentation (manual): 3627 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section. 3628 Closes issue 40331. 3629 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to 3630 bridges. Closes ticket 40346. 3631 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section 3632 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323. 3633 3634 3635 Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18 3636 Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It 3637 improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and 3638 improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It also 3639 includes numerous smaller bugfixes. 3640 3641 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.7. (Note that this release DOES 3642 include the fixes for the security bugs already fixed in 0.4.5.7.) 3643 3644 o Major features (control port, onion services): 3645 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with 3646 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be 3647 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by 3648 Neel Chauhan. 3649 3650 o Major features (directory authority): 3651 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil 3652 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator 3653 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes 3654 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 3655 3656 o Major features (metrics): 3657 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo 3658 documents. This information is controlled with the 3659 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve 3660 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal 3661 328; closes ticket 40222. 3662 3663 o Major features (relay, denial of service): 3664 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client 3665 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253. 3666 3667 o Major features (statistics): 3668 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion 3669 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same 3670 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126. 3671 3672 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout): 3673 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for 3674 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now 3675 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the 3676 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored 3677 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never 3678 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients 3679 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest 3680 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most 3681 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a 3682 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes, 3683 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to 3684 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time 3685 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally, 3686 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most 3687 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as 3688 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. 3689 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit 3690 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer 3691 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix 3692 on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 3693 3694 o Major bugfixes (signing key): 3695 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if 3696 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short. 3697 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 3698 3699 o Minor features (bridge): 3700 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at 3701 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a 3702 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477. 3703 3704 o Minor features (build system): 3705 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json 3706 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for 3707 this. Closes ticket 40227. 3708 3709 o Minor features (command-line interface): 3710 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease 3711 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102. 3712 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument, 3713 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-' 3714 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of 3715 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223. 3716 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command 3717 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the 3718 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519 3719 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 3720 3721 o Minor features (control port, stream handling): 3722 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event. 3723 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 3724 3725 o Minor features (dormant mode): 3726 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained 3727 control over whether the client can become dormant from 3728 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228. 3729 3730 o Minor features (logging): 3731 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on 3732 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if 3733 any). Closes ticket 40308. 3734 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c, 3735 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket 3736 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 3737 3738 o Minor features (performance, windows): 3739 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the 3740 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster 3741 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927. 3742 Patch by Daniel Pinto. 3743 3744 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth): 3745 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data 3746 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017. 3747 3748 o Minor features (tests, portability): 3749 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent 3750 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from 3751 Samanta Navarro. 3752 3753 o Minor features (vote document): 3754 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various 3755 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will 3756 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314. 3757 3758 o Minor bugfixes (build): 3759 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have 3760 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug 3761 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 3762 3763 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility): 3764 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa" 3765 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other 3766 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix 3767 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 3768 3769 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 3770 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses 3771 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug 3772 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 3773 3774 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting): 3775 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that 3776 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or 3777 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the 3778 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under 3779 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha. 3780 3781 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6): 3782 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some 3783 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable 3784 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix 3785 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 3786 3787 o Minor bugfixes (key generation): 3788 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to 3789 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems 3790 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on 3791 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 3792 3793 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging): 3794 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related 3795 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on 3796 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 3797 3798 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 3799 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. 3800 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches. 3801 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 3802 3803 o Code simplification and refactoring: 3804 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions. 3805 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383. 3806 Patch by Neel Chauhan. 3807 3808 o Removed features: 3809 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion 3810 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support 3811 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage 3812 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information, 3813 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes 3814 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version 3815 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for 3816 the confusion!) 3817 3818 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS): 3819 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its 3820 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261. 3821 3822 o Removed features (relay): 3823 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer 3824 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been 3825 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay 3826 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work, 3827 for now.) Closes ticket 40282. 3828 3829 3830 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16 3831 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs 3832 in earlier versions of Tor. 3833 3834 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker 3835 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor 3836 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit 3837 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory 3838 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients 3839 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only 3840 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely 3841 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already 3842 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure 3843 network stability. 3844 3845 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes 3846 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available 3847 to you. 3848 3849 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a 3850 compatibility issue. 3851 3852 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7): 3853 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable 3854 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places, 3855 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286; 3856 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021- 3857 001 and CVE-2021-28089. 3858 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus 3859 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes 3860 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002 3861 and CVE-2021-28090. 3862 3863 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7): 3864 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to- 3865 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed 3866 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that 3867 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location 3868 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more 3869 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the 3870 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes 3871 ticket 40224. 3872 3873 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7): 3874 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it. 3875 Closes ticket 40309. 3876 3877 3878 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16 3879 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs 3880 in earlier versions of Tor. 3881 3882 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker 3883 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor 3884 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit 3885 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory 3886 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients 3887 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only 3888 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely 3889 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already 3890 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure 3891 network stability. 3892 3893 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes 3894 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available 3895 to you. 3896 3897 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a 3898 compatibility issue. 3899 3900 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7): 3901 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable 3902 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places, 3903 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286; 3904 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021- 3905 001 and CVE-2021-28089. 3906 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus 3907 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes 3908 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002 3909 and CVE-2021-28090. 3910 3911 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7): 3912 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to- 3913 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed 3914 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that 3915 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location 3916 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more 3917 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the 3918 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes 3919 ticket 40224. 3920 3921 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7): 3922 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it. 3923 Closes ticket 40309. 3924 3925 3926 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16 3927 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier 3928 versions of Tor. 3929 3930 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker 3931 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor 3932 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit 3933 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory 3934 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients 3935 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only 3936 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely 3937 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already 3938 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure 3939 network stability. 3940 3941 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes 3942 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available 3943 to you. 3944 3945 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few 3946 smaller bugs in earlier releases. 3947 3948 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service): 3949 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable 3950 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places, 3951 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286; 3952 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021- 3953 001 and CVE-2021-28089. 3954 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus 3955 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes 3956 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002 3957 and CVE-2021-28090. 3958 3959 o Minor features (geoip data): 3960 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to- 3961 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed 3962 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that 3963 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location 3964 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more 3965 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the 3966 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes 3967 ticket 40224. 3968 3969 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): 3970 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory 3971 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable 3972 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug 3973 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc. 3974 3975 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): 3976 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for 3977 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 3978 3979 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay): 3980 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would 3981 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file 3982 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line. 3983 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 3984 3985 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port): 3986 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing 3987 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 3988 3989 o Minor bugfixes (onion service): 3990 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with 3991 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 3992 3993 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 3994 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure 3995 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 3996 3997 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 3998 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6 3999 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4000 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when 4001 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information 4002 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing 4003 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch 4004 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300. 4005 4006 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated): 4007 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it. 4008 Closes ticket 40309. 4009 4010 4011 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15 4012 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten 4013 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father. 4014 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading 4015 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For 4016 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the 4017 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador 4018 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We 4019 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his 4020 welcoming approach to growing our community. 4021 4022 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6 4023 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators 4024 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to 4025 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes 4026 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous 4027 smaller features and bugfixes. 4028 4029 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes 4030 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file. 4031 4032 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay): 4033 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if 4034 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug 4035 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4036 4037 o Minor features (protocol versions): 4038 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version. 4039 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in 4040 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop 4041 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list. 4042 Closes ticket 40221. 4043 4044 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 4045 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions, 4046 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the 4047 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but 4048 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than 4049 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 4050 4051 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port): 4052 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly 4053 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha 4054 4055 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 4056 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor 4057 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support 4058 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a 4059 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4060 4061 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config): 4062 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the 4063 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing 4064 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple 4065 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix 4066 on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4067 4068 4069 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03 4070 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases, 4071 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to 4072 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of 4073 DoS attacks harder to perform. 4074 4075 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc): 4076 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and 4077 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion 4078 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a 4079 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix 4080 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4081 4082 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc): 4083 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all 4084 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change 4085 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes 4086 ticket 2667. 4087 4088 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc): 4089 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file 4090 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for 4091 this. Closes ticket 40227. 4092 4093 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc): 4094 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or 4095 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL 4096 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to 4097 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165. 4098 4099 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc): 4100 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only 4101 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel) 4102 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on 4103 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and 4104 weasel for diagnosing this. 4105 4106 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc): 4107 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms. 4108 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a 4109 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of 4110 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line 4111 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the 4112 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 4113 4114 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc): 4115 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough 4116 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on 4117 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 4118 4119 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc): 4120 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code 4121 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request 4122 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4123 4124 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha): 4125 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works 4126 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid 4127 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 4128 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service 4129 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib 4130 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix 4131 on 0.3.1.6-rc. 4132 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL 4133 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 4134 4135 4136 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03 4137 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases, 4138 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to 4139 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of 4140 DoS attacks harder to perform. 4141 4142 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x, 4143 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021. 4144 4145 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc): 4146 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and 4147 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion 4148 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a 4149 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix 4150 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4151 4152 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5): 4153 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total 4154 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from 4155 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services. 4156 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 4157 4158 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc): 4159 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all 4160 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change 4161 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes 4162 ticket 2667. 4163 4164 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc): 4165 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file 4166 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for 4167 this. Closes ticket 40227. 4168 4169 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc): 4170 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or 4171 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL 4172 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to 4173 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165. 4174 4175 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc): 4176 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only 4177 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel) 4178 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on 4179 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and 4180 weasel for diagnosing this. 4181 4182 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc): 4183 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms. 4184 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a 4185 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of 4186 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line 4187 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the 4188 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 4189 4190 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc): 4191 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in 4192 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 4193 4194 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc): 4195 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough 4196 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on 4197 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 4198 4199 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc): 4200 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code 4201 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request 4202 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4203 4204 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha): 4205 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works 4206 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid 4207 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 4208 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service 4209 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib 4210 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix 4211 on 0.3.1.6-rc. 4212 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL 4213 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 4214 4215 4216 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03 4217 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases, 4218 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to 4219 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of 4220 DoS attacks harder to perform. 4221 4222 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc): 4223 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and 4224 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion 4225 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a 4226 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix 4227 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4228 4229 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5): 4230 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total 4231 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from 4232 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services. 4233 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 4234 4235 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc): 4236 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all 4237 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change 4238 should help mitigate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes 4239 ticket 2667. 4240 4241 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc): 4242 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file 4243 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for 4244 this. Closes ticket 40227. 4245 4246 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc): 4247 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or 4248 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL 4249 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to 4250 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165. 4251 4252 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc): 4253 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only 4254 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel) 4255 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on 4256 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and 4257 weasel for diagnosing this. 4258 4259 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc): 4260 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms. 4261 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a 4262 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of 4263 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line 4264 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the 4265 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 4266 4267 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc): 4268 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in 4269 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 4270 4271 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc): 4272 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough 4273 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on 4274 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 4275 4276 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc): 4277 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code 4278 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request 4279 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4280 4281 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha): 4282 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service 4283 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib 4284 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix 4285 on 0.3.1.6-rc. 4286 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL 4287 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 4288 4289 4290 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01 4291 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're 4292 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release 4293 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates 4294 an ongoing denial-of-service attack. 4295 4296 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable 4297 release, though of course that could change. 4298 4299 o Major feature (exit): 4300 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all 4301 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change 4302 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes 4303 ticket 2667. 4304 4305 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration): 4306 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort 4307 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix 4308 on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4309 4310 4311 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22 4312 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes 4313 several bugs present in previous releases. 4314 4315 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the 4316 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found. 4317 4318 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6): 4319 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be 4320 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4321 4322 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows): 4323 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on 4324 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay 4325 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better 4326 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 4327 4328 o Minor feature (build system): 4329 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file 4330 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for 4331 this. Closes ticket 40227. 4332 4333 o Minor features (authority, logging): 4334 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the 4335 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors. 4336 Closes ticket 40245. 4337 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more 4338 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix 4339 on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4340 4341 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 4342 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when 4343 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers. 4344 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc. 4345 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that 4346 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the 4347 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha. 4348 4349 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge): 4350 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a 4351 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would 4352 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but 4353 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix 4354 on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4355 4356 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 4357 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when 4358 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666; 4359 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha. 4360 4361 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 4362 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having 4363 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231; 4364 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4365 4366 4367 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12 4368 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes 4369 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older 4370 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable. 4371 4372 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between 4373 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will 4374 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate 4375 before 0.4.5.x is stable. 4376 4377 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3): 4378 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and 4379 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion 4380 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a 4381 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix 4382 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4383 4384 o Minor features (crypto): 4385 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only 4386 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel) 4387 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on 4388 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and 4389 weasel for diagnosing this. 4390 4391 o Minor features (documentation): 4392 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's 4393 approved-routers file, and update the description of the 4394 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188. 4395 4396 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 4397 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough 4398 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on 4399 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 4400 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static" 4401 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix 4402 on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 4403 4404 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge): 4405 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin 4406 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously, 4407 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for 4408 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4409 4410 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay): 4411 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none 4412 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix 4413 on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4414 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call 4415 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY" 4416 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4417 4418 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics): 4419 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo 4420 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading 4421 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the 4422 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix 4423 on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4424 4425 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5): 4426 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code 4427 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request 4428 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4429 4430 4431 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23 4432 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. 4433 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that 4434 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small 4435 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange 4436 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions 4437 of OpenSSL. 4438 4439 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows): 4440 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows. 4441 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running 4442 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows 4443 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on 4444 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with 4445 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto. 4446 4447 o Minor features (compilation): 4448 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or 4449 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL 4450 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to 4451 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165. 4452 4453 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth): 4454 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave 4455 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less 4456 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come 4457 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017. 4458 4459 o Minor features (safety): 4460 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options 4461 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes 4462 ticket 18888. 4463 4464 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake): 4465 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to 4466 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but 4467 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel 4468 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on 4469 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 4470 4471 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 4472 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a. 4473 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of 4474 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4475 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177; 4476 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4477 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't 4478 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs. 4479 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4480 4481 o Minor bugfixes (configuration): 4482 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured 4483 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can 4484 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the 4485 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for 4486 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix 4487 on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 4488 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of 4489 ports, when it should have been only checked against other 4490 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored. 4491 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4492 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex: 4493 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration 4494 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4495 4496 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key): 4497 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line 4498 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug 4499 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 4500 4501 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 4502 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes 4503 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by 4504 Amadeusz Pawlik. 4505 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug- 4506 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason 4507 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 4508 4509 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery): 4510 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found. 4511 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4512 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit, 4513 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is 4514 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes 4515 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4516 4517 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 4518 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works 4519 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid 4520 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 4521 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that 4522 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated, 4523 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix 4524 on 0.4.5.1-alpha. 4525 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service 4526 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib 4527 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix 4528 on 0.3.1.6-rc. 4529 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL 4530 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 4531 4532 o Removed features (controller): 4533 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has 4534 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473. 4535 4536 4537 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12 4538 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It 4539 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020- 4540 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an 4541 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits 4542 intended for a different relay. 4543 4544 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4545 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to 4546 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching 4547 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519 4548 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending 4549 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on 4550 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005. 4551 4552 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4553 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and 4554 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly 4555 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that 4556 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though 4557 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or 4558 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162. 4559 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines. 4560 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main 4561 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a 4562 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164. 4563 4564 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4565 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63. 4566 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which 4567 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318; 4568 closes ticket 40133. 4569 4570 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4571 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow 4572 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix 4573 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 4574 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an 4575 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126; 4576 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 4577 4578 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4579 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with 4580 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the 4581 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha. 4582 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in 4583 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 4584 4585 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4586 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs. 4587 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha. 4588 4589 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4590 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener 4591 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix 4592 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4593 4594 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4595 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the 4596 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400; 4597 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 4598 4599 4600 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12 4601 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It 4602 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be 4603 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns 4604 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. 4605 4606 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15 4607 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or 4608 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1 4609 February 2022. 4610 4611 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha): 4612 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor 4613 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list 4614 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061. 4615 4616 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4617 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to 4618 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching 4619 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519 4620 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending 4621 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on 4622 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005. 4623 4624 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha): 4625 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect 4626 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as 4627 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to 4628 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix 4629 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4630 4631 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc): 4632 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no 4633 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is 4634 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519 4635 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that 4636 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081. 4637 4638 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4639 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63. 4640 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which 4641 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318; 4642 closes ticket 40133. 4643 4644 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5): 4645 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel 4646 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a 4647 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098. 4648 4649 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4650 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow 4651 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix 4652 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 4653 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an 4654 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126; 4655 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 4656 4657 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc): 4658 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we 4659 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input 4660 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this. 4661 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 4662 4663 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4664 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs. 4665 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha. 4666 4667 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc): 4668 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by 4669 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges 4670 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly 4671 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count 4672 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local 4673 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 4674 4675 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4676 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener 4677 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix 4678 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4679 4680 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha): 4681 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many 4682 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5 4683 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections 4684 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total 4685 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix 4686 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 4687 4688 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5): 4689 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run 4690 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug 4691 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 4692 4693 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4694 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the 4695 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400; 4696 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 4697 4698 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc): 4699 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew 4700 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha. 4701 4702 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha): 4703 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes 4704 ticket 40003. 4705 4706 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha): 4707 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the 4708 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it 4709 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C 4710 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has 4711 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with 4712 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030. 4713 4714 4715 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12 4716 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It 4717 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be 4718 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns 4719 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. 4720 4721 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha): 4722 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor 4723 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list 4724 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061. 4725 4726 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4727 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to 4728 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching 4729 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519 4730 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending 4731 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on 4732 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005. 4733 4734 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha): 4735 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect 4736 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as 4737 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to 4738 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix 4739 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4740 4741 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc): 4742 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no 4743 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is 4744 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519 4745 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that 4746 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081. 4747 4748 o Minor features (debugging, directory system): 4749 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value 4750 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how 4751 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868. 4752 4753 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4754 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63. 4755 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which 4756 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318; 4757 closes ticket 40133. 4758 4759 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5): 4760 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel 4761 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a 4762 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098. 4763 4764 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4765 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow 4766 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix 4767 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 4768 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an 4769 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126; 4770 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 4771 4772 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc): 4773 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we 4774 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input 4775 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this. 4776 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 4777 4778 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4779 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs. 4780 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha. 4781 4782 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc): 4783 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by 4784 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges 4785 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly 4786 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count 4787 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local 4788 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 4789 4790 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha): 4791 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener 4792 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix 4793 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 4794 4795 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha): 4796 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many 4797 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5 4798 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections 4799 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total 4800 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix 4801 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 4802 4803 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha): 4804 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge 4805 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes 4806 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 4807 4808 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5): 4809 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run 4810 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug 4811 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 4812 4813 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc): 4814 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew 4815 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha. 4816 4817 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha): 4818 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes 4819 ticket 40003. 4820 4821 4822 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01 4823 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It 4824 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code 4825 metrics and tracing. 4826 4827 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be 4828 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns 4829 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To 4830 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend 4831 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's 4832 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release 4833 series soon, after it has had some testing. 4834 4835 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5. 4836 4837 o Major features (build): 4838 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single 4839 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other 4840 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of 4841 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h 4842 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127. 4843 4844 o Major features (metrics): 4845 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP 4846 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At 4847 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data 4848 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more 4849 information and security considerations. 4850 o Major features (relay, IPv6): 4851 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our 4852 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames. 4853 Closes ticket 33233. 4854 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and 4855 bridges. Closes ticket 33222. 4856 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless 4857 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246. 4858 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to 4859 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6 4860 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to 4861 use. Closes ticket 33220. 4862 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from 4863 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a 4864 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable. 4865 Closes ticket 34067. 4866 4867 o Major features (tracing): 4868 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a 4869 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come 4870 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs 4871 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in 4872 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910. 4873 4874 o Major bugfixes (security): 4875 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to 4876 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching 4877 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519 4878 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending 4879 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on 4880 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005. 4881 4882 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer): 4883 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to 4884 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the 4885 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested, 4886 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes 4887 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc. 4888 4889 o Minor features (address discovery): 4890 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing 4891 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the 4892 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local 4893 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238. 4894 4895 o Minor features (admin tools): 4896 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow 4897 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix 4898 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes 4899 ticket 30045. 4900 4901 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting): 4902 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider 4903 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit. 4904 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential 4905 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened 4906 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061. 4907 4908 o Minor features (build): 4909 - When running the configure script, try to detect version 4910 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest 4911 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138. 4912 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user 4913 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138. 4914 4915 o Minor features (configuration): 4916 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on 4917 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto. 4918 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes, 4919 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and 4920 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361. 4921 Patch by Daniel Pinto. 4922 4923 o Minor features (control port): 4924 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history 4925 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002. 4926 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status, 4927 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by 4928 Neel Chauhan. 4929 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and 4930 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit 4931 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by 4932 Neel Chauhan. 4933 4934 o Minor features (control port, IPv6): 4935 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are 4936 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068. 4937 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the 4938 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6 4939 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility. 4940 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 4941 4942 o Minor features (directory authorities): 4943 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and 4944 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly 4945 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that 4946 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though 4947 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or 4948 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162. 4949 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "=" 4950 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by 4951 Daniel Pinto. 4952 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running 4953 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket 4954 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 4955 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines. 4956 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main 4957 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a 4958 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164. 4959 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities 4960 from checking whether other relays are running. A new 4961 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these 4962 checks. Closes ticket 34445. 4963 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6 4964 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address 4965 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from 4966 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193. 4967 4968 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6): 4969 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted 4970 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4 4971 addresses. Closes ticket 32822. 4972 4973 o Minor features (ed25519, relay): 4974 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data 4975 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket 4976 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 4977 4978 o Minor features (heartbeat): 4979 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6 4980 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113. 4981 4982 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes): 4983 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were 4984 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 4985 4986 o Minor features (logging): 4987 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc 4988 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions. 4989 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047. 4990 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when 4991 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053. 4992 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes 4993 ticket 40159. 4994 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging 4995 about them. Closes ticket 40041. 4996 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519 4997 identity. Closes ticket 22668. 4998 4999 o Minor features (onion services): 5000 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its 5001 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service 5002 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 5003 5004 o Minor features (pluggable transports): 5005 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify 5006 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for 5007 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the 5008 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport 5009 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304. 5010 5011 o Minor features (relay address tracking): 5012 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical 5013 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of 5014 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real 5015 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical 5016 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the 5017 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898. 5018 5019 o Minor features (relay): 5020 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it 5021 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022. 5022 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we 5023 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we 5024 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone. 5025 Closes ticket 34137. 5026 5027 o Minor features (relay, address discovery): 5028 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our 5029 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes 5030 ticket 33236. 5031 5032 o Minor features (relay, IPv6): 5033 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6 5034 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224. 5035 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus 5036 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they 5037 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self- 5038 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224. 5039 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222. 5040 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes 5041 ticket 33226. 5042 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the 5043 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222. 5044 5045 o Minor features (specification update): 5046 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and 5047 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required. 5048 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132. 5049 5050 o Minor features (state management): 5051 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile 5052 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves 5053 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but 5054 these entries have not actually been used in any release since 5055 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137. 5056 5057 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6): 5058 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus 5059 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264. 5060 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time, 5061 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263. 5062 5063 o Minor features (subprotocol versions): 5064 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63. 5065 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which 5066 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318; 5067 closes ticket 40133. 5068 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal 5069 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133. 5070 5071 o Minor features (testing configuration): 5072 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets 5073 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self- 5074 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing 5075 functionality. Closes ticket 34446. 5076 5077 o Minor features (testing): 5078 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend(). 5079 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee. 5080 5081 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services): 5082 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow 5083 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix 5084 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 5085 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an 5086 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126; 5087 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 5088 5089 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding): 5090 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called, 5091 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to 5092 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix 5093 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 5094 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can 5095 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a 5096 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 5097 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a 5098 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines 5099 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under 5100 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction 5101 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed. 5102 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 5103 5104 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility): 5105 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms. 5106 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a 5107 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of 5108 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line 5109 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the 5110 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 5111 5112 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 5113 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with 5114 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the 5115 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha. 5116 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in 5117 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 5118 5119 o Minor bugfixes (configuration): 5120 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include 5121 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc < 5122 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by 5123 Daniel Pinto. 5124 5125 o Minor bugfixes (control port): 5126 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells 5127 when a stream is attached with the purpose 5128 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5. 5129 Patch by Neel Chauhan. 5130 5131 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 5132 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs. 5133 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha. 5134 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have 5135 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for 5136 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report 5137 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the 5138 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix 5139 on 0.2.2.16-alpha. 5140 5141 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash): 5142 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener 5143 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix 5144 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 5145 5146 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions): 5147 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of 5148 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248; 5149 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 5150 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the 5151 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug 5152 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc. 5153 5154 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing): 5155 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence 5156 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is 5157 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be 5158 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug 5159 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 5160 5161 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance): 5162 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link 5163 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 5164 5165 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions): 5166 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting 5167 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 5168 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as 5169 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we 5170 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to 5171 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on 5172 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 5173 5174 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services): 5175 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the 5176 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400; 5177 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 5178 5179 o Code simplification and refactoring: 5180 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant 5181 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046. 5182 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels, 5183 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change 5184 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates 5185 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041. 5186 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function. 5187 Closes ticket 34200. 5188 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our 5189 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of 5190 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097. 5191 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*" 5192 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106. 5193 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact 5194 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes 5195 ticket 40055. 5196 - Split implementation of several command line options from 5197 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by 5198 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102. 5199 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in 5200 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done 5201 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by 5202 Neel Chauhan. 5203 5204 o Deprecated features: 5205 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now 5206 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which 5207 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398. 5208 5209 o Documentation: 5210 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new 5211 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101. 5212 5213 o Removed features: 5214 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with 5215 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we 5216 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that 5217 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes 5218 ticket 30797. 5219 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern 5220 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes 5221 ticket 32181. 5222 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer 5223 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus 5224 directory. Closes part of 40139. 5225 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no 5226 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part 5227 of 40139. 5228 5229 o Testing: 5230 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions. 5231 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee. 5232 5233 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf): 5234 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket 5235 31699; Patch by @bduszel 5236 5237 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts): 5238 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment 5239 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it. 5240 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and 5241 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019. 5242 5243 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address): 5244 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been 5245 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is 5246 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common 5247 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043. 5248 5249 o Documentation (manual page): 5250 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044. 5251 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is 5252 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc 5253 versions. Closes ticket 23378. 5254 5255 o Documentation (tracing): 5256 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new 5257 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036. 5258 5259 5260 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15 5261 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This 5262 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance 5263 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running 5264 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and 5265 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that 5266 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series. 5267 5268 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine 5269 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first 5270 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means 5271 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if 5272 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated. 5273 5274 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3 5275 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting 5276 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022. 5277 5278 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes 5279 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file. 5280 5281 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS): 5282 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense. 5283 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS 5284 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service 5285 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug 5286 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 5287 5288 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services): 5289 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total 5290 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from 5291 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services. 5292 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 5293 5294 o Minor features (control port): 5295 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an 5296 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW. 5297 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 5298 5299 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter): 5300 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the 5301 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB, 5302 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no 5303 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so 5304 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308. 5305 5306 o Minor features (tests): 5307 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel 5308 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a 5309 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098. 5310 5311 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm): 5312 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to 5313 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha. 5314 5315 o Minor bugfixes (tests): 5316 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run 5317 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug 5318 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 5319 5320 5321 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27 5322 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions, 5323 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux 5324 seccomp2 sandbox. 5325 5326 o Major features (fallback directory list): 5327 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor 5328 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list 5329 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061. 5330 5331 o Major bugfixes (NSS): 5332 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect 5333 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as 5334 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to 5335 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix 5336 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 5337 5338 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 5339 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The 5340 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27 5341 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on 5342 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315; 5343 bugfix on 0.3.5.11. 5344 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir 5345 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when 5346 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to 5347 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix 5348 on 0.3.5.11. 5349 5350 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability): 5351 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many 5352 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5 5353 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections 5354 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total 5355 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix 5356 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 5357 5358 o Documentation: 5359 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with 5360 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and 5361 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand. 5362 5363 o Removed features: 5364 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the 5365 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it 5366 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C 5367 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has 5368 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with 5369 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. 5370 5371 5372 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09 5373 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several 5374 usability, portability, and reliability fixes. 5375 5376 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of 5377 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with 5378 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.) 5379 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor 5380 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020- 5381 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library 5382 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha 5383 or later. 5384 5385 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha): 5386 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is 5387 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on 5388 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001 5389 and CVE-2020-15572. 5390 5391 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc): 5392 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges 5393 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not 5394 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to 5395 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug 5396 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 5397 5398 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc): 5399 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment 5400 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that 5401 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests 5402 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL 5403 libraries. Part of ticket 33643. 5404 5405 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha): 5406 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on 5407 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha. 5408 5409 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 5410 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay 5411 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their 5412 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix 5413 on 0.1.1.10-alpha. 5414 5415 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha): 5416 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set 5417 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config 5418 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix 5419 on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 5420 5421 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5): 5422 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC- 5423 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow 5424 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using 5425 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha. 5426 5427 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha): 5428 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values. 5429 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc. 5430 5431 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 5432 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process, 5433 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread. 5434 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs 5435 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix 5436 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 5437 5438 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc): 5439 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even 5440 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts 5441 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making 5442 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug 5443 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 5444 5445 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha): 5446 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when 5447 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug 5448 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 5449 5450 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 5451 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion 5452 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a 5453 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix 5454 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 5455 5456 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc): 5457 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app 5458 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe 5459 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not 5460 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future. 5461 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha. 5462 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is 5463 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix 5464 for 33643. 5465 5466 5467 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09 5468 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including 5469 several that affect usability and portability. 5470 5471 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of 5472 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with 5473 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.) 5474 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor 5475 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020- 5476 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library 5477 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha 5478 or later. 5479 5480 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha): 5481 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is 5482 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on 5483 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001 5484 and CVE-2020-15572. 5485 5486 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc): 5487 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges 5488 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not 5489 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to 5490 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug 5491 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 5492 5493 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc): 5494 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already 5495 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do 5496 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the 5497 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623. 5498 5499 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 5500 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to 5501 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA 5502 code. Closes ticket 33290. 5503 5504 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc): 5505 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment 5506 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that 5507 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests 5508 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL 5509 libraries. Part of ticket 33643. 5510 5511 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha): 5512 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on 5513 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha. 5514 5515 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 5516 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay 5517 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their 5518 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix 5519 on 0.1.1.10-alpha. 5520 5521 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha): 5522 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set 5523 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config 5524 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix 5525 on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 5526 5527 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5): 5528 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC- 5529 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow 5530 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using 5531 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha. 5532 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix 5533 on 0.4.0.3-alpha. 5534 5535 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha): 5536 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values. 5537 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc. 5538 5539 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): 5540 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port, 5541 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug 5542 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 5543 5544 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 5545 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process, 5546 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread. 5547 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs 5548 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix 5549 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 5550 5551 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc): 5552 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even 5553 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts 5554 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making 5555 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug 5556 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 5557 5558 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc): 5559 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning 5560 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them. 5561 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the 5562 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 5563 5564 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc): 5565 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported 5566 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are 5567 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6. 5568 5569 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha): 5570 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when 5571 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug 5572 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 5573 5574 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 5575 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion 5576 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a 5577 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix 5578 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 5579 5580 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc): 5581 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app 5582 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe 5583 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not 5584 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future. 5585 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha. 5586 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is 5587 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix 5588 for 33643. 5589 5590 5591 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09 5592 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including 5593 some affecting usability. 5594 5595 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of 5596 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with 5597 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.) 5598 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor 5599 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020- 5600 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library 5601 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha 5602 or later. 5603 5604 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha): 5605 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is 5606 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on 5607 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001 5608 and CVE-2020-15572. 5609 5610 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha): 5611 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on 5612 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha. 5613 5614 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha): 5615 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set 5616 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config 5617 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix 5618 on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 5619 5620 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha): 5621 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values. 5622 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc. 5623 5624 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha): 5625 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and 5626 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on 5627 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto. 5628 5629 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha): 5630 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when 5631 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug 5632 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 5633 5634 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha): 5635 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2 5636 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 5637 5638 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha): 5639 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client 5640 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non- 5641 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug 5642 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 5643 5644 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha): 5645 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were 5646 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5. 5647 5648 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha): 5649 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge 5650 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes 5651 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 5652 5653 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha): 5654 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes 5655 ticket 34255. 5656 5657 5658 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09 5659 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few 5660 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability, 5661 compatibility, and portability issues. 5662 5663 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of 5664 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with 5665 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.) 5666 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor 5667 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020- 5668 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library 5669 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha 5670 or later. 5671 5672 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security): 5673 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is 5674 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on 5675 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001 5676 and CVE-2020-15572. 5677 5678 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting): 5679 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the 5680 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call 5681 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE" 5682 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes 5683 ticket 32622. 5684 5685 o Minor features (directory authority): 5686 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported 5687 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been 5688 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will 5689 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or 5690 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696. 5691 5692 o Minor features (entry guards): 5693 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events. 5694 Closes ticket 40001. 5695 5696 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability): 5697 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to 5698 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail. 5699 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less 5700 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382. 5701 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use 5702 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346. 5703 5704 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows): 5705 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on 5706 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha. 5707 5708 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client): 5709 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug 5710 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 5711 5712 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client): 5713 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when 5714 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix 5715 on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 5716 5717 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings): 5718 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values. 5719 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc. 5720 5721 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service): 5722 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to 5723 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say 5724 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 5725 5726 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 5727 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when 5728 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug 5729 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 5730 5731 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3): 5732 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when 5733 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix 5734 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 5735 5736 o Deprecated features (onion service v2): 5737 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes 5738 ticket 40003. 5739 5740 o Removed features (IPv6, revert): 5741 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort: 5742 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no 5743 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so 5744 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS 5745 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets 5746 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users. 5747 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha. 5748 5749 5750 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16 5751 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves 5752 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that 5753 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous 5754 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 5755 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series. 5756 5757 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5. 5758 5759 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security): 5760 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal 5761 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard 5762 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new 5763 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all 5764 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements 5765 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS 5766 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections. 5767 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group, 5768 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.) 5769 5770 o Major features (IPv6, relay): 5771 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol 5772 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and 5773 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other 5774 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817. 5775 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are 5776 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes 5777 ticket 33817. 5778 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes 5779 ticket 33817. 5780 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6 5781 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in 5782 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6 5783 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817. 5784 5785 o Major features (v3 onion services): 5786 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances, 5787 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option. 5788 Closes ticket 32709. 5789 5790 o Minor feature (developer tools): 5791 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option 5792 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339. 5793 5794 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5): 5795 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back 5796 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of 5797 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes 5798 ticket 32542. 5799 5800 o Minor feature (onion service v3): 5801 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO 5802 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 5803 5804 o Minor feature (python scripts): 5805 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a 5806 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use 5807 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes 5808 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2. 5809 5810 o Minor features (client-only compilation): 5811 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when 5812 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368. 5813 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode 5814 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370. 5815 5816 o Minor features (code safety): 5817 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa() 5818 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust 5819 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances. 5820 Resolves issue 33788. 5821 5822 o Minor features (compilation size): 5823 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without 5824 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366. 5825 5826 o Minor features (continuous integration): 5827 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with 5828 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor. 5829 Resolves ticket 32143. 5830 5831 o Minor features (control port): 5832 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh- 5833 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned 5834 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket 5835 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 5836 5837 o Minor features (developer tooling): 5838 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor 5839 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers 5840 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642. 5841 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and 5842 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451. 5843 5844 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random): 5845 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling 5846 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when 5847 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436. 5848 5849 o Minor features (directory): 5850 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory 5851 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log 5852 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes 5853 ticket 32720. 5854 5855 o Minor features (IPv6 support): 5856 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above 5857 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch 5858 by MrSquanchee. 5859 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 5860 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays. 5861 Closes ticket 33901. 5862 5863 o Minor features (logging): 5864 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to 5865 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888. 5866 5867 o Minor features (testing, architecture): 5868 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization 5869 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established 5870 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634. 5871 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test 5872 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow- 5873 up from ticket 33316. 5874 5875 o Minor features (v3 onion services): 5876 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is 5877 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion 5878 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 5879 5880 o Minor features (windows): 5881 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows. 5882 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder). 5883 5884 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3): 5885 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client 5886 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non- 5887 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug 5888 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 5889 5890 o Minor bugfix (refactoring): 5891 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the 5892 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are 5893 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9. 5894 5895 o Minor bugfixes (client performance): 5896 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set 5897 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config 5898 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix 5899 on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 5900 5901 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): 5902 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In 5903 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes, 5904 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This 5905 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities 5906 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. 5907 5908 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts): 5909 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push 5910 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes 5911 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 5912 5913 o Minor bugfixes (initialization): 5914 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely 5915 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is 5916 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it. 5917 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 5918 5919 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay): 5920 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and 5921 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 5922 5923 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay): 5924 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is 5925 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could 5926 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the 5927 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899; 5928 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 5929 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the 5930 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote 5931 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug 5932 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 5933 5934 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss): 5935 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and 5936 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on 5937 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto. 5938 5939 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing): 5940 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL 5941 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE() 5942 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging 5943 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 5944 5945 o Minor bugfixes (logs): 5946 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit 5947 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 5948 5949 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop): 5950 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in 5951 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. 5952 5953 o Minor bugfixes (manual page): 5954 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2 5955 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 5956 5957 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client): 5958 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor 5959 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix 5960 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 5961 5962 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging): 5963 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0. 5964 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 5965 5966 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 5967 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were 5968 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5. 5969 5970 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions): 5971 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the 5972 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix 5973 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 5974 5975 o Minor bugfixes (relays): 5976 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge 5977 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes 5978 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 5979 5980 o Code simplification and refactoring: 5981 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like 5982 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address, 5983 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956. 5984 Patch by Neel Chauhan. 5985 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which 5986 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were 5987 isolated in subsystems of their own. 5988 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency 5989 inversion. Closes ticket 33633. 5990 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the 5991 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes 5992 ticket 33633. 5993 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from 5994 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee. 5995 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and 5996 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes 5997 ticket 33349. 5998 5999 o Documentation: 6000 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with 6001 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on 6002 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto. 6003 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes 6004 ticket 34255. 6005 6006 o Removed features: 6007 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to 6008 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and 6009 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option 6010 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905. 6011 Patch by Neel Chauhan. 6012 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used 6013 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576. 6014 6015 o Testing: 6016 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs 6017 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300. 6018 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile. 6019 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from 6020 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280. 6021 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194. 6022 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6 6023 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes 6024 ticket 33303. 6025 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs 6026 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes 6027 ticket 33194. 6028 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was 6029 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires 6030 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195. 6031 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And 6032 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the 6033 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make 6034 targets. Closes ticket 33334. 6035 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test- 6036 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid- 6037 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208. 6038 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh" 6039 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792. 6040 6041 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service): 6042 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem 6043 code. Closes ticket 33014. 6044 6045 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address): 6046 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their 6047 own files. Closes ticket 33789. 6048 6049 o Documentation (manual page): 6050 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor 6051 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of 6052 Google Season of Docs. 6053 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory 6054 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing 6055 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket 6056 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs. 6057 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily 6058 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417. 6059 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page. 6060 Closes ticket 33778. 6061 6062 6063 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15 6064 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This 6065 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and 6066 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion 6067 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and 6068 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and 6069 performance issues. 6070 6071 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine 6072 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first 6073 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means 6074 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if 6075 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated. 6076 6077 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this 6078 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to 6079 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until 6080 Feb 2022. 6081 6082 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes 6083 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file. 6084 6085 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility): 6086 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC- 6087 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow 6088 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using 6089 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha. 6090 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix 6091 on 0.4.0.3-alpha. 6092 6093 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 6094 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection 6095 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 6096 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was 6097 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion 6098 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix 6099 on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 6100 6101 6102 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13 6103 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes 6104 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS 6105 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports. 6106 6107 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport): 6108 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges 6109 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not 6110 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to 6111 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug 6112 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 6113 6114 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control): 6115 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already 6116 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do 6117 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the 6118 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623. 6119 6120 o Minor features (testing): 6121 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment 6122 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that 6123 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests 6124 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL 6125 libraries. Part of ticket 33643. 6126 6127 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay): 6128 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay 6129 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668; 6130 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 6131 6132 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth): 6133 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs, 6134 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668. 6135 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 6136 6137 o Minor bugfixes (build system): 6138 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary. 6139 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646; 6140 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha. 6141 6142 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6): 6143 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections. 6144 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to 6145 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug 6146 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 6147 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke 6148 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application 6149 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version, 6150 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default 6151 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6 6152 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 6153 6154 o Minor bugfixes (key portability): 6155 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even 6156 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts 6157 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making 6158 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug 6159 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 6160 6161 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 6162 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported 6163 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are 6164 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6. 6165 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file 6166 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix 6167 on 0.4.1.6. 6168 6169 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3): 6170 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when 6171 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some 6172 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug 6173 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 6174 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of 6175 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545; 6176 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks". 6177 6178 o Code simplification and refactoring: 6179 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git 6180 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678. 6181 6182 o Testing: 6183 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and 6184 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with 6185 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the 6186 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes 6187 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by 6188 Putta Khunchalee. 6189 6190 o Testing (CI): 6191 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app 6192 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe 6193 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not 6194 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future. 6195 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha. 6196 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is 6197 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix 6198 for 33643. 6199 6200 6201 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18 6202 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including 6203 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected 6204 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this 6205 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge 6206 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or 6207 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or 6208 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The 6209 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby 6210 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic 6211 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked 6212 as CVE-2020-10592. 6213 6214 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being 6215 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade 6216 as soon as packages are available. 6217 6218 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service): 6219 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to 6220 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by 6221 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden 6222 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to 6223 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a 6224 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on 6225 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue 6226 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592. 6227 6228 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak): 6229 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit 6230 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit. 6231 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls. 6232 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593. 6233 6234 o Major bugfixes (directory authority): 6235 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth) 6236 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and 6237 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the 6238 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. 6239 6240 o Minor features (diagnostic): 6241 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to 6242 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA 6243 code. Closes ticket 33290. 6244 6245 o Minor features (directory authorities): 6246 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running 6247 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is 6248 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 6249 6250 o Minor features (usability): 6251 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration 6252 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when 6253 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460. 6254 6255 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration): 6256 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay 6257 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their 6258 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix 6259 on 0.1.1.10-alpha. 6260 6261 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks): 6262 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using 6263 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha, 6264 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374; 6265 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 6266 6267 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration): 6268 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix 6269 on 0.3.2.2-alpha. 6270 6271 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client): 6272 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion 6273 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a 6274 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix 6275 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 6276 6277 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3): 6278 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted 6279 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137; 6280 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked 6281 as TROVE-2020-003. 6282 6283 o Documentation (manpage): 6284 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor 6285 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of 6286 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of 6287 Google Season of Docs. 6288 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify 6289 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971. 6290 6291 o Testing (Travis CI): 6292 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194. 6293 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs 6294 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes 6295 ticket 33194. 6296 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was 6297 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires 6298 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195. 6299 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh" 6300 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792. 6301 6302 6303 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18 6304 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports 6305 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020- 6306 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all 6307 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, 6308 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, 6309 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This 6310 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory 6311 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could 6312 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service 6313 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue 6314 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592. 6315 6316 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being 6317 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade 6318 as soon as packages are available. 6319 6320 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 6321 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to 6322 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by 6323 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden 6324 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to 6325 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a 6326 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on 6327 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue 6328 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592. 6329 6330 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 6331 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit 6332 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit. 6333 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls. 6334 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593. 6335 6336 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 6337 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth) 6338 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and 6339 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the 6340 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. 6341 6342 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): 6343 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks 6344 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed. 6345 Closes ticket 33075. 6346 6347 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6348 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding 6349 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha. 6350 6351 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): 6352 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection, 6353 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process. 6354 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause 6355 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix 6356 on 0.3.2.2-alpha. 6357 6358 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 6359 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted 6360 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137; 6361 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked 6362 as TROVE-2020-003. 6363 6364 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): 6365 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was 6366 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212; 6367 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 6368 6369 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 6370 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194. 6371 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs 6372 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes 6373 ticket 33194. 6374 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was 6375 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires 6376 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195. 6377 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh" 6378 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792. 6379 6380 6381 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18 6382 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases, 6383 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service 6384 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since 6385 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor 6386 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations 6387 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by 6388 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client 6389 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as 6390 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns 6391 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, 6392 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592. 6393 6394 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being 6395 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade 6396 as soon as packages are available. 6397 6398 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 6399 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to 6400 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by 6401 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden 6402 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to 6403 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a 6404 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on 6405 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue 6406 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592. 6407 6408 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 6409 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit 6410 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit. 6411 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls. 6412 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593. 6413 6414 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6415 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding 6416 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha. 6417 6418 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): 6419 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection, 6420 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process. 6421 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause 6422 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix 6423 on 0.3.2.2-alpha. 6424 6425 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 6426 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted 6427 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137; 6428 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked 6429 as TROVE-2020-003. 6430 6431 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): 6432 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was 6433 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212; 6434 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 6435 6436 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 6437 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194. 6438 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs 6439 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes 6440 ticket 33194. 6441 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was 6442 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires 6443 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195. 6444 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh" 6445 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792. 6446 6447 6448 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18 6449 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a 6450 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that 6451 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this 6452 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge 6453 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or 6454 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or 6455 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The 6456 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby 6457 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic 6458 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked 6459 as CVE-2020-10592. 6460 6461 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being 6462 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade 6463 as soon as packages are available. 6464 6465 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 6466 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to 6467 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by 6468 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden 6469 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to 6470 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a 6471 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on 6472 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue 6473 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592. 6474 6475 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6476 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that 6477 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are 6478 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In 6479 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect. 6480 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a 6481 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during 6482 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by 6483 Peter Gerber. 6484 6485 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): 6486 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks 6487 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed. 6488 Closes ticket 33075. 6489 6490 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6491 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding 6492 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha. 6493 6494 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc): 6495 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or 6496 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing 6497 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407; 6498 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 6499 6500 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): 6501 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection, 6502 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process. 6503 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause 6504 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix 6505 on 0.3.2.2-alpha. 6506 6507 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 6508 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted 6509 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137; 6510 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked 6511 as TROVE-2020-003. 6512 6513 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): 6514 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was 6515 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212; 6516 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 6517 6518 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6519 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it 6520 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are 6521 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.) 6522 Closes ticket 32629. 6523 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on 6524 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we 6525 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240. 6526 6527 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6528 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242. 6529 6530 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): 6531 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194. 6532 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs 6533 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes 6534 ticket 33194. 6535 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was 6536 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires 6537 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh" 6538 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792. 6539 6540 6541 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10 6542 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It 6543 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody 6544 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this 6545 one instead. 6546 6547 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization): 6548 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client 6549 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139; 6550 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 6551 6552 o Minor features (best practices tracker): 6553 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate 6554 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_ 6555 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372. 6556 6557 o Minor features (continuous integration): 6558 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about 6559 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455. 6560 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks 6561 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed. 6562 Closes ticket 33075. 6563 6564 o Minor bugfixes (build system): 6565 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in 6566 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 6567 6568 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol): 6569 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply 6570 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 6571 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix 6572 on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 6573 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port, 6574 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug 6575 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 6576 6577 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 6578 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection, 6579 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process. 6580 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause 6581 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix 6582 on 0.3.2.2-alpha. 6583 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning 6584 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them. 6585 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the 6586 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 6587 6588 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2): 6589 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning 6590 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed 6591 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha. 6592 6593 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization): 6594 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control 6595 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service 6596 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix 6597 on 0.4.3.1-alpha. 6598 6599 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports): 6600 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable 6601 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes 6602 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 6603 6604 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build): 6605 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was 6606 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212; 6607 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 6608 6609 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling): 6610 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC" 6611 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid 6612 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported 6613 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha. 6614 6615 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop): 6616 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant 6617 checks. Closes ticket 33091. 6618 6619 o Documentation (manpage): 6620 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into 6621 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and 6622 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs. 6623 6624 6625 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30 6626 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports 6627 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected 6628 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with 6629 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade; 6630 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5. 6631 6632 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6633 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that 6634 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are 6635 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In 6636 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect. 6637 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a 6638 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during 6639 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by 6640 Peter Gerber. 6641 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the 6642 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on 6643 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber. 6644 6645 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6646 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that 6647 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765; 6648 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 6649 6650 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6651 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion 6652 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects. 6653 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 6654 6655 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6656 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the 6657 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes 6658 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 6659 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when 6660 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix 6661 on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 6662 6663 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6664 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows 6665 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 6666 6667 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6668 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on 6669 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we 6670 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240. 6671 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it 6672 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are 6673 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.) 6674 Closes ticket 32629. 6675 6676 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6677 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242. 6678 6679 6680 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30 6681 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series, 6682 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows 6683 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll 6684 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your 6685 current version of 0.4.1.x. 6686 6687 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6688 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that 6689 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are 6690 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In 6691 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect. 6692 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a 6693 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during 6694 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by 6695 Peter Gerber. 6696 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the 6697 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on 6698 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber. 6699 6700 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc): 6701 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or 6702 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing 6703 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407; 6704 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 6705 6706 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6707 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows 6708 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 6709 6710 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6711 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on 6712 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we 6713 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240. 6714 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it 6715 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are 6716 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.) 6717 Closes ticket 32629. 6718 6719 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): 6720 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242. 6721 6722 6723 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22 6724 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes 6725 improved support for application integration of onion services, support 6726 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal 6727 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It 6728 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as 6729 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us 6730 write better code in the future. 6731 6732 o New system requirements: 6733 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run 6734 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported 6735 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608. 6736 6737 o Major features (build system): 6738 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay 6739 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the 6740 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123. 6741 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code 6742 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487. 6743 6744 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519): 6745 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved- 6746 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the 6747 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved- 6748 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 6749 6750 o Major features (onion service, controller): 6751 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service 6752 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds 6753 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and 6754 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381. 6755 6756 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5): 6757 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more 6758 detailed error codes in information for applications that support 6759 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304. 6760 6761 o Major features (proxy): 6762 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT, 6763 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a 6764 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the 6765 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>. 6766 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy. 6767 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop). 6768 6769 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox): 6770 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that 6771 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are 6772 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In 6773 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect. 6774 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a 6775 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during 6776 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by 6777 Peter Gerber. 6778 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the 6779 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on 6780 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber. 6781 6782 o Major bugfixes (networking): 6783 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests, 6784 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315; 6785 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 6786 6787 o Major bugfixes (onion service): 6788 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take 6789 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point 6790 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since 6791 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes 6792 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 6793 6794 o Minor feature (configure, build system): 6795 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the 6796 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373. 6797 6798 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service): 6799 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS 6800 message. Closes ticket 31371. 6801 6802 o Minor features (configuration validation): 6803 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks, 6804 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce 6805 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions. 6806 Closes ticket 31241. 6807 6808 o Minor features (configuration): 6809 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is 6810 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes 6811 ticket 32406. 6812 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration 6813 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a 6814 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings. 6815 Implements ticket 32404. 6816 6817 o Minor features (controller): 6818 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859. 6819 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor 6820 consensus. Closes ticket 31684. 6821 6822 o Minor features (debugging, directory system): 6823 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value 6824 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how 6825 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868. 6826 6827 o Minor features (defense in depth): 6828 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the 6829 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes 6830 ticket 31147. 6831 6832 o Minor features (developer tooling): 6833 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge- 6834 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh). 6835 Closes ticket 32772. 6836 6837 o Minor features (developer tools): 6838 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is 6839 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable 6840 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919. 6841 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile 6842 target. Closes ticket 31919. 6843 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C 6844 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message 6845 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes 6846 ticket 32237. 6847 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle 6848 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are 6849 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use 6850 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705. 6851 6852 o Minor features (Doxygen): 6853 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from 6854 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110. 6855 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes 6856 ticket 32113. 6857 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C 6858 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing 6859 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307. 6860 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by 6861 default, and does not warn about items that are missing 6862 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure 6863 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends 6864 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385. 6865 6866 o Minor features (git scripts): 6867 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone 6868 customisation. Closes ticket 32347. 6869 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository 6870 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603. 6871 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra 6872 remote. Closes ticket 32347. 6873 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push 6874 hooks. Closes ticket 31919. 6875 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to 6876 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches. 6877 Closes ticket 32216. 6878 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree 6879 directory. Closes ticket 32347. 6880 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook 6881 checks. Related to ticket 31919. 6882 6883 o Minor features (IPv6, client): 6884 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6 6885 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6 6886 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser 6887 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a 6888 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637. 6889 6890 o Minor features (portability, android): 6891 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME 6892 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825. 6893 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner. 6894 6895 o Minor features (relay modularity): 6896 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into 6897 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the 6898 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213. 6899 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the 6900 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or 6901 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these 6902 options. Closes part of ticket 32213. 6903 6904 o Minor features (relay): 6905 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so 6906 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410. 6907 6908 o Minor features (release tools): 6909 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3. 6910 Closes ticket 32704. 6911 6912 o Minor features (testing): 6913 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in 6914 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451. 6915 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful 6916 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451. 6917 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any 6918 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes 6919 ticket 32397. 6920 6921 o Minor features (tests, Android): 6922 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in 6923 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a 6924 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner. 6925 6926 o Minor bugfixes (bridges): 6927 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding 6928 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha. 6929 6930 o Minor bugfixes (build system): 6931 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370; 6932 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha. 6933 6934 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling): 6935 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead 6936 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531; 6937 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 6938 6939 o Minor bugfixes (configuration): 6940 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside 6941 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1. 6942 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after 6943 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only 6944 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options 6945 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped 6946 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6. 6947 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by 6948 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes 6949 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 6950 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the 6951 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's 6952 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the 6953 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 6954 6955 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 6956 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are 6957 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix 6958 on 0.1.1.11-alpha 6959 6960 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks): 6961 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that 6962 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765; 6963 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 6964 6965 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools): 6966 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug 6967 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha. 6968 6969 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module): 6970 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth 6971 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled. 6972 Closes ticket 32213. 6973 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the 6974 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the 6975 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 6976 6977 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor): 6978 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process, 6979 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread. 6980 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs 6981 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix 6982 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 6983 6984 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts): 6985 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes 6986 ticket 32216. 6987 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push. 6988 Closes ticket 32216. 6989 6990 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3): 6991 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but 6992 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync 6993 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix 6994 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 6995 6996 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash): 6997 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion 6998 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects. 6999 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 7000 7001 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2): 7002 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the 7003 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point 7004 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay 7005 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by 7006 Neel Chauhan. 7007 7008 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client): 7009 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously 7010 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the 7011 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all 7012 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes 7013 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 7014 7015 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 7016 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use 7017 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of 7018 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on 7019 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 7020 7021 o Minor bugfixes (scripts): 7022 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371; 7023 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 7024 7025 o Minor bugfixes (test): 7026 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test 7027 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage 7028 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix 7029 on 0.2.7.3-rc. 7030 7031 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 7032 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh. 7033 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 7034 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the 7035 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes 7036 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 7037 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when 7038 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix 7039 on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 7040 7041 o Minor bugfixes (tests): 7042 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially 7043 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously, 7044 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be 7045 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and 7046 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 7047 7048 o Minor bugfixes (windows service): 7049 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows 7050 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 7051 7052 o Deprecated features: 7053 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not 7054 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that 7055 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by 7056 Neel Chauhan. 7057 7058 o Documentation: 7059 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and 7060 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit 7061 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804. 7062 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a 7063 tag file. Closes ticket 32779. 7064 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software 7065 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206. 7066 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes 7067 ticket 32467. 7068 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our 7069 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853. 7070 7071 o Removed features: 7072 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The 7073 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long, 7074 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099. 7075 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now 7076 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when 7077 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes 7078 ticket 32807. 7079 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these 7080 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that 7081 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients, 7082 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be 7083 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695. 7084 7085 o Testing: 7086 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also, 7087 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes 7088 ticket 32845. 7089 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing 7090 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213. 7091 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all 7092 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213. 7093 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it 7094 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are 7095 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.) 7096 Closes ticket 32629. 7097 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes 7098 ticket 32609. 7099 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on 7100 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we 7101 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240. 7102 7103 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel): 7104 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used 7105 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892. 7106 7107 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration): 7108 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual 7109 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition 7110 checking code. Closes ticket 32344. 7111 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for 7112 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME". 7113 Solves part of ticket 32339. 7114 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to 7115 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner. 7116 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were 7117 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning 7118 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999. 7119 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function, 7120 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187. 7121 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the 7122 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an 7123 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes 7124 ticket 32185. 7125 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority- 7126 related options to the directory authority module. Closes 7127 ticket 32806. 7128 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our 7129 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and 7130 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003. 7131 7132 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller): 7133 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply 7134 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control 7135 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984. 7136 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or 7137 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684. 7138 7139 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization): 7140 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function. 7141 Closes ticket 32163. 7142 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes 7143 ticket 29826. 7144 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213. 7145 7146 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc): 7147 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention 7148 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415. 7149 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity. 7150 Closes ticket 32304. 7151 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory. 7152 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories 7153 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137. 7154 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests 7155 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes 7156 ticket 32887. 7157 7158 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization): 7159 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes 7160 ticket 32244. 7161 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes 7162 ticket 32245. 7163 7164 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support): 7165 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that 7166 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still 7167 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764. 7168 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to 7169 parse. Related to ticket 31705. 7170 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic 7171 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764. 7172 7173 o Documentation (manpage): 7174 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes 7175 ticket 32846. 7176 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes 7177 ticket 32708. 7178 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the 7179 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket 7180 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season 7181 of Docs. 7182 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES, 7183 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by 7184 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs. 7185 7186 o Testing (circuit, EWMA): 7187 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes 7188 ticket 32196. 7189 7190 o Testing (continuous integration): 7191 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242. 7192 7193 7194 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09 7195 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series 7196 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and 7197 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller 7198 bugs present in previous series. 7199 7200 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine 7201 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x: 7202 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick 7203 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022. 7204 7205 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine 7206 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x: 7207 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick 7208 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022. 7209 7210 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes 7211 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file. 7212 7213 o Minor features (geoip): 7214 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 7215 Country database. Closes ticket 32685. 7216 7217 o Testing: 7218 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU 7219 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition 7220 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without. 7221 Closes ticket 32500. 7222 7223 7224 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09 7225 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and 7226 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6, 7227 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade. 7228 7229 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7230 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently 7231 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series 7232 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549. 7233 7234 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7235 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and 7236 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug 7237 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 7238 7239 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7240 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When 7241 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when 7242 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking 7243 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses 7244 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can 7245 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured 7246 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 7247 7248 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7249 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the 7250 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any 7251 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes 7252 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 7253 7254 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7255 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points 7256 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or 7257 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes 7258 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix 7259 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 7260 7261 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7262 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make, 7263 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the 7264 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372. 7265 7266 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5): 7267 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 7268 Country database. Closes ticket 32685. 7269 7270 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7271 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step. 7272 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha. 7273 7274 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc): 7275 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window 7276 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor 7277 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early, 7278 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the 7279 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 7280 7281 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc): 7282 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause 7283 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug 7284 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. 7285 7286 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7287 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages. 7288 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when 7289 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7290 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we 7291 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal 7292 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7293 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before 7294 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers, 7295 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix 7296 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 7297 7298 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7299 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code 7300 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 7301 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes 7302 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 7303 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit 7304 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which 7305 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website. 7306 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 7307 7308 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7309 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS 7310 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a 7311 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 7312 7313 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7314 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down 7315 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic 7316 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process 7317 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix 7318 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 7319 7320 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7321 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug 7322 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7. 7323 7324 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7325 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable 7326 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix 7327 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 7328 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion 7329 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child 7330 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 7331 7332 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7333 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where 7334 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug 7335 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 7336 7337 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7338 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log. 7339 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again. 7340 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages. 7341 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7342 7343 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7344 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned 7345 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 7346 7347 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7348 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than 7349 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix 7350 on 0.3.0.4-rc. 7351 7352 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7353 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain 7354 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736. 7355 7356 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7357 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow 7358 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177. 7359 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes 7360 ticket 30860. 7361 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time. 7362 Closes ticket 31859. 7363 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our 7364 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086. 7365 7366 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc): 7367 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241. 7368 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a 7369 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty, 7370 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket 7371 32240). Related to ticket 31919. 7372 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure 7373 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor 7374 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.) 7375 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc. 7376 7377 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5): 7378 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc 7379 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings. 7380 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without. 7381 Closes ticket 32500. 7382 7383 7384 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09 7385 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release 7386 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone 7387 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays 7388 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade. 7389 7390 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end 7391 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the 7392 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term 7393 support until 1 Feb 2022. 7394 7395 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5): 7396 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes 7397 ticket 31406. 7398 7399 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 7400 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list 7401 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the 7402 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and 7403 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build 7404 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875. 7405 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our 7406 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges 7407 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable, 7408 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part 7409 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 7410 7411 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc): 7412 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to 7413 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise, 7414 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that 7415 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable 7416 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 7417 7418 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha): 7419 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change 7420 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or 7421 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances 7422 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix 7423 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 7424 7425 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 7426 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to 7427 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse 7428 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the 7429 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix 7430 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 7431 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK 7432 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us 7433 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal 7434 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix 7435 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 7436 7437 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7438 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When 7439 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when 7440 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking 7441 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses 7442 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can 7443 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured 7444 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 7445 7446 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7447 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the 7448 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any 7449 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes 7450 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 7451 7452 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7453 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points 7454 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or 7455 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes 7456 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix 7457 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 7458 7459 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha): 7460 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile- 7461 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452. 7462 7463 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 7464 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no 7465 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves 7466 issue 30213. 7467 7468 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc): 7469 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network 7470 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280. 7471 7472 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7473 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make, 7474 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the 7475 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372. 7476 7477 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc): 7478 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc 7479 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a 7480 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated 7481 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795. 7482 7483 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5): 7484 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 7485 Country database. Closes ticket 32685. 7486 7487 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7488 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use 7489 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes 7490 ticket 31554. 7491 7492 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7493 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step. 7494 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha. 7495 7496 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7497 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows 7498 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 7499 7500 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha): 7501 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from 7502 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 7503 7504 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc): 7505 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before 7506 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix 7507 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 7508 7509 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc): 7510 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window 7511 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor 7512 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early, 7513 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the 7514 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 7515 7516 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5): 7517 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to 7518 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to. 7519 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past". 7520 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 7521 7522 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5): 7523 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function 7524 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix 7525 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 7526 7527 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5): 7528 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings 7529 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 7530 7531 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7532 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling 7533 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug 7534 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 7535 7536 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 7537 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option 7538 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such 7539 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 7540 7541 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 7542 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that 7543 want authentication along with configured (but unused!) 7544 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 7545 7546 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc): 7547 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause 7548 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug 7549 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. 7550 7551 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha): 7552 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes 7553 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 7554 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on 7555 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7556 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment 7557 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7558 7559 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc): 7560 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed 7561 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug 7562 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha. 7563 7564 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha): 7565 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose 7566 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a 7567 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. 7568 7569 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 7570 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority 7571 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix 7572 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7573 7574 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7575 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages. 7576 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when 7577 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7578 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we 7579 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal 7580 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7581 7582 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7583 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that 7584 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an 7585 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix 7586 on 0.2.3.4-alpha. 7587 7588 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7589 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards, 7590 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to 7591 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug 7592 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 7593 7594 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 7595 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other 7596 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be 7597 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was 7598 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. 7599 7600 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7601 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as 7602 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix 7603 on 0.1.1.10-alpha. 7604 7605 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7606 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit 7607 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which 7608 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website. 7609 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 7610 7611 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7612 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS 7613 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a 7614 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 7615 7616 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7617 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down 7618 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic 7619 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process 7620 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix 7621 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 7622 7623 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 7624 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing 7625 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix 7626 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 7627 7628 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc): 7629 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value 7630 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 7631 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 7632 7633 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 7634 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define 7635 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug 7636 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell. 7637 7638 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 7639 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc 7640 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client 7641 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7642 7643 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 7644 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition, 7645 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would 7646 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix 7647 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7648 7649 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 7650 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems 7651 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has 7652 been here long enough that we question whether people are running 7653 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.) 7654 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by 7655 Tobias Stoeckmann. 7656 7657 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7658 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable 7659 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix 7660 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 7661 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion 7662 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child 7663 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 7664 7665 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7666 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where 7667 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug 7668 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 7669 7670 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7671 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug 7672 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 7673 7674 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7675 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log. 7676 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again. 7677 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages. 7678 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7679 7680 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7681 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than 7682 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix 7683 on 0.3.0.4-rc. 7684 7685 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7686 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with 7687 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop 7688 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or 7689 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 7690 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 7691 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all 7692 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3 7693 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable 7694 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 7695 7696 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7697 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit- 7698 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it 7699 themselves. Closes ticket 31089. 7700 7701 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 7702 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in 7703 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs. 7704 Resolves issue 29702. 7705 7706 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 7707 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234. 7708 7709 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5): 7710 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and 7711 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591. 7712 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes 7713 ticket 30694. 7714 7715 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7716 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow 7717 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177. 7718 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes 7719 ticket 30860. 7720 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time. 7721 Closes ticket 31859. 7722 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our 7723 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086. 7724 7725 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc): 7726 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a 7727 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty, 7728 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket 7729 32240). Related to ticket 31919. 7730 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure 7731 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor 7732 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.) 7733 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc. 7734 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241. 7735 7736 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5): 7737 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc 7738 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings. 7739 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without. 7740 Closes ticket 32500. 7741 7742 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09 7743 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including 7744 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services, 7745 and much more. 7746 7747 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5): 7748 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes 7749 ticket 31406. 7750 7751 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 7752 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list 7753 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the 7754 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and 7755 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build 7756 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875. 7757 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our 7758 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges 7759 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable, 7760 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part 7761 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 7762 7763 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc): 7764 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to 7765 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise, 7766 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that 7767 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable 7768 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 7769 7770 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc): 7771 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use 7772 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for 7773 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to 7774 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled. 7775 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7776 7777 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha): 7778 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change 7779 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or 7780 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances 7781 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix 7782 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 7783 7784 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 7785 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to 7786 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse 7787 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the 7788 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix 7789 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 7790 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK 7791 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us 7792 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal 7793 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix 7794 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 7795 7796 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7797 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the 7798 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any 7799 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes 7800 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 7801 7802 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 7803 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points 7804 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or 7805 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes 7806 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix 7807 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 7808 7809 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha): 7810 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes; 7811 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade 7812 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to 7813 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now 7814 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users 7815 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address. 7816 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 7817 7818 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc): 7819 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the 7820 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to 7821 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including 7822 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes 7823 ticket 29806. 7824 7825 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha): 7826 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile- 7827 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452. 7828 7829 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc): 7830 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from 7831 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves 7832 issue 29962. 7833 7834 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5): 7835 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and 7836 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the 7837 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117. 7838 7839 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 7840 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no 7841 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves 7842 issue 30213. 7843 7844 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc): 7845 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network 7846 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280. 7847 7848 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7849 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make, 7850 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the 7851 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372. 7852 7853 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc): 7854 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc 7855 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a 7856 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated 7857 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795. 7858 7859 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5): 7860 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 7861 Country database. Closes ticket 32685. 7862 7863 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc): 7864 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful 7865 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to 7866 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241. 7867 7868 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7869 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use 7870 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes 7871 ticket 31554. 7872 7873 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc): 7874 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer 7875 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the 7876 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and 7877 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann. 7878 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files. 7879 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because 7880 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities 7881 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted 7882 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the 7883 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures, 7884 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug 7885 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by 7886 Tobias Stoeckmann. 7887 7888 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc): 7889 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This 7890 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test 7891 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem 7892 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix 7893 on 0.2.9.15. 7894 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run. 7895 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.) 7896 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 7897 7898 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 7899 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step. 7900 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha. 7901 7902 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7903 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows 7904 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 7905 7906 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc): 7907 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug 7908 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning 7909 CID 1444119. 7910 7911 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha): 7912 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from 7913 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 7914 7915 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc): 7916 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window 7917 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor 7918 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early, 7919 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the 7920 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 7921 7922 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5): 7923 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to 7924 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to. 7925 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past". 7926 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 7927 7928 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5): 7929 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function 7930 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix 7931 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 7932 7933 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 7934 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 7935 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. 7936 7937 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5): 7938 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings 7939 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 7940 7941 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7942 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling 7943 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug 7944 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 7945 7946 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 7947 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option 7948 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such 7949 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 7950 7951 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 7952 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that 7953 want authentication along with configured (but unused!) 7954 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 7955 7956 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc): 7957 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause 7958 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug 7959 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. 7960 7961 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha): 7962 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes 7963 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 7964 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on 7965 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7966 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment 7967 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7968 7969 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc): 7970 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed 7971 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug 7972 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha. 7973 7974 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha): 7975 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose 7976 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a 7977 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. 7978 7979 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 7980 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority 7981 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix 7982 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7983 7984 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7985 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages. 7986 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when 7987 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7988 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we 7989 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal 7990 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 7991 7992 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7993 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that 7994 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an 7995 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix 7996 on 0.2.3.4-alpha. 7997 7998 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 7999 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards, 8000 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to 8001 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug 8002 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 8003 8004 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 8005 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that 8006 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 8007 8008 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha): 8009 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is 8010 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address 8011 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on 8012 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. 8013 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is 8014 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was 8015 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix 8016 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. 8017 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit 8018 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 8019 8020 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 8021 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other 8022 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be 8023 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was 8024 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. 8025 8026 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8027 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as 8028 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix 8029 on 0.1.1.10-alpha. 8030 8031 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 8032 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit 8033 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which 8034 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website. 8035 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 8036 8037 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 8038 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS 8039 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a 8040 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 8041 8042 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 8043 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down 8044 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic 8045 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process 8046 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix 8047 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 8048 8049 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 8050 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing 8051 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix 8052 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 8053 8054 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc): 8055 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value 8056 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 8057 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 8058 8059 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha): 8060 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it 8061 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers. 8062 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 8063 8064 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha): 8065 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random 8066 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 8067 8068 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 8069 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc 8070 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client 8071 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 8072 8073 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 8074 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition, 8075 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would 8076 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix 8077 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 8078 8079 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 8080 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems 8081 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has 8082 been here long enough that we question whether people are running 8083 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.) 8084 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by 8085 Tobias Stoeckmann. 8086 8087 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha): 8088 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where 8089 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug 8090 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 8091 8092 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5): 8093 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially 8094 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 8095 8096 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8097 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug 8098 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 8099 8100 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha): 8101 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without 8102 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points 8103 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous 8104 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused 8105 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes 8106 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26. 8107 8108 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha): 8109 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in 8110 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix 8111 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 8112 8113 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha): 8114 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to 8115 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no 8116 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we 8117 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug 8118 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8. 8119 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the 8120 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 8121 8122 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc): 8123 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a 8124 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes 8125 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 8126 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG" 8127 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix 8128 on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 8129 8130 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 8131 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log. 8132 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again. 8133 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages. 8134 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 8135 8136 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc): 8137 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the 8138 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result. 8139 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list 8140 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the 8141 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn, 8142 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes 8143 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 8144 8145 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 8146 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than 8147 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix 8148 on 0.3.0.4-rc. 8149 8150 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8151 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with 8152 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop 8153 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or 8154 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 8155 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 8156 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all 8157 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3 8158 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable 8159 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 8160 8161 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha): 8162 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit 8163 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide 8164 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set 8165 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes 8166 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 8167 8168 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8169 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit- 8170 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it 8171 themselves. Closes ticket 31089. 8172 8173 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha): 8174 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in 8175 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs. 8176 Resolves issue 29702. 8177 8178 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha): 8179 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234. 8180 8181 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5): 8182 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and 8183 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591. 8184 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes 8185 ticket 30694. 8186 8187 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha): 8188 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow 8189 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177. 8190 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes 8191 ticket 30860. 8192 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time. 8193 Closes ticket 31859. 8194 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our 8195 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086. 8196 8197 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc): 8198 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a 8199 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty, 8200 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket 8201 32240). Related to ticket 31919. 8202 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure 8203 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor 8204 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.) 8205 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc. 8206 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241. 8207 8208 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5): 8209 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc 8210 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings. 8211 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without. 8212 Closes ticket 32500. 8213 8214 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15 8215 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes 8216 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in 8217 stack traces or incorrect behavior. 8218 8219 o Minor features (build system): 8220 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if 8221 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191. 8222 8223 o Minor features (geoip): 8224 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 8225 Country database. Closes ticket 32440. 8226 8227 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3): 8228 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window 8229 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor 8230 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early, 8231 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the 8232 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 8233 8234 o Minor bugfixes (code quality): 8235 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree 8236 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 8237 8238 o Minor bugfixes (configuration): 8239 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug 8240 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 8241 8242 o Minor bugfixes (crash): 8243 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or 8244 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing 8245 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407; 8246 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 8247 8248 o Minor bugfixes (directory): 8249 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the 8250 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This 8251 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed. 8252 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 8253 8254 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck): 8255 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug 8256 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 8257 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug 8258 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 8259 8260 o Testing (continuous integration): 8261 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a 8262 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty, 8263 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket 8264 32240). Related to ticket 31919. 8265 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure 8266 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor 8267 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.) 8268 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc. 8269 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241. 8270 8271 8272 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24 8273 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and 8274 from earlier versions of Tor. 8275 8276 o Major bugfixes (relay): 8277 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When 8278 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when 8279 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking 8280 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses 8281 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can 8282 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured 8283 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 8284 8285 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services): 8286 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points 8287 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or 8288 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes 8289 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix 8290 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 8291 8292 o Minor feature (onion services, control port): 8293 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3 8294 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2). 8295 Closes ticket 29669. 8296 8297 o Minor features (testing): 8298 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the 8299 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch 8300 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the 8301 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841. 8302 8303 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration): 8304 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow 8305 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177. 8306 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes 8307 ticket 30860. 8308 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time. 8309 Closes ticket 31859. 8310 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our 8311 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086. 8312 8313 o Minor bugfixes (build system): 8314 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug 8315 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 8316 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix 8317 on 0.2.0.20-rc. 8318 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not 8319 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 8320 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on 8321 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the 8322 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 8323 8324 o Minor bugfixes (connections): 8325 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause 8326 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug 8327 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. 8328 8329 o Minor bugfixes (error handling): 8330 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug 8331 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha. 8332 8333 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API): 8334 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down 8335 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic 8336 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process 8337 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix 8338 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 8339 8340 o Minor bugfixes (process management): 8341 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable 8342 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix 8343 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 8344 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion 8345 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child 8346 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 8347 8348 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 8349 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on 8350 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix 8351 on 0.3.1.3-alpha. 8352 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log. 8353 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again. 8354 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages. 8355 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 8356 8357 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging): 8358 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than 8359 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix 8360 on 0.3.0.4-rc. 8361 8362 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services): 8363 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by 8364 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 8365 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS 8366 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix 8367 on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 8368 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't 8369 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even 8370 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on 8371 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 8372 8373 o Documentation: 8374 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189; 8375 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 8376 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the 8377 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not 8378 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion 8379 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106. 8380 8381 8382 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07 8383 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and 8384 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so 8385 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series. 8386 8387 o Major features (directory authorities): 8388 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently 8389 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series 8390 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549. 8391 8392 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor): 8393 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and 8394 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug 8395 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8396 8397 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing): 8398 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the 8399 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any 8400 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes 8401 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 8402 8403 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts): 8404 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check- 8405 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759. 8406 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation. 8407 Closes ticket 31779. 8408 8409 o Minor features (continuous integration): 8410 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make, 8411 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the 8412 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372. 8413 8414 o Minor features (geoip): 8415 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 8416 Country database. Closes ticket 31931. 8417 8418 o Minor features (maintenance scripts): 8419 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or 8420 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since 8421 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally 8422 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was 8423 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement 8424 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743. 8425 8426 o Minor features (onion services v3): 8427 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion 8428 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes 8429 ticket 28966. 8430 8431 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration): 8432 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install 8433 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha. 8434 8435 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker): 8436 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and 8437 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338; 8438 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. 8439 8440 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol): 8441 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more 8442 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and 8443 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8444 8445 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 8446 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code 8447 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 8448 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes 8449 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 8450 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit 8451 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which 8452 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website. 8453 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 8454 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains. 8455 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 8456 8457 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations): 8458 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS 8459 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a 8460 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 8461 8462 o Minor bugfixes (modules): 8463 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what 8464 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix 8465 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 8466 8467 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading): 8468 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug 8469 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7. 8470 8471 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 8472 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where 8473 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug 8474 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 8475 8476 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS): 8477 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned 8478 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8479 8480 o Code simplification and refactoring: 8481 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of 8482 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840. 8483 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller 8484 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675. 8485 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit 8486 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes 8487 ticket 31334. 8488 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes 8489 ticket 31589. 8490 8491 o Documentation: 8492 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page. 8493 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes 8494 ticket 31839. 8495 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain 8496 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736. 8497 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated) 8498 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design. 8499 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are 8500 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849. 8501 8502 8503 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19 8504 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and 8505 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5, 8506 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should 8507 upgrade. 8508 8509 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8510 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where 8511 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at 8512 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall 8513 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8514 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where 8515 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not 8516 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed 8517 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8518 8519 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8520 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use 8521 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes 8522 ticket 31554. 8523 8524 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8525 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows 8526 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 8527 8528 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8529 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link- 8530 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used. 8531 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler 8532 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix 8533 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8534 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling 8535 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug 8536 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 8537 8538 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol): 8539 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more 8540 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored 8541 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8542 8543 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8544 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that 8545 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an 8546 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix 8547 on 0.2.3.4-alpha. 8548 8549 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8550 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards, 8551 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to 8552 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug 8553 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 8554 8555 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8556 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as 8557 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix 8558 on 0.1.1.10-alpha. 8559 8560 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8561 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug 8562 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 8563 8564 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8565 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with 8566 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop 8567 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or 8568 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 8569 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 8570 8571 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8572 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with 8573 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop 8574 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed 8575 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818; 8576 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 8577 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all 8578 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3 8579 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable 8580 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 8581 8582 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha): 8583 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit- 8584 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it 8585 themselves. Closes ticket 31089. 8586 8587 8588 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17 8589 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new 8590 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also 8591 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve 8592 Tor's stability and ease of development. 8593 8594 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service): 8595 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro 8596 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using 8597 parameters that can be sent by the service within the 8598 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used, 8599 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes 8600 ticket 30924. 8601 8602 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard): 8603 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to 8604 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. 8605 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is 8606 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for 8607 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix 8608 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 8609 8610 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android): 8611 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where 8612 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at 8613 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall 8614 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8615 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where 8616 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not 8617 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed 8618 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8619 8620 o Minor features (best practices tracker): 8621 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker 8622 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet 8623 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's 8624 modularity. Closes ticket 31176. 8625 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to 8626 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous 8627 integration. Closes ticket 31309. 8628 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception 8629 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to 8630 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need 8631 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling 8632 practracker. Closes ticket 30752. 8633 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C 8634 files. Closes ticket 31175. 8635 8636 o Minor features (build system): 8637 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to 8638 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not 8639 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381. 8640 8641 o Minor features (compilation): 8642 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of 8643 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked 8644 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530. 8645 8646 o Minor features (configuration): 8647 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting 8648 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all 8649 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which 8650 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240. 8651 8652 o Minor features (continuous integration): 8653 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in 8654 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration 8655 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102. 8656 8657 o Minor features (debugging): 8658 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration 8659 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This 8660 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration 8661 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529. 8662 8663 o Minor features (git hooks): 8664 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before 8665 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches 8666 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre- 8667 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of 8668 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979. 8669 8670 o Minor features (git scripts): 8671 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh 8672 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git 8673 push. Closes ticket 31314. 8674 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script 8675 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314. 8676 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and 8677 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward, 8678 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314. 8679 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can 8680 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix. 8681 Closes ticket 31314. 8682 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push 8683 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314. 8684 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the 8685 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each 8686 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which 8687 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes 8688 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line 8689 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879. 8690 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes 8691 ticket 30967. 8692 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote 8693 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a 8694 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes 8695 ticket 31314. 8696 8697 o Minor features (IPv6, logging): 8698 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing 8699 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003. 8700 8701 o Minor features (onion service v3): 8702 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor 8703 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964. 8704 8705 o Minor features (onion service): 8706 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've 8707 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous 8708 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load 8709 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963. 8710 8711 o Minor features (stem tests): 8712 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use 8713 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes 8714 ticket 31554. 8715 8716 o Minor features (testing): 8717 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor 8718 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see 8719 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what 8720 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and 8721 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637. 8722 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and 8723 management API. Closes ticket 30893. 8724 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the 8725 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477. 8726 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test 8727 suite. Closes ticket 31304. 8728 8729 o Minor features (token bucket): 8730 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for 8731 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687. 8732 8733 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker): 8734 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests, 8735 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic. 8736 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8737 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src 8738 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all 8739 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary 8740 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix 8741 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8742 8743 o Minor bugfixes (build system): 8744 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows 8745 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 8746 8747 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation): 8748 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test- 8749 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings 8750 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and 8751 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes 8752 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. 8753 8754 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 8755 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link- 8756 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used. 8757 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler 8758 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix 8759 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8760 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling 8761 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug 8762 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 8763 8764 o Minor bugfixes (configuration): 8765 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now 8766 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were 8767 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1. 8768 8769 o Minor bugfixes (coverity): 8770 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be 8771 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes 8772 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296. 8773 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use 8774 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell 8775 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix 8776 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295. 8777 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug 8778 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha. 8779 8780 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling): 8781 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the 8782 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix 8783 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8784 8785 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): 8786 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes 8787 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. 8788 8789 o Minor bugfixes (error handling): 8790 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages. 8791 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when 8792 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 8793 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we 8794 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal 8795 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 8796 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before 8797 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers, 8798 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix 8799 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 8800 8801 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6): 8802 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that 8803 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an 8804 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix 8805 on 0.2.3.4-alpha. 8806 8807 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks): 8808 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The 8809 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls 8810 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8811 8812 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts): 8813 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't 8814 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path. 8815 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 8816 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in 8817 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 8818 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously, 8819 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory. 8820 Closes ticket 31678. 8821 8822 o Minor bugfixes (guards): 8823 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards, 8824 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to 8825 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug 8826 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 8827 8828 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6): 8829 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents 8830 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked 8831 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on 8832 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 8833 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit 8834 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies 8835 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were 8836 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by 8837 Neel Chauhan. 8838 8839 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 8840 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as 8841 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix 8842 on 0.1.1.10-alpha. 8843 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains 8844 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29. 8845 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc. 8846 8847 o Minor bugfixes (memory management): 8848 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in 8849 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch 8850 by Xiaoyin Liu. 8851 8852 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses): 8853 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject 8854 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in 8855 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082, 8856 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS 8857 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix 8858 on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 8859 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and 8860 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square 8861 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not 8862 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix 8863 on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 8864 8865 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3): 8866 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction 8867 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids 8868 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same 8869 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 8870 8871 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 8872 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field 8873 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new(). 8874 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for 8875 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes 8876 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 8877 8878 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools): 8879 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration 8880 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output 8881 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 8882 8883 o Minor bugfixes (rust): 8884 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug 8885 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 8886 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure 8887 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 8888 8889 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure): 8890 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to 8891 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the 8892 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 8893 8894 o Minor bugfixes (statistics): 8895 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too 8896 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept, 8897 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug 8898 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 8899 8900 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems): 8901 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module 8902 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as 8903 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that 8904 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix 8905 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 8906 8907 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 8908 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we 8909 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix 8910 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 8911 8912 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services): 8913 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with 8914 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop 8915 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or 8916 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 8917 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 8918 8919 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services): 8920 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with 8921 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop 8922 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed 8923 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818; 8924 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 8925 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all 8926 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3 8927 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable 8928 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 8929 8930 o Documentation: 8931 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by 8932 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113. 8933 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc. 8934 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem. 8935 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit- 8936 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it 8937 themselves. Closes ticket 31089. 8938 8939 o Removed features: 8940 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed 8941 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is 8942 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines 8943 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus 8944 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list 8945 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes 8946 ticket 29738. 8947 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves 8948 ticket 30550. 8949 8950 o Testing: 8951 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are 8952 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533. 8953 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories. 8954 Closes ticket 30967. 8955 8956 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling): 8957 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new 8958 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864. 8959 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a 8960 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via 8961 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914. 8962 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state 8963 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on 8964 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626. 8965 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove 8966 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags, 8967 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option 8968 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935. 8969 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and 8970 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags 8971 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625. 8972 8973 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc): 8974 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions, 8975 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889. 8976 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe 8977 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976. 8978 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname() 8979 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used 8980 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes 8981 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819. 8982 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes 8983 ticket 30956. 8984 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable 8985 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but 8986 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes 8987 ticket 31532. 8988 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code. 8989 Closes ticket 30806. 8990 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit 8991 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112 8992 and 31098. 8993 8994 o Documentation (hard-coded directories): 8995 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir 8996 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955. 8997 8998 o Documentation (tor.1 man page): 8999 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help". 9000 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 9001 9002 9003 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20 9004 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series 9005 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to 9006 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements 9007 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3 9008 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and 9009 bugfixes on earlier versions. 9010 9011 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine 9012 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x: 9013 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick 9014 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022. 9015 9016 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes 9017 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file. 9018 9019 o Directory authority changes: 9020 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes 9021 ticket 31406. 9022 9023 o Minor features (circuit padding logging): 9024 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to 9025 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID 9026 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues. 9027 9028 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation): 9029 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify 9030 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable. 9031 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate 9032 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients 9033 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x 9034 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 9035 9036 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding): 9037 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses 9038 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting 9039 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 9040 9041 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection): 9042 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to 9043 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to. 9044 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past". 9045 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 9046 9047 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance): 9048 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain 9049 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly 9050 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's 9051 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha. 9052 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann. 9053 9054 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning): 9055 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function 9056 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix 9057 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 9058 9059 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 9060 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings 9061 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 9062 9063 o Minor bugfixes (distribution): 9064 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the 9065 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix 9066 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 9067 9068 o Testing (continuous integration): 9069 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and 9070 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591. 9071 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes 9072 ticket 30694. 9073 9074 9075 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25 9076 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and 9077 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are 9078 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable. 9079 9080 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard): 9081 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to 9082 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise, 9083 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that 9084 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable 9085 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 9086 9087 o Minor features (continuous integration): 9088 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network 9089 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280. 9090 9091 o Minor features (fallback directory list): 9092 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc 9093 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a 9094 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated 9095 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795. 9096 9097 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding): 9098 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before 9099 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix 9100 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9101 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID 9102 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug 9103 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 9104 9105 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit): 9106 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed 9107 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug 9108 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha. 9109 9110 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 9111 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log 9112 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix 9113 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 9114 9115 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks): 9116 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a 9117 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix 9118 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 9119 9120 o Code simplification and refactoring: 9121 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix 9122 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix 9123 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 9124 9125 9126 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25 9127 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous 9128 alpha, most of them from earlier release series. 9129 9130 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability): 9131 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change 9132 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or 9133 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances 9134 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix 9135 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 9136 9137 o Minor features (geoip): 9138 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 9139 Country database. Closes ticket 30852. 9140 9141 o Minor features (logging): 9142 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have 9143 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a 9144 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete. 9145 Closes ticket 30686. 9146 9147 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation): 9148 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from 9149 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 9150 9151 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration): 9152 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes 9153 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 9154 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on 9155 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 9156 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment 9157 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 9158 9159 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): 9160 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose 9161 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a 9162 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. 9163 9164 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports): 9165 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish 9166 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even 9167 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by 9168 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 9169 9170 o Documentation: 9171 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md. 9172 Closes ticket 30630. 9173 9174 9175 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06 9176 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the 9177 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing 9178 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated 9179 SENDME implementation. 9180 9181 o Major bugfixes (bridges): 9182 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list 9183 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the 9184 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and 9185 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build 9186 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875. 9187 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our 9188 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges 9189 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable, 9190 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part 9191 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 9192 9193 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME): 9194 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell. 9195 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if 9196 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and 9197 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point. 9198 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 9199 9200 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability): 9201 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state 9202 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to 9203 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some 9204 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix 9205 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 9206 9207 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME): 9208 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent 9209 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need 9210 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if 9211 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space 9212 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes 9213 ticket 26846. 9214 9215 o Minor features (continuous integration): 9216 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set 9217 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part 9218 of ticket 28878. 9219 9220 o Minor features (maintenance): 9221 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply 9222 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the 9223 codebase. Closes ticket 30539. 9224 9225 o Minor features (testing): 9226 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation, 9227 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878. 9228 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, 9229 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of 9230 ticket 28878. 9231 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make 9232 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track 9233 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519. 9234 9235 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies): 9236 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that 9237 want authentication along with configured (but unused!) 9238 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 9239 9240 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 9241 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were 9242 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix 9243 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 9244 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it 9245 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix 9246 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 9247 9248 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling): 9249 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing 9250 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix 9251 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9252 9253 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): 9254 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority 9255 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix 9256 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 9257 9258 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD): 9259 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define 9260 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug 9261 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell. 9262 9263 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler): 9264 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition, 9265 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would 9266 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix 9267 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 9268 9269 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 9270 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems 9271 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has 9272 been here long enough that we question whether people are running 9273 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.) 9274 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by 9275 Tobias Stoeckmann. 9276 9277 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety): 9278 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that 9279 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users. 9280 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur 9281 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled 9282 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. 9283 9284 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis): 9285 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to 9286 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes 9287 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions. 9288 9289 o Testing: 9290 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in 9291 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs. 9292 Resolves issue 29702. 9293 9294 9295 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22 9296 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces 9297 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder 9298 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make 9299 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves 9300 performance in several areas. 9301 9302 o Major features (circuit padding): 9303 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their 9304 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic 9305 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this 9306 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1 9307 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE 9308 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the 9309 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes 9310 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature 9311 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634. 9312 9313 o Major features (code organization): 9314 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing 9315 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We 9316 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't 9317 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes 9318 ticket 28226. 9319 9320 o Major features (controller protocol): 9321 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing 9322 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for 9323 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies. 9324 Closes ticket 30091. 9325 9326 o Major features (flow control): 9327 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A 9328 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it 9329 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it 9330 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that 9331 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks. 9332 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see 9333 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288. 9334 9335 o Major features (performance): 9336 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time. 9337 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down 9338 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307. 9339 9340 o Major features (performance, RNG): 9341 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for 9342 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is 9343 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to 9344 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It 9345 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for 9346 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically 9347 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance. 9348 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536. 9349 9350 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3): 9351 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to 9352 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse 9353 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the 9354 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix 9355 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 9356 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK 9357 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us 9358 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal 9359 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix 9360 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 9361 9362 o Minor features (circuit padding): 9363 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of 9364 ticket 28636. 9365 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their 9366 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an 9367 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case 9368 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine 9369 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9370 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they 9371 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780. 9372 9373 o Minor features (compile-time modules): 9374 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile- 9375 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452. 9376 9377 o Minor features (continuous integration): 9378 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no 9379 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves 9380 issue 30213. 9381 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234. 9382 9383 o Minor features (controller): 9384 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command. 9385 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes 9386 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 9387 9388 o Minor features (debugging): 9389 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable 9390 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we 9391 can use format strings to include information for trouble 9392 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662. 9393 9394 o Minor features (defense in depth): 9395 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in 9396 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176. 9397 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann. 9398 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions 9399 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for 9400 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear 9401 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and 9402 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those 9403 cases. Closes ticket 29542. 9404 9405 o Minor features (developer tools): 9406 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions 9407 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions 9408 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be 9409 refactored. Closes ticket 29221. 9410 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes 9411 ticket 29391. 9412 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let 9413 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes 9414 ticket 30051. 9415 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and 9416 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756. 9417 9418 o Minor features (geoip): 9419 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 9420 Country database. Closes ticket 30522. 9421 9422 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel): 9423 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as 9424 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave". 9425 9426 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services): 9427 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors. 9428 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4 9429 addresses. Implements 26992. 9430 9431 o Minor features (modularity): 9432 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables 9433 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345. 9434 9435 o Minor features (performance): 9436 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL 9437 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak. 9438 Closes ticket 28837. 9439 9440 o Minor features (testing): 9441 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the 9442 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing. 9443 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways. 9444 Implements ticket 29732. 9445 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places 9446 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes 9447 ticket 29436. 9448 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned 9449 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537. 9450 9451 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority): 9452 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when 9453 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges 9454 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't 9455 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 9456 Patch by Neel Chauhan. 9457 9458 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics): 9459 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now 9460 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231; 9461 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 9462 9463 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding): 9464 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding. 9465 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9466 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not 9467 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc 9468 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines. 9469 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9470 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to 9471 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173; 9472 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9473 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if 9474 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9475 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to 9476 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes 9477 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9478 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines 9479 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug 9480 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9481 9482 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations): 9483 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option 9484 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such 9485 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 9486 9487 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol): 9488 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by 9489 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't 9490 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline 9491 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. 9492 9493 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6): 9494 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves 9495 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 9496 Patch by Neel Chauhan. 9497 9498 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): 9499 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes 9500 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 9501 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to 9502 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results 9503 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix 9504 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 9505 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options 9506 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. 9507 9508 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 9509 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other 9510 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be 9511 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was 9512 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. 9513 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is 9514 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix 9515 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 9516 9517 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak): 9518 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing 9519 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix 9520 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 9521 9522 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 9523 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc 9524 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client 9525 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 9526 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of 9527 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response, 9528 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for 9529 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by 9530 Neel Chauhan. 9531 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the 9532 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug 9533 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 9534 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services. 9535 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see 9536 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on 9537 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 9538 9539 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance): 9540 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse() 9541 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in 9542 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This 9543 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes 9544 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 9545 9546 o Minor bugfixes (performance): 9547 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make 9548 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time 9549 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308; 9550 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 9551 9552 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports): 9553 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as 9554 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 9555 9556 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions): 9557 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code 9558 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix 9559 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9560 9561 o Minor bugfixes (python): 9562 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work 9563 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env 9564 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha. 9565 9566 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 9567 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay 9568 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore 9569 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on 9570 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 9571 9572 o Minor bugfixes (stats): 9573 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage 9574 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and 9575 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug 9576 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 9577 9578 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 9579 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously 9580 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell 9581 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 9582 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes 9583 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 9584 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir() 9585 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 9586 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254. 9587 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions. 9588 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert 9589 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118. 9590 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 9591 9592 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve): 9593 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it 9594 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't 9595 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug 9596 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9597 9598 o Code simplification and refactoring: 9599 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control 9600 port. Implements ticket 30007. 9601 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity 9602 warnings. Closes ticket 30149. 9603 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks 9604 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a 9605 string to directory connection with or without compression. 9606 Resolves issue 28816. 9607 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written, 9608 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913. 9609 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the 9610 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414. 9611 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate 9612 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236. 9613 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly 9614 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147. 9615 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the 9616 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the 9617 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant 9618 code. Resolves ticket 29660. 9619 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that 9620 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309. 9621 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove 9622 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781; 9623 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 9624 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug 9625 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 9626 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared 9627 code. Resolves ticket 29108. 9628 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for 9629 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase. 9630 Closes ticket 29894. 9631 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to 9632 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to 9633 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase. 9634 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294. 9635 9636 o Documentation: 9637 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in 9638 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes 9639 ticket 30261. 9640 9641 o Removed features: 9642 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools 9643 directory. Resolves issue 29434. 9644 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076. 9645 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves 9646 issue 30075. 9647 9648 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts): 9649 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings. 9650 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket 9651 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket 9652 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh 9653 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926), 9654 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059), 9655 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071), 9656 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh 9657 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002), 9658 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh 9659 (ticket 29067). 9660 9661 o Testing (chutney): 9662 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion 9663 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md. 9664 Closes ticket 27251. 9665 9666 9667 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02 9668 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains 9669 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as 9670 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds 9671 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for 9672 long-term maintainability. 9673 9674 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine 9675 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x: 9676 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick 9677 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022. 9678 9679 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes 9680 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file. 9681 9682 o Minor features (continuous integration): 9683 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and 9684 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the 9685 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117. 9686 9687 o Minor features (diagnostic): 9688 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue 9689 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to 9690 ticket 28223. 9691 9692 o Minor features (testing): 9693 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header 9694 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for 9695 ticket 30001. 9696 9697 o Minor bugfixes (rust): 9698 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially 9699 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 9700 9701 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck): 9702 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make 9703 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during 9704 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9705 9706 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 9707 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes 9708 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc. 9709 9710 o Minor bugfixes (UI): 9711 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug 9712 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9713 9714 9715 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11 9716 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes 9717 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected 9718 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS. 9719 9720 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay): 9721 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use 9722 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for 9723 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to 9724 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled. 9725 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 9726 9727 o Minor features (bandwidth authority): 9728 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the 9729 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to 9730 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including 9731 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes 9732 ticket 29806. 9733 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the 9734 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve 9735 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes 9736 ticket 21377. 9737 9738 o Minor features (circuit padding): 9739 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability 9740 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be 9741 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754. 9742 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix 9743 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9744 9745 o Minor features (continuous integration): 9746 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from 9747 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves 9748 issue 29962. 9749 9750 o Minor features (dormant mode): 9751 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should 9752 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state. 9753 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be 9754 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user 9755 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the 9756 background. Closes ticket 29357. 9757 9758 o Minor features (geoip): 9759 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 9760 Country database. Closes ticket 29992. 9761 9762 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic): 9763 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful 9764 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to 9765 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241. 9766 9767 o Minor bugfixes (security): 9768 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files. 9769 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because 9770 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities 9771 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted 9772 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the 9773 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures, 9774 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug 9775 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by 9776 Tobias Stoeckmann. 9777 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer 9778 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the 9779 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and 9780 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann. 9781 9782 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration): 9783 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This 9784 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test 9785 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem 9786 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix 9787 on 0.2.9.15. 9788 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run. 9789 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.) 9790 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 9791 9792 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting): 9793 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable 9794 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix 9795 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9796 9797 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness): 9798 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug 9799 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning 9800 CID 1444119. 9801 9802 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing): 9803 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and 9804 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9805 9806 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): 9807 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory 9808 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. 9809 9810 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 9811 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk, 9812 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice". 9813 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was 9814 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning". 9815 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix 9816 on 0.4.0.2-alpha. 9817 9818 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports): 9819 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a 9820 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in 9821 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a 9822 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9823 9824 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 9825 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a 9826 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes 9827 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 9828 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG" 9829 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix 9830 on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 9831 9832 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol): 9833 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the 9834 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result. 9835 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list 9836 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the 9837 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn, 9838 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes 9839 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 9840 9841 o Code simplification and refactoring: 9842 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects 9843 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly. 9844 Resolves issue 28816. 9845 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use 9846 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897. 9847 9848 o Documentation: 9849 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners 9850 by default. Resolves issue 29121. 9851 9852 9853 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22 9854 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small 9855 bugs from earlier versions. 9856 9857 o Minor features (address selection): 9858 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes; 9859 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade 9860 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to 9861 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now 9862 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users 9863 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address. 9864 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 9865 9866 o Minor features (geoip): 9867 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 9868 Country database. Closes ticket 29666. 9869 9870 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding): 9871 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to 9872 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug 9873 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9874 9875 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 9876 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is 9877 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address 9878 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on 9879 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. 9880 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is 9881 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was 9882 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix 9883 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. 9884 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit 9885 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 9886 9887 o Minor bugfixes (memory management): 9888 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it 9889 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers. 9890 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 9891 9892 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing): 9893 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random 9894 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 9895 9896 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports): 9897 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is 9898 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix 9899 on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9900 9901 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover): 9902 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of 9903 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9904 9905 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services): 9906 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without 9907 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points 9908 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous 9909 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused 9910 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes 9911 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26. 9912 9913 o Minor bugfixes (stats): 9914 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in 9915 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix 9916 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 9917 9918 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 9919 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to 9920 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no 9921 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we 9922 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug 9923 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8. 9924 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the 9925 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 9926 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability 9927 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 9928 9929 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI): 9930 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit 9931 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide 9932 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set 9933 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes 9934 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 9935 9936 9937 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21 9938 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes 9939 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x 9940 releases. 9941 9942 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 9943 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release 9944 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha. 9945 9946 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security): 9947 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can 9948 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf 9949 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It 9950 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor 9951 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168; 9952 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as 9953 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955. 9954 9955 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 9956 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5 9957 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to 9958 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking 9959 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 9960 9961 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 9962 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support 9963 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026. 9964 Patches from "Mangix". 9965 9966 o Minor features (geoip): 9967 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 9968 Country database. Closes ticket 29478. 9969 9970 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 9971 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes 9972 ticket 28668. 9973 9974 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha): 9975 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS 9976 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the 9977 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is 9978 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug 9979 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha. 9980 9981 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha): 9982 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the 9983 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead 9984 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from 9985 Kris Katterjohn. 9986 9987 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 9988 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest 9989 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes 9990 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha. 9991 9992 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha): 9993 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the 9994 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix 9995 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 9996 9997 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha): 9998 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some 9999 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938; 10000 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. 10001 10002 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 10003 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization 10004 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes 10005 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix". 10006 10007 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha): 10008 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all 10009 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection 10010 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to 10011 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is 10012 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10. 10013 10014 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 10015 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a 10016 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to 10017 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost 10018 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 10019 10020 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 10021 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined 10022 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM) 10023 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes 10024 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. 10025 10026 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 10027 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more 10028 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix 10029 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 10030 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at 10031 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very 10032 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix 10033 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 10034 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..." 10035 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there 10036 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029; 10037 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. 10038 10039 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha): 10040 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live 10041 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha. 10042 10043 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 10044 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on 10045 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 10046 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6 10047 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix 10048 on 0.2.7.3-rc. 10049 10050 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha): 10051 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate(). 10052 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was 10053 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug 10054 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. 10055 10056 10057 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21 10058 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes 10059 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and 10060 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to 10061 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha. 10062 10063 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security): 10064 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can 10065 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf 10066 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It 10067 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor 10068 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168; 10069 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as 10070 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955. 10071 10072 o Minor features (geoip): 10073 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 10074 Country database. Closes ticket 29478. 10075 10076 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 10077 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest 10078 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes 10079 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha. 10080 10081 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 10082 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..." 10083 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there 10084 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029; 10085 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. 10086 10087 10088 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21 10089 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 10090 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release 10091 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha. 10092 10093 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We 10094 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported 10095 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will 10096 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022. 10097 10098 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security): 10099 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can 10100 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf 10101 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It 10102 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor 10103 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168; 10104 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as 10105 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955. 10106 10107 o Minor features (geoip): 10108 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 10109 Country database. Closes ticket 29478. 10110 10111 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 10112 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest 10113 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes 10114 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha. 10115 10116 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha): 10117 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..." 10118 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there 10119 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029; 10120 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. 10121 10122 10123 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21 10124 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several 10125 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken 10126 backward compatibility. 10127 10128 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 10129 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release 10130 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha. 10131 10132 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security): 10133 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can 10134 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf 10135 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It 10136 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor 10137 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168; 10138 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as 10139 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955. 10140 10141 o Major bugfixes (networking): 10142 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5 10143 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to 10144 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking 10145 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 10146 10147 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup): 10148 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was 10149 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always 10150 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into 10151 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which 10152 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug 10153 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 10154 10155 o Minor features (compilation): 10156 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support 10157 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026. 10158 Patches from "Mangix". 10159 10160 o Minor features (developer tooling): 10161 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions 10162 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future 10163 release. Closes ticket 27761. 10164 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have 10165 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is 10166 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements 10167 feature 28976. 10168 10169 o Minor features (directory authority): 10170 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain 10171 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote. 10172 Closes ticket 26698. 10173 10174 o Minor features (geoip): 10175 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 10176 Country database. Closes ticket 29478. 10177 10178 o Minor features (testing): 10179 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes 10180 ticket 28668. 10181 10182 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust): 10183 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest 10184 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes 10185 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha. 10186 10187 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 10188 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug 10189 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 10190 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 10191 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. 10192 10193 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): 10194 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization 10195 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes 10196 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix". 10197 10198 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox): 10199 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled. 10200 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber. 10201 10202 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 10203 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that 10204 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 10205 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a 10206 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to 10207 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost 10208 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 10209 10210 o Minor bugfixes (misc): 10211 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined 10212 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM) 10213 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes 10214 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. 10215 10216 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 10217 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more 10218 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix 10219 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 10220 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at 10221 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very 10222 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix 10223 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 10224 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..." 10225 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there 10226 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029; 10227 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. 10228 10229 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler): 10230 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct 10231 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline 10232 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions 10233 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix 10234 on 0.3.2.10. 10235 10236 o Minor bugfixes (tests): 10237 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one 10238 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 10239 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing 10240 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such 10241 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes 10242 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. 10243 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on 10244 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 10245 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6 10246 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix 10247 on 0.2.7.3-rc. 10248 10249 o Documentation: 10250 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use 10251 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation 10252 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623. 10253 10254 o Removed features: 10255 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072. 10256 10257 10258 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18 10259 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It 10260 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation, 10261 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and 10262 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature. 10263 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all 10264 described below. 10265 10266 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode): 10267 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time, 10268 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids 10269 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user 10270 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the 10271 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets 10272 2149 and 28335. 10273 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it 10274 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements 10275 ticket 28624. 10276 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use 10277 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but 10278 not used. 10279 10280 o Major features (bootstrap reporting): 10281 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection 10282 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building 10283 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early 10284 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket 10285 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308. 10286 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or 10287 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that 10288 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets 10289 27100 and 28884. 10290 10291 o Major features (circuit padding): 10292 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of 10293 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka 10294 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and 10295 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that 10296 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify 10297 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any 10298 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now, 10299 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes 10300 ticket 28142. 10301 10302 o Major features (refactoring): 10303 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when 10304 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were 10305 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase. 10306 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes 10307 ticket 28330. 10308 10309 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting): 10310 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between 10311 situations where only internal paths are available and situations 10312 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often 10313 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes 10314 ticket 27402. 10315 10316 o Minor features (continuous integration): 10317 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves 10318 issue 28551. 10319 10320 o Minor features (controller): 10321 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP. 10322 Implements ticket 28843. 10323 10324 o Minor features (developer tooling): 10325 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!" 10326 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre- 10327 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993. 10328 10329 o Minor features (directory authority): 10330 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under 10331 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a 10332 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible 10333 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements 10334 proposal 298. 10335 10336 o Minor features (directory authority, relay): 10337 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a 10338 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again 10339 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new 10340 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the 10341 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus 10342 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293. 10343 10344 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors): 10345 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt- 10346 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul. 10347 10348 o Minor features (FreeBSD): 10349 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the 10350 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled. 10351 Closes ticket 28518. 10352 10353 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance): 10354 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream" 10355 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused 10356 browsers. Closes ticket 28100. 10357 10358 o Minor features (IPv6): 10359 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly 10360 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set 10361 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config. 10362 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more 10363 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4, 10364 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 10365 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit 10366 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once. 10367 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393. 10368 Patch by Neel Chauhan. 10369 10370 o Minor features (log messages): 10371 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out 10372 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch 10373 by "ffmancera". 10374 10375 o Minor features (memory usage): 10376 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more 10377 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359. 10378 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so 10379 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in 10380 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244. 10381 10382 o Minor features (parsing): 10383 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and 10384 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject 10385 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367. 10386 10387 o Minor features (performance): 10388 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't 10389 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over. 10390 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and 10391 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes 10392 ticket 27225. 10393 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby 10394 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%. 10395 Closes ticket 28852. 10396 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to 10397 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853. 10398 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non- 10399 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856. 10400 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve 10401 startup time. Closes ticket 28839. 10402 10403 o Minor features (pluggable transports): 10404 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from 10405 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846. 10406 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a 10407 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180. 10408 10409 o Minor features (process management): 10410 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API 10411 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child 10412 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179. 10413 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process 10414 module. Closes ticket 28847. 10415 10416 o Minor features (relay): 10417 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including 10418 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of 10419 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298. 10420 10421 o Minor features (required protocols): 10422 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will 10423 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit 10424 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release 10425 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication 10426 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might 10427 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal 10428 297; closes ticket 27735. 10429 10430 o Minor features (testing): 10431 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor 10432 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen. 10433 10434 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew): 10435 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks 10436 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. 10437 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the 10438 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix 10439 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 10440 10441 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 10442 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some 10443 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938; 10444 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. 10445 10446 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients): 10447 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live 10448 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha. 10449 10450 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors): 10451 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the 10452 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future" 10453 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 10454 10455 o Minor bugfixes (DNS): 10456 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling 10457 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works). 10458 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug 10459 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha. 10460 10461 o Minor bugfixes (guards): 10462 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge 10463 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously, 10464 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that 10465 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too 10466 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on 10467 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 10468 10469 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6): 10470 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the 10471 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead 10472 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from 10473 Kris Katterjohn. 10474 10475 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 10476 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all 10477 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection 10478 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to 10479 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is 10480 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10. 10481 10482 o Minor bugfixes (networking): 10483 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject 10484 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes 10485 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 10486 10487 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client): 10488 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS 10489 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the 10490 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is 10491 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug 10492 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha. 10493 10494 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events): 10495 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from 10496 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic 10497 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 10498 10499 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports): 10500 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and 10501 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to 10502 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360; 10503 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 10504 10505 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests): 10506 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service 10507 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by 10508 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there 10509 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 10510 10511 o Minor bugfixes (usability): 10512 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate(). 10513 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was 10514 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug 10515 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. 10516 10517 o Code simplification and refactoring: 10518 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on 10519 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325. 10520 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes 10521 ticket 28077. 10522 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated 10523 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620. 10524 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a 10525 separate file. Part of ticket 27402. 10526 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by- 10527 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular 10528 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our 10529 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes 10530 ticket 28362. 10531 10532 o Documentation: 10533 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already 10534 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560. 10535 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts 10536 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes 10537 ticket 28805. 10538 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889. 10539 10540 o Removed features: 10541 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and 10542 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as 10543 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in 10544 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757. 10545 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback 10546 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts" 10547 repository. Closes ticket 27914. 10548 10549 o Testing: 10550 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes 10551 ticket 28058. 10552 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token() 10553 functions. Resolves ticket 27625. 10554 10555 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3): 10556 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation 10557 code from client and service into one function. Closes 10558 ticket 27549. 10559 10560 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts): 10561 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes 10562 ticket 28007. 10563 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh. 10564 Resolves ticket 28006. 10565 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh. 10566 Resolves ticket 28012. 10567 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009. 10568 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011. 10569 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010. 10570 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves 10571 issue 28008. 10572 10573 10574 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07 10575 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor. 10576 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL 10577 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade 10578 to this version, or to a later series. 10579 10580 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019. 10581 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless 10582 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users 10583 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least 10584 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term 10585 support until at least 1 Feb 2022. 10586 10587 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha): 10588 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in 10589 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when 10590 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS 10591 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3 10592 support was added). 10593 10594 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 10595 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an 10596 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act(). 10597 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 10598 10599 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 10600 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network 10601 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because 10602 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252. 10603 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a 10604 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on 10605 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds 10606 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252. 10607 10608 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 10609 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during 10610 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon 10611 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738. 10612 10613 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc): 10614 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 10615 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still 10616 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85 10617 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803. 10618 10619 o Minor features (geoip): 10620 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 10621 Country database. Closes ticket 29012. 10622 10623 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7): 10624 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3 10625 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is 10626 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a 10627 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available. 10628 Closes ticket 28973. 10629 10630 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7): 10631 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime 10632 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard 10633 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha. 10634 10635 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha): 10636 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing 10637 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix 10638 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 10639 10640 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 10641 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the 10642 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix 10643 10644 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha): 10645 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since 10646 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before 10647 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 10648 10649 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha): 10650 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID 10651 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug 10652 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 10653 10654 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha): 10655 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to 10656 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory 10657 were the same, the default setting (0) for 10658 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for 10659 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix 10660 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 10661 10662 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 10663 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong 10664 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix 10665 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 10666 10667 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha): 10668 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched 10669 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first 10670 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves. 10671 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 10672 10673 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 10674 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion 10675 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client 10676 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not 10677 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 10678 10679 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc): 10680 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close 10681 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client 10682 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The 10683 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for 10684 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 10685 10686 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel): 10687 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to 10688 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on 10689 0.3.2.1-alpha. 10690 10691 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha): 10692 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419; 10693 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger. 10694 10695 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 10696 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending 10697 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 10698 10699 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 10700 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric 10701 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix 10702 on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 10703 10704 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 10705 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the 10706 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed 10707 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version 10708 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 10709 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc. 10710 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug 10711 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 10712 10713 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha): 10714 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on 10715 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206; 10716 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc. 10717 10718 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha): 10719 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add 10720 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 10721 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one 10722 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes 10723 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 10724 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of 10725 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any 10726 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet 10727 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6. 10728 10729 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 10730 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a 10731 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the 10732 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause 10733 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658; 10734 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. 10735 10736 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha): 10737 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems 10738 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808. 10739 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in 10740 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 10741 10742 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc): 10743 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554; 10744 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 10745 10746 10747 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07 10748 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports 10749 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone 10750 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4 10751 should upgrade. 10752 10753 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June 10754 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor 10755 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1 10756 Feb 2022. 10757 10758 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha): 10759 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in 10760 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when 10761 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS 10762 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3 10763 support was added). 10764 10765 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7): 10766 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as 10767 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections 10768 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the 10769 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent 10770 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on 10771 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3". 10772 10773 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc): 10774 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build 10775 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI. 10776 Implements 28459. 10777 10778 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 10779 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half- 10780 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path 10781 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until 10782 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes 10783 ticket 25573. 10784 10785 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc): 10786 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 10787 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still 10788 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85 10789 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803. 10790 10791 o Minor features (geoip): 10792 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 10793 Country database. Closes ticket 28395. 10794 10795 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7): 10796 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3 10797 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is 10798 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a 10799 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available. 10800 Closes ticket 28973. 10801 10802 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha): 10803 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since 10804 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before 10805 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 10806 10807 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha): 10808 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held 10809 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side. 10810 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is 10811 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix 10812 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 10813 10814 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha): 10815 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using 10816 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does 10817 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix 10818 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 10819 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2 10820 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes 10821 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 10822 10823 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc): 10824 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not 10825 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is 10826 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master. 10827 10828 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha): 10829 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to 10830 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory 10831 were the same, the default setting (0) for 10832 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for 10833 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix 10834 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 10835 10836 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha): 10837 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419; 10838 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger. 10839 10840 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 10841 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion 10842 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client 10843 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not 10844 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 10845 10846 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc): 10847 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close 10848 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client 10849 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The 10850 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for 10851 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 10852 10853 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7): 10854 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime 10855 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard 10856 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha. 10857 10858 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc): 10859 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554; 10860 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 10861 10862 10863 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07 10864 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes 10865 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem 10866 affecting directory caches. 10867 10868 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance 10869 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services, 10870 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth- 10871 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, 10872 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code 10873 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future. 10874 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and 10875 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series. 10876 10877 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect 10878 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion 10879 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to 10880 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have 10881 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version 10882 so it will recognize them. 10883 10884 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we 10885 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5 10886 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term 10887 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory 10888 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick 10889 with the latest stable release.) 10890 10891 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes 10892 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file. 10893 10894 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory): 10895 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as 10896 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections 10897 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the 10898 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent 10899 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on 10900 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3". 10901 10902 o Minor features (compilation): 10903 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to 10904 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924. 10905 10906 o Minor features (geoip): 10907 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 10908 Country database. Closes ticket 29012. 10909 10910 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround): 10911 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3 10912 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is 10913 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a 10914 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available. 10915 Closes ticket 28973. 10916 10917 o Minor features (performance): 10918 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at 10919 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since 10920 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run 10921 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile 10922 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time 10923 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other 10924 platforms. Closes ticket 28838. 10925 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on 10926 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on 10927 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851. 10928 10929 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 10930 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to 10931 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 10932 10933 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 10934 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of 10935 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we 10936 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug 10937 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha. 10938 10939 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 10940 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even 10941 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883; 10942 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. 10943 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but 10944 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test- 10945 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 10946 10947 o Minor bugfixes (windows services): 10948 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was 10949 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha. 10950 10951 o Code simplification and refactoring: 10952 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static 10953 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes 10954 ticket 28881. 10955 10956 10957 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18 10958 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor. 10959 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further 10960 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x. 10961 10962 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows): 10963 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build 10964 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI. 10965 Implements 28459. 10966 10967 o Minor features (fallback directory list): 10968 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 10969 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still 10970 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85 10971 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803. 10972 10973 o Minor features (geoip): 10974 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 10975 Country database. Closes ticket 28744. 10976 10977 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 10978 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing- 10979 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 10980 10981 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows): 10982 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not 10983 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is 10984 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master. 10985 10986 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3): 10987 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close 10988 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client 10989 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The 10990 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for 10991 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 10992 10993 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap): 10994 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down 10995 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix 10996 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 10997 10998 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 10999 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script. 11000 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory, 11001 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11002 Patch from Taylor R Campbell. 11003 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554; 11004 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 11005 11006 o Minor bugfixes (Windows): 11007 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server 11008 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 11009 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly. 11010 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report 11011 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user 11012 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected 11013 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported 11014 by Keifer Bly. 11015 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the 11016 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows 11017 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; 11018 reported by Keifer Bly. 11019 11020 o Testing: 11021 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in 11022 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229. 11023 11024 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth): 11025 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not 11026 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let 11027 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and 11028 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value 11029 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities. 11030 Closes ticket 19566. 11031 11032 o Documentation (onion services): 11033 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or 11034 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon 11035 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128. 11036 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an 11037 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor 11038 process. Closes ticket 28275. 11039 11040 11041 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16 11042 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases, 11043 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in 11044 the future. 11045 11046 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability): 11047 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in 11048 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when 11049 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS 11050 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3 11051 support was added). 11052 11053 o Minor features (geoip): 11054 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 11055 Country database. Closes ticket 28395. 11056 11057 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 11058 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since 11059 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before 11060 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 11061 11062 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay): 11063 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held 11064 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side. 11065 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is 11066 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix 11067 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11068 11069 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows): 11070 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using 11071 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does 11072 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix 11073 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11074 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2 11075 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes 11076 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11077 11078 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): 11079 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5 11080 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11081 11082 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox): 11083 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by 11084 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix 11085 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 11086 11087 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 11088 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have 11089 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix 11090 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11091 11092 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks): 11093 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419; 11094 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger. 11095 11096 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 11097 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing 11098 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide 11099 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed 11100 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on 11101 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan. 11102 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to 11103 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so 11104 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471; 11105 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11106 11107 11108 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08 11109 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and 11110 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts 11111 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an 11112 acceptable long-term-support release. 11113 11114 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust): 11115 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the 11116 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently 11117 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable 11118 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton. 11119 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 11120 11121 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop): 11122 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events 11123 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from 11124 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.) 11125 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11126 11127 o Minor features (continuous integration): 11128 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes 11129 ticket 27751. 11130 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based 11131 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913. 11132 11133 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration): 11134 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using 11135 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318. 11136 11137 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9): 11138 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing 11139 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix 11140 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 11141 11142 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 11143 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix 11144 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. 11145 11146 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris): 11147 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a 11148 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix 11149 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11150 11151 o Minor bugfixes (configuration): 11152 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set 11153 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix 11154 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 11155 11156 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9): 11157 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID 11158 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a 11159 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11160 11161 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3): 11162 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before 11163 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for 11164 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix 11165 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11166 11167 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization): 11168 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first 11169 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that, 11170 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11171 11172 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 11173 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the 11174 onion service version and then look for invalid options. 11175 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs 11176 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like 11177 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on 11178 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 11179 11180 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 11181 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run 11182 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix 11183 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11184 11185 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust): 11186 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix 11187 on 0.3.3.3-alpha. 11188 11189 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd): 11190 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer 11191 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set 11192 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down. 11193 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 11194 11195 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9): 11196 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add 11197 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 11198 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one 11199 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes 11200 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 11201 11202 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9): 11203 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of 11204 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any 11205 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet 11206 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6. 11207 11208 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 11209 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug 11210 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11211 11212 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9): 11213 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems 11214 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808. 11215 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in 11216 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 11217 11218 o Documentation (onion service manpage): 11219 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more 11220 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas. 11221 11222 11223 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02 11224 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports 11225 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that 11226 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier 11227 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade. 11228 11229 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 11230 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling 11231 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11232 11233 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 11234 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the 11235 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap 11236 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel 11237 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11238 11239 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 11240 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the 11241 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make 11242 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck 11243 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix 11244 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11245 11246 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 11247 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an 11248 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act(). 11249 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 11250 11251 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 11252 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis. 11253 Implements ticket 27252. 11254 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network 11255 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because 11256 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252. 11257 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a 11258 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on 11259 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds 11260 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252. 11261 11262 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 11263 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during 11264 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon 11265 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738. 11266 11267 o Minor features (geoip): 11268 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 11269 Country database. Closes ticket 27991. 11270 11271 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha): 11272 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond- 11273 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it 11274 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times 11275 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix 11276 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11277 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference 11278 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; 11279 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11280 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when 11281 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix 11282 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11283 11284 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha): 11285 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing 11286 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix 11287 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 11288 11289 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha): 11290 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor 11291 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents 11292 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now 11293 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha. 11294 11295 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 11296 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the 11297 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix 11298 11299 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 11300 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug 11301 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11302 11303 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha): 11304 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID 11305 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug 11306 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11307 11308 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 11309 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory 11310 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11311 11312 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 11313 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an 11314 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix 11315 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11316 11317 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 11318 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending 11319 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 11320 11321 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 11322 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong 11323 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix 11324 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11325 11326 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha): 11327 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched 11328 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first 11329 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves. 11330 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11331 11332 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 11333 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the 11334 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is 11335 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3 11336 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes 11337 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11338 11339 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 11340 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric 11341 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix 11342 on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 11343 11344 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 11345 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the 11346 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed 11347 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version 11348 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 11349 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc. 11350 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug 11351 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 11352 11353 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha): 11354 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on 11355 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206; 11356 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc. 11357 11358 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha): 11359 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of 11360 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any 11361 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet 11362 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6. 11363 11364 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha): 11365 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add 11366 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 11367 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one 11368 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes 11369 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 11370 11371 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha): 11372 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a 11373 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the 11374 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause 11375 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658; 11376 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. 11377 11378 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha): 11379 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating 11380 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better 11381 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix 11382 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11383 11384 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha): 11385 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems 11386 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808. 11387 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in 11388 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 11389 11390 11391 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17 11392 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x 11393 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate- 11394 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be 11395 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's 11396 getting closer and closer to stability. 11397 11398 o Major features (onion services): 11399 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service 11400 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client 11401 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy 11402 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client 11403 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi. 11404 11405 o Major bugfixes (compilation): 11406 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling 11407 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11408 11409 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash): 11410 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it 11411 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861; 11412 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11413 11414 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap): 11415 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the 11416 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap 11417 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel 11418 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11419 11420 o Major bugfixes (relay): 11421 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the 11422 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make 11423 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck 11424 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix 11425 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11426 11427 o Minor features (continuous integration): 11428 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during 11429 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon 11430 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738. 11431 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we 11432 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes 11433 ticket 28024. 11434 11435 o Minor features (geoip): 11436 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 11437 Country database. Closes ticket 27991. 11438 11439 o Minor bugfixes (code safety): 11440 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the 11441 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix 11442 on 0.0.6. 11443 11444 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 11445 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of 11446 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type, 11447 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused 11448 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused 11449 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix 11450 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11451 11452 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd): 11453 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix 11454 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11455 11456 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor): 11457 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor 11458 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents 11459 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now 11460 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha. 11461 11462 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions): 11463 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to 11464 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory 11465 were the same, the default setting (0) for 11466 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for 11467 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix 11468 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 11469 11470 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks): 11471 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes 11472 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11473 11474 o Minor bugfixes (networking): 11475 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member 11476 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix 11477 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11478 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new 11479 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928; 11480 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11481 11482 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3): 11483 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro 11484 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix 11485 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11486 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion 11487 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client 11488 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not 11489 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11490 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the 11491 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is 11492 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3 11493 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes 11494 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11495 11496 o Minor bugfixes (protover): 11497 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric 11498 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix 11499 on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 11500 11501 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 11502 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating 11503 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better 11504 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix 11505 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11506 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported 11507 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11508 11509 o Code simplification and refactoring: 11510 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span 11511 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including 11512 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747. 11513 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each 11514 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924. 11515 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to. 11516 Closes ticket 27814. 11517 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and 11518 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744. 11519 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and 11520 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892. 11521 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to 11522 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864. 11523 11524 o Documentation: 11525 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks- 11526 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853. 11527 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some 11528 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677. 11529 11530 11531 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21 11532 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one 11533 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay 11534 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade. 11535 11536 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics): 11537 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit 11538 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This 11539 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits 11540 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in 11541 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3. 11542 11543 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting): 11544 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when 11545 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would 11546 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that 11547 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix 11548 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11549 11550 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing): 11551 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond- 11552 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it 11553 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times 11554 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix 11555 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11556 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference 11557 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; 11558 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11559 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when 11560 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix 11561 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11562 11563 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3): 11564 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched 11565 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first 11566 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves. 11567 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11568 11569 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak): 11570 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from 11571 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on 11572 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488. 11573 11574 o Minor bugfixes (NSS): 11575 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing 11576 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix 11577 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. 11578 11579 o Minor bugfixes (rust): 11580 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on 11581 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206; 11582 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc. 11583 11584 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 11585 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on 11586 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled 11587 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 11588 11589 o Code simplification and refactoring: 11590 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts. 11591 Closes ticket 27799. 11592 11593 11594 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18 11595 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds 11596 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves 11597 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional 11598 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more. 11599 11600 o Major features (onion services, UI change): 11601 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3. 11602 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator 11603 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new 11604 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the 11605 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215. 11606 11607 o Major features (relay, UI change): 11608 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay" 11609 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with 11610 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0. 11611 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a 11612 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 11613 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF- 11614 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428. 11615 11616 o Major features (bootstrap): 11617 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a 11618 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80% 11619 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't 11620 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169. 11621 11622 o Major features (new code layout): 11623 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more 11624 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set 11625 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been 11626 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing), 11627 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure 11628 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for 11629 more information. Closes ticket 26481. 11630 11631 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been 11632 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too 11633 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future. 11634 11635 o Major features (onion services v3): 11636 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor 11637 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor 11638 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to 11639 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the 11640 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the 11641 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from 11642 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket 11643 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop). 11644 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services. 11645 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on 11646 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was 11647 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by 11648 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552. 11649 11650 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS): 11651 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of 11652 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may 11653 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's 11654 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be 11655 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss 11656 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816. 11657 11658 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached 11659 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your 11660 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files, 11661 (if present), and restart Tor. 11662 11663 o Major bugfixes (directory authority): 11664 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority 11665 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority 11666 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix 11667 on 0.1.2.10-rc. 11668 11669 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process): 11670 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an 11671 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act(). 11672 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 11673 11674 o Minor features (admin tools): 11675 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of 11676 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves 11677 issue 19506. 11678 11679 o Minor features (build): 11680 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try 11681 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable 11682 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for 11683 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846. 11684 11685 o Minor features (code correctness, testing): 11686 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to 11687 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher- 11688 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help 11689 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447. 11690 11691 o Minor features (code layout): 11692 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code 11693 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the 11694 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a 11695 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes 11696 ticket 26427. 11697 11698 o Minor features (compilation): 11699 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to 11700 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are 11701 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the 11702 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from 11703 Alex Xu. 11704 11705 o Minor features (config): 11706 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes 11707 ticket 26663. 11708 11709 o Minor features (continuous integration): 11710 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis. 11711 Implements ticket 27252. 11712 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional 11713 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560. 11714 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network 11715 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because 11716 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252. 11717 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a 11718 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on 11719 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds 11720 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252. 11721 11722 o Minor features (controller): 11723 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an 11724 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows 11725 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped 11726 cells. Closes ticket 27678. 11727 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half- 11728 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path 11729 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until 11730 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes 11731 ticket 25573. 11732 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting 11733 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323. 11734 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return 11735 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132. 11736 11737 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance): 11738 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't 11739 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation 11740 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 11741 11742 o Minor features (development): 11743 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool 11744 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156. 11745 11746 o Minor features (directory authority): 11747 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of 11748 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223. 11749 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements, 11750 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes 11751 ticket 3723. 11752 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a 11753 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes 11754 ticket 25928. 11755 11756 o Minor features (embedding API): 11757 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with 11758 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding 11759 applications don't need to manage controller ports and 11760 authentication. Closes ticket 24204. 11761 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name 11762 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes 11763 ticket 26947. 11764 11765 o Minor features (geoip): 11766 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 11767 Country database. Closes ticket 27631. 11768 11769 o Minor features (memory management): 11770 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling 11771 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves 11772 ticket 8415. 11773 11774 o Minor features (memory usage): 11775 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER- 11776 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should 11777 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246. 11778 11779 o Minor features (OpenSSL): 11780 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather 11781 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979. 11782 11783 o Minor features (Rust, code quality): 11784 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by 11785 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to 11786 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492. 11787 11788 o Minor features (testing): 11789 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using 11790 chutney. Implements ticket 27211. 11791 11792 o Minor features (tor-resolve): 11793 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies. 11794 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526. 11795 11796 o Minor features (UI): 11797 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it, 11798 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch 11799 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186. 11800 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO. 11801 Closes ticket 26703. 11802 11803 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap): 11804 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using 11805 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes 11806 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 11807 11808 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness): 11809 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger 11810 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on 11811 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha. 11812 - Use time_t for all values in 11813 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that 11814 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165; 11815 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 11816 11817 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage): 11818 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store 11819 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM. 11820 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of 11821 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix 11822 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 11823 11824 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses): 11825 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when 11826 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it 11827 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*" 11828 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on 11829 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 11830 11831 o Minor bugfixes (code quality): 11832 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer 11833 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525; 11834 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 11835 11836 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services): 11837 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain 11838 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and 11839 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug 11840 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10. 11841 11842 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration): 11843 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug 11844 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11845 11846 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 11847 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be 11848 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller 11849 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to 11850 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix 11851 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11852 11853 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown): 11854 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory 11855 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 11856 11857 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel): 11858 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an 11859 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix 11860 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11861 11862 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6): 11863 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based 11864 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed 11865 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 11866 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 11867 11868 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 11869 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if 11870 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as 11871 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes 11872 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. 11873 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already 11874 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8. 11875 11876 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation): 11877 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in 11878 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage 11879 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes 11880 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 11881 11882 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding): 11883 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending 11884 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 11885 11886 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2): 11887 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not 11888 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen 11889 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix 11890 on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 11891 11892 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3): 11893 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong 11894 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix 11895 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 11896 11897 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility): 11898 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from 11899 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails, 11900 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug 11901 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1. 11902 11903 o Minor bugfixes (performance):: 11904 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call 11905 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory 11906 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9. 11907 11908 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics): 11909 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime 11910 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard 11911 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha. 11912 11913 o Minor bugfixes (relays): 11914 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our 11915 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that 11916 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is 11917 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of 11918 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 11919 Patch by Neel Chauhan. 11920 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled. 11921 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the 11922 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc. 11923 11924 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover): 11925 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the 11926 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed 11927 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version 11928 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 11929 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc. 11930 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug 11931 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 11932 11933 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 11934 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not 11935 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 11936 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a 11937 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the 11938 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause 11939 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658; 11940 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. 11941 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests, 11942 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152; 11943 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 11944 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in 11945 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. 11946 11947 o Code simplification and refactoring: 11948 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not 11949 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502. 11950 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by 11951 directory within the top-level src directory. 11952 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h" 11953 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to 11954 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each 11955 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383. 11956 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527. 11957 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was 11958 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467. 11959 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from 11960 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire 11961 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and 11962 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities. 11963 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569. 11964 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and 11965 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In 11966 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations 11967 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function. 11968 Closes ticket 21349. 11969 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and 11970 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626. 11971 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this 11972 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set 11973 calculations. Closes ticket 26510. 11974 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in 11975 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes 11976 ticket 27630. 11977 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly 11978 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C 11979 modules. Closes ticket 26526. 11980 11981 o Documentation: 11982 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from 11983 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638. 11984 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588. 11985 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their 11986 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908. 11987 11988 o Removed features: 11989 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For 11990 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan 11991 instead. Closes ticket 26426. 11992 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the 11993 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since 11994 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support. 11995 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The 11996 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete. 11997 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only 11998 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile 11999 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.) 12000 Closes ticket 26367. 12001 12002 12003 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10 12004 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor. 12005 12006 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8): 12007 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous 12008 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these 12009 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344. 12010 12011 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12012 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes 12013 ticket 24629. 12014 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional 12015 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560. 12016 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087. 12017 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952. 12018 12019 o Minor features (geoip): 12020 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 12021 Country database. Closes ticket 27089. 12022 12023 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12024 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc, 12025 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation. 12026 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 12027 12028 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12029 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses 12030 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in 12031 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465; 12032 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. 12033 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not 12034 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the 12035 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix 12036 on 0.2.2.23-alpha. 12037 12038 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12039 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even 12040 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a 12041 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 12042 12043 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12044 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until 12045 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and 12046 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively. 12047 12048 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12049 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags 12050 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a 12051 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 12052 12053 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8): 12054 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to 12055 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc. 12056 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first 12057 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc. 12058 12059 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12060 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the 12061 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix 12062 on 0.1.1.6-alpha. 12063 12064 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12065 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. 12066 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break 12067 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440; 12068 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto. 12069 12070 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8): 12071 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in 12072 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix 12073 on 0.1.1.2-alpha. 12074 12075 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12076 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients 12077 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. 12078 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 12079 12080 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12081 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make 12082 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 12083 12084 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8): 12085 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test 12086 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix 12087 on 0.2.7.3-rc. 12088 12089 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12090 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on 12091 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL 12092 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. 12093 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 12094 12095 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12096 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug 12097 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 12098 12099 12100 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10 12101 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor. 12102 12103 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8): 12104 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous 12105 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these 12106 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344. 12107 12108 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12109 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes 12110 ticket 24629. 12111 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional 12112 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560. 12113 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087. 12114 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952. 12115 12116 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12117 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes 12118 ticket 26952. 12119 12120 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12121 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and 12122 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and 12123 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647. 12124 12125 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12126 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version 12127 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and 12128 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286. 12129 12130 o Minor features (geoip): 12131 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 12132 Country database. Closes ticket 27089. 12133 12134 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12135 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc, 12136 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation. 12137 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 12138 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the 12139 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support 12140 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11. 12141 12142 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12143 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses 12144 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in 12145 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465; 12146 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. 12147 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not 12148 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the 12149 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix 12150 on 0.2.2.23-alpha. 12151 12152 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12153 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even 12154 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a 12155 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 12156 12157 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12158 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until 12159 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and 12160 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively. 12161 12162 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12163 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 12164 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags 12165 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a 12166 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 12167 12168 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8): 12169 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to 12170 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc. 12171 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first 12172 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc. 12173 12174 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12175 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the 12176 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix 12177 on 0.1.1.6-alpha. 12178 12179 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12180 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. 12181 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break 12182 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440; 12183 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto. 12184 12185 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12186 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to 12187 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix 12188 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 12189 12190 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12191 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors 12192 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix 12193 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 12194 12195 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8): 12196 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in 12197 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix 12198 on 0.1.1.2-alpha. 12199 12200 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12201 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix 12202 on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 12203 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in 12204 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha. 12205 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or 12206 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 12207 12208 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12209 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients 12210 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. 12211 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 12212 12213 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12214 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make 12215 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 12216 12217 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8): 12218 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network. 12219 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the 12220 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is 12221 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 12222 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test 12223 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix 12224 on 0.2.7.3-rc. 12225 12226 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility): 12227 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL 12228 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in 12229 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226; 12230 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 12231 12232 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12233 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on 12234 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL 12235 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. 12236 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 12237 12238 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12239 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug 12240 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 12241 12242 12243 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10 12244 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor. 12245 12246 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12247 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h 12248 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile. 12249 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709. 12250 12251 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8): 12252 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous 12253 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these 12254 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344. 12255 12256 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12257 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629. 12258 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes 12259 ticket 24629. 12260 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional 12261 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560. 12262 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087. 12263 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952. 12264 12265 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12266 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes 12267 ticket 26952. 12268 12269 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12270 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and 12271 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and 12272 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647. 12273 12274 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12275 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version 12276 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and 12277 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286. 12278 12279 o Minor features (geoip): 12280 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 12281 Country database. Closes ticket 27089. 12282 12283 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12284 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc, 12285 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation. 12286 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 12287 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the 12288 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support 12289 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11. 12290 12291 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12292 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses 12293 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in 12294 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465; 12295 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. 12296 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not 12297 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the 12298 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix 12299 on 0.2.2.23-alpha. 12300 12301 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12302 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even 12303 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a 12304 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 12305 12306 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12307 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until 12308 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and 12309 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively. 12310 12311 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12312 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 12313 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags 12314 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a 12315 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 12316 12317 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8): 12318 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to 12319 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc. 12320 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first 12321 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc. 12322 12323 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12324 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the 12325 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix 12326 on 0.1.1.6-alpha. 12327 12328 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12329 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we 12330 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion 12331 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 12332 12333 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12334 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. 12335 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break 12336 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440; 12337 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto. 12338 12339 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12340 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to 12341 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix 12342 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 12343 12344 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12345 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors 12346 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix 12347 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 12348 12349 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8): 12350 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in 12351 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix 12352 on 0.1.1.2-alpha. 12353 12354 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12355 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs 12356 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions 12357 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 12358 12359 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12360 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not 12361 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch 12362 from "paulusASol". 12363 12364 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12365 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix 12366 on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 12367 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in 12368 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha. 12369 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in 12370 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g. 12371 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc. 12372 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after 12373 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix 12374 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 12375 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or 12376 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 12377 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in 12378 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent 12379 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 12380 12381 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12382 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients 12383 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. 12384 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 12385 12386 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12387 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make 12388 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 12389 12390 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8): 12391 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network. 12392 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the 12393 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is 12394 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 12395 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test 12396 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix 12397 on 0.2.7.3-rc. 12398 12399 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12400 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on 12401 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL 12402 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. 12403 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 12404 12405 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): 12406 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce 12407 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point 12408 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627; 12409 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha. 12410 12411 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): 12412 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug 12413 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 12414 12415 12416 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10 12417 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes 12418 compilation and portability fixes. 12419 12420 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in 12421 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in 12422 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary 12423 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth 12424 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration 12425 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to 12426 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine 12427 our anti-denial-of-service code. 12428 12429 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes 12430 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file. 12431 12432 o Minor features (compatibility): 12433 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous 12434 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these 12435 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344. 12436 12437 o Minor features (continuous integration): 12438 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds. 12439 Implements ticket 27449. 12440 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds. 12441 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements 12442 ticket 27430. 12443 12444 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 12445 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses 12446 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in 12447 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465; 12448 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. 12449 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not 12450 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the 12451 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix 12452 on 0.2.2.23-alpha. 12453 12454 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration): 12455 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of 12456 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default. 12457 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc 12458 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug 12459 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 12460 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to 12461 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc. 12462 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first 12463 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc. 12464 12465 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 12466 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in 12467 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix 12468 on 0.1.1.2-alpha. 12469 12470 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney): 12471 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network. 12472 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the 12473 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is 12474 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 12475 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test 12476 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix 12477 on 0.2.7.3-rc. 12478 12479 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24 12480 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and 12481 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a 12482 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the 12483 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release. 12484 12485 o Minor features (bug workaround): 12486 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h 12487 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile. 12488 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709. 12489 12490 o Minor features (continuous integration): 12491 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629. 12492 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes 12493 ticket 24629. 12494 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional 12495 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560. 12496 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails. 12497 Implements ticket 27275. 12498 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087. 12499 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952. 12500 12501 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust): 12502 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes 12503 ticket 26952. 12504 12505 o Minor features (directory authorities): 12506 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version 12507 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and 12508 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286. 12509 12510 o Minor features (geoip): 12511 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 12512 Country database. Closes ticket 27089. 12513 12514 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows): 12515 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even 12516 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a 12517 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 12518 12519 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration): 12520 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and 12521 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits. 12522 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master. 12523 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 12524 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags 12525 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a 12526 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 12527 12528 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart): 12529 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we 12530 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion 12531 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 12532 12533 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 12534 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. 12535 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break 12536 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440; 12537 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto. 12538 12539 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 12540 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors 12541 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix 12542 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 12543 12544 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 12545 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not 12546 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch 12547 from "paulusASol". 12548 12549 o Minor bugfixes (rust): 12550 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix 12551 on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 12552 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in 12553 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha. 12554 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in 12555 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g. 12556 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc. 12557 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after 12558 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix 12559 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 12560 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or 12561 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha. 12562 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in 12563 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent 12564 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 12565 12566 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap): 12567 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the 12568 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which 12569 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney. 12570 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 12571 12572 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility): 12573 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on 12574 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL 12575 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. 12576 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 12577 12578 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation): 12579 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug 12580 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 12581 12582 12583 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06 12584 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and 12585 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a 12586 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the 12587 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release. 12588 12589 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler): 12590 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop 12591 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run 12592 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example) 12593 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003; 12594 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 12595 12596 o Minor features (compilation): 12597 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more 12598 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes 12599 ticket 26372. 12600 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc, 12601 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation. 12602 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 12603 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the 12604 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support 12605 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11. 12606 12607 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration): 12608 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until 12609 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and 12610 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively. 12611 12612 o Minor features (controller): 12613 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and 12614 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and 12615 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647. 12616 12617 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): 12618 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the 12619 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix 12620 on 0.1.1.6-alpha. 12621 12622 o Minor features (geoip): 12623 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 12624 Country database. Closes ticket 26674. 12625 12626 o Minor features (Rust, portability): 12627 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895. 12628 12629 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 12630 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests 12631 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha. 12632 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building 12633 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming 12634 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug 12635 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 12636 12637 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 12638 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to 12639 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 12640 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly. 12641 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix 12642 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran". 12643 12644 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control): 12645 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window 12646 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn 12647 r54 (pre-0.0.1). 12648 12649 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness): 12650 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes 12651 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions. 12652 12653 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 12654 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to 12655 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix 12656 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 12657 12658 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 12659 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug 12660 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 12661 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs 12662 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions 12663 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 12664 12665 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web): 12666 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web 12667 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes 12668 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 12669 12670 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 12671 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make 12672 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 12673 12674 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility): 12675 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure 12676 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python 12677 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. 12678 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and 12679 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py). 12680 12681 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services): 12682 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce 12683 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point 12684 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627; 12685 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha. 12686 12687 12688 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13 12689 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running 12690 bridge relays should upgrade. 12691 12692 o Directory authority changes: 12693 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge 12694 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the 12695 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771. 12696 12697 12698 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13 12699 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running 12700 bridge relays should upgrade. 12701 12702 o Directory authority changes: 12703 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge 12704 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the 12705 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771. 12706 12707 12708 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13 12709 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running 12710 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport 12711 other minor fixes. 12712 12713 o Directory authority changes: 12714 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge 12715 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the 12716 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771. 12717 12718 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7): 12719 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority. 12720 Closes ticket 26343. 12721 12722 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12723 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they 12724 would previously log a warning with the contents of an 12725 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file 12726 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 12727 12728 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12729 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes 12730 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1. 12731 12732 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha): 12733 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux 12734 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of 12735 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313. 12736 12737 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc): 12738 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel, 12739 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714. 12740 12741 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12742 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the 12743 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check" 12744 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814. 12745 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls 12746 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818. 12747 12748 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha): 12749 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading 12750 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them. 12751 Diagnostic for ticket 25686. 12752 12753 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 12754 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more 12755 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes 12756 ticket 26372. 12757 12758 o Minor features (geoip): 12759 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 12760 Country database. Closes ticket 26674. 12761 12762 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12763 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the 12764 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for 12765 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were 12766 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 12767 12768 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12769 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement 12770 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 12771 12772 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 12773 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass 12774 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess 12775 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 12776 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 12777 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings 12778 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module. 12779 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix 12780 on 0.2.5.5-alpha. 12781 12782 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): 12783 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that 12784 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty 12785 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with 12786 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances 12787 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16. 12788 12789 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc): 12790 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to 12791 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters 12792 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always 12793 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. 12794 12795 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 12796 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building 12797 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming 12798 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug 12799 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 12800 12801 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12802 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open, 12803 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix 12804 on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 12805 12806 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): 12807 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in 12808 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 12809 12810 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha): 12811 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer 12812 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by 12813 Coverity; this is CID 1430932. 12814 12815 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12816 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a 12817 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 12818 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an 12819 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will 12820 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature". 12821 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 12822 12823 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha): 12824 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous 12825 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this 12826 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix 12827 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 12828 12829 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12830 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off. 12831 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 12832 12833 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): 12834 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC 12835 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 12836 12837 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha): 12838 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on 12839 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5 12840 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix 12841 on 0.3.1.3-alpha. 12842 12843 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha): 12844 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused 12845 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of 12846 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha. 12847 12848 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 12849 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes 12850 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions. 12851 12852 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc): 12853 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file. 12854 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0". 12855 12856 12857 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13 12858 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running 12859 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport 12860 other minor fixes. 12861 12862 o Directory authority changes: 12863 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge 12864 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the 12865 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771. 12866 12867 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7): 12868 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority. 12869 Closes ticket 26343. 12870 12871 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12872 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they 12873 would previously log a warning with the contents of an 12874 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file 12875 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 12876 12877 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha): 12878 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux 12879 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of 12880 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313. 12881 12882 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12883 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the 12884 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check" 12885 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814. 12886 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls 12887 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818. 12888 12889 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 12890 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more 12891 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes 12892 ticket 26372. 12893 12894 o Minor features (geoip): 12895 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 12896 Country database. Closes ticket 26674. 12897 12898 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12899 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the 12900 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for 12901 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were 12902 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 12903 12904 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12905 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement 12906 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 12907 12908 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 12909 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings 12910 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module. 12911 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix 12912 on 0.2.5.5-alpha. 12913 12914 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): 12915 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that 12916 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty 12917 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with 12918 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances 12919 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16. 12920 12921 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 12922 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building 12923 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming 12924 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug 12925 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 12926 12927 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 12928 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open, 12929 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix 12930 on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 12931 12932 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): 12933 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in 12934 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 12935 12936 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha): 12937 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer 12938 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by 12939 Coverity; this is CID 1430932. 12940 12941 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 12942 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes 12943 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions. 12944 12945 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc): 12946 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file. 12947 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0". 12948 12949 12950 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09 12951 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and 12952 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a 12953 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the 12954 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release. 12955 12956 o Minor features (compilation): 12957 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more 12958 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes 12959 ticket 26372. 12960 12961 o Minor features (geoip): 12962 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 12963 Country database. Closes ticket 26674. 12964 12965 o Minor features (Rust, portability): 12966 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895. 12967 12968 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 12969 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building 12970 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming 12971 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug 12972 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 12973 12974 o Minor bugfixes (control port): 12975 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to 12976 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 12977 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly. 12978 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes 12979 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran". 12980 12981 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control): 12982 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window 12983 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn 12984 r54 (pre-0.0.1). 12985 12986 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness): 12987 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes 12988 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions. 12989 12990 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility): 12991 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass 12992 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess 12993 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 12994 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 12995 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings 12996 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module. 12997 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix 12998 on 0.2.5.5-alpha. 12999 13000 13001 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09 13002 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including 13003 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities. 13004 13005 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha): 13006 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to 13007 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their 13008 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6. 13009 13010 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha): 13011 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build 13012 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix 13013 on 0.3.3.4-alpha. 13014 13015 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 13016 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more 13017 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes 13018 ticket 26372. 13019 13020 o Minor features (geoip): 13021 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 13022 Country database. Closes ticket 26674. 13023 13024 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha): 13025 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading 13026 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them. 13027 Diagnostic for ticket 25686. 13028 13029 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13030 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures. 13031 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or 13032 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors 13033 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix 13034 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13035 13036 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 13037 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building 13038 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming 13039 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug 13040 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 13041 13042 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 13043 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly. 13044 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes 13045 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran". 13046 13047 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 13048 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes 13049 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions. 13050 13051 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha): 13052 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous 13053 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this 13054 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix 13055 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 13056 13057 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13058 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c 13059 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are 13060 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13061 13062 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): 13063 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass 13064 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess 13065 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 13066 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 13067 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings 13068 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module. 13069 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix 13070 on 0.2.5.5-alpha. 13071 13072 13073 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26 13074 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including 13075 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities. 13076 13077 o Major bugfixes (directory authority): 13078 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to 13079 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their 13080 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6. 13081 13082 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing): 13083 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build 13084 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix 13085 on 0.3.3.4-alpha. 13086 13087 o Minor feature (directory authorities): 13088 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete 13089 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be 13090 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha 13091 13092 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic): 13093 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading 13094 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them. 13095 Diagnostic for ticket 25686. 13096 13097 o Minor features (unit tests): 13098 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that 13099 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the 13100 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix 13101 on 0.2.2.1-alpha 13102 13103 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 13104 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when 13105 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891; 13106 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 13107 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the 13108 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added 13109 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 13110 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well. 13111 Closes ticket 26245. 13112 13113 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 13114 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump, 13115 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live 13116 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and 13117 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes 13118 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 13119 13120 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 13121 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous 13122 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this 13123 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix 13124 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 13125 13126 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 13127 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes 13128 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 13129 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from 13130 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with 13131 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read 13132 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw, 13133 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's 13134 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 13135 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in 13136 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests 13137 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable 13138 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile 13139 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 13140 13141 13142 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12 13143 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including 13144 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability. 13145 13146 o Directory authority changes: 13147 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority. 13148 Closes ticket 26343. 13149 13150 o Minor features (geoip): 13151 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 13152 Country database. Closes ticket 26351. 13153 13154 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): 13155 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that 13156 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty 13157 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with 13158 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances 13159 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16. 13160 13161 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): 13162 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC 13163 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 13164 13165 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): 13166 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's 13167 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously 13168 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.) 13169 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13170 13171 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): 13172 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in 13173 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 13174 13175 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13176 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use 13177 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay 13178 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a 13179 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we 13180 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha. 13181 13182 13183 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12 13184 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha 13185 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6. 13186 13187 o Directory authority changes: 13188 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority. 13189 Closes ticket 26343. 13190 13191 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6): 13192 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory 13193 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously 13194 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on 13195 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005. 13196 13197 o Minor features (continuous integration): 13198 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration 13199 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket 13200 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft. 13201 13202 o Minor features (geoip): 13203 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 13204 Country database. Closes ticket 26351. 13205 13206 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl): 13207 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that 13208 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty 13209 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with 13210 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances 13211 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16. 13212 13213 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 13214 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC 13215 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 13216 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated" 13217 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 13218 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of 13219 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug 13220 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 13221 13222 o Minor bugfixes (control port): 13223 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in 13224 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in 13225 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix 13226 on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 13227 13228 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 13229 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's 13230 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously 13231 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.) 13232 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13233 13234 o Minor bugfixes (hardening): 13235 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in 13236 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 13237 13238 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 13239 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion 13240 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. 13241 13242 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools): 13243 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest 13244 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information 13245 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix 13246 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 13247 13248 13249 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22 13250 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It 13251 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha. 13252 13253 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other 13254 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor 13255 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in 13256 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default 13257 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller 13258 bugfixes, features, and improvements. 13259 13260 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes 13261 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file. 13262 13263 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13264 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they 13265 would previously log a warning with the contents of an 13266 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file 13267 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 13268 13269 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service): 13270 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory 13271 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously 13272 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on 13273 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005. 13274 13275 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13276 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code 13277 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug 13278 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 13279 13280 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13281 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that 13282 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415; 13283 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 13284 13285 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13286 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes 13287 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1. 13288 13289 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13290 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be 13291 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix 13292 on 0.2.4.14-alpha. 13293 13294 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13295 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL. 13296 Closes ticket 26006. 13297 13298 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13299 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the 13300 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check" 13301 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814. 13302 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls 13303 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818. 13304 13305 o Minor features (geoip): 13306 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country 13307 database. Closes ticket 26104. 13308 13309 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13310 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open, 13311 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix 13312 on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 13313 13314 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13315 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the 13316 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for 13317 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were 13318 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 13319 13320 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13321 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from 13322 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in 13323 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but 13324 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix 13325 on 0.3.2.6-alpha. 13326 13327 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13328 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement 13329 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 13330 13331 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13332 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a 13333 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 13334 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an 13335 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will 13336 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature". 13337 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 13338 13339 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13340 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off. 13341 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 13342 13343 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): 13344 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes 13345 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF". 13346 13347 13348 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17 13349 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It 13350 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU 13351 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners, 13352 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous 13353 other small features and bugfixes. 13354 13355 o New system requirements: 13356 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without 13357 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such 13358 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or 13359 complaining. Closes ticket 25398. 13360 13361 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization): 13362 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code 13363 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default. 13364 To disable the module, the configure option 13365 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be 13366 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610. 13367 13368 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage): 13369 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it 13370 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should 13371 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the 13372 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063. 13373 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default. 13374 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events, 13375 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these 13376 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork 13377 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by 13378 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket 13379 25376 and 25762. 13380 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that 13381 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every 13382 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve 13383 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the 13384 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is 13385 idle. Closes ticket 25373. 13386 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second 13387 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving 13388 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when 13389 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our 13390 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve 13391 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing 13392 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus 13393 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed 13394 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache 13395 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay 13396 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of 13397 Tor's uptime (26009). 13398 13399 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security): 13400 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they 13401 would previously log a warning with the contents of an 13402 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file 13403 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 13404 13405 o Major bugfixes (crash): 13406 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code 13407 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug 13408 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 13409 13410 o Major bugfixes (directory authority): 13411 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that 13412 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415; 13413 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 13414 13415 o Major bugfixes (onion service): 13416 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes 13417 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1. 13418 13419 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting): 13420 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory- 13421 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus 13422 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially 13423 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential 13424 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were 13425 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions 13426 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the 13427 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in 13428 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside 13429 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C 13430 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous 13431 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been 13432 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13433 13434 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service): 13435 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be 13436 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix 13437 on 0.2.4.14-alpha. 13438 13439 o Minor features (accounting): 13440 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up 13441 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer 13442 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second 13443 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064. 13444 13445 o Minor features (code quality): 13446 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the 13447 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos". 13448 Closes ticket 25024. 13449 13450 o Minor features (compatibility): 13451 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with 13452 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes 13453 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353. 13454 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL. 13455 Closes ticket 26006. 13456 13457 o Minor features (compression, zstd): 13458 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions 13459 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To 13460 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the 13461 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which 13462 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162. 13463 13464 o Minor features (configuration): 13465 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with 13466 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will 13467 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for 13468 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they 13469 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354. 13470 13471 o Minor features (continuous integration): 13472 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the 13473 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check" 13474 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814. 13475 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls 13476 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818. 13477 13478 o Minor features (control port): 13479 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local 13480 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller 13481 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511. 13482 Patch by Neel Chauhan. 13483 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new 13484 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED 13485 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by 13486 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command 13487 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each 13488 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903. 13489 13490 o Minor features (directory authority): 13491 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC, 13492 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines. 13493 Closes ticket 23909. 13494 13495 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility): 13496 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain 13497 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed 13498 to come first. Closes ticket 26004. 13499 13500 o Minor features (entry guards): 13501 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the 13502 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843. 13503 13504 o Minor features (geoip): 13505 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country 13506 database. Closes ticket 26104. 13507 13508 o Minor features (performance): 13509 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming 13510 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914. 13511 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit 13512 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes 13513 ticket 24688. 13514 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor 13515 handshake. Closes ticket 25150. 13516 13517 o Minor features (testing): 13518 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval(). 13519 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage 13520 more deterministic. 13521 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in 13522 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new 13523 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425. 13524 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address() 13525 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test 13526 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993. 13527 13528 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling): 13529 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on 13530 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather 13531 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase 13532 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927. 13533 13534 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management): 13535 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted 13536 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the 13537 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change 13538 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828; 13539 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha. 13540 13541 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness): 13542 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control 13543 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by 13544 Coverity; this is CID 1433643. 13545 13546 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection): 13547 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures. 13548 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or 13549 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors 13550 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix 13551 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13552 13553 o Minor bugfixes (client): 13554 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open, 13555 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix 13556 on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 13557 13558 o Minor bugfixes (code style): 13559 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c 13560 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 13561 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function 13562 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha 13563 13564 o Minor bugfixes (control interface): 13565 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit- 13566 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is 13567 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes 13568 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 13569 13570 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 13571 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a 13572 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis- 13573 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400; 13574 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 13575 13576 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client): 13577 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell 13578 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but 13579 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug 13580 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 13581 13582 o Minor bugfixes (directory client): 13583 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached- 13584 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 13585 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled 13586 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when 13587 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix 13588 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 13589 13590 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): 13591 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from 13592 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in 13593 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but 13594 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix 13595 on 0.3.2.6-alpha. 13596 13597 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting): 13598 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks. 13599 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead 13600 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the 13601 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of 13602 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this 13603 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. 13604 13605 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox): 13606 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement 13607 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 13608 13609 o Minor bugfixes (onion service): 13610 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a 13611 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 13612 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an 13613 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will 13614 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature". 13615 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 13616 13617 o Minor bugfixes (path selection): 13618 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use 13619 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay 13620 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a 13621 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we 13622 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha. 13623 13624 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 13625 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the 13626 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix 13627 on 0.1.1.23. 13628 13629 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD): 13630 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB 13631 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf(). 13632 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 13633 13634 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics): 13635 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many 13636 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count 13637 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the 13638 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring 13639 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them 13640 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc. 13641 13642 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash): 13643 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off. 13644 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 13645 13646 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process): 13647 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c 13648 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are 13649 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13650 13651 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 13652 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we 13653 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal 13654 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely 13655 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.) 13656 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 13657 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of 13658 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix 13659 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 13660 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so 13661 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests. 13662 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 13663 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it 13664 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code. 13665 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in 13666 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix 13667 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13668 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later 13669 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had 13670 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test 13671 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening. 13672 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by 13673 Marcin Cieślak. 13674 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a 13675 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test 13676 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix 13677 on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 13678 13679 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards): 13680 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our 13681 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice 13682 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A 13683 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug 13684 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13685 13686 o Code simplification and refactoring: 13687 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap 13688 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236; 13689 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 13690 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options, 13691 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options 13692 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users 13693 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by 13694 Neel Chauhan. 13695 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less 13696 confusing we renamed some functions and 13697 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into 13698 router_should_check_reachability() and 13699 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation 13700 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918. 13701 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in 13702 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can 13703 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes 13704 ticket 23750. 13705 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t, 13706 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes 13707 ticket 18105. 13708 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer 13709 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into 13710 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 13711 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the 13712 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer 13713 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description() 13714 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore. 13715 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio. 13716 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations 13717 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen 13718 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event 13719 activations. Closes ticket 25374. 13720 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use 13721 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This 13722 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes 13723 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 13724 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend. 13725 Closes ticket 25766. 13726 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from 13727 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime() 13728 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”. 13729 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our 13730 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far 13731 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927. 13732 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(), 13733 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node() 13734 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here, 13735 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a 13736 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 13737 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is 13738 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is 13739 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch 13740 by "valentecaio". 13741 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc 13742 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484. 13743 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive 13744 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had 13745 before. Closes ticket 26016. 13746 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and 13747 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in 13748 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to 13749 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by 13750 Neel Chauhan. 13751 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in 13752 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of 13753 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290; 13754 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 13755 13756 o Deprecated features: 13757 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that 13758 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always 13759 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version 13760 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA 13761 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without 13762 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522. 13763 13764 o Documentation: 13765 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes 13766 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF". 13767 13768 o Removed features: 13769 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to 13770 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps 13771 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and 13772 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket 13773 24378 and proposal 290. 13774 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been 13775 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT 13776 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are 13777 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching 13778 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator, 13779 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually 13780 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously 13781 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus 13782 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay 13783 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to 13784 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on 13785 their local router. Closes 25409. 13786 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used 13787 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets 13788 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not 13789 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760. 13790 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux) 13791 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of 13792 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default 13793 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x, 13794 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU. 13795 Closes ticket 25268. 13796 13797 13798 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15 13799 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor, 13800 including some that could affect reliability or correctness. 13801 13802 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no 13803 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will 13804 be nearly identical to this one. 13805 13806 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting): 13807 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory- 13808 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus 13809 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially 13810 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory. 13811 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13812 13813 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing): 13814 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag 13815 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor 13816 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the 13817 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for 13818 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support. 13819 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6. 13820 13821 o Minor feature (continuous integration): 13822 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel, 13823 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714. 13824 13825 o Minor features (config options): 13826 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated. 13827 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or 13828 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes 13829 ticket 24782. 13830 13831 o Minor features (geoip): 13832 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 13833 Country database. Closes ticket 25718. 13834 13835 o Minor bugfixes (client): 13836 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using 13837 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a 13838 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of 13839 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non- 13840 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha. 13841 13842 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 13843 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had 13844 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on 13845 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 13846 13847 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust): 13848 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded, 13849 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set. 13850 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13851 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source 13852 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally 13853 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 13854 13855 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): 13856 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to 13857 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters 13858 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always 13859 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. 13860 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation. 13861 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13862 13863 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries): 13864 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our 13865 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow 13866 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple 13867 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9. 13868 13869 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 13870 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the 13871 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix 13872 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13873 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This 13874 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes. 13875 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha 13876 13877 o Code simplification and refactoring: 13878 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file. 13879 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0". 13880 13881 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service): 13882 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by 13883 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes 13884 ticket 25248. 13885 13886 13887 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29 13888 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during 13889 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are 13890 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome! 13891 13892 o New system requirements: 13893 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the 13894 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664. 13895 13896 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection): 13897 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection 13898 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try 13899 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has 13900 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6. 13901 13902 o Minor features (geoip): 13903 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 13904 Country database. Closes ticket 25469. 13905 13906 o Minor features (log messages): 13907 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include 13908 information about memory usage from the different compression 13909 backends. Closes ticket 25372. 13910 13911 o Minor features (sandbox): 13912 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux 13913 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of 13914 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313. 13915 13916 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness): 13917 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer 13918 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by 13919 Coverity; this is CID 1430932. 13920 13921 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client): 13922 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip 13923 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7. 13924 13925 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 13926 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused 13927 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of 13928 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha. 13929 13930 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability): 13931 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop 13932 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes 13933 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 13934 13935 o Major bugfixes (networking): 13936 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser 13937 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug 13938 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2. 13939 13940 o Minor bugfixes (networking): 13941 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be 13942 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5. 13943 13944 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3): 13945 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service 13946 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's 13947 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra 13948 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this 13949 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 13950 13951 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 13952 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on 13953 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5 13954 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix 13955 on 0.3.1.3-alpha. 13956 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously, 13957 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static 13958 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which 13959 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha. 13960 13961 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks): 13962 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The 13963 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging 13964 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix 13965 on 0.3.3.3-alpha. 13966 13967 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6): 13968 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a 13969 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that 13970 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors. 13971 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 13972 13973 o Code simplification and refactoring: 13974 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely: 13975 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes 13976 ticket 23814. 13977 13978 o Documentation: 13979 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes 13980 ticket 23635. 13981 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of 13982 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378. 13983 13984 13985 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03 13986 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for 13987 security issues. 13988 13989 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack 13990 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001. 13991 13992 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to 13993 denial-of-service attacks against relays. 13994 13995 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from 13996 earlier releases. 13997 13998 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions 13999 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of 14000 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations. 14001 14002 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no 14003 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor 14004 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest 14005 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term 14006 support). 14007 14008 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14009 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash 14010 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074; 14011 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and 14012 CVE-2018-0490. 14013 14014 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14015 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We 14016 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses). 14017 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent 14018 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a 14019 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per 14020 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many 14021 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while 14022 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous 14023 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be 14024 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also 14025 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to 14026 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902. 14027 14028 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha): 14029 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly 14030 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315. 14031 14032 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha): 14033 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the 14034 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous 14035 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three 14036 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2, 14037 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to 14038 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6. 14039 14040 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14041 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes 14042 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14043 14044 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha): 14045 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider 14046 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and 14047 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those 14048 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the 14049 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a 14050 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14051 14052 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14053 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it 14054 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and 14055 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122. 14056 14057 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 14058 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24 14059 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery 14060 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856. 14061 14062 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14063 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released. 14064 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1, 14065 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the 14066 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites. 14067 Closes ticket 24978. 14068 14069 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9): 14070 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the 14071 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to 14072 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory 14073 information. Closes ticket 24801. 14074 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients 14075 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a 14076 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default 14077 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681. 14078 14079 o Minor features (geoip): 14080 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 14081 Country database. 14082 14083 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14084 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection, 14085 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when 14086 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection. 14087 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera". 14088 14089 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14090 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected 14091 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid 14092 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list. 14093 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1. 14094 14095 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9): 14096 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a 14097 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address 14098 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do 14099 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix 14100 on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 14101 14102 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha): 14103 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build 14104 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing. 14105 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer 14106 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors 14107 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on 14108 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in 14109 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our 14110 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits. 14111 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed 14112 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix 14113 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 14114 14115 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc): 14116 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to 14117 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16. 14118 14119 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha): 14120 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together 14121 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix 14122 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 14123 14124 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14125 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had 14126 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients 14127 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this 14128 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the 14129 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on 14130 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004. 14131 14132 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha): 14133 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache 14134 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14135 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful, 14136 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial 14137 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails 14138 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the 14139 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a 14140 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix 14141 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14142 14143 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha): 14144 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus 14145 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use 14146 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where 14147 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug 14148 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 14149 14150 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14151 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug: 14152 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug 14153 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14154 14155 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc): 14156 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id 14157 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should 14158 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and 14159 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix 14160 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 14161 14162 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha): 14163 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we 14164 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from 14165 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a 14166 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various 14167 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 14168 14169 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha): 14170 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that 14171 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly. 14172 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards 14173 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's 14174 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got 14175 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha. 14176 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and 14177 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of 14178 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 14179 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths(). 14180 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha. 14181 14182 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha): 14183 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code 14184 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set. 14185 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14186 14187 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha): 14188 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file 14189 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes 14190 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 14191 14192 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9): 14193 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on 14194 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due 14195 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix 14196 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 14197 14198 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport): 14199 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort 14200 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether 14201 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part 14202 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898. 14203 14204 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14205 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on 14206 0.2.9.4-alpha. 14207 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; 14208 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 14209 14210 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14211 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level 14212 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323. 14213 14214 14215 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03 14216 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from 14217 later Tor releases. 14218 14219 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack 14220 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001. 14221 14222 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to 14223 denial-of-service attacks against relays. 14224 14225 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from 14226 earlier releases. 14227 14228 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions 14229 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of 14230 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations. 14231 14232 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14233 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash 14234 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074; 14235 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and 14236 CVE-2018-0490. 14237 14238 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation): 14239 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We 14240 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses). 14241 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent 14242 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a 14243 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per 14244 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many 14245 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while 14246 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous 14247 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be 14248 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also 14249 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to 14250 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902. 14251 14252 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping): 14253 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build 14254 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing. 14255 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer 14256 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors 14257 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on 14258 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in 14259 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our 14260 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits. 14261 14262 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior): 14263 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the 14264 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous 14265 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three 14266 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2, 14267 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to 14268 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6. 14269 14270 o Minor feature (relay statistics): 14271 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24 14272 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery 14273 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856. 14274 14275 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL): 14276 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released. 14277 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1, 14278 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the 14279 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites. 14280 Closes ticket 24978. 14281 14282 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance): 14283 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it 14284 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and 14285 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122. 14286 14287 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors): 14288 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the 14289 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to 14290 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory 14291 information. Closes ticket 24801. 14292 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients 14293 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a 14294 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default 14295 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681. 14296 14297 o Minor features (geoip): 14298 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 14299 Country database. 14300 14301 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 14302 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly 14303 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315. 14304 14305 o Minor bugfix (channel connection): 14306 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection, 14307 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when 14308 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection. 14309 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera". 14310 14311 o Minor bugfix (directory authority): 14312 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected 14313 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid 14314 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list. 14315 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1. 14316 14317 o Minor bugfixes (address selection): 14318 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a 14319 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address 14320 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do 14321 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix 14322 on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 14323 14324 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 14325 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to 14326 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16. 14327 14328 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox): 14329 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together 14330 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix 14331 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 14332 14333 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14334 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had 14335 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients 14336 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this 14337 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the 14338 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on 14339 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004. 14340 14341 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage): 14342 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id 14343 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should 14344 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and 14345 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix 14346 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 14347 14348 o Minor bugfixes (network layer): 14349 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we 14350 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from 14351 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a 14352 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various 14353 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 14354 14355 o Minor bugfixes (OSX): 14356 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file 14357 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes 14358 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 14359 14360 o Minor bugfixes (path selection): 14361 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that 14362 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly. 14363 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards 14364 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's 14365 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got 14366 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha. 14367 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and 14368 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of 14369 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 14370 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths(). 14371 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha. 14372 14373 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc): 14374 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on 14375 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due 14376 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix 14377 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 14378 14379 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 14380 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort 14381 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether 14382 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part 14383 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898. 14384 14385 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14386 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on 14387 0.2.9.4-alpha. 14388 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; 14389 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 14390 14391 14392 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03 14393 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It 14394 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security 14395 issues. 14396 14397 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack 14398 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001. 14399 14400 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have 14401 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely 14402 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As 14403 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and 14404 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug 14405 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version 14406 0.3.3.1-alpha. 14407 14408 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to 14409 denial-of-service attacks against relays. 14410 14411 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from 14412 earlier releases. 14413 14414 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released 14415 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should 14416 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for 14417 the DoS mitigations.) 14418 14419 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14420 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash 14421 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074; 14422 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and 14423 CVE-2018-0490. 14424 14425 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14426 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending 14427 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free 14428 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 14429 14430 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14431 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We 14432 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses). 14433 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent 14434 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a 14435 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per 14436 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many 14437 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while 14438 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous 14439 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be 14440 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also 14441 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to 14442 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902. 14443 14444 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha): 14445 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the 14446 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous 14447 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three 14448 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2, 14449 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to 14450 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6. 14451 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit 14452 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous 14453 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second 14454 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 14455 14456 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14457 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes 14458 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14459 14460 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha): 14461 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider 14462 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and 14463 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those 14464 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the 14465 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a 14466 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14467 14468 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14469 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in 14470 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers 14471 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 14472 14473 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14474 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it 14475 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and 14476 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122. 14477 14478 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14479 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released. 14480 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1, 14481 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the 14482 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites. 14483 Closes ticket 24978. 14484 14485 o Minor features (geoip): 14486 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 14487 Country database. 14488 14489 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14490 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor, 14491 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic 14492 for ticket 24972. 14493 14494 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14495 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection, 14496 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when 14497 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection. 14498 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera". 14499 14500 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14501 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had 14502 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients 14503 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this 14504 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the 14505 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on 14506 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004. 14507 14508 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14509 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected 14510 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid 14511 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list. 14512 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1. 14513 14514 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha): 14515 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work 14516 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797. 14517 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14518 14519 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14520 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor 14521 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This 14522 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug 14523 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 14524 14525 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14526 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug: 14527 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug 14528 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14529 14530 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha): 14531 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code 14532 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set. 14533 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14534 14535 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha): 14536 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file 14537 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes 14538 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 14539 14540 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14541 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on 14542 0.2.9.4-alpha. 14543 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; 14544 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 14545 14546 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha): 14547 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug 14548 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc. 14549 14550 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha): 14551 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol 14552 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the 14553 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105; 14554 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 14555 14556 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): 14557 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level 14558 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323. 14559 14560 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha) 14561 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are 14562 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes 14563 ticket 24526. 14564 14565 14566 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03 14567 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series. 14568 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack 14569 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001. 14570 14571 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a 14572 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in 14573 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with 14574 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as 14575 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions 14576 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha. 14577 14578 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from 14579 earlier releases. 14580 14581 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released 14582 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should 14583 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for 14584 the DoS mitigations.) 14585 14586 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority): 14587 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash 14588 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074; 14589 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and 14590 CVE-2018-0490. 14591 14592 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL): 14593 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released. 14594 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1, 14595 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the 14596 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites. 14597 Closes ticket 24978. 14598 14599 o Minor features (logging): 14600 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related 14601 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120. 14602 14603 o Minor features (testing): 14604 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes 14605 ticket 25071. 14606 14607 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service): 14608 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had 14609 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients 14610 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this 14611 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the 14612 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on 14613 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004. 14614 14615 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation): 14616 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket 14617 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst. 14618 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 14619 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation 14620 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix 14621 on 0.3.3.2-alpha. 14622 14623 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort): 14624 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename 14625 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option 14626 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3. 14627 14628 o Minor bugfixes (performance): 14629 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during 14630 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the 14631 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of 14632 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix 14633 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14634 14635 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance): 14636 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on 14637 0.2.9.4-alpha. 14638 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; 14639 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 14640 14641 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust): 14642 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in 14643 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. 14644 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003. 14645 14646 o Code simplification and refactoring: 14647 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level 14648 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323. 14649 14650 14651 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10 14652 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It 14653 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay 14654 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in 14655 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport 14656 it to older supported release series. 14657 14658 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation): 14659 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We 14660 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses). 14661 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent 14662 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a 14663 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per 14664 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many 14665 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while 14666 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous 14667 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be 14668 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also 14669 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to 14670 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902. 14671 14672 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding): 14673 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish 14674 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many 14675 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as 14676 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need 14677 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log 14678 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the 14679 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14680 14681 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions): 14682 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes 14683 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14684 14685 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus): 14686 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in 14687 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers 14688 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 14689 14690 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance): 14691 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it 14692 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and 14693 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122. 14694 14695 o Minor features (directory authority): 14696 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a 14697 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849. 14698 14699 o Minor features (geoip): 14700 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 14701 Country database. 14702 14703 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic): 14704 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor, 14705 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for 14706 ticket 24972. 14707 14708 o Minor bugfix (channel connection): 14709 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection, 14710 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when 14711 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection. 14712 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera". 14713 14714 o Minor bugfix (directory authority): 14715 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected 14716 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid 14717 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list. 14718 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1. 14719 14720 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor): 14721 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the 14722 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor. 14723 Patch from Deepesh Pathak. 14724 14725 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization): 14726 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer 14727 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard 14728 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes 14729 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6. 14730 14731 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 14732 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit 14733 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug 14734 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 14735 14736 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 14737 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug: 14738 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug 14739 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14740 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking 14741 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options 14742 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. 14743 14744 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 14745 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor 14746 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This 14747 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug 14748 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 14749 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log 14750 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat. 14751 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc. 14752 14753 o Minor bugfixes (performance): 14754 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight 14755 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead, 14756 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as 14757 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code 14758 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation 14759 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 14760 14761 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI): 14762 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code 14763 would call the Rust implementation of 14764 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version 14765 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated 14766 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C 14767 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes 14768 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 14769 14770 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST): 14771 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending 14772 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix 14773 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 14774 14775 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time): 14776 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test 14777 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized. 14778 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or 14779 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel. 14780 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1. 14781 14782 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services): 14783 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol 14784 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the 14785 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105; 14786 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 14787 14788 o Code simplification and refactoring: 14789 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes 14790 ticket 25108. 14791 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts 14792 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for 14793 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes 14794 ticket 25163. 14795 14796 o Documentation (man page): 14797 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number: 14798 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix 14799 on 0.3.2.2-alpha. 14800 14801 14802 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25 14803 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds 14804 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to 14805 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to 14806 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better 14807 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3 14808 onion services. 14809 14810 o Major features (embedding): 14811 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to 14812 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs. 14813 Closes ticket 23684. 14814 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process. 14815 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now 14816 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete, 14817 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at 14818 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of 14819 security issues. Implements ticket 24581. 14820 14821 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents): 14822 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc 14823 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to 14824 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826. 14825 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from 14826 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they 14827 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients 14828 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that 14829 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828. 14830 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is 14831 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870 14832 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 14833 14834 o Major features (onion service v3, control port): 14835 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion 14836 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using 14837 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT, 14838 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and 14839 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes 14840 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284. 14841 14842 o Major features (onion services): 14843 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion 14844 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards 14845 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third 14846 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments 14847 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes 14848 ticket 13837. 14849 14850 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental): 14851 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its 14852 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To 14853 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor 14854 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not 14855 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more 14856 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work. 14857 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840. 14858 14859 o Minor features (storage, configuration): 14860 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than 14861 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly, 14862 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the 14863 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703. 14864 14865 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6): 14866 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now 14867 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one. 14868 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but 14869 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be 14870 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous 14871 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan. 14872 14873 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior): 14874 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the 14875 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous 14876 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three 14877 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2, 14878 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to 14879 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6. 14880 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit 14881 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous 14882 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second 14883 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 14884 14885 o Major bugfixes (relays): 14886 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider 14887 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and 14888 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those 14889 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the 14890 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a 14891 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 14892 14893 o Minor feature (IPv6): 14894 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we 14895 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge) 14896 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827. 14897 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use 14898 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. 14899 Implements ticket 23827. 14900 14901 o Minor features (cleanup): 14902 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile 14903 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271. 14904 14905 o Minor features (defensive programming): 14906 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced 14907 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding 14908 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of 14909 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337. 14910 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input 14911 once. Part of ticket 24337. 14912 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in 14913 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket 14914 24001, patch by "aruna1234". 14915 14916 o Minor features (embedding): 14917 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection 14918 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for 14919 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process 14920 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more 14921 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in 14922 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900. 14923 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to 14924 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the 14925 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here, 14926 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside 14927 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit 14928 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process. 14929 Closes ticket 23848. 14930 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to 14931 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the 14932 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588. 14933 14934 o Minor features (fallback directory list): 14935 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too 14936 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and 14937 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow 14938 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator 14939 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785. 14940 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and 14941 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135, 14942 and 24695. 14943 14944 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration): 14945 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it 14946 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use 14947 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600. 14948 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror 14949 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This 14950 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements 14951 ticket 24725. 14952 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This 14953 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather 14954 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759. 14955 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically 14956 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints. 14957 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for 14958 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay 14959 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar. 14960 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired 14961 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik". 14962 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the 14963 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements 14964 ticket 24726. 14965 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror 14966 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights 14967 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements 14968 ticket 24679. 14969 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks. 14970 Implements ticket 24791. 14971 14972 o Minor features (forward-compatibility): 14973 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do 14974 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling 14975 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future 14976 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link 14977 authentication. Closes ticket 20895. 14978 14979 o Minor features (heartbeat): 14980 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying 14981 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes 14982 ticket 24896. 14983 14984 o Minor features (instrumentation, development): 14985 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get 14986 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the 14987 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior 14988 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605. 14989 14990 o Minor features (log messages): 14991 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an 14992 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020. 14993 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues 14994 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501. 14995 14996 o Minor features (logging, android): 14997 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes 14998 ticket 24362. 14999 15000 o Minor features (performance): 15001 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits 15002 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101. 15003 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement 15004 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953. 15005 15006 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit): 15007 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division 15008 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding 15009 computations. Implements ticket 24613. 15010 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division 15011 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations. 15012 Implements ticket 24374. 15013 15014 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS): 15015 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to 15016 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function 15017 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve 15018 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427. 15019 15020 o Minor features (performance, windows): 15021 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting 15022 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from 15023 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch 15024 from Vort. 15025 15026 o Major features (relay): 15027 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay 15028 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather 15029 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without 15030 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you. 15031 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan. 15032 15033 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding): 15034 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for 15035 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the 15036 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with 15037 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with 15038 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART 15039 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is 15040 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a 15041 future release. Implements ticket 24583. 15042 15043 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test): 15044 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user 15045 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on 15046 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera". 15047 15048 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust): 15049 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust 15050 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug 15051 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha. 15052 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work 15053 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797. 15054 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 15055 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some 15056 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug 15057 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7. 15058 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with 15059 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix 15060 on 0.3.1.7. 15061 15062 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6): 15063 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor), 15064 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and 15065 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix 15066 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 15067 15068 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors): 15069 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs 15070 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix 15071 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 15072 15073 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown): 15074 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to 15075 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes 15076 bug 7267. 15077 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering 15078 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 15079 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge 15080 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is 15081 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix 15082 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 15083 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a 15084 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha. 15085 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors. 15086 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 15087 15088 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges): 15089 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573; 15090 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 15091 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the 15092 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes 15093 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera". 15094 15095 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 15096 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files 15097 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash. 15098 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto. 15099 15100 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks): 15101 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's 15102 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if 15103 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584; 15104 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 15105 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix 15106 on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 15107 15108 o Minor bugfixes (OSX): 15109 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file 15110 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes 15111 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 15112 15113 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening): 15114 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code 15115 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set. 15116 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 15117 15118 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts): 15119 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This 15120 is more accurate than applying the timeout in 15121 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called 15122 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the 15123 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 15124 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops) 15125 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only 15126 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be 15127 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements 15128 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third 15129 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 15130 15131 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 15132 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137; 15133 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 15134 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug 15135 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc. 15136 15137 o Code simplification and refactoring: 15138 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes 15139 ticket 24363. 15140 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and 15141 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero 15142 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by 15143 "aruna1234" and teor. 15144 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary 15145 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g. 15146 relays). Closes ticket 24119. 15147 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor 15148 stops gracefully. 15149 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a 15150 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342. 15151 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to 15152 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467. 15153 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared 15154 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of 15155 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API. 15156 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key() 15157 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys 15158 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by 15159 Neel Chauhan. 15160 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid 15161 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531. 15162 15163 o Documentation: 15164 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies 15165 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix 15166 on 0.3.0.3-alpha. 15167 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client 15168 traffic. Closes ticket 24318. 15169 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests. 15170 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya. 15171 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are 15172 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes 15173 ticket 24526. 15174 15175 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels): 15176 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never 15177 used, but still took up a step in our fast path. 15178 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the 15179 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes 15180 ticket 23709. 15181 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together, 15182 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and 15183 adding very little except for unit test. 15184 15185 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous): 15186 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two 15187 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another 15188 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459. 15189 15190 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller): 15191 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose() 15192 const. Implements ticket 24489. 15193 15194 15195 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09 15196 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series. 15197 15198 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service 15199 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see 15200 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also 15201 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on 15202 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell), 15203 along with many smaller features and bugfixes. 15204 15205 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release 15206 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after 15207 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If 15208 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay 15209 with the 0.2.9 series. 15210 15211 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all 15212 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file. 15213 15214 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors): 15215 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the 15216 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to 15217 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory 15218 information. Closes ticket 24801. 15219 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients 15220 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a 15221 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default 15222 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681. 15223 15224 o Minor features (geoip): 15225 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 15226 Country database. 15227 15228 o Minor bugfixes (address selection): 15229 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a 15230 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address 15231 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do 15232 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix 15233 on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 15234 15235 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 15236 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service 15237 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15238 15239 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc): 15240 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on 15241 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due 15242 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix 15243 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 15244 15245 15246 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21 15247 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite 15248 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their 15249 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x 15250 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for 15251 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it 15252 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series. 15253 15254 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find 15255 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release 15256 will be nearly identical to this. 15257 15258 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler): 15259 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already 15260 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in 15261 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between 15262 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection 15263 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 15264 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15265 15266 o Minor features (geoip): 15267 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 15268 Country database. 15269 15270 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3): 15271 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase 15272 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing 15273 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15274 15275 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage): 15276 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id 15277 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should 15278 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and 15279 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix 15280 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 15281 15282 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST): 15283 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection 15284 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can. 15285 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better 15286 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's 15287 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15288 15289 15290 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14 15291 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor, 15292 including some that could affect reliability or correctness. 15293 15294 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no 15295 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will 15296 be nearly identical to this. 15297 15298 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction): 15299 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port 15300 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has 15301 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more 15302 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created 15303 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859; 15304 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. 15305 15306 o Minor features (logging): 15307 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes 15308 ticket 24500. 15309 15310 o Minor features (portability): 15311 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed. 15312 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes 15313 ticket 24424. 15314 15315 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap): 15316 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor 15317 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep 15318 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a 15319 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 15320 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge 15321 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we 15322 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; 15323 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 15324 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge 15325 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when 15326 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug 15327 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 15328 15329 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 15330 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to 15331 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16. 15332 15333 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 15334 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be 15335 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined 15336 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are 15337 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found 15338 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich, 15339 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various 15340 Tor versions. 15341 15342 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3): 15343 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit 15344 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing 15345 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service 15346 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload 15347 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24 15348 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15349 15350 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST): 15351 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the 15352 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying 15353 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha. 15354 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available 15355 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security 15356 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a 15357 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15358 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time 15359 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting 15360 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15361 15362 15363 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01 15364 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It 15365 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users 15366 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming 15367 out today. 15368 15369 o Major bugfixes (security): 15370 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a 15371 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while 15372 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor 15373 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor 15374 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every 15375 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821. 15376 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720. 15377 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a 15378 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug 15379 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010 15380 and CVE-2017-8820. 15381 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a 15382 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA- 15383 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for 15384 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to 15385 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps 15386 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on 15387 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009 15388 and CVE-2017-8819. 15389 15390 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2): 15391 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services 15392 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction 15393 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is 15394 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823. 15395 15396 o Major bugfixes (security, relay): 15397 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path 15398 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the 15399 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part 15400 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked 15401 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822. 15402 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves 15403 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This 15404 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822. 15405 15406 o Minor feature (relay statistics): 15407 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24 15408 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery 15409 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856. 15410 15411 o Minor features (directory authority): 15412 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes 15413 ticket 24394. 15414 15415 o Minor bugfixes (client): 15416 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These 15417 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have 15418 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 15419 15420 15421 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01: 15422 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the 15423 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this 15424 release, or to another of the releases coming out today. 15425 15426 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15427 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a 15428 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while 15429 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor 15430 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor 15431 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every 15432 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821. 15433 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720. 15434 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a 15435 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug 15436 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010 15437 and CVE-2017-8820. 15438 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a 15439 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA- 15440 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for 15441 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to 15442 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps 15443 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on 15444 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009 15445 and CVE-2017-8819. 15446 15447 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15448 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services 15449 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction 15450 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is 15451 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823. 15452 15453 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15454 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path 15455 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the 15456 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part 15457 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked 15458 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822. 15459 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves 15460 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This 15461 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822. 15462 15463 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha): 15464 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes, 15465 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on 15466 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for 15467 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz, 15468 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and 15469 analyze it. 15470 15471 o Minor features (bridge): 15472 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are 15473 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their 15474 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine- 15475 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x 15476 or later. 15477 15478 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15479 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes 15480 ticket 24394. 15481 15482 o Minor features (geoip): 15483 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 15484 Country database. 15485 15486 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha): 15487 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on 15488 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor 15489 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470; 15490 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha. 15491 15492 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha): 15493 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code. 15494 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 15495 15496 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 15497 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any 15498 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect 15499 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the 15500 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message. 15501 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 15502 15503 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha): 15504 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval" 15505 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix 15506 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 15507 15508 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha): 15509 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode. 15510 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our 15511 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode 15512 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 15513 15514 15515 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01 15516 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from 15517 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or 15518 to another of the releases coming out today. 15519 15520 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan 15521 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with 15522 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later. 15523 15524 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15525 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a 15526 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while 15527 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor 15528 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor 15529 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every 15530 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821. 15531 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720. 15532 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a 15533 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug 15534 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010 15535 and CVE-2017-8820. 15536 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a 15537 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA- 15538 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for 15539 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to 15540 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps 15541 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on 15542 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009 15543 and CVE-2017-8819. 15544 15545 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15546 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services 15547 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction 15548 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is 15549 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823. 15550 15551 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15552 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path 15553 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the 15554 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part 15555 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked 15556 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822. 15557 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves 15558 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This 15559 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822. 15560 15561 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha): 15562 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes, 15563 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on 15564 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for 15565 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz, 15566 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and 15567 analyze it. 15568 15569 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 15570 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one 15571 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default 15572 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one 15573 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't 15574 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953. 15575 15576 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9): 15577 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are 15578 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their 15579 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine- 15580 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x 15581 or later. 15582 15583 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15584 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes 15585 ticket 24394. 15586 15587 o Minor features (geoip): 15588 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 15589 Country database. 15590 15591 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha): 15592 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on 15593 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor 15594 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470; 15595 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha. 15596 15597 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha): 15598 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code. 15599 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 15600 15601 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 15602 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any 15603 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect 15604 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the 15605 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message. 15606 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 15607 15608 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha): 15609 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode. 15610 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our 15611 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode 15612 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 15613 15614 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc): 15615 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291; 15616 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij. 15617 15618 15619 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01 15620 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from 15621 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or 15622 to another of the releases coming out today. 15623 15624 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha): 15625 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes, 15626 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on 15627 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for 15628 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz, 15629 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and 15630 analyze it. 15631 15632 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15633 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a 15634 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while 15635 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor 15636 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor 15637 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every 15638 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821. 15639 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720. 15640 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a 15641 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug 15642 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010 15643 and CVE-2017-8820. 15644 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a 15645 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA- 15646 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for 15647 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to 15648 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps 15649 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on 15650 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009 15651 and CVE-2017-8819. 15652 15653 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15654 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services 15655 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction 15656 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is 15657 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823. 15658 15659 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15660 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path 15661 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the 15662 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part 15663 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked 15664 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822. 15665 15666 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9): 15667 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are 15668 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their 15669 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine- 15670 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x 15671 or later. 15672 15673 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15674 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes 15675 ticket 24394. 15676 15677 o Minor features (geoip): 15678 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 15679 Country database. 15680 15681 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 15682 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one 15683 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default 15684 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one 15685 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't 15686 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953. 15687 15688 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha): 15689 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on 15690 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor 15691 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470; 15692 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha. 15693 15694 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha): 15695 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code. 15696 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 15697 15698 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 15699 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any 15700 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect 15701 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the 15702 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message. 15703 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 15704 15705 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha): 15706 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode. 15707 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our 15708 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode 15709 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 15710 15711 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc): 15712 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291; 15713 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij. 15714 15715 15716 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01 15717 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from 15718 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or 15719 to another of the releases coming out today. 15720 15721 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan 15722 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with 15723 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later. 15724 15725 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15726 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a 15727 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while 15728 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor 15729 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor 15730 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every 15731 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821. 15732 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720. 15733 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a 15734 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA- 15735 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for 15736 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to 15737 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps 15738 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on 15739 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009 15740 and CVE-2017-8819. 15741 15742 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15743 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services 15744 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction 15745 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is 15746 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823. 15747 15748 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15749 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through 15750 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of 15751 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534; 15752 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 15753 and CVE-2017-8822. 15754 15755 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9): 15756 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are 15757 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their 15758 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine- 15759 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x 15760 or later. 15761 15762 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15763 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes 15764 ticket 24394. 15765 15766 o Minor features (geoip): 15767 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 15768 Country database. 15769 15770 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc): 15771 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291; 15772 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij. 15773 15774 15775 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01 15776 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from 15777 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or 15778 to another of the releases coming out today. 15779 15780 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May 15781 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to 15782 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later. 15783 15784 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15785 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a 15786 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while 15787 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor 15788 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor 15789 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every 15790 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821. 15791 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720. 15792 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a 15793 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA- 15794 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for 15795 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to 15796 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps 15797 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on 15798 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009 15799 and CVE-2017-8819. 15800 15801 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): 15802 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path 15803 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the 15804 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part 15805 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked 15806 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822. 15807 15808 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9): 15809 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are 15810 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their 15811 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine- 15812 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x 15813 or later. 15814 15815 o Minor features (geoip): 15816 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 15817 Country database. 15818 15819 15820 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22 15821 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It 15822 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for 15823 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing 15824 since the 0.3.0.x series. 15825 15826 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be 15827 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found 15828 in them. 15829 15830 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping): 15831 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build 15832 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing. 15833 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer 15834 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors 15835 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on 15836 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in 15837 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our 15838 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits. 15839 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed 15840 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix 15841 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 15842 15843 o Minor features (directory authority): 15844 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit 15845 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays 15846 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of 15847 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637. 15848 15849 o Minor features (geoip): 15850 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 15851 Country database. 15852 15853 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 15854 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly 15855 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315. 15856 15857 o Minor features (logging): 15858 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's 15859 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes 15860 ticket 24097. 15861 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts 15862 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963. 15863 15864 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 15865 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related 15866 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying 15867 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha. 15868 Found and patched by Alex Xu. 15869 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make 15870 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783; 15871 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. 15872 15873 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox): 15874 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together 15875 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix 15876 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 15877 15878 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services): 15879 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the 15880 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor. 15881 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 15882 15883 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache): 15884 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache 15885 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 15886 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful, 15887 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial 15888 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails 15889 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the 15890 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a 15891 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix 15892 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 15893 15894 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 15895 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug 15896 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15897 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already 15898 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice 15899 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave 15900 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 15901 15902 o Minor bugfixes (network layer): 15903 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we 15904 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from 15905 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a 15906 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various 15907 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 15908 15909 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 15910 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while 15911 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro 15912 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones 15913 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 15914 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval" 15915 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix 15916 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 15917 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that 15918 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug 15919 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15920 15921 o Minor bugfixes (tests): 15922 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases. 15923 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha. 15924 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(), 15925 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of 15926 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but 15927 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on 15928 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177. 15929 15930 o Documentation: 15931 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various 15932 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler 15933 section. Closes ticket 24254. 15934 15935 15936 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08 15937 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. 15938 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including 15939 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in 15940 recent months. 15941 15942 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS): 15943 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes, 15944 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on 15945 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for 15946 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz, 15947 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and 15948 analyze it. 15949 15950 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel): 15951 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing 15952 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails 15953 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop. 15954 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15955 15956 o Minor features (logging, scheduler): 15957 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about 15958 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler. 15959 Closes ticket 23753. 15960 15961 o Minor features (removed deprecations): 15962 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in 15963 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default 15964 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of 15965 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031. 15966 15967 o Minor features (testing): 15968 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion 15969 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509. 15970 15971 o Minor bugfixes (directory client): 15972 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts 15973 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm. 15974 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays 15975 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 15976 15977 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services): 15978 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and 15979 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4, 15980 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual- 15981 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix 15982 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15983 15984 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay): 15985 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not 15986 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay. 15987 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged 15988 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15989 15990 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service): 15991 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is 15992 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115; 15993 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15994 15995 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks): 15996 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug 15997 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix 15998 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 15999 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion 16000 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16001 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994. 16002 16003 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 16004 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of 16005 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623; 16006 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16007 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required 16008 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16009 16010 o Minor bugfixes (path selection): 16011 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that 16012 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly. 16013 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards 16014 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's 16015 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got 16016 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha. 16017 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and 16018 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of 16019 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 16020 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths(). 16021 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha. 16022 16023 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash): 16024 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode. 16025 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our 16026 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode 16027 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 16028 16029 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 16030 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found 16031 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha. 16032 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running 16033 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later. 16034 Closes ticket 24109. 16035 16036 16037 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27 16038 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes 16039 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new 16040 directory authority, Bastet. 16041 16042 o Directory authority changes: 16043 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list. 16044 Closes ticket 23910. 16045 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address. 16046 Closes ticket 23592. 16047 16048 o Minor features (bridge): 16049 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to 16050 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge 16051 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge 16052 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does 16053 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature 16054 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge 16055 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329. 16056 16057 o Minor features (client, entry guards): 16058 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards. 16059 Resolves ticket 23670. 16060 16061 o Minor features (geoip): 16062 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 16063 Country database. 16064 16065 o Minor bugfixes (bridge): 16066 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving 16067 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured 16068 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 16069 16070 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): 16071 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing 16072 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 16073 16074 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards): 16075 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus 16076 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use 16077 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where 16078 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug 16079 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 16080 16081 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client): 16082 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address, 16083 only fetch the service descriptor once. 16084 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close 16085 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653; 16086 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16087 16088 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service): 16089 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior 16090 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get 16091 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch 16092 from "cathugger". 16093 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point 16094 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002; 16095 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16096 16097 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2): 16098 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information 16099 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted, 16100 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug 16101 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha. 16102 16103 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming): 16104 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns 16105 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 16106 16107 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 16108 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an 16109 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix 16110 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16111 16112 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 16113 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of 16114 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. 16115 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output 16116 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 16117 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail 16118 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some 16119 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix 16120 on 0.3.2.2-alpha. 16121 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI. 16122 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes 16123 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. 16124 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the 16125 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix 16126 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16127 16128 o Minor bugfixes (warnings): 16129 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about 16130 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is 16131 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when 16132 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix 16133 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16134 16135 16136 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25 16137 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release 16138 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet. 16139 16140 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May 16141 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to 16142 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later. 16143 16144 o Directory authority changes: 16145 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list. 16146 Closes ticket 23910. 16147 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address. 16148 Closes ticket 23592. 16149 16150 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 16151 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of 16152 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol() 16153 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug 16154 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007. 16155 16156 o Minor features (geoip): 16157 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 16158 Country database. 16159 16160 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha): 16161 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This 16162 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are 16163 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes, 16164 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler 16165 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make 16166 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the 16167 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on 16168 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591. 16169 16170 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 16171 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI) 16172 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new 16173 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be 16174 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect 16175 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your 16176 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the 16177 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push 16178 your changes. Closes ticket 22636. 16179 16180 16181 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25 16182 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release 16183 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays 16184 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet. 16185 16186 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan 16187 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with 16188 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later. 16189 16190 o Directory authority changes: 16191 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list. 16192 Closes ticket 23910. 16193 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address. 16194 Closes ticket 23592. 16195 16196 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16197 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the 16198 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer. 16199 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 16200 16201 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16202 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority 16203 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves 16204 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also 16205 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760. 16206 16207 o Minor features (geoip): 16208 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 16209 Country database. 16210 16211 16212 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25 16213 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release 16214 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays 16215 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet. 16216 16217 o Directory authority changes: 16218 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list. 16219 Closes ticket 23910. 16220 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address. 16221 Closes ticket 23592. 16222 16223 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16224 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the 16225 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer. 16226 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 16227 16228 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16229 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority 16230 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves 16231 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also 16232 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760. 16233 16234 o Minor features (geoip): 16235 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 16236 Country database. 16237 16238 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 16239 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with 16240 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do 16241 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously 16242 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we 16243 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This 16244 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities 16245 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix 16246 on 0.2.1.19-alpha. 16247 16248 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha): 16249 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early. 16250 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 16251 16252 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc): 16253 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread 16254 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to 16255 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event 16256 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion 16257 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 16258 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort". 16259 16260 16261 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25 16262 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release 16263 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays 16264 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet. 16265 16266 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan 16267 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with 16268 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later. 16269 16270 o Directory authority changes: 16271 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list. 16272 Closes ticket 23910. 16273 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address. 16274 Closes ticket 23592. 16275 16276 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16277 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the 16278 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer. 16279 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 16280 16281 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16282 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority 16283 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves 16284 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also 16285 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760. 16286 16287 o Minor features (geoip): 16288 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 16289 Country database. 16290 16291 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 16292 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with 16293 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do 16294 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously 16295 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we 16296 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This 16297 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities 16298 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix 16299 on 0.2.1.19-alpha. 16300 16301 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16302 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on 16303 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610; 16304 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 16305 16306 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha): 16307 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early. 16308 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 16309 16310 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc): 16311 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread 16312 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to 16313 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event 16314 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion 16315 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 16316 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort". 16317 16318 16319 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25 16320 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series. 16321 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue 16322 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds 16323 a new directory authority, Bastet. 16324 16325 o Directory authority changes: 16326 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list. 16327 Closes ticket 23910. 16328 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address. 16329 Closes ticket 23592. 16330 16331 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16332 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the 16333 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer. 16334 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 16335 16336 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16337 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority 16338 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves 16339 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also 16340 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760. 16341 16342 o Minor features (geoip): 16343 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 16344 Country database. 16345 16346 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16347 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on 16348 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found 16349 and fixed by Andreas Stieger. 16350 16351 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16352 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when 16353 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix 16354 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 16355 16356 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha): 16357 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can 16358 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc. 16359 16360 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16361 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on 16362 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610; 16363 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 16364 16365 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha): 16366 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early. 16367 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 16368 16369 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): 16370 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked 16371 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix 16372 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 16373 16374 16375 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29 16376 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This 16377 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next- 16378 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2 16379 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal 16380 tracebacks which would appear in logs. 16381 16382 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this 16383 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features 16384 include better testing and logging. 16385 16386 The following comprises the complete list of changes included 16387 in 0.3.2.2-alpha: 16388 16389 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure): 16390 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the 16391 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer. 16392 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 16393 16394 o Major bugfixes (scheduler): 16395 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it 16396 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes 16397 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells 16398 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race 16399 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug 16400 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16401 16402 o Minor features (build, compilation): 16403 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests; 16404 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from 16405 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564. 16406 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the 16407 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the 16408 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we 16409 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes. 16410 Closes ticket 23643. 16411 16412 o Minor features (directory authorities): 16413 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority 16414 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves 16415 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also 16416 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760. 16417 16418 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging): 16419 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print 16420 the circuit identifier(s). 16421 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when 16422 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604. 16423 16424 o Minor features (logging): 16425 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to 16426 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan. 16427 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185. 16428 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to 16429 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645. 16430 16431 o Minor features (relay): 16432 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider 16433 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE 16434 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even 16435 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805. 16436 16437 o Minor features (robustness): 16438 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non- 16439 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690. 16440 16441 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic): 16442 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the 16443 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version, 16444 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems 16445 related to ticket 23080. 16446 16447 o Minor features (testing): 16448 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform 16449 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes 16450 ticket 22109. 16451 16452 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping): 16453 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct 16454 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix 16455 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 16456 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew 16457 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix 16458 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16459 16460 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation): 16461 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on 16462 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found 16463 and fixed by Andreas Stieger. 16464 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that 16465 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions. 16466 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present. 16467 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems 16468 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 16469 16470 o Minor bugfixes (compression): 16471 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when 16472 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix 16473 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 16474 16475 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): 16476 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled) 16477 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of 16478 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 16479 16480 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3): 16481 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right 16482 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases, 16483 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would 16484 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16485 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is 16486 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden 16487 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix 16488 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16489 16490 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay): 16491 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on 16492 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610; 16493 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 16494 16495 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance): 16496 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any 16497 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect 16498 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the 16499 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message. 16500 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 16501 16502 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler): 16503 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't 16504 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix 16505 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16506 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With 16507 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it 16508 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16509 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler 16510 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16511 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused 16512 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix 16513 on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16514 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can 16515 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not 16516 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581; 16517 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16518 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is 16519 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16520 16521 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 16522 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit 16523 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix 16524 on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 16525 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked 16526 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix 16527 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 16528 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to 16529 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make 16530 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16531 16532 o Code simplification and refactoring: 16533 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for 16534 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of 16535 ticket 22805. 16536 16537 o Deprecated features: 16538 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are 16539 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no 16540 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704. 16541 16542 o Documentation: 16543 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now 16544 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. 16545 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an 16546 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891. 16547 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what 16548 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405. 16549 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored. 16550 Closes ticket 18736. 16551 16552 16553 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18 16554 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It 16555 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service 16556 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive 16557 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small 16558 features and bugfixes here. 16559 16560 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7. 16561 16562 o Major feature (scheduler, channel): 16563 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should 16564 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The 16565 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"), 16566 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from 16567 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too 16568 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it 16569 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel 16570 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old 16571 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change 16572 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers" 16573 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".) 16574 16575 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen, 16576 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For 16577 more information, see the design paper at 16578 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the 16579 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044. 16580 Closes ticket 12541. 16581 16582 o Major features (next-generation onion services): 16583 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for 16584 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of 16585 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for 16586 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of 16587 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy 16588 system, including: 16589 16590 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024 16591 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519) 16592 16593 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to 16594 directory servers. 16595 16596 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for 16597 targeted attacks. 16598 16599 d) Better onion address security against impersonation. 16600 16601 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol. 16602 16603 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase. 16604 16605 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length: 16606 they are 56 characters long, as in 16607 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion". 16608 16609 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3 16610 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the 16611 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features 16612 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved 16613 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see 16614 proposal 224. 16615 16616 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable 16617 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets 16618 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with 16619 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc 16620 directive along with the regular onion service configuration 16621 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature 16622 soon! Enjoy! 16623 16624 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port): 16625 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so 16626 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are 16627 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. 16628 16629 o Minor features (bug detection): 16630 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call 16631 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused 16632 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281. 16633 16634 o Minor features (client): 16635 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new 16636 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT 16637 requests. Closes ticket 22407. 16638 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard 16639 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779. 16640 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into 16641 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors. 16642 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant 16643 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression 16644 performance. Closes ticket 23220. 16645 16646 o Minor features (command line): 16647 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when 16648 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket 16649 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft. 16650 16651 o Minor features (control port): 16652 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy, 16653 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message, 16654 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi 16655 Chandra Padmala. 16656 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not 16657 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by 16658 Kevin Butler. 16659 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller 16660 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and 16661 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684. 16662 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available", 16663 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded. 16664 Closes ticket 23237. 16665 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth 16666 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC". 16667 16668 o Minor features (development support): 16669 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the 16670 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It 16671 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work 16672 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from 16673 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run 16674 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307. 16675 16676 o Minor features (ed25519): 16677 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in 16678 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes 16679 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg. 16680 16681 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS): 16682 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when 16683 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056. 16684 16685 o Minor features (integration, hardening): 16686 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other 16687 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run 16688 another program, regardless of the settings of 16689 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or 16690 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled 16691 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976. 16692 16693 o Minor features (logging): 16694 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname. 16695 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still 16696 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes 16697 ticket 20488. 16698 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that 16699 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090. 16700 16701 o Minor features (portability): 16702 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as 16703 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this 16704 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the 16705 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410. 16706 16707 o Minor features (relay, configuration): 16708 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is 16709 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory- 16710 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing 16711 results. Closes ticket 22731. 16712 16713 o Minor features (startup, safety): 16714 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable 16715 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes 16716 ticket 20119. 16717 16718 o Minor features (static analysis): 16719 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no 16720 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes 16721 ticket 23054. 16722 16723 o Minor features (testing): 16724 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3 16725 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of 16726 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437. 16727 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden 16728 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554. 16729 16730 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling): 16731 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after 16732 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by 16733 Coverity as CID 1415728. 16734 16735 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability): 16736 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and 16737 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when 16738 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to 16739 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks 16740 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when 16741 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461; 16742 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha. 16743 16744 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness): 16745 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value. 16746 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on 16747 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct. 16748 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 16749 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data() 16750 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix 16751 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken. 16752 16753 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 16754 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code. 16755 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 16756 16757 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry): 16758 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor 16759 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information 16760 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha. 16761 16762 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol): 16763 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response 16764 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a 16765 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from 16766 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client 16767 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix 16768 on 0.0.8rc1. 16769 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a 16770 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix 16771 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 16772 16773 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance): 16774 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without 16775 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than 16776 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 16777 16778 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness): 16779 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the 16780 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in 16781 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the 16782 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or 16783 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature. 16784 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha, 16785 and 0.2.2.28-beta. 16786 16787 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat): 16788 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the 16789 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes 16790 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 16791 16792 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging): 16793 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library. 16794 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". 16795 16796 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 16797 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local 16798 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup. 16799 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. 16800 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user 16801 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix 16802 on 0.2.2.25-alpha. 16803 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per 16804 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number 16805 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix 16806 on 0.1.1.8-alpha. 16807 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the 16808 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log 16809 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix 16810 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 16811 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log 16812 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug 16813 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor. 16814 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue. 16815 16816 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 16817 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU 16818 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 16819 16820 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 16821 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup, 16822 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than 16823 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha. 16824 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on 16825 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor 16826 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470; 16827 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha. 16828 16829 o Minor bugfixes (tests): 16830 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing 16831 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366; 16832 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha. 16833 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for 16834 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we 16835 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 16836 16837 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port): 16838 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew 16839 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock 16840 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 16841 16842 o Code simplification and refactoring: 16843 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate 16844 function from the general code to handle channel state 16845 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the 16846 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a 16847 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608. 16848 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of 16849 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug 16850 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft. 16851 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old 16852 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch 16853 from "huyvq". 16854 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed" 16855 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes 16856 ticket 22215. 16857 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP 16858 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for 16859 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026. 16860 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket 16861 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan. 16862 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into 16863 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804. 16864 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular 16865 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149. 16866 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful 16867 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to 16868 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497. 16869 16870 o Deprecated features: 16871 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They 16872 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your 16873 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes 16874 ticket 20575. 16875 16876 o Documentation: 16877 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux 16878 kernels. Closes ticket 22677. 16879 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage. 16880 Closes ticket 15645. 16881 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the 16882 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152. 16883 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers" 16884 file. Closes ticket 21148. 16885 16886 o Removed features: 16887 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been 16888 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426. 16889 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on 16890 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. 16891 Closes ticket 21031. 16892 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event: 16893 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377. 16894 16895 16896 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18 16897 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later 16898 Tor series. 16899 16900 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a 16901 security bug that affects hidden services running with the 16902 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see 16903 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490 16904 16905 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan 16906 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if 16907 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to 16908 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020. 16909 16910 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 16911 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of 16912 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol() 16913 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug 16914 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007. 16915 16916 o Minor features: 16917 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 16918 Country database. 16919 16920 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 16921 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared 16922 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on 16923 0.2.8.1-alpha. 16924 16925 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha): 16926 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This 16927 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are 16928 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes, 16929 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler 16930 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make 16931 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the 16932 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on 16933 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591. 16934 16935 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 16936 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI) 16937 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new 16938 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be 16939 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect 16940 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your 16941 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the 16942 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push 16943 your changes. Closes ticket 22636. 16944 16945 16946 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18 16947 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later 16948 Tor series. 16949 16950 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a 16951 security bug that affects hidden services running with the 16952 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see 16953 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490 16954 16955 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha): 16956 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server 16957 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the 16958 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and 16959 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL 16960 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3 16961 hours long. Closes ticket 19769. 16962 16963 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc): 16964 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose 16965 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug 16966 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett. 16967 16968 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha): 16969 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for 16970 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 16971 16972 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 16973 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying 16974 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 16975 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ". 16976 16977 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 16978 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of 16979 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol() 16980 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug 16981 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007. 16982 16983 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): 16984 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence 16985 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas 16986 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446. 16987 16988 o Minor features (geoip): 16989 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 16990 Country database. 16991 16992 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 16993 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute, 16994 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1. 16995 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio. 16996 16997 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 16998 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915; 16999 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 17000 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support 17001 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 17002 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid 17003 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(), 17004 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 17005 17006 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7): 17007 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf() 17008 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 17009 17010 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 17011 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared 17012 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on 17013 0.2.8.1-alpha. 17014 17015 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7): 17016 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body. 17017 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 17018 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an 17019 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 17020 17021 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 17022 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By 17023 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an 17024 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro 17025 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it. 17026 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 17027 17028 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha): 17029 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This 17030 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are 17031 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes, 17032 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler 17033 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make 17034 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the 17035 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on 17036 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591. 17037 17038 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 17039 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS, 17040 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes 17041 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 17042 17043 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 17044 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and 17045 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 17046 17047 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha): 17048 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when 17049 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of 17050 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug 17051 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 17052 17053 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc): 17054 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we 17055 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix 17056 on 0.1.0.1-rc. 17057 17058 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 17059 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or 17060 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version 17061 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507 17062 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. 17063 17064 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 17065 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI) 17066 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new 17067 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be 17068 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect 17069 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your 17070 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the 17071 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push 17072 your changes. Closes ticket 22636. 17073 17074 17075 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18 17076 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1 17077 series. 17078 17079 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a 17080 security bug that affects hidden services running with the 17081 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see 17082 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490 17083 17084 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7): 17085 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence 17086 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas 17087 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446. 17088 17089 o Minor features: 17090 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 17091 Country database. 17092 17093 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7): 17094 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf() 17095 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 17096 17097 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7): 17098 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body. 17099 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 17100 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty 17101 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 17102 17103 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 17104 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS, 17105 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes 17106 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 17107 17108 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc): 17109 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point 17110 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with 17111 a client. 17112 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to 17113 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network 17114 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on 17115 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha. 17116 17117 17118 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18 17119 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series. 17120 17121 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory 17122 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It 17123 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic 17124 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust 17125 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous 17126 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for 17127 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2. 17128 17129 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug 17130 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option 17131 disabled. For more information, see 17132 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490 17133 17134 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release 17135 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after 17136 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If 17137 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay 17138 with the 0.2.9 series. 17139 17140 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all 17141 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file. 17142 17143 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging): 17144 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain 17145 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled. 17146 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as 17147 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380. 17148 17149 o Minor features (defensive programming): 17150 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and 17151 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus 17152 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes 17153 ticket 17857. 17154 17155 o Minor features (diagnostic): 17156 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when 17157 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic 17158 attempt for bug 23105. 17159 17160 o Minor features (geoip): 17161 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 17162 Country database. 17163 17164 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 17165 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf() 17166 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 17167 17168 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 17169 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body. 17170 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 17171 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty 17172 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 17173 17174 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 17175 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on 17176 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug 17177 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17178 17179 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests): 17180 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using 17181 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix 17182 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17183 17184 17185 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05 17186 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1 17187 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on 17188 Windows directory caches. 17189 17190 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we 17191 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release 17192 will be nearly identical to it. 17193 17194 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache): 17195 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and 17196 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow 17197 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger, 17198 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug 17199 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17200 17201 o Minor features (directory authority): 17202 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present 17203 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys. 17204 Closes ticket 22348. 17205 17206 o Minor features (geoip): 17207 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 17208 Country database. 17209 17210 o Minor features (testing): 17211 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes 17212 ticket 22286. 17213 17214 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache): 17215 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache. 17216 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17217 17218 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service): 17219 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to 17220 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it 17221 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points. 17222 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc. 17223 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be 17224 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix 17225 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop". 17226 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of 17227 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17228 17229 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay): 17230 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point 17231 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with 17232 a client. 17233 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to 17234 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network 17235 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on 17236 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha. 17237 17238 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 17239 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no 17240 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff 17241 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes 17242 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17243 17244 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling): 17245 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a 17246 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't 17247 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now 17248 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions 17249 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken. 17250 17251 o Minor bugfixes (stability): 17252 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an 17253 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found 17254 with the clang static analyzer. 17255 17256 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 17257 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291; 17258 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij. 17259 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent 17260 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix 17261 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17262 17263 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service): 17264 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread 17265 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to 17266 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event 17267 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion 17268 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 17269 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort". 17270 17271 17272 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02 17273 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes 17274 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users 17275 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9. 17276 17277 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 17278 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI) 17279 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new 17280 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be 17281 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect 17282 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your 17283 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the 17284 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push 17285 your changes. Closes ticket 22636. 17286 17287 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 17288 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying 17289 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 17290 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ". 17291 17292 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 17293 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of 17294 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol() 17295 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug 17296 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007. 17297 17298 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 17299 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 17300 Country database. 17301 17302 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha): 17303 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute, 17304 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1. 17305 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio. 17306 17307 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 17308 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915; 17309 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 17310 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt 17311 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 17312 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files, 17313 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions 17314 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix 17315 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 17316 17317 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 17318 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared 17319 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on 17320 0.2.8.1-alpha. 17321 17322 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 17323 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By 17324 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an 17325 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro 17326 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it. 17327 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 17328 17329 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 17330 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version 17331 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version, 17332 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 17333 17334 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): 17335 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and 17336 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 17337 17338 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha) 17339 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test. 17340 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17341 17342 17343 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01 17344 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff 17345 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes 17346 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the 17347 next version will be a release candidate. 17348 17349 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x, 17350 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no 17351 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing 17352 one of those versions should upgrade. 17353 17354 o Major features (build system, continuous integration): 17355 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI) 17356 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new 17357 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be 17358 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect 17359 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your 17360 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the 17361 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push 17362 your changes. Closes ticket 22636. 17363 17364 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service): 17365 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of 17366 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol() 17367 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug 17368 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007. 17369 17370 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance): 17371 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we 17372 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should 17373 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a 17374 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug 17375 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17376 17377 o Minor features (bridge authority): 17378 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced 17379 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207. 17380 17381 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff): 17382 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache 17383 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of 17384 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache 17385 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around 17386 bug 22883. 17387 17388 o Minor features (geoip): 17389 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 17390 Country database. 17391 17392 o Minor features (relay, performance): 17393 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent 17394 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883. 17395 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so 17396 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out 17397 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for 17398 bug 22883. 17399 17400 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust): 17401 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when 17402 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the 17403 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug 17404 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo. 17405 17406 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd): 17407 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires 17408 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0. 17409 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug 17410 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17411 17412 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings): 17413 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 17414 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 17415 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt 17416 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 17417 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are 17418 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892; 17419 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17420 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files, 17421 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions 17422 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix 17423 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 17424 17425 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support): 17426 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By 17427 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an 17428 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro 17429 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it. 17430 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 17431 17432 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): 17433 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with 17434 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do 17435 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously 17436 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we 17437 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This 17438 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities 17439 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix 17440 on 0.2.1.19-alpha. 17441 17442 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows): 17443 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to 17444 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha. 17445 Patch from "Vort". 17446 17447 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx): 17448 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS, 17449 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes 17450 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 17451 17452 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 17453 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and 17454 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 17455 17456 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks): 17457 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses 17458 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug 17459 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725. 17460 17461 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests): 17462 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X 17463 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero), 17464 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test 17465 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17466 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test. 17467 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17468 17469 17470 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29 17471 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client 17472 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit 17473 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier 17474 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 17475 or 0.3.1.4-alpha. 17476 17477 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x 17478 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage 17479 and correctness. 17480 17481 o New dependencies: 17482 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the 17483 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in 17484 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to 17485 close ticket 22623.) 17486 17487 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security): 17488 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's 17489 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard 17490 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family. 17491 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017- 17492 006 and CVE-2017-0377. 17493 17494 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd): 17495 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd- 17496 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full 17497 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17498 17499 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol): 17500 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a 17501 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and 17502 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug 17503 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17504 17505 o Major bugfixes (entry guards): 17506 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards 17507 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes 17508 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17509 17510 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging): 17511 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when 17512 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows. 17513 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752. 17514 17515 o Minor features (geoip): 17516 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 17517 Country database. 17518 17519 o Minor bugfixes (compression): 17520 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to 17521 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix 17522 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17523 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of 17524 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17525 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory 17526 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable 17527 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an 17528 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix 17529 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17530 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to 17531 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix 17532 on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17533 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to 17534 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not 17535 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch 17536 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our 17537 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. 17538 17539 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming): 17540 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We 17541 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be 17542 safe. Closes ticket 22672. 17543 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This 17544 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are 17545 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes, 17546 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler 17547 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make 17548 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the 17549 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on 17550 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591. 17551 17552 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 17553 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when 17554 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of 17555 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug 17556 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 17557 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and 17558 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by 17559 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to 17560 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17561 17562 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 17563 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a 17564 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug 17565 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha. 17566 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and 17567 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug 17568 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. 17569 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level 17570 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning 17571 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug 17572 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 17573 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if 17574 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice 17575 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow 17576 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout). 17577 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17578 17579 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior): 17580 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit 17581 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit 17582 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure, 17583 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug 17584 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and 17585 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch 17586 from "huyvq". 17587 17588 o Documentation: 17589 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes 17590 ticket 22347. 17591 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the 17592 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes 17593 ticket 16082. 17594 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including 17595 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats, 17596 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing 17597 ticket 22347. 17598 17599 17600 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29 17601 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client 17602 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit 17603 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier 17604 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or 17605 0.3.1.4-alpha. 17606 17607 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x 17608 series. 17609 17610 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha): 17611 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's 17612 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard 17613 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family. 17614 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017- 17615 006 and CVE-2017-0377. 17616 17617 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 17618 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we 17619 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug 17620 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha. 17621 17622 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha): 17623 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards 17624 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes 17625 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17626 17627 o Minor features (geoip): 17628 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 17629 Country database. 17630 17631 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 17632 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or 17633 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version 17634 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507 17635 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. 17636 17637 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha): 17638 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when 17639 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of 17640 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug 17641 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 17642 17643 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha): 17644 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This 17645 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are 17646 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes, 17647 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler 17648 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make 17649 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the 17650 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on 17651 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591. 17652 17653 17654 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08 17655 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to 17656 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone 17657 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some 17658 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005. 17659 17660 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs 17661 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other 17662 bugfixes described below. 17663 17664 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security): 17665 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service 17666 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as 17667 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17668 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a 17669 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug 17670 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix 17671 on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 17672 17673 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake): 17674 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report 17675 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that 17676 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that 17677 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have 17678 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes 17679 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix 17680 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 17681 17682 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management): 17683 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key 17684 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates 17685 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were 17686 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours) 17687 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which 17688 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460; 17689 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17690 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell, 17691 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we 17692 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition 17693 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but 17694 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix 17695 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17696 17697 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash): 17698 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417; 17699 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto. 17700 17701 o Minor features (code style): 17702 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence 17703 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas 17704 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446. 17705 17706 o Minor features (diagnostic): 17707 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to 17708 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We 17709 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but 17710 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466. 17711 17712 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 17713 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6 17714 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha. 17715 17716 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol): 17717 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the 17718 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17719 17720 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake): 17721 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six 17722 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring. 17723 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a 17724 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor 17725 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466; 17726 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17727 17728 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories): 17729 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage. 17730 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a 17731 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424; 17732 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 17733 17734 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests): 17735 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured 17736 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix 17737 on 0.0.9pre2. 17738 17739 o Documentation: 17740 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes 17741 ticket 6892. 17742 17743 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08 17744 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to 17745 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone 17746 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some 17747 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005. 17748 17749 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs 17750 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other 17751 bugfixes described below. 17752 17753 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport 17754 from 0.3.1.3-alpha): 17755 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service 17756 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as 17757 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17758 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a 17759 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug 17760 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix 17761 on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 17762 17763 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): 17764 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report 17765 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that 17766 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that 17767 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have 17768 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes 17769 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix 17770 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 17771 17772 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): 17773 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key 17774 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates 17775 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were 17776 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours) 17777 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which 17778 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460; 17779 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17780 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell, 17781 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we 17782 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition 17783 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but 17784 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix 17785 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17786 17787 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 17788 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size 17789 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on 17790 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17791 17792 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): 17793 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in 17794 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of 17795 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May 17796 2017. Resolves ticket 21564. 17797 17798 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): 17799 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes 17800 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 17801 17802 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): 17803 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6 17804 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha. 17805 17806 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): 17807 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six 17808 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring. 17809 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a 17810 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor 17811 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466; 17812 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 17813 17814 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from 17815 0.3.1.2-alpha): 17816 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to 17817 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the 17818 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 17819 17820 17821 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08 17822 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to 17823 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone 17824 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some 17825 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0 17826 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.) 17827 17828 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs 17829 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other 17830 bugfixes described below. 17831 17832 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport 17833 from 0.3.1.3-alpha): 17834 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a 17835 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug 17836 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix 17837 on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 17838 17839 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): 17840 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report 17841 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that 17842 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that 17843 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have 17844 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes 17845 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix 17846 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 17847 17848 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): 17849 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in 17850 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of 17851 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May 17852 2017. Resolves ticket 21564. 17853 17854 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7): 17855 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if 17856 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will 17857 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates 17858 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the 17859 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%. 17860 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275. 17861 17862 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc) 17863 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions 17864 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays 17865 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache 17866 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509. 17867 17868 o Minor features (geoip): 17869 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 17870 Country database. 17871 17872 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6): 17873 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because 17874 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when 17875 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 17876 17877 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): 17878 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6 17879 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha. 17880 17881 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7): 17882 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2 17883 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other 17884 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the 17885 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix 17886 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 17887 17888 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport 17889 from 0.3.1.2-alpha): 17890 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to 17891 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the 17892 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 17893 17894 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08 17895 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to 17896 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone 17897 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some 17898 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0 17899 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.) 17900 17901 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security): 17902 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a 17903 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug 17904 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix 17905 on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 17906 17907 o Minor features (geoip): 17908 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 17909 Country database. 17910 17911 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): 17912 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in 17913 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of 17914 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May 17915 2017. Resolves ticket 21564. 17916 17917 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 17918 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6 17919 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha. 17920 17921 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08 17922 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to 17923 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone 17924 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some 17925 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0 17926 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.) 17927 17928 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security): 17929 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a 17930 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug 17931 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix 17932 on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 17933 17934 o Minor features (geoip): 17935 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 17936 Country database. 17937 17938 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 17939 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6 17940 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha. 17941 17942 17943 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08 17944 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to 17945 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone 17946 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some 17947 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0 17948 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.) 17949 17950 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security): 17951 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a 17952 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug 17953 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix 17954 on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 17955 17956 o Minor features (geoip): 17957 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 17958 Country database. 17959 17960 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 17961 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6 17962 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha. 17963 17964 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08 17965 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to 17966 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone 17967 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some 17968 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0 17969 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.) 17970 17971 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security): 17972 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a 17973 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug 17974 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix 17975 on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 17976 17977 o Minor features (geoip): 17978 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 17979 Country database. 17980 17981 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 17982 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6 17983 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha. 17984 17985 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08 17986 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to 17987 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone 17988 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some 17989 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0 17990 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.) 17991 17992 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security): 17993 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a 17994 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug 17995 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix 17996 on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 17997 17998 o Minor features (geoip): 17999 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 18000 Country database. 18001 18002 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 18003 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6 18004 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha. 18005 18006 18007 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26 18008 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It 18009 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a 18010 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability. 18011 18012 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay): 18013 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily. 18014 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making 18015 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes 18016 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. 18017 18018 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 18019 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an 18020 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix 18021 on 0.1.0.1-rc. 18022 18023 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority): 18024 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to 18025 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the 18026 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 18027 18028 18029 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22 18030 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It 18031 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some 18032 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as 18033 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the 18034 build system. 18035 18036 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to 18037 security, correctness, and performance. 18038 18039 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7. 18040 18041 o Major features (directory protocol): 18042 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated 18043 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes 18044 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients 18045 now request these documents when available. When both client and 18046 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up 18047 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements 18048 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí. 18049 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd 18050 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth 18051 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only 18052 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many 18053 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built 18054 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements 18055 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662. 18056 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and 18057 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation 18058 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives. 18059 18060 o Major features (experimental): 18061 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass 18062 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to 18063 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality 18064 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you 18065 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and 18066 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can 18067 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106. 18068 18069 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance): 18070 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in 18071 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus 18072 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized 18073 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine 18074 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against 18075 Tor users. 18076 18077 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays 18078 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may 18079 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting 18080 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting 18081 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile 18082 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements 18083 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861. 18084 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell 18085 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0 18086 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to 18087 multiples of 10000. 18088 18089 o Major bugfixes (connection usage): 18090 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved 18091 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that 18092 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for 18093 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree 18094 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest 18095 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce 18096 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between 18097 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. 18098 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for 18099 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of 18100 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per 18101 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level. 18102 Otherwise it is at info. 18103 18104 o Major bugfixes (entry guards): 18105 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we 18106 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug 18107 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha. 18108 18109 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support): 18110 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying 18111 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 18112 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ". 18113 18114 o Minor features (security, windows): 18115 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one 18116 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default 18117 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one 18118 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't 18119 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953. 18120 18121 o Minor features (config options): 18122 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These 18123 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the 18124 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto. 18125 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has 18126 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to 18127 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922. 18128 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF 18129 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922. 18130 18131 o Minor features (controller): 18132 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long- 18133 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703. 18134 18135 o Minor features (defaults): 18136 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which 18137 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper 18138 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they 18139 can. Closes ticket 21407. 18140 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a 18141 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default 18142 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion 18143 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make 18144 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth. 18145 Closes ticket 21641. 18146 18147 o Minor features (fallback directory list): 18148 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based 18149 on operator emails. Closes task 21121. 18150 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in 18151 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of 18152 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May 18153 2017. Resolves ticket 21564. 18154 18155 o Minor features (hidden services, logging): 18156 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer 18157 introduction points than specified in 18158 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598. 18159 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point 18160 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket 18161 21594; closes ticket 21622. 18162 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one 18163 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a 18164 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket 18165 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155. 18166 18167 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 18168 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux 18169 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and 18170 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for 18171 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645 18172 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE) 18173 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in 18174 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in 18175 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for 18176 compression. Closes ticket 22096. 18177 18178 o Minor features (logging): 18179 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default. 18180 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non- 18181 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This 18182 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch 18183 from toralf. 18184 18185 o Minor features (performance): 18186 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more 18187 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes 18188 ticket 21737. 18189 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to 18190 speed some controller functions. 18191 18192 o Minor features (relay, configuration): 18193 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired, 18194 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket 18195 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto. 18196 18197 o Minor features (safety): 18198 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for 18199 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may 18200 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes 18201 ticket 21496. 18202 18203 o Minor features (testing): 18204 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing. 18205 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of 18206 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs 18207 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for 18208 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned 18209 on. Closes ticket 21439. 18210 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This 18211 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine- 18212 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when 18213 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace 18214 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at 18215 compile time. Implements ticket 13802. 18216 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version 18217 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric 18218 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and 18219 21507. Partially implements 21470. 18220 18221 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting): 18222 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute, 18223 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1. 18224 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio. 18225 18226 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness): 18227 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer 18228 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to 18229 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix 18230 on 0.2.4.23. 18231 18232 o Minor bugfixes (configuration): 18233 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes 18234 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 18235 18236 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan): 18237 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open: 18238 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a 18239 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the 18240 consensus to control the default values for both this preference 18241 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592; 18242 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. 18243 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to 18244 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning 18245 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing 18246 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser 18247 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients 18248 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout 18249 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes. 18250 18251 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 18252 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with 18253 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 18254 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client 18255 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service. 18256 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in 18257 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15 18258 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 18259 18260 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): 18261 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version 18262 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version, 18263 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 18264 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when 18265 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration 18266 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8. 18267 18268 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS): 18269 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a 18270 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as 18271 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey 18272 Karpov using PVS-Studio. 18273 18274 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories): 18275 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and 18276 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha. 18277 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This 18278 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when 18279 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 18280 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913; 18281 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 18282 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port, 18283 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are 18284 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 18285 18286 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 18287 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a 18288 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured. 18289 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 18290 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing 18291 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug 18292 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 18293 18294 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak): 18295 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code. 18296 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto. 18297 18298 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging): 18299 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug" 18300 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case 18301 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug 18302 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha. 18303 18304 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 18305 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the 18306 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on 18307 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 18308 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes 18309 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 18310 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh. 18311 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed, 18312 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699; 18313 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581. 18314 18315 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency): 18316 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or 18317 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version 18318 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507 18319 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. 18320 18321 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay): 18322 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows 18323 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 18324 18325 o Code simplification and refactoring: 18326 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof() 18327 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help 18328 maintainability and readability of the client directory code. 18329 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only 18330 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that 18331 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841. 18332 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more 18333 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra 18334 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646. 18335 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output 18336 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes 18337 ticket 17868. 18338 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value. 18339 Resolves ticket 22213. 18340 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients, 18341 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much 18342 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was 18343 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now 18344 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data 18345 types. Closes ticket 21651. 18346 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of 18347 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663. 18348 18349 o Documentation: 18350 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option. 18351 Closes ticket 21873. 18352 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value. 18353 Closes ticket 21151. 18354 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and 18355 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix 18356 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 18357 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines 18358 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 18359 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or 18360 DNS. Closes ticket 17170. 18361 18362 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060): 18363 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer 18364 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits, 18365 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, 18366 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated 18367 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default 18368 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non- 18369 default behavior is now unavailable. 18370 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and 18371 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in 18372 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close 18373 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period. 18374 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated 18375 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option 18376 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses. 18377 18378 o Removed features (tools): 18379 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we 18380 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by 18381 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have 18382 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer 18383 required. Closes ticket 21842. 18384 18385 18386 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15 18387 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions 18388 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process 18389 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade; 18390 clients are not affected. 18391 18392 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security): 18393 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which 18394 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to 18395 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade. 18396 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002. 18397 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 18398 18399 o Minor features: 18400 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 18401 Country database. 18402 18403 o Minor features (future-proofing): 18404 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors 18405 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will 18406 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates 18407 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the 18408 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%. 18409 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275. 18410 18411 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox): 18412 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2 18413 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other 18414 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the 18415 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix 18416 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 18417 18418 18419 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26 18420 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series. 18421 18422 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to 18423 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old 18424 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been 18425 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced 18426 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly 18427 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard- 18428 capture attacks. 18429 18430 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes, 18431 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp. 18432 18433 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0 18434 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months 18435 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is 18436 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend 18437 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series. 18438 18439 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes 18440 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file. 18441 18442 o Minor features (geoip): 18443 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 18444 Country database. 18445 18446 o Minor bugfixes (control port): 18447 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because 18448 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when 18449 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 18450 18451 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention): 18452 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash 18453 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of 18454 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 18455 18456 18457 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05 18458 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the 18459 0.3.0 release series. 18460 18461 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has 18462 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or 18463 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly 18464 identical to it. 18465 18466 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections): 18467 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose 18468 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug 18469 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett. 18470 18471 o Major bugfixes (guard selection): 18472 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in 18473 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in 18474 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 18475 Reported by "torvlnt33r". 18476 18477 o Minor features (geoip): 18478 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 18479 Country database. 18480 18481 o Minor bugfix (compilation): 18482 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no 18483 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a 18484 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix 18485 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 18486 18487 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 18488 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections, 18489 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit. 18490 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett. 18491 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for 18492 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would 18493 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug 18494 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett. 18495 18496 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks): 18497 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug 18498 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha. 18499 18500 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 18501 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we 18502 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix 18503 on 0.1.0.1-rc. 18504 18505 o Minor bugfixes (tests): 18506 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set 18507 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing 18508 contained guards that had expired since the test was first 18509 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 18510 18511 o Documentation: 18512 - Update the description of the directory server options in the 18513 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set 18514 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720. 18515 18516 18517 18518 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03 18519 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor 18520 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this 18521 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later 18522 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening 18523 option. 18524 18525 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue 18526 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need 18527 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x. 18528 18529 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc): 18530 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor 18531 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with 18532 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor 18533 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases 18534 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix 18535 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz. 18536 18537 o Minor features (geoip): 18538 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 18539 Country database. 18540 18541 18542 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03 18543 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor 18544 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to 18545 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later 18546 release series. 18547 18548 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue 18549 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need 18550 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x. 18551 18552 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc): 18553 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271. 18554 18555 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha): 18556 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge 18557 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690. 18558 18559 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha): 18560 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority: 18561 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch 18562 by "teor". 18563 18564 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8): 18565 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single 18566 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used 18567 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening) 18568 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non- 18569 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of 18570 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on 18571 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE- 18572 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254. 18573 18574 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha): 18575 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort 18576 received a query with multiple address types, and the first 18577 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial. 18578 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 18579 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents 18580 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At 18581 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used 18582 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash 18583 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler 18584 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor, 18585 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket 18586 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001). 18587 18588 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha): 18589 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending 18590 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162; 18591 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely. 18592 Reported by Guido Vranken. 18593 18594 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha): 18595 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248; 18596 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". 18597 18598 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha): 18599 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling 18600 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here 18601 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is 18602 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or 18603 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on 18604 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and 18605 Baishakhi Ray. 18606 18607 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc): 18608 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor 18609 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with 18610 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor 18611 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases 18612 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix 18613 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz. 18614 18615 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha): 18616 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of 18617 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes 18618 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk", 18619 patch by "teor". 18620 18621 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha): 18622 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a 18623 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an 18624 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248. 18625 18626 o Minor features (geoip): 18627 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 18628 Country database. 18629 18630 18631 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03 18632 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor 18633 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to 18634 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later 18635 release series. 18636 18637 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue 18638 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need 18639 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x. 18640 18641 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc): 18642 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271. 18643 18644 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha): 18645 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge 18646 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690. 18647 18648 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha): 18649 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority: 18650 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch 18651 by "teor". 18652 18653 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha): 18654 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents 18655 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At 18656 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used 18657 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash 18658 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler 18659 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor, 18660 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket 18661 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001). 18662 18663 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8): 18664 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single 18665 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used 18666 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening) 18667 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non- 18668 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of 18669 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on 18670 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE- 18671 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254. 18672 18673 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha): 18674 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort 18675 received a query with multiple address types, and the first 18676 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial. 18677 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 18678 18679 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc): 18680 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the 18681 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause 18682 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or 18683 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix 18684 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 18685 18686 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha): 18687 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending 18688 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162; 18689 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely. 18690 Reported by Guido Vranken. 18691 18692 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha): 18693 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248; 18694 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". 18695 18696 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6): 18697 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory 18698 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we 18699 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard 18700 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse 18701 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered 18702 by Mohsen Imani. 18703 18704 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha): 18705 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling 18706 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here 18707 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is 18708 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or 18709 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on 18710 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and 18711 Baishakhi Ray. 18712 18713 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc): 18714 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor 18715 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with 18716 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor 18717 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases 18718 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix 18719 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz. 18720 18721 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha): 18722 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of 18723 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes 18724 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk", 18725 patch by "teor". 18726 18727 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha): 18728 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a 18729 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an 18730 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248. 18731 18732 o Minor features (geoip): 18733 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 18734 Country database. 18735 18736 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6): 18737 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the 18738 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781. 18739 18740 18741 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03 18742 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor 18743 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to 18744 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later 18745 release series. 18746 18747 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue 18748 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need 18749 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x. 18750 18751 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc): 18752 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271. 18753 18754 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha): 18755 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge 18756 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690. 18757 18758 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha): 18759 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority: 18760 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch 18761 by "teor". 18762 18763 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha): 18764 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents 18765 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At 18766 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used 18767 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash 18768 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler 18769 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor, 18770 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket 18771 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001). 18772 18773 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8): 18774 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single 18775 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used 18776 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening) 18777 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non- 18778 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of 18779 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on 18780 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE- 18781 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254. 18782 18783 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha): 18784 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort 18785 received a query with multiple address types, and the first 18786 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial. 18787 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 18788 18789 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc): 18790 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the 18791 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause 18792 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or 18793 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix 18794 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 18795 18796 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha): 18797 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending 18798 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162; 18799 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely. 18800 Reported by Guido Vranken. 18801 18802 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha): 18803 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248; 18804 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". 18805 18806 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6): 18807 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory 18808 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we 18809 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard 18810 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse 18811 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered 18812 by Mohsen Imani. 18813 18814 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha): 18815 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling 18816 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here 18817 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is 18818 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or 18819 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on 18820 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and 18821 Baishakhi Ray. 18822 18823 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc): 18824 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor 18825 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with 18826 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor 18827 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases 18828 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix 18829 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz. 18830 18831 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha): 18832 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of 18833 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes 18834 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk", 18835 patch by "teor". 18836 18837 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha): 18838 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a 18839 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an 18840 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248. 18841 18842 o Minor features (geoip): 18843 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 18844 Country database. 18845 18846 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6): 18847 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the 18848 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781. 18849 18850 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha): 18851 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue. 18852 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an 18853 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize 18854 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced 18855 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor". 18856 18857 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha): 18858 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on 18859 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix 18860 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 18861 18862 18863 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03 18864 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor 18865 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to 18866 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later 18867 release series. 18868 18869 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue 18870 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need 18871 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x. 18872 18873 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc): 18874 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271. 18875 18876 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha): 18877 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge 18878 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690. 18879 18880 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha): 18881 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority: 18882 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch 18883 by "teor". 18884 18885 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha): 18886 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents 18887 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At 18888 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used 18889 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash 18890 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler 18891 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor, 18892 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket 18893 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001). 18894 18895 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8): 18896 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single 18897 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used 18898 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening) 18899 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non- 18900 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of 18901 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on 18902 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE- 18903 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254. 18904 18905 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc): 18906 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the 18907 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause 18908 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or 18909 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix 18910 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 18911 18912 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha): 18913 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending 18914 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162; 18915 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely. 18916 Reported by Guido Vranken. 18917 18918 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha): 18919 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248; 18920 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". 18921 18922 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6): 18923 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory 18924 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we 18925 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard 18926 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse 18927 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered 18928 by Mohsen Imani. 18929 18930 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha): 18931 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling 18932 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here 18933 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is 18934 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or 18935 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on 18936 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and 18937 Baishakhi Ray. 18938 18939 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc): 18940 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor 18941 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with 18942 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor 18943 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases 18944 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix 18945 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz. 18946 18947 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha): 18948 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of 18949 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes 18950 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk", 18951 patch by "teor". 18952 18953 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha): 18954 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a 18955 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an 18956 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248. 18957 18958 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha): 18959 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with 18960 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the 18961 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515. 18962 18963 o Minor features (geoip): 18964 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 18965 Country database. 18966 18967 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6): 18968 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the 18969 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781. 18970 18971 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha): 18972 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on 18973 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix 18974 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 18975 18976 18977 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01 18978 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the 18979 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to 18980 keep them from coming back. 18981 18982 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we 18983 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release 18984 will be nearly identical to it. 18985 18986 o Major bugfixes (bridges): 18987 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same 18988 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those 18989 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability 18990 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable 18991 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 18992 18993 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3): 18994 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup 18995 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 18996 18997 o Major bugfixes (parsing): 18998 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP 18999 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a 19000 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and 19001 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this 19002 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue, 19003 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch). 19004 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing 19005 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/). 19006 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor 19007 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with 19008 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor 19009 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases 19010 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix 19011 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz. 19012 19013 o Minor feature (protocol versioning): 19014 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises 19015 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656. 19016 19017 o Minor features (directory authorities): 19018 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be 19019 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of 19020 bug 21278. 19021 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX. 19022 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently. 19023 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. 19024 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions 19025 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays 19026 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache 19027 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509. 19028 19029 o Minor features (geoip): 19030 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 19031 Country database. 19032 19033 o Minor features (reliability, crash): 19034 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or 19035 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for 19036 bug 21369. 19037 19038 o Minor features (testing): 19039 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask 19040 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with 19041 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570. 19042 19043 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time): 19044 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some 19045 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha 19046 19047 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness): 19048 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky 19049 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278. 19050 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the 19051 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492; 19052 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19053 19054 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors): 19055 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these 19056 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir 19057 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 19058 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly 19059 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a 19060 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix 19061 on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 19062 19063 o Minor bugfixes (guards): 19064 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement 19065 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an 19066 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19067 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose 19068 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to 19069 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19070 19071 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service): 19072 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO 19073 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of 19074 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used 19075 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already 19076 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19077 19078 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 19079 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in 19080 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch 19081 by "hein". 19082 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't 19083 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha. 19084 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably 19085 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes 19086 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 19087 19088 o Documentation: 19089 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472. 19090 19091 19092 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01 19093 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also 19094 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities, 19095 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness. 19096 19097 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support 19098 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at 19099 least January of 2020. 19100 19101 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha): 19102 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not 19103 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways 19104 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix 19105 on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 19106 19107 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha): 19108 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects 19109 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the 19110 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of 19111 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha, 19112 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug 19113 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. 19114 19115 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc): 19116 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor 19117 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with 19118 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor 19119 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases 19120 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix 19121 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz. 19122 19123 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc): 19124 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be 19125 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of 19126 bug 21278. 19127 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX. 19128 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently. 19129 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. 19130 19131 o Minor features (geoip): 19132 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 19133 Country database. 19134 19135 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha): 19136 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque, 19137 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part 19138 of ticket 21359. 19139 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque 19140 structures. Closes ticket 21359. 19141 19142 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc): 19143 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky 19144 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278. 19145 19146 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha): 19147 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255 19148 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them, 19149 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 19150 Patch by "junglefowl". 19151 19152 19153 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03 19154 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the 19155 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause 19156 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding 19157 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also 19158 includes some smaller features and bugfixes. 19159 19160 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional 19161 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that 19162 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to 19163 test this release. 19164 19165 o Major bugfixes (directory authority): 19166 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not 19167 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways 19168 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix 19169 on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 19170 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable, 19171 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link 19172 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake. 19173 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug 19174 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19175 19176 o Major bugfixes (entry guards): 19177 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we 19178 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do* 19179 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug 19180 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19181 19182 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits): 19183 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects 19184 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the 19185 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of 19186 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha, 19187 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug 19188 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. 19189 19190 o Minor feature (client): 19191 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this, 19192 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269. 19193 19194 o Minor feature (fallback scripts): 19195 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks 19196 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket 19197 20174. Patch by haxxpop. 19198 19199 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection): 19200 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones 19201 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426. 19202 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including 19203 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426. 19204 19205 o Minor features (controller, configuration): 19206 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort, 19207 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved 19208 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This 19209 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for 19210 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956. 19211 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be 19212 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller 19213 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced 19214 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300. 19215 19216 o Minor features (portability, compilation): 19217 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque, 19218 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part 19219 of ticket 21359. 19220 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque 19221 structures. Closes ticket 21359. 19222 19223 o Minor features (relay): 19224 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different 19225 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and 19226 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975. 19227 Written by Michael Sonntag. 19228 19229 o Minor bugfix (logging): 19230 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode. 19231 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all 19232 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users 19233 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix 19234 on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 19235 19236 o Minor bugfixes (client): 19237 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an 19238 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372; 19239 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 19240 19241 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards): 19242 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that 19243 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix 19244 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19245 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an 19246 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19247 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up 19248 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no 19249 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19250 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our 19251 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242. 19252 19253 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf): 19254 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to 19255 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor 19256 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it 19257 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or 19258 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a 19259 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix 19260 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 19261 19262 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 19263 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug 19264 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19265 19266 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service): 19267 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated 19268 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring 19269 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction 19270 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 19271 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just 19272 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever 19273 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix 19274 on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 19275 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and 19276 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop. 19277 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 19278 19279 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 19280 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__". 19281 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD 19282 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix 19283 on 0.1.2.1-alpha. 19284 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not 19285 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit 19286 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4 19287 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19288 19289 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve): 19290 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255 19291 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them, 19292 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 19293 Patch by "junglefowl". 19294 19295 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services): 19296 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using 19297 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix 19298 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 19299 19300 19301 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23 19302 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could 19303 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with 19304 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x 19305 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected 19306 version should upgrade. 19307 19308 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS 19309 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1 19310 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a 19311 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting 19312 the set of fallback directories, and more. 19313 19314 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9): 19315 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when 19316 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like 19317 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by 19318 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a 19319 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on 19320 0.2.9.1-alpha. 19321 19322 o Major features (security): 19323 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server 19324 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the 19325 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and 19326 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL 19327 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3 19328 hours long. Closes ticket 19769. 19329 19330 o Major features (directory authority, security): 19331 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities 19332 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously 19333 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319. 19334 19335 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash): 19336 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of 19337 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the 19338 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs, 19339 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix 19340 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19341 19342 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9): 19343 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple 19344 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request) 19345 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's 19346 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so 19347 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a 19348 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log 19349 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to 19350 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled 19351 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307; 19352 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 19353 19354 o Major bugfixes (DNS): 19355 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for 19356 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 19357 19358 o Minor features (controller): 19359 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose 19360 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925. 19361 19362 o Minor features (entry guards): 19363 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not 19364 break regression tests. 19365 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make 19366 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502. 19367 19368 o Minor features (fallback directories): 19369 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes 19370 ticket 20881. 19371 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we 19372 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912. 19373 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list. 19374 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions 19375 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver 19376 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago). 19377 Closes ticket 20539. 19378 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of 19379 ticket 18828. 19380 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for 19381 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability). 19382 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug 19383 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for 19384 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix 19385 in 0.2.8.2-alpha. 19386 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted 19387 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of 19388 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an 19389 authority. Part of ticket 18828. 19390 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus 19391 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878. 19392 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks. 19393 Closes ticket 20822. 19394 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from 19395 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908. 19396 19397 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9): 19398 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 19399 Country database. 19400 19401 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories): 19402 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we 19403 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act 19404 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899. 19405 19406 o Minor features (linting): 19407 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are 19408 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096. 19409 19410 o Minor features (logging): 19411 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>", 19412 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037. 19413 19414 o Minor bugfix (control protocol): 19415 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control 19416 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a 19417 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be 19418 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146; 19419 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha. 19420 19421 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience): 19422 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug 19423 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by 19424 Hans Jerry Illikainen. 19425 19426 o Minor bugfixes (build): 19427 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and 19428 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix 19429 on 0.1.0.1-rc. 19430 19431 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards): 19432 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for 19433 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes 19434 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19435 19436 o Minor bugfixes (config): 19437 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and 19438 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the 19439 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062; 19440 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 19441 19442 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 19443 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards 19444 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix 19445 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19446 19447 o Minor bugfixes (dead code): 19448 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in 19449 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed 19450 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123; 19451 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 19452 19453 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): 19454 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not 19455 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122. 19456 19457 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories): 19458 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in 19459 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 19460 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in 19461 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this 19462 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes 19463 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. 19464 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py. 19465 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. 19466 19467 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping): 19468 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark 19469 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory 19470 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19471 19472 o Minor bugfixes (onion services): 19473 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it 19474 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are 19475 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19476 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather 19477 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 19478 19479 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6): 19480 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory 19481 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 19482 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc 19483 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard- 19484 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured 19485 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug 19486 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha. 19487 19488 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks): 19489 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug 19490 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. 19491 19492 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9): 19493 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain 19494 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel 19495 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix 19496 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 19497 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers 19498 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 19499 19500 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 19501 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously, 19502 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700 19503 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1. 19504 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish". 19505 19506 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 19507 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing 19508 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 19509 19510 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests): 19511 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus 19512 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863; 19513 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha 19514 through 0.2.9.4-alpha. 19515 19516 o Code simplification and refactoring: 19517 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into 19518 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921. 19519 19520 o Documentation (formatting): 19521 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre> 19522 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885. 19523 19524 o Documentation (man page): 19525 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for 19526 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058. 19527 19528 19529 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23 19530 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could 19531 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with 19532 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x 19533 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected 19534 version should upgrade. 19535 19536 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability 19537 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues. 19538 19539 o Major bugfixes (security): 19540 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when 19541 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, 19542 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having 19543 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug 19544 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); 19545 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 19546 19547 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service): 19548 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple 19549 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request) 19550 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's 19551 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so 19552 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a 19553 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log 19554 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to 19555 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled 19556 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307; 19557 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 19558 19559 o Minor features (geoip): 19560 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 19561 Country database. 19562 19563 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 19564 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain 19565 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel 19566 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix 19567 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 19568 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers 19569 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 19570 19571 19572 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19 19573 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development 19574 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by 19575 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that 19576 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes 19577 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service 19578 design. It also contains numerous other small features and 19579 improvements to security, correctness, and performance. 19580 19581 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8. 19582 19583 o Major features (guard selection algorithm): 19584 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the 19585 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive 19586 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by 19587 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes 19588 ticket 19877. 19589 19590 o Major features (next-generation hidden services): 19591 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by 19592 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients 19593 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on 19594 initial code by Alec Heifetz. 19595 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can 19596 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next- 19597 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes 19598 ticket 17238. 19599 19600 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys): 19601 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to 19602 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more 19603 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now. 19604 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes 19605 ticket 15055. 19606 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2 19607 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus 19608 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for 19609 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This 19610 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic 19611 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket 19612 15056; part of proposal 220. 19613 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their 19614 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in 19615 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the 19616 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part 19617 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220. 19618 19619 o Major bugfixes (scheduler): 19620 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug 19621 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly, 19622 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits. 19623 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 19624 19625 o Minor features (controller): 19626 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument" 19627 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from 19628 Ivan Markin. 19629 19630 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client): 19631 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory 19632 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of 19633 bug 20593. 19634 19635 o Minor features (directory authority): 19636 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by 19637 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays 19638 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few 19639 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link 19640 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option. 19641 19642 o Minor features (directory cache): 19643 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they 19644 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes 19645 ticket 20511. 19646 19647 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake): 19648 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the 19649 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which 19650 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552. 19651 19652 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication): 19653 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to 19654 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward 19655 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752. 19656 19657 o Minor features (infrastructure): 19658 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of 19659 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048. 19660 19661 o Minor bugfixes (client): 19662 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on 19663 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they 19664 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha. 19665 19666 o Minor bugfixes (configuration): 19667 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in 19668 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 19669 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes. 19670 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already 19671 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha. 19672 19673 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight): 19674 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead 19675 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to 19676 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error. 19677 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. 19678 19679 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors): 19680 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even 19681 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with 19682 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities. 19683 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. 19684 19685 o Minor bugfixes (directory system): 19686 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority 19687 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of 19688 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix 19689 on all recent tor versions. 19690 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do) 19691 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend 19692 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug 19693 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. 19694 19695 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates): 19696 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some 19697 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 19698 19699 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 19700 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to 19701 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes 19702 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha 19703 and earlier. 19704 19705 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit): 19706 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused 19707 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix 19708 on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 19709 19710 o Minor bugfixes (util): 19711 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace 19712 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to 19713 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk. 19714 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk. 19715 19716 o Minor bugfixes (Windows): 19717 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes 19718 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on 19719 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice". 19720 19721 o Code simplification and refactoring: 19722 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new 19723 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271. 19724 Closes ticket 19858. 19725 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion 19726 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service 19727 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526. 19728 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables. 19729 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check. 19730 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and 19731 testability. Closes ticket 18873. 19732 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use 19733 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077. 19734 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as 19735 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717. 19736 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection 19737 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully 19738 redundant with the similar structures used in the 19739 channel abstraction. 19740 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions. 19741 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl. 19742 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to 19743 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077. 19744 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been 19745 replaced with code automatically generated by the 19746 "trunnel" utility. 19747 19748 o Documentation: 19749 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug 19750 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 19751 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation 19752 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch 19753 from pastly. 19754 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from 19755 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix 19756 on 0.2.5.6-alpha. 19757 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir 19758 must already exist. Fixes 20486. 19759 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which 19760 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local 19761 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes 19762 ticket 17070. 19763 19764 o Removed features: 19765 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same 19766 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP 19767 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes 19768 ticket 20960. 19769 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users 19770 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to 19771 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831. 19772 19773 o Testing: 19774 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch 19775 from "overcaffeinated". 19776 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail 19777 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500. 19778 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10. 19779 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new. 19780 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other 19781 test functions. 19782 19783 19784 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19 19785 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018 19786 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a 19787 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages 19788 become available for their systems. 19789 19790 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported 19791 from 0.2.9. 19792 19793 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be 19794 backported to 0.2.8 in the future. 19795 19796 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8): 19797 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single 19798 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used 19799 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening) 19800 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non- 19801 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of 19802 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on 19803 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE- 19804 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254. 19805 19806 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8): 19807 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally 19808 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177 19809 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December 19810 2016. Resolves ticket 20170. 19811 19812 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc): 19813 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 19814 Country database. 19815 19816 19817 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19 19818 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series. 19819 19820 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features 19821 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared- 19822 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation 19823 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for 19824 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden, 19825 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive 19826 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for 19827 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol. 19828 19829 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements. 19830 19831 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 19832 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a 19833 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages 19834 become available for their systems. 19835 19836 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes 19837 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file. 19838 19839 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security): 19840 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single 19841 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used 19842 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening) 19843 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non- 19844 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of 19845 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on 19846 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE- 19847 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254. 19848 19849 o Minor features (fallback directory list): 19850 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally 19851 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177 19852 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December 19853 2016. Resolves ticket 20170. 19854 19855 19856 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12 19857 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc, 19858 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on 19859 some platforms. 19860 19861 o Minor features (geoip): 19862 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 19863 Country database. 19864 19865 o Minor bugfix (build): 19866 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is 19867 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492; 19868 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 19869 19870 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): 19871 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were 19872 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for 19873 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. 19874 19875 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling): 19876 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose 19877 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha. 19878 19879 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 19880 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the 19881 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates 19882 bug 19926. 19883 19884 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak): 19885 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a 19886 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 19887 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an 19888 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that 19889 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. 19890 19891 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox): 19892 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries 19893 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on 19894 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". 19895 19896 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 19897 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac 19898 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc. 19899 19900 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests): 19901 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part 19902 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha. 19903 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons 19904 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10 19905 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's 19906 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 19907 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop 19908 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone. 19909 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc. 19910 19911 19912 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08 19913 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that 19914 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with 19915 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay 19916 with 0.2.8.10. 19917 19918 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 19919 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began 19920 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created 19921 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of 19922 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach 19923 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix 19924 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 19925 19926 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): 19927 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU 19928 architectures. Closes ticket 20588. 19929 19930 19931 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02 19932 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients 19933 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for 19934 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak. 19935 19936 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): 19937 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open 19938 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would 19939 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix 19940 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 19941 19942 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): 19943 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately 19944 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before 19945 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix 19946 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 19947 19948 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc): 19949 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from 19950 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves 19951 ticket 20235. 19952 19953 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): 19954 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 19955 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 19956 19957 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): 19958 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public 19959 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. 19960 19961 o Minor features (geoip): 19962 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 19963 Country database. 19964 19965 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02 19966 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha 19967 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we 19968 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are 19969 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable. 19970 19971 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging): 19972 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a 19973 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This 19974 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'" 19975 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver 19976 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 19977 19978 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall): 19979 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall 19980 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 19981 19982 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 19983 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden 19984 services and single onion services when first starting tor. 19985 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been 19986 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug 19987 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf. 19988 19989 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 19990 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from 19991 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves 19992 ticket 20235. 19993 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that 19994 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha. 19995 19996 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web): 19997 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately 19998 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages 19999 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits 20000 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on 20001 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly". 20002 20003 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests): 20004 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery 20005 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by 20006 Neel Chauhan. 20007 20008 o Documentation: 20009 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a 20010 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085. 20011 20012 20013 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08 20014 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha 20015 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage 20016 everyone to test this release. 20017 20018 o Major bugfixes (client performance): 20019 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately 20020 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before 20021 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix 20022 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 20023 20024 o Major bugfixes (client reliability): 20025 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open 20026 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would 20027 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix 20028 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 20029 20030 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling): 20031 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on 20032 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since 20033 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't 20034 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 20035 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to 20036 download, stop waiting for certificates. 20037 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we 20038 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download 20039 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix 20040 on 0.2.0.9-alpha. 20041 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since 20042 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we 20043 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part 20044 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 20045 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes 20046 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 20047 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times 20048 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this 20049 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 20050 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower 20051 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test 20052 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499. 20053 20054 o Minor features (geoip): 20055 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 20056 Country database. 20057 20058 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling): 20059 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a 20060 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that 20061 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we 20062 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593; 20063 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 20064 20065 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging): 20066 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead, 20067 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is 20068 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 20069 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname 20070 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 20071 20072 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 20073 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service 20074 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last 20075 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942 20076 in 0.2.6.2-alpha. 20077 20078 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 20079 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU 20080 architectures. Closes ticket 20588. 20081 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has 20082 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on 20083 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 20084 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 20085 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 20086 20087 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap): 20088 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap. 20089 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 20090 20091 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 20092 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public 20093 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. 20094 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about 20095 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 20096 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user 20097 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than 20098 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 20099 20100 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services): 20101 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a 20102 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix 20103 on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 20104 20105 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 20106 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU 20107 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 20108 20109 o Documentation: 20110 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to 20111 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. 20112 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes 20113 tickets 19287 and 19290. 20114 20115 20116 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17 20117 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions 20118 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, 20119 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to 20120 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older 20121 versions of Tor. 20122 20123 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha): 20124 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents 20125 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At 20126 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used 20127 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash 20128 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler 20129 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor, 20130 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket 20131 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001). 20132 20133 o Minor features (geoip): 20134 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 20135 Country database. 20136 20137 20138 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17 20139 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor 20140 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden 20141 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this 20142 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions 20143 of Tor. 20144 20145 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to 20146 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to 20147 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug 20148 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly, 20149 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be 20150 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will 20151 be a release candidate. 20152 20153 o Major features (security fixes): 20154 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents 20155 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At 20156 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used 20157 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash 20158 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler 20159 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor, 20160 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket 20161 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001). 20162 20163 o Major features (subprotocol versions): 20164 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended 20165 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol 20166 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_ 20167 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a 20168 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade. 20169 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264. 20170 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility. 20171 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of 20172 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they 20173 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This 20174 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to 20175 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular 20176 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of 20177 proposal 264. 20178 20179 o Minor feature (fallback directories): 20180 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory 20181 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor. 20182 20183 o Minor features (client, directory): 20184 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and 20185 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must 20186 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of 20187 proposal 272. 20188 20189 o Minor features (compilation, portability): 20190 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes 20191 ticket 20241. 20192 20193 o Minor features (development tools, etags): 20194 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find 20195 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes 20196 ticket 16869. 20197 20198 o Minor features (geoip): 20199 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 20200 Country database. 20201 20202 o Minor features (unix domain sockets): 20203 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort, 20204 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in 20205 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix 20206 domain socket paths to contain spaces. 20207 20208 o Minor features (virtual addresses): 20209 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network 20210 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address 20211 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature 20212 on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 20213 20214 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery): 20215 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it 20216 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every 20217 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027. 20218 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks". 20219 20220 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets): 20221 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as 20222 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix 20223 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 20224 20225 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD): 20226 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide 20227 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug 20228 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate. 20229 20230 o Minor bugfixes (configuration): 20231 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file, 20232 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on 20233 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl". 20234 20235 o Minor bugfixes (getpass): 20236 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass() 20237 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 20238 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch 20239 by nherring. 20240 20241 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service): 20242 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the 20243 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix 20244 on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 20245 20246 o Documentation: 20247 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that 20248 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385. 20249 20250 o Required libraries: 20251 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or 20252 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the 20253 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303. 20254 20255 20256 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23 20257 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make 20258 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism 20259 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It 20260 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the 20261 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and 20262 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8 20263 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade. 20264 20265 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8): 20266 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients 20267 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus 20268 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw 20269 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected. 20270 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 20271 20272 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8): 20273 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we 20274 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because 20275 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on 20276 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing 20277 this one. 20278 20279 o Major features (circuit building, security): 20280 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all 20281 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol 20282 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of 20283 ticket 19163. 20284 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for 20285 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163. 20286 20287 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services): 20288 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and 20289 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1, 20290 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous 20291 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct) 20292 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop 20293 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients 20294 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing 20295 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor 20296 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements 20297 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn. 20298 20299 o Major features (resource management): 20300 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and 20301 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is 20302 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is 20303 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting 20304 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets 20305 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640. 20306 20307 o Major bugfixes (circuit building): 20308 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous- 20309 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid 20310 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc. 20311 20312 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD): 20313 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would 20314 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from 20315 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 20316 20317 o Major bugfixes (hidden services): 20318 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for 20319 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents 20320 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service 20321 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug 20322 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor. 20323 20324 o Minor features (security, TLS): 20325 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites. 20326 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe 20327 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required 20328 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998. 20329 20330 o Minor feature (fallback directories): 20331 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the 20332 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 20333 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor. 20334 20335 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8): 20336 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 20337 Country database. 20338 20339 o Minor feature (port flags): 20340 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which 20341 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic, 20342 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to 20343 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement 20344 18693; patch by "teor". 20345 20346 o Minor features (directory authority): 20347 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not 20348 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes 20349 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272. 20350 20351 o Minor features (testing): 20352 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit 20353 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined 20354 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch 20355 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066. 20356 20357 o Minor features (testing, ipv6): 20358 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to 20359 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version 20360 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later). 20361 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor. 20362 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6 20363 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This 20364 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients, 20365 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor. 20366 20367 o Minor features (Tor2web): 20368 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was 20369 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on 20370 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor. 20371 20372 o Minor features (unit tests): 20373 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster. 20374 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid 20375 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected. 20376 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer 20377 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them 20378 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test" 20379 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log 20380 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to 20381 ticket 19999. 20382 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag. 20383 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will 20384 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we 20385 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however, 20386 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before. 20387 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999. 20388 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()" 20389 assertion as a test failure. 20390 20391 o Minor bug fixes (circuits): 20392 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever 20393 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect 20394 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled 20395 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on 20396 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor. 20397 20398 o Minor bugfixes (allocation): 20399 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to 20400 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less 20401 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081; 20402 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken. 20403 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers. 20404 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the 20405 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the 20406 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS). 20407 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC- 20408 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 20409 Patch from Gisle Vanem. 20410 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings. 20411 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't 20412 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads 20413 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 20414 20415 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): 20416 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place 20417 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This 20418 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid 20419 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 20420 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to 20421 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix 20422 on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 20423 20424 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): 20425 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used 20426 by clients when the directory authorities don't set 20427 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02 20428 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V. 20429 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID. 20430 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have 20431 a manpage!). 20432 20433 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 20434 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain 20435 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on 20436 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor. 20437 20438 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing): 20439 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks. 20440 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor. 20441 20442 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox): 20443 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system 20444 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or 20445 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and 20446 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more 20447 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 20448 20449 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 20450 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about 20451 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were 20452 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix 20453 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 20454 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn 20455 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist. 20456 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'. 20457 20458 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing): 20459 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans, 20460 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these 20461 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct 20462 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on 20463 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor. 20464 20465 o Minor bugfixes (options): 20466 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more 20467 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch 20468 by teor. 20469 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on 20470 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 20471 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha. 20472 Patch by teor. 20473 20474 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web): 20475 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services 20476 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug 20477 19678. Patch by teor. 20478 20479 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests): 20480 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian 20481 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied 20482 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data 20483 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and 20484 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix 20485 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 20486 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when 20487 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix 20488 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 20489 20490 20491 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23 20492 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the 20493 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users 20494 who select public relays as their bridges. 20495 20496 o Major bugfixes (crash): 20497 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients 20498 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus 20499 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw 20500 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected. 20501 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 20502 20503 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler): 20504 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we 20505 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because 20506 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on 20507 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing 20508 this one. 20509 20510 o Minor feature (fallback directories): 20511 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the 20512 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 20513 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor. 20514 20515 o Minor features (geoip): 20516 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 20517 Country database. 20518 20519 20520 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24 20521 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with 20522 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important 20523 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who 20524 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly 20525 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha. 20526 20527 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7): 20528 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge 20529 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690. 20530 20531 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7): 20532 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop 20533 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to 20534 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity 20535 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug 20536 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 20537 20538 o Major features (user interface): 20539 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so 20540 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, 20541 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820. 20542 20543 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads): 20544 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we 20545 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625; 20546 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. 20547 20548 o Minor features (config): 20549 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent. 20550 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor. 20551 20552 o Minor features (geoip): 20553 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 20554 Country database. 20555 20556 o Minor features (user interface): 20557 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to 20558 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of 20559 ticket 19820. 20560 20561 o Minor bugfixes (code style): 20562 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion 20563 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha. 20564 20565 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 20566 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for 20567 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix 20568 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 20569 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our 20570 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument, 20571 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma. 20572 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. 20573 20574 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7): 20575 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing 20576 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix 20577 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 20578 20579 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7): 20580 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback 20581 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha 20582 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate". 20583 20584 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 20585 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor. 20586 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto. 20587 20588 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak): 20589 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files 20590 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 20591 20592 o Deprecated features: 20593 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now 20594 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future 20595 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad 20596 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options 20597 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache, 20598 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache. 20599 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may 20600 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are: 20601 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits, 20602 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses, 20603 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout, 20604 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout, 20605 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup, 20606 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks. 20607 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the 20608 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options 20609 may someday be removed. The affected options are: 20610 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress, 20611 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress, 20612 and TransListenAddress. 20613 20614 o Documentation: 20615 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the 20616 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743. 20617 20618 o Removed code: 20619 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in 20620 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b. 20621 20622 20623 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24 20624 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses 20625 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone 20626 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly 20627 encouraged to upgrade. 20628 20629 o Directory authority changes: 20630 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge 20631 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690. 20632 20633 o Major bugfixes (client, security): 20634 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop 20635 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to 20636 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity 20637 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug 20638 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 20639 20640 o Minor features (geoip): 20641 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 20642 Country database. 20643 20644 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 20645 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing 20646 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix 20647 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 20648 20649 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories): 20650 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback 20651 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha 20652 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate". 20653 20654 20655 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08 20656 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development 20657 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler 20658 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to 20659 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for 20660 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to 20661 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to 20662 security, correctness, and performance. 20663 20664 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6. 20665 20666 o New system requirements: 20667 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older 20668 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several 20669 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side 20670 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554. 20671 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security, 20672 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started, 20673 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was 20674 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.) 20675 20676 o Major features (build, hardening): 20677 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support 20678 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids), 20679 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to 20680 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels; 20681 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983. 20682 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the 20683 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time. 20684 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not 20685 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983. 20686 20687 o Major features (compilation): 20688 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when 20689 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be 20690 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation 20691 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes 20692 ticket 19044. 20693 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically 20694 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do 20695 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139. 20696 20697 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services): 20698 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness 20699 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory 20700 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the 20701 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select 20702 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature; 20703 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part 20704 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250. 20705 20706 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff): 20707 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait 20708 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before 20709 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This 20710 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized, 20711 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its 20712 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942. 20713 20714 o Major bugfixes (exit policies): 20715 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port 20716 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors 20717 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject 20718 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if 20719 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on 20720 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor. 20721 20722 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client): 20723 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with 20724 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also 20725 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services 20726 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim". 20727 20728 o Minor features (build, hardening): 20729 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent 20730 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus 20731 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079. 20732 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime 20733 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration 20734 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If 20735 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error. 20736 Closes ticket 18895. 20737 20738 o Minor features (code safety): 20739 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we 20740 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063; 20741 patch from U+039b. 20742 20743 o Minor features (controller): 20744 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use 20745 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to 20746 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323. 20747 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on 20748 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control 20749 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special". 20750 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation 20751 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685. 20752 20753 o Minor features (directory authority): 20754 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if 20755 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to 20756 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect 20757 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag. 20758 Implements ticket 18624. 20759 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to 20760 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the 20761 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves 20762 ticket 19036. 20763 20764 o Minor features (hidden service): 20765 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1" 20766 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and 20767 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves 20768 ticket 18998. 20769 20770 o Minor features (infrastructure, time): 20771 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where 20772 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would 20773 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the 20774 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908. 20775 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can 20776 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent 20777 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic- 20778 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c" 20779 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel". 20780 Closes ticket 18365. 20781 20782 o Minor features (logging): 20783 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an 20784 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount". 20785 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them 20786 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size 20787 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the 20788 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by 20789 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322. 20790 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal 20791 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid 20792 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613. 20793 20794 o Minor features (performance): 20795 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to 20796 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a 20797 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the 20798 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option 20799 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup. 20800 Closes ticket 18815. 20801 20802 o Minor features (relay, usability): 20803 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor, 20804 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators 20805 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few 20806 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves 20807 ticket 18760. 20808 20809 o Minor features (testing): 20810 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes 20811 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 20812 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test- 20813 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available. 20814 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor. 20815 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that 20816 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data. 20817 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes 20818 ticket 16792. 20819 20820 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap): 20821 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous 20822 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority 20823 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance. 20824 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 20825 20826 o Minor bugfixes (build): 20827 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on 20828 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on 20829 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a 20830 patch from "cypherpunks". 20831 20832 o Minor bugfixes (circuits): 20833 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers. 20834 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 20835 20836 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 20837 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings. 20838 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we 20839 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 20840 20841 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): 20842 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease 20843 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.) 20844 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 20845 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of 20846 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in 20847 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest 20848 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 20849 20850 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): 20851 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug 20852 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. 20853 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the 20854 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a 20855 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file 20856 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha. 20857 20858 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service): 20859 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points 20860 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix 20861 on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 20862 20863 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection): 20864 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus 20865 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix 20866 on 0.2.5.6-alpha. 20867 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails. 20868 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal 20869 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix 20870 on 0.2.3.10-alpha. 20871 20872 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client): 20873 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively 20874 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client 20875 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix 20876 on 0.1.0.1-rc. 20877 20878 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 20879 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning 20880 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. 20881 20882 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks): 20883 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a 20884 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix 20885 on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 20886 20887 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 20888 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes 20889 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor. 20890 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running 20891 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace 20892 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix 20893 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". 20894 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the 20895 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix 20896 on 0.2.7.3-rc. 20897 20898 o Minor bugfixes (time): 20899 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483; 20900 bugfix on all released tor versions. 20901 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds, 20902 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we 20903 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428; 20904 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 20905 20906 o Minor bugfixes (user interface): 20907 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log 20908 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow 20909 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the 20910 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix 20911 on 0.2.4.11-alpha. 20912 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key. 20913 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 20914 20915 o Code simplification and refactoring: 20916 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes 20917 ticket 18889. 20918 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion. 20919 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount". 20920 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into 20921 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698. 20922 20923 o Documentation: 20924 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes 20925 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b". 20926 20927 o Removed features: 20928 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and 20929 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available 20930 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in 20931 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035. 20932 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for 20933 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch 20934 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449. 20935 20936 o Testing: 20937 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had 20938 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special 20939 command-line options to enable them. 20940 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression 20941 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.) 20942 20943 20944 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02 20945 20946 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series. 20947 20948 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance, 20949 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity 20950 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance 20951 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to 20952 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of 20953 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file. 20954 20955 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc: 20956 20957 o Minor features (geoip): 20958 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 20959 Country database. 20960 20961 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 20962 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char 20963 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 20964 20965 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories): 20966 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out, 20967 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 20968 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor. 20969 20970 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox): 20971 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled: 20972 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On 20973 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug 20974 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto. 20975 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1", 20976 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work. 20977 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 20978 20979 20980 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07 20981 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 20982 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 20983 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes 20984 against previous versions. 20985 20986 o Directory authority changes: 20987 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271. 20988 20989 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat): 20990 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic 20991 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on 20992 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku". 20993 20994 o Minor features (build): 20995 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development 20996 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499. 20997 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the 20998 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 20999 Patch from intrigeri. 21000 21001 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection): 21002 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible 21003 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch 21004 by teor. 21005 21006 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors): 21007 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This 21008 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors 21009 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus 21010 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix 21011 on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 21012 21013 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 21014 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers 21015 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and 21016 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor. 21017 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard- 21018 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log 21019 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor. 21020 21021 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing): 21022 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is 21023 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and 21024 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively. 21025 21026 o Minor bugfixes (user interface): 21027 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after 21028 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST 21029 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is 21030 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is 21031 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 21032 21033 o Fallback directory list: 21034 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that 21035 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's 21036 compatible with the stem fallback parser. 21037 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator 21038 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile) 21039 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor. 21040 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks 21041 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes 21042 ticket 19071; patch by teor. 21043 21044 21045 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15 21046 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series. 21047 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8 21048 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against 21049 previous versions. 21050 21051 o Major bugfixes (user interface): 21052 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified 21053 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially 21054 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 21055 21056 o Minor features (build): 21057 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development 21058 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). 21059 21060 o Minor features (geoip): 21061 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 21062 Country database. 21063 21064 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 21065 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that 21066 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 21067 21068 o Minor bugfixes (downloading): 21069 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when 21070 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a 21071 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes 21072 bug 19191. 21073 21074 21075 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26 21076 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over 21077 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of 21078 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler 21079 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on 21080 more platforms. 21081 21082 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy): 21083 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort 21084 received a query with multiple address types, and the first 21085 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial. 21086 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 21087 21088 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation): 21089 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE 21090 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would 21091 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and 21092 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of 21093 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal". 21094 21095 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities): 21096 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when 21097 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes 21098 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 21099 21100 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping): 21101 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the 21102 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary 21103 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory 21104 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged. 21105 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not 21106 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix 21107 for 18809. 21108 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times, 21109 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of 21110 ticket 18809. 21111 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we 21112 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809; 21113 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor. 21114 21115 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors): 21116 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way 21117 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these 21118 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like 21119 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not 21120 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 21121 Patch by teor. 21122 21123 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client): 21124 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for 21125 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch 21126 by "teor". 21127 21128 o Major bugfixes (key management): 21129 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling 21130 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here 21131 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is 21132 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or 21133 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on 21134 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and 21135 Baishakhi Ray. 21136 21137 o Major bugfixes (testing): 21138 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where 21139 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. 21140 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668; 21141 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 21142 21143 o Minor features (clients): 21144 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an 21145 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves 21146 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor". 21147 21148 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors): 21149 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict 21150 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail 21151 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors 21152 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes. 21153 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on 21154 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor". 21155 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in 21156 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March 21157 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor". 21158 21159 o Minor features (geoip): 21160 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 21161 Country database. 21162 21163 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability): 21164 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is 21165 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix 21166 on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 21167 21168 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap): 21169 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority 21170 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha. 21171 21172 o Minor bugfixes (build): 21173 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from 21174 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix 21175 on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 21176 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with 21177 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha 21178 and 0.2.6.1-alpha. 21179 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked, 21180 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix 21181 on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 21182 21183 o Minor bugfixes (client): 21184 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options. 21185 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of 21186 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled 21187 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 21188 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only 21189 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929; 21190 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor". 21191 21192 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors): 21193 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the 21194 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached 21195 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920; 21196 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 21197 21198 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability): 21199 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big 21200 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is 21201 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 21202 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development 21203 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes 21204 ticket 18286. 21205 21206 o Minor bugfixes (directories): 21207 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests 21208 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led 21209 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo. 21210 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches. 21211 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 21212 21213 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 21214 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is 21215 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes 21216 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 21217 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per 21218 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 21219 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at 21220 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. 21221 21222 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports): 21223 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need 21224 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited. 21225 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. 21226 21227 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic): 21228 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote 21229 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to 21230 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to 21231 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes. 21232 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by 21233 Guido Vranken. 21234 21235 o Minor bugfixes (relays): 21236 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to 21237 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix 21238 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 21239 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort 21240 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while 21241 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 21242 21243 o Minor bugfixes (statistics): 21244 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory- 21245 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha. 21246 21247 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 21248 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping 21249 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003; 21250 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor. 21251 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the 21252 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673; 21253 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 21254 21255 o Minor bugfixes (time handling): 21256 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday 21257 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug 21258 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. 21259 21260 o Documentation: 21261 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the 21262 manual page. Closes ticket 17621. 21263 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our 21264 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312. 21265 21266 21267 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28 21268 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous 21269 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented 21270 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and 21271 directory support should also be much improved. 21272 21273 o New system requirements: 21274 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken 21275 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL 21276 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no 21277 longer runs with, these versions. 21278 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t" 21279 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does 21280 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes 21281 ticket 18184. 21282 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or 21283 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are 21284 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source 21285 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to 21286 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732. 21287 21288 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers): 21289 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending 21290 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162; 21291 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely. 21292 Reported by Guido Vranken. 21293 21294 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports): 21295 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow 21296 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that 21297 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes 21298 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor. 21299 21300 o Major bugfixes (compilation): 21301 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our 21302 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address 21303 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 21304 21305 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown): 21306 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down. 21307 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 21308 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in 21309 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 21310 21311 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup): 21312 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was 21313 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort 21314 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to 21315 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string 21316 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 21317 Patch by weasel. 21318 21319 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash): 21320 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248; 21321 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". 21322 21323 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients): 21324 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure 21325 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line. 21326 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb, 21327 patch by teor. 21328 21329 o Major bugfixes (voting): 21330 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their 21331 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but 21332 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the 21333 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix 21334 on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 21335 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now 21336 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack 21337 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus. 21338 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 21339 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two 21340 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing 21341 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a 21342 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but 21343 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug 21344 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 21345 21346 o Minor features (security, win32): 21347 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing 21348 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch 21349 by teor. 21350 21351 o Minor features (bug-resistance): 21352 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a 21353 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an 21354 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248. 21355 21356 o Minor features (build): 21357 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD) 21358 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from 21359 Steven Chamberlain. 21360 21361 o Minor features (code hardening): 21362 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low- 21363 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL- 21364 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found 21365 with Flawfinder. 21366 21367 o Minor features (crypto): 21368 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that 21369 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes 21370 ticket 18221. 21371 21372 o Minor features (geoip): 21373 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 21374 Country database. 21375 21376 o Minor features (hidden service directory): 21377 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether 21378 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer 21379 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is 21380 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332. 21381 21382 o Minor features (IPv6): 21383 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set 21384 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses. 21385 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor 21386 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections. 21387 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0", 21388 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and 21389 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor. 21390 21391 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 21392 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled. 21393 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work, 21394 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found 21395 while fixing 18548. 21396 21397 o Minor features (robustness): 21398 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use 21399 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some 21400 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241. 21401 21402 o Minor features (unix domain sockets): 21403 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating 21404 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent 21405 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some 21406 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory. 21407 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the 21408 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458. 21409 Patch by weasel. 21410 21411 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security): 21412 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses 21413 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the 21414 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on 21415 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor. 21416 21417 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services): 21418 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous 21419 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug 21420 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor. 21421 21422 o Minor bugfixes (build): 21423 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non- 21424 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix 21425 on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 21426 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling 21427 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on 21428 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". 21429 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by 21430 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on 21431 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor. 21432 21433 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap): 21434 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards 21435 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not 21436 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug 21437 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 21438 21439 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness): 21440 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to 21441 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found 21442 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix 21443 on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 21444 21445 o Minor bugfixes (configuration): 21446 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in 21447 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. 21448 21449 o Minor bugfixes (containers): 21450 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than 21451 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining 21452 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. 21453 21454 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 21455 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a 21456 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually 21457 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's 21458 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code 21459 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 21460 21461 o Minor bugfixes (directory): 21462 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address, 21463 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix 21464 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek. 21465 21466 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors): 21467 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory 21468 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory 21469 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on 21470 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor. 21471 21472 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client): 21473 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive 21474 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six 21475 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a 21476 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail 21477 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on 21478 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service. 21479 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have 21480 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix 21481 on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 21482 21483 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port): 21484 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action 21485 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with 21486 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 21487 21488 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory): 21489 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor) 21490 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332. 21491 21492 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 21493 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64 21494 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood. 21495 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 21496 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1" 21497 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS 21498 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 21499 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under 21500 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. 21501 21502 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 21503 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or 21504 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug 21505 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. 21506 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages. 21507 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. 21508 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level. 21509 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing 21510 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and 21511 Christian, patch by teor. 21512 21513 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety): 21514 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails 21515 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 21516 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch 21517 by teor. 21518 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list(). 21519 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf, 21520 patch by "cypherpunks". 21521 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix 21522 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 21523 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug 21524 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 21525 21526 o Minor bugfixes (private directory): 21527 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes 21528 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852. 21529 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder. 21530 21531 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6): 21532 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks. 21533 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported 21534 by karsten. 21535 21536 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 21537 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is 21538 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests 21539 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the 21540 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage). 21541 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 21542 21543 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing): 21544 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038 21545 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on 21546 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor. 21547 21548 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert): 21549 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a 21550 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug 21551 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl. 21552 21553 o Code simplification and refactoring: 21554 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those 21555 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket 21556 17744. Patch from zerosion. 21557 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is 21558 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for 21559 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek. 21560 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't 21561 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259. 21562 21563 o Documentation: 21564 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora 21565 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426. 21566 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks". 21567 21568 o Removed features: 21569 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c. 21570 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary, 21571 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit. 21572 21573 o Testing: 21574 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in 21575 the unit tests. 21576 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we 21577 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204. 21578 21579 21580 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04 21581 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It 21582 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor 21583 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most 21584 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem. 21585 21586 o Major features (security, Linux): 21587 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it 21588 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default, 21589 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low 21590 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the 21591 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195. 21592 21593 o Major features (directory system): 21594 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the 21595 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This 21596 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow 21597 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature 21598 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket 21599 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by 21600 "mikeperry" and "teor". 21601 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated 21602 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays. 21603 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably, 21604 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket 21605 15775. Patch by "teor". 21606 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor", 21607 "gsathya", and "karsten". 21608 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port 21609 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all 21610 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled 21611 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can 21612 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes 21613 ticket 12538. 21614 21615 o Major key updates: 21616 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority: 21617 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch 21618 by "teor". 21619 21620 o Minor features (security, clock): 21621 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the 21622 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that 21623 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by 21624 "teor". Implements ticket 17188. 21625 21626 o Minor features (security, exit policies): 21627 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by 21628 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind 21629 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port 21630 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 21631 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor". 21632 21633 o Minor features (security, memory erasure): 21634 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch 21635 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much. 21636 Implements ticket 17026. 21637 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on 21638 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. 21639 Implements feature 17986. 21640 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use 21641 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches 21642 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>. 21643 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of 21644 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes 21645 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk", 21646 patch by "teor". 21647 21648 o Minor features (security, RNG): 21649 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely, 21650 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on 21651 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686. 21652 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides 21653 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead 21654 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG 21655 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS 21656 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694. 21657 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to 21658 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes 21659 ticket 13696. 21660 21661 o Minor features (accounting): 21662 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting 21663 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for 21664 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in"). 21665 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92". 21666 21667 o Minor features (build): 21668 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer 21669 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893; 21670 patch from "cypherpunks." 21671 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 21672 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets 21673 17549, 17921, and 17984. 21674 21675 o Minor features (controller): 21676 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes 21677 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley. 21678 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden 21679 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service 21680 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846. 21681 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so 21682 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by 21683 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display 21684 exit policies. 21685 21686 o Minor features (crypto): 21687 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from 21688 George Tankersley. 21689 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783. 21690 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than 21691 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as 21692 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves 21693 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796. 21694 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers, 21695 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation. 21696 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha. 21697 21698 o Minor features (directory downloads): 21699 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non- 21700 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d 21701 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket 21702 17864; patch by "teor". 21703 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback 21704 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable 21705 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor". 21706 21707 o Minor features (geoip): 21708 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 21709 Country database. 21710 21711 o Minor features (IPv6): 21712 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and 21713 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an 21714 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for 21715 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch 21716 from Nick Mathewson and "teor". 21717 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses. 21718 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128. 21719 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's 21720 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor". 21721 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback 21722 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves 21723 ticket 6027. 21724 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug 21725 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor". 21726 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug 21727 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor". 21728 21729 o Minor features (logging): 21730 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog 21731 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can 21732 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting 21733 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes 21734 ticket 17194. 21735 21736 o Minor features (portability): 21737 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944; 21738 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>. 21739 21740 o Minor features (relay, address discovery): 21741 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and 21742 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more 21743 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both 21744 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves 21745 ticket 17950. 21746 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and 21747 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific 21748 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and 21749 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has. 21750 Resolves ticket 17951. 21751 21752 o Minor features (replay cache): 21753 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements 21754 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom". 21755 21756 o Minor features (unix file permissions): 21757 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids 21758 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's 21759 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux. 21760 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen. 21761 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the 21762 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the 21763 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the 21764 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's 21765 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux. 21766 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen. 21767 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to 21768 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID. 21769 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen. 21770 21771 o Minor bugfixes (accounting): 21772 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly 21773 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch 21774 from "unixninja92". 21775 21776 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness): 21777 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should 21778 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876; 21779 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. 21780 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed 21781 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix 21782 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. 21783 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683; 21784 bugfix on 0.0.6. 21785 21786 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 21787 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending 21788 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug 21789 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 21790 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless 21791 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug 21792 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 21793 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix 21794 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 21795 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347; 21796 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'. 21797 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems 21798 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug 21799 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate". 21800 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the 21801 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. 21802 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix 21803 on 0.0.2pre8. 21804 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean. 21805 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 21806 21807 o Minor bugfixes (crypto): 21808 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug 21809 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor". 21810 21811 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories): 21812 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response, 21813 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on 21814 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor". 21815 21816 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6): 21817 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length. 21818 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 21819 21820 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 21821 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux 21822 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. 21823 21824 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 21825 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__ 21826 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but 21827 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't 21828 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van 21829 der Woerdt. 21830 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable 21831 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. 21832 21833 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 21834 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the 21835 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix 21836 on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 21837 21838 o Minor bugfixes (relays): 21839 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable 21840 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a 21841 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes 21842 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix 21843 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor". 21844 21845 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services): 21846 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless 21847 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect, 21848 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs 21849 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor". 21850 21851 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging): 21852 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub 21853 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix 21854 on 0.1.1.16-rc. 21855 21856 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code): 21857 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of 21858 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values. 21859 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 21860 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by 21861 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type 21862 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge 21863 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix 21864 on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 21865 21866 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 21867 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones 21868 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time 21869 string against a constant, compare it to the output of 21870 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug 21871 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 21872 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without 21873 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632; 21874 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor". 21875 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix 21876 on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 21877 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit 21878 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor". 21879 21880 o Code simplification and refactoring: 21881 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in 21882 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes 21883 ticket 17608; patch from "juce". 21884 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close() 21885 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are 21886 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions 21887 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218. 21888 - Clean up a little duplicated code in 21889 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch 21890 from "pfrankw". 21891 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits 21892 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to 21893 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and 21894 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes 21895 ticket 17590. 21896 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch, 21897 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that 21898 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change 21899 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request 21900 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes 21901 ticket 17589 21902 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't 21903 use them. Closes ticket 17926. 21904 21905 o Documentation: 21906 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command- 21907 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'. 21908 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638. 21909 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382. 21910 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791. 21911 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it 21912 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes 21913 issue 17392. 21914 21915 o Removed features: 21916 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running 21917 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support 21918 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the 21919 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on 21920 patches by Tom van der Woerdt. 21921 21922 o Testing: 21923 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as 21924 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values 21925 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor". 21926 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket 21927 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks." 21928 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our 21929 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794. 21930 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a 21931 portion of ticket 16831. 21932 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c, 21933 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets 21934 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from 21935 Ola Bini. 21936 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004. 21937 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr. 21938 21939 21940 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10 21941 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as 21942 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability. 21943 21944 o Major bugfixes (guard selection): 21945 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory 21946 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we 21947 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard 21948 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse 21949 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered 21950 by Mohsen Imani. 21951 21952 o Minor features (geoip): 21953 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 21954 Country database. 21955 21956 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 21957 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible. 21958 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 21959 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate". 21960 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the 21961 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781. 21962 21963 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 21964 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits 21965 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug 21966 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner". 21967 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a 21968 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability 21969 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug 21970 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 21971 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes 21972 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 21973 21974 21975 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20 21976 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user 21977 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked 21978 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders, 21979 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national 21980 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he 21981 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world, 21982 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor 21983 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus 21984 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an 21985 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind, 21986 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one 21987 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his 21988 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works 21989 that would make him proud. 21990 21991 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series. 21992 21993 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays, 21994 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding 21995 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for 21996 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance 21997 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes 21998 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts 21999 of Tor invoke which others. 22000 22001 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.) 22002 22003 22004 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21 22005 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It 22006 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly 22007 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small 22008 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different 22009 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next 22010 release will the the official stable release. 22011 22012 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness): 22013 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the 22014 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause 22015 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or 22016 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix 22017 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 22018 22019 o Major bugfixes (correctness): 22020 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes 22021 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. 22022 22023 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks): 22024 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug 22025 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 22026 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug 22027 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. 22028 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk. 22029 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc. 22030 22031 o Minor features (geoIP): 22032 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 22033 Country database. 22034 22035 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 22036 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha) 22037 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237. 22038 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug 22039 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 22040 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347; 22041 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'. 22042 22043 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 22044 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes 22045 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from 22046 Marcin Cieślak. 22047 22048 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox): 22049 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the 22050 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354; 22051 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet. 22052 22053 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 22054 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug 22055 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor. 22056 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug 22057 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak. 22058 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different 22059 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4 22060 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost 22061 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor". 22062 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in. 22063 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from 22064 Marcin Cieślak. 22065 22066 o Documentation: 22067 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609. 22068 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes 22069 ticket 17364. 22070 22071 22072 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25 22073 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It 22074 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against 22075 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to 22076 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features. 22077 22078 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover 22079 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make 22080 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network 22081 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%. 22082 22083 o Major features (security, hidden services): 22084 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to 22085 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery 22086 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden 22087 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a 22088 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to 22089 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service. 22090 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917. 22091 22092 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning): 22093 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory- 22094 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys 22095 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning 22096 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any 22097 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes 22098 ticket 17135. 22099 22100 o Major features (Ed25519 performance): 22101 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair 22102 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2 22103 available. Implements ticket 16535. 22104 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by 22105 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements 22106 ticket 16533. 22107 22108 o Major features (performance testing): 22109 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing. 22110 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch 22111 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175. 22112 22113 o Major features (relay, Ed25519): 22114 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log 22115 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more 22116 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing 22117 so many of these! 22118 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading 22119 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in 22120 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted 22121 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944. 22122 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the 22123 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part 22124 of ticket 16769. 22125 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519 22126 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790. 22127 22128 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519): 22129 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on 22130 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r". 22131 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys. 22132 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r". 22133 22134 o Minor features (client-side privacy): 22135 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit 22136 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS 22137 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows 22138 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their 22139 own. Implements feature 15482. 22140 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect 22141 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc. 22142 22143 o Minor features (compilation): 22144 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an 22145 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901. 22146 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL 22147 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha 22148 which started requiring ECC. 22149 22150 o Minor features (geoip): 22151 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 22152 Country database. 22153 22154 o Minor features (hidden services): 22155 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this 22156 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14% 22157 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden 22158 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963. 22159 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc 22160 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps 22161 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and 22162 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes 22163 ticket 15254. 22164 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when 22165 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures 22166 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes 22167 ticket 16389. 22168 22169 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation): 22170 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to 22171 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by 22172 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882. 22173 22174 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies): 22175 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published 22176 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6 22177 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor". 22178 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha. 22179 22180 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies): 22181 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only 22182 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce 22183 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part 22184 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 22185 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases 22186 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual 22187 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or 22188 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and 22189 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*. 22190 Related to ticket 16069. 22191 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level 22192 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both 22193 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069. 22194 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the 22195 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 22196 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 22197 22198 o Minor bugfixes (authority): 22199 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running. 22200 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 22201 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old 22202 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix 22203 on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 22204 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop 22205 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of 22206 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 22207 22208 o Minor bugfixes (control port): 22209 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum 22210 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697; 22211 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 22212 22213 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 22214 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove() 22215 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit 22216 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was 22217 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 22218 22219 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): 22220 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit 22221 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069. 22222 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists 22223 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. 22224 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for 22225 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir 22226 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no 22227 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a 22228 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that 22229 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix 22230 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 22231 22232 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519): 22233 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired 22234 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 22235 22236 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): 22237 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2 22238 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 22239 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the 22240 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 22241 22242 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit): 22243 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file 22244 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug 22245 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet. 22246 22247 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 22248 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the 22249 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version 22250 of Tor ever. 22251 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue 22252 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 22253 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider 22254 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a 22255 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at 22256 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 22257 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on 22258 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. 22259 22260 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 22261 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or 22262 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the 22263 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error 22264 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix 22265 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 22266 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure 22267 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix 22268 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 22269 22270 o Code simplification and refactoring: 22271 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all 22272 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen 22273 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This 22274 further simplifies Tor's callgraph. 22275 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and 22276 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c. 22277 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate 22278 function. Closes ticket 16763. 22279 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer 22280 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge 22281 suite of other microdesc functions. 22282 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of 22283 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762. 22284 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM 22285 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and 22286 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788. 22287 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer 22288 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue 22289 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This 22290 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of 22291 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes 22292 ticket 16695. 22293 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools 22294 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that 22295 they are broken. 22296 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup(). 22297 22298 o Documentation: 22299 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather 22300 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742. 22301 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred 22302 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix 22303 on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 22304 22305 o Removed code: 22306 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor 22307 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from 22308 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries 22309 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very 22310 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques. 22311 Closes ticket 13338. 22312 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller 22313 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in 22314 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding 22315 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size, 22316 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions 22317 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480. 22318 22319 o Testing: 22320 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all 22321 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests 22322 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in 22323 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946 22324 (chutney). Patches by "teor". 22325 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side- 22326 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch 22327 by "teor". 22328 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to 22329 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This 22330 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to 22331 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148. 22332 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to 22333 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which 22334 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify 22335 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies. 22336 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all 22337 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney. 22338 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the 22339 network before we begin. 22340 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable 22341 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953. 22342 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl() 22343 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831. 22344 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests 22345 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary. 22346 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of 22347 stem/chutney before doing any build operations. 22348 22349 22350 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27 22351 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new 22352 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction 22353 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key 22354 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted 22355 offline identity keys in the new algorithm). 22356 22357 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router 22358 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key 22359 support to more parts of the Tor protocol. 22360 22361 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220): 22362 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519 22363 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so 22364 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online 22365 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates. 22366 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed. 22367 Implements part of ticket 12498. 22368 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with 22369 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498. 22370 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been 22371 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to 22372 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498. 22373 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements 22374 part of ticket 12498. 22375 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this 22376 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master 22377 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master 22378 key). Closes ticket 13642. 22379 22380 o Major features (Hidden services): 22381 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to 22382 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value 22383 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden 22384 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more 22385 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes 22386 ticket 4862. 22387 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of 22388 introduction points, which used to change the number of 22389 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of 22390 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862. 22391 22392 o Major features (onion key cross-certification): 22393 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity 22394 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures 22395 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because 22396 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include 22397 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499. 22398 22399 o Major features (performance): 22400 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the 22401 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"). 22402 Implements ticket 16467. 22403 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an 22404 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the 22405 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on 22406 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663. 22407 22408 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9): 22409 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream 22410 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group 22411 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener 22412 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 22413 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino". 22414 22415 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10): 22416 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a 22417 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug 22418 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability 22419 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since 22420 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in 22421 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much 22422 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix 22423 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 22424 22425 o Major bugfixes (hidden services): 22426 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always 22427 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit). 22428 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which 22429 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause 22430 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or 22431 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix 22432 on 0.1.0.1-rc. 22433 22434 o Major bugfixes (open file limit): 22435 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling 22436 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the 22437 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open 22438 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an 22439 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. 22440 22441 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10): 22442 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds 22443 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400; 22444 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch 22445 by "cypherpunks_backup". 22446 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when 22447 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden 22448 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix 22449 on 0.1.0.1-rc. 22450 22451 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9): 22452 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag. 22453 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806 22454 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil 22455 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to 22456 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours 22457 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243. 22458 22459 o Minor features (client): 22460 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the 22461 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in 22462 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves 22463 ticket 16430. 22464 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and 22465 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs 22466 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is 22467 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 22468 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based 22469 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single 22470 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes 22471 ticket 15220. 22472 22473 o Minor features (control protocol): 22474 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in 22475 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358. 22476 22477 o Minor features (directory authorities): 22478 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable", 22479 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against 22480 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was 22481 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter 22482 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712. 22483 22484 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10): 22485 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. 22486 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. 22487 22488 o Minor features (hidden services): 22489 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and 22490 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to 22491 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and 22492 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part 22493 of ticket 16052. 22494 22495 o Minor features (portability): 22496 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids 22497 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race 22498 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem. 22499 22500 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9): 22501 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is 22502 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on 22503 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader. 22504 22505 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 22506 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was 22507 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881; 22508 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 22509 22510 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10): 22511 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue. 22512 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an 22513 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize 22514 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced 22515 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor". 22516 22517 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 22518 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one 22519 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug 22520 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 22521 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral 22522 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug 22523 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 22524 22525 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox): 22526 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is 22527 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 22528 22529 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10): 22530 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need 22531 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix 22532 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor". 22533 22534 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9): 22535 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the 22536 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex 22537 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by 22538 Peter Palfrader. 22539 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox 22540 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by 22541 Peter Palfrader. 22542 22543 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 22544 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize 22545 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch 22546 from "cypherpunks". 22547 22548 o Minor bugfixes (systemd): 22549 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd 22550 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 22551 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces. 22552 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd- 22553 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. 22554 22555 o Minor bugfixes (tests): 22556 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full. 22557 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 22558 22559 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9): 22560 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug 22561 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker". 22562 22563 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments): 22564 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c 22565 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 22566 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor". 22567 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 22568 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang 22569 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro 22570 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined. 22571 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. 22572 22573 o Code simplification and refactoring: 22574 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order 22575 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere. 22576 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We 22577 haven't supported that in ages. 22578 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better 22579 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the 22580 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs 22581 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498. 22582 22583 o Documentation: 22584 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the 22585 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly 22586 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc 22587 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term 22588 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit 22589 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325. 22590 22591 o Removed features: 22592 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support 22593 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when 22594 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key 22595 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or 22596 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only 22597 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140. 22598 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are 22599 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or 22600 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a 22601 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of 22602 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous 22603 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a 22604 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034. 22605 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to 22606 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543. 22607 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all 22608 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543. 22609 22610 o Testing: 22611 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic 22612 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include 22613 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor". 22614 Closes ticket 15817. 22615 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests. 22616 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has 22617 extensive tests. 22618 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by 22619 default as a part of "make check". 22620 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit 22621 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt() 22622 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt 22623 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves 22624 ticket 16189. 22625 22626 22627 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12 22628 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden 22629 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and 22630 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of 22631 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version 22632 of 0.2.6, should upgrade. 22633 22634 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability): 22635 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a 22636 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug 22637 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability 22638 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since 22639 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in 22640 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much 22641 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix 22642 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 22643 22644 o Major bugfixes (stability): 22645 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds 22646 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400; 22647 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch 22648 by "cypherpunks_backup". 22649 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when 22650 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden 22651 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix 22652 on 0.1.0.1-rc. 22653 22654 o Minor features (geoip): 22655 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. 22656 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. 22657 22658 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling): 22659 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue. 22660 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an 22661 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize 22662 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced 22663 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor". 22664 22665 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox): 22666 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need 22667 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix 22668 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor". 22669 22670 22671 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11 22672 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the 22673 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small 22674 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation 22675 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade. 22676 22677 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy): 22678 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream 22679 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was 22680 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection 22681 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch 22682 by "jojelino". 22683 22684 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security): 22685 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag. 22686 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806 22687 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil 22688 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which 22689 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96 22690 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243. 22691 22692 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 22693 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is 22694 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on 22695 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader. 22696 22697 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox): 22698 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of 22699 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes 22700 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader. 22701 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox 22702 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by 22703 Peter Palfrader. 22704 22705 o Minor bugfixes (tests): 22706 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug 22707 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker". 22708 22709 22710 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21 22711 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and 22712 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory 22713 authorities should upgrade. 22714 22715 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha): 22716 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir 22717 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays 22718 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix 22719 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 22720 22721 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha): 22722 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on 22723 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix 22724 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 22725 22726 o Minor features (geoip): 22727 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. 22728 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 22729 Country database. 22730 22731 22732 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12 22733 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It 22734 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor 22735 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most 22736 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with 22737 the hidden services subsystem. 22738 22739 o New system requirements: 22740 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions 22741 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes 22742 ticket 15248. 22743 22744 o Major features (controller): 22745 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation 22746 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes 22747 ticket 6411. 22748 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached" 22749 commands to get information about hidden services created via the 22750 controller. Part of ticket 6411. 22751 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service 22752 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847. 22753 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes 22754 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC". 22755 22756 o Major bugfixes (hidden services): 22757 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir 22758 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays 22759 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix 22760 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 22761 22762 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance): 22763 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might 22764 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong 22765 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then 22766 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766. 22767 22768 o Minor features (command-line interface): 22769 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise. 22770 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks". 22771 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used 22772 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018. 22773 22774 o Minor features (controller): 22775 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the 22776 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already 22777 present. Implements ticket 14840. 22778 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to 22779 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache. 22780 Closes ticket 14845. 22781 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay- 22782 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on 22783 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784. 22784 22785 o Minor features (DoS-resistance): 22786 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with 22787 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the 22788 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515. 22789 22790 o Minor features (geoip): 22791 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. 22792 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 22793 Country database. 22794 22795 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure): 22796 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point 22797 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead 22798 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus 22799 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of 22800 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS. 22801 Closes ticket 15745. 22802 22803 o Minor features (logging): 22804 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people 22805 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements 22806 ticket 15026. 22807 22808 o Minor features (pluggable transports): 22809 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems, 22810 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the 22811 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves 22812 ticket 15471. 22813 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open 22814 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has 22815 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable 22816 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior. 22817 Resolves ticket 15435. 22818 22819 o Minor features (testing): 22820 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our 22821 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377. 22822 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes 22823 files. Closes ticket 15180. 22824 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile- 22825 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity 22826 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for 22827 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor". 22828 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806. 22829 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the 22830 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344. 22831 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage. 22832 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including 22833 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is. 22834 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full 22835 configure options. Implements ticket 15400. 22836 22837 o Minor bugfixes (build): 22838 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and 22839 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix 22840 on 0.2.7.0-alpha. 22841 22842 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface): 22843 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not 22844 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix 22845 on 0.2.3.3-alpha. 22846 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use 22847 stderr, not stdout. 22848 22849 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests): 22850 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities, 22851 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options 22852 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is 22853 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it 22854 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for 22855 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on 22856 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor". 22857 22858 o Minor bugfixes (correctness): 22859 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in 22860 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix 22861 on 0.1.1.16-rc. 22862 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless, 22863 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and 22864 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36, 22865 and 0.2.0.10. 22866 22867 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service): 22868 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on 22869 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix 22870 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 22871 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden 22872 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 22873 22874 o Minor bugfixes (interface): 22875 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without 22876 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording 22877 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix 22878 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 22879 22880 o Minor bugfixes (logs): 22881 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of 22882 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug 22883 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with 22884 recent enough Clang. 22885 22886 o Minor bugfixes (network): 22887 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface 22888 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are 22889 unsuitable for public communications. 22890 22891 o Minor bugfixes (statistics): 22892 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is 22893 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is 22894 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups 22895 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay. 22896 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35. 22897 22898 o Minor bugfixes (test networks): 22899 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to 22900 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The 22901 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies 22902 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations 22903 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is 22904 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor", 22905 issue discovered by CJ Ess. 22906 22907 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 22908 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes 22909 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed 22910 by "joelanders". 22911 - Set the severity correctly when testing 22912 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and 22913 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully 22914 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on 22915 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive. 22916 22917 o Code simplification and refactoring: 22918 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into 22919 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves 22920 ticket 14710. 22921 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently 22922 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases 22923 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391. 22924 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more 22925 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652. 22926 22927 o Documentation: 22928 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in 22929 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes 22930 issue 15550. 22931 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages. 22932 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks". 22933 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page. 22934 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor", 22935 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987. 22936 22937 o Removed code: 22938 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code 22939 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder 22940 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should 22941 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652. 22942 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead. 22943 Closes ticket 14922. 22944 22945 o Removed features: 22946 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti- 22947 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward- 22948 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736. 22949 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It 22950 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on 22951 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started 22952 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742. 22953 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions 22954 that didn't know about microdescriptors. 22955 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by 22956 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly. 22957 22958 22959 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06 22960 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that 22961 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients 22962 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as 22963 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available. 22964 22965 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden 22966 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. 22967 22968 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service): 22969 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an 22970 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600; 22971 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio". 22972 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion 22973 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes 22974 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC". 22975 22976 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service): 22977 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to 22978 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for 22979 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions. 22980 Resolves ticket 15515. 22981 22982 22983 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06 22984 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that 22985 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients 22986 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as 22987 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available. 22988 22989 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden 22990 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. 22991 22992 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service): 22993 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an 22994 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600; 22995 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio". 22996 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion 22997 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes 22998 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC". 22999 23000 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service): 23001 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to 23002 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for 23003 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions. 23004 Resolves ticket 15515. 23005 23006 23007 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06 23008 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an 23009 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden 23010 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients 23011 should upgrade whenever packages become available. 23012 23013 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden 23014 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. 23015 23016 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service): 23017 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an 23018 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600; 23019 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio". 23020 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion 23021 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes 23022 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC". 23023 23024 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service): 23025 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to 23026 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for 23027 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions. 23028 Resolves ticket 15515. 23029 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs 23030 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational 23031 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves 23032 ticket 11447. 23033 23034 23035 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24 23036 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series. 23037 23038 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance 23039 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of 23040 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is 23041 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much 23042 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is 23043 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports 23044 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance 23045 bugs should be addressed. 23046 23047 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 23048 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent 23049 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436; 23050 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha. 23051 23052 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18 23053 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in 23054 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc. 23055 23056 o Major bugfixes (client): 23057 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on 23058 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported 23059 by "anonym". 23060 23061 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports): 23062 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before 23063 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition 23064 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the 23065 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug 23066 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 23067 23068 o Major bugfixes (portability): 23069 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug 23070 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported 23071 by "ruebezahl". 23072 23073 o Minor features (heartbeat): 23074 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each 23075 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us 23076 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor 23077 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212. 23078 23079 o Code simplification and refactoring: 23080 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it 23081 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176. 23082 23083 23084 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17 23085 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series. 23086 23087 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a 23088 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes. 23089 It also updates the list of directory authorities. 23090 23091 o Directory authority changes: 23092 - Remove turtles as a directory authority. 23093 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements 23094 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9. 23095 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This 23096 closes ticket 14487. 23097 23098 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security): 23099 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in 23100 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared 23101 in OSX 10.9. 23102 23103 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security): 23104 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion 23105 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to 23106 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 23107 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'. 23108 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the 23109 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if 23110 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 23111 23112 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability): 23113 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load. 23114 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr"; 23115 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks". 23116 23117 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox): 23118 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not 23119 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on 23120 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic". 23121 23122 o Minor features (controller): 23123 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent 23124 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to 23125 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988. 23126 23127 o Minor features (geoip): 23128 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. 23129 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 23130 Country database. 23131 23132 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping): 23133 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when 23134 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on 23135 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor". 23136 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug 23137 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 23138 23139 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 23140 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which 23141 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile(). 23142 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours. 23143 23144 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): 23145 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if 23146 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had 23147 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261; 23148 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. 23149 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an 23150 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths(). 23151 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 23152 23153 o Minor bugfixes (statistics): 23154 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated 23155 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. 23156 23157 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety): 23158 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from 23159 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents 23160 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal) 23161 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all 23162 versions of Tor. 23163 23164 23165 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17 23166 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It 23167 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5 23168 and beyond. 23169 23170 o Directory authority changes: 23171 - Remove turtles as a directory authority. 23172 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements 23173 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9. 23174 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This 23175 closes ticket 14487. 23176 23177 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha): 23178 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load. 23179 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr"; 23180 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks". 23181 23182 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc): 23183 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion 23184 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to 23185 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 23186 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'. 23187 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the 23188 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if 23189 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 23190 23191 o Minor features (geoip): 23192 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. 23193 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 23194 Country database. 23195 23196 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09 23197 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an 23198 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor 23199 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or 23200 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier. 23201 23202 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security): 23203 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in 23204 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared 23205 in OSX 10.9. 23206 23207 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security): 23208 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion 23209 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to 23210 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 23211 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". 23212 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the 23213 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if 23214 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 23215 23216 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy): 23217 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when 23218 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix 23219 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 23220 23221 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox): 23222 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux 23223 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix 23224 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 23225 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2 23226 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. 23227 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not 23228 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on 23229 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic". 23230 23231 o Minor features (controller): 23232 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include 23233 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we 23234 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006. 23235 23236 o Minor features (geoip): 23237 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. 23238 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 23239 Country database. 23240 23241 o Minor features (logs): 23242 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes 23243 ticket 14950. 23244 23245 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling): 23246 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate 23247 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing 23248 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 23249 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded 23250 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded 23251 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in 23252 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454; 23253 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha. 23254 23255 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 23256 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix 23257 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 23258 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix 23259 on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 23260 23261 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 23262 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to 23263 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on 23264 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha. 23265 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug 23266 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt. 23267 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured 23268 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch 23269 from "cypherpunks". 23270 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default 23271 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported 23272 by "reezer". 23273 23274 o Directory authority IP change: 23275 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This 23276 closes ticket 14487. 23277 23278 o Removed code: 23279 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools. 23280 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely 23281 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch 23282 by "cypherpunks". 23283 23284 23285 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19 23286 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in 23287 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets, 23288 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our 23289 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the 23290 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides. 23291 23292 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version, 23293 the next version will be a release candidate. 23294 23295 o Deprecated versions: 23296 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to 23297 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555. 23298 23299 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets): 23300 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk 23301 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or 23302 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their 23303 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of 23304 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements 23305 ticket 12585. 23306 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets. 23307 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket". 23308 Implements ticket 11485. 23309 23310 o Major features (changed defaults): 23311 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a 23312 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless 23313 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if 23314 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this 23315 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0" 23316 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067. 23317 23318 o Major features (directory system): 23319 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory 23320 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the 23321 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers, 23322 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969. 23323 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled 23324 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the 23325 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969. 23326 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest 23327 versions for different software packages. This allows packages 23328 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get 23329 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal 23330 227. Closes ticket 10395. 23331 23332 o Major features (guards): 23333 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on 23334 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that 23335 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is 23336 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9 23337 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321. 23338 23339 o Major features (performance): 23340 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the 23341 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used 23342 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and 23343 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of 23344 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications 23345 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO 23346 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once. 23347 Implements ticket 9682. 23348 23349 o Major features (relay): 23350 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges 23351 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were 23352 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822. 23353 23354 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability): 23355 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load. 23356 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr"; 23357 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks". 23358 23359 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation): 23360 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not 23361 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want 23362 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits 23363 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the 23364 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on 23365 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy". 23366 23367 o Minor features (build): 23368 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from 23369 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files. 23370 Resolves ticket 13037. 23371 23372 o Minor features (controller): 23373 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller 23374 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes 23375 ticket 8405. 23376 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an 23377 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with 23378 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451. 23379 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent 23380 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to 23381 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988. 23382 23383 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance): 23384 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service 23385 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on 23386 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden 23387 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our 23388 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently 23389 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806. 23390 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of 23391 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects 23392 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791. 23393 23394 o Minor features (geoip): 23395 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind 23396 GeoLite2 Country database. 23397 23398 o Minor features (guard nodes): 23399 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10 23400 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if 23401 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485. 23402 23403 o Minor features (hidden service): 23404 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the 23405 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96 23406 hours. Addresses ticket 14149. 23407 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden 23408 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in 23409 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an 23410 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a 23411 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084. 23412 23413 o Minor features (interface): 23414 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration 23415 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in 23416 the file system. Implements feature 13865. 23417 23418 o Minor features (logging): 23419 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message. 23420 Resolves ticket 6852. 23421 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when 23422 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud 23423 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes 23424 ticket 13762. 23425 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to 23426 INFO. Closes ticket 14015. 23427 23428 o Minor features (stability): 23429 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for 23430 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes 23431 ticket 11737. 23432 23433 o Minor features (systemd): 23434 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening 23435 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews. 23436 23437 o Minor features (testing networks): 23438 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds, 23439 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the 23440 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but 23441 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces 23442 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default 23443 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch 23444 by "teor". 23445 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to 23446 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the 23447 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort 23448 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2. 23449 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor". 23450 23451 o Minor features (tor2web mode): 23452 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows 23453 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be 23454 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for 23455 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844. 23456 23457 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS): 23458 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in 23459 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never 23460 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. 23461 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a 23462 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client- 23463 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes 23464 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 23465 23466 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping): 23467 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when 23468 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on 23469 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor". 23470 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug 23471 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 23472 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value 23473 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix 23474 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 23475 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when 23476 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that 23477 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix 23478 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 23479 23480 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges): 23481 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity 23482 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured 23483 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes 23484 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. 23485 23486 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6): 23487 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic 23488 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set. 23489 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of 23490 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 23491 23492 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 23493 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always 23494 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the 23495 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug 23496 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha. 23497 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug 23498 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev". 23499 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers. 23500 Addresses ticket 14188. 23501 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which 23502 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile(). 23503 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours. 23504 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode 23505 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included 23506 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844. 23507 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was 23508 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug 23509 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 23510 23511 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 23512 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command 23513 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously, 23514 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha. 23515 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug 23516 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 23517 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close 23518 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 23519 23520 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): 23521 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if 23522 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had 23523 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261; 23524 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. 23525 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be 23526 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug 23527 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 23528 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the 23529 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 23530 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an 23531 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths(). 23532 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 23533 23534 o Minor bugfixes (file handling): 23535 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new 23536 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix 23537 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor". 23538 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file 23539 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1. 23540 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files. 23541 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats, 23542 state, and key files. 23543 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a 23544 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix 23545 on 0.2.3.11-alpha. 23546 23547 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 23548 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro 23549 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures 23550 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the 23551 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6. 23552 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that 23553 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same 23554 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 23555 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service 23556 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug 23557 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 23558 23559 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 23560 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in 23561 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 23562 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix 23563 on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 23564 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug 23565 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 23566 23567 o Minor bugfixes (parsing): 23568 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of 23569 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. 23570 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in 23571 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug 23572 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. 23573 23574 o Minor bugfixes (path counting): 23575 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count 23576 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have 23577 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 23578 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine 23579 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of 23580 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 23581 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are 23582 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of 23583 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 23584 23585 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 23586 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it 23587 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for 23588 example Mac OS X. 23589 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes 23590 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau. 23591 23592 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox): 23593 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits. 23594 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the 23595 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes 23596 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 23597 23598 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown): 23599 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or 23600 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees 23601 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix 23602 on 0.1.0.2-rc. 23603 23604 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks): 23605 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings. 23606 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van 23607 der Woerdt. 23608 23609 o Minor bugfixes (statistics): 23610 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated 23611 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. 23612 23613 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support): 23614 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug 23615 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz. 23616 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes 23617 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz. 23618 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor 23619 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from 23620 Tomasz Torcz. 23621 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd 23622 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch 23623 from "blueness". 23624 23625 o Minor bugfixes (TLS): 23626 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible 23627 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319. 23628 23629 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy): 23630 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a 23631 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix 23632 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 23633 23634 o Code simplification and refactoring: 23635 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into 23636 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across 23637 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure 23638 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in 23639 the past. Closes ticket 8546. 23640 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into 23641 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting 23642 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of 23643 issue 12376. 23644 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was 23645 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes 23646 ticket 14202. 23647 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one 23648 directory server. 23649 23650 o Documentation: 23651 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc 23652 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702. 23653 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its 23654 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325. 23655 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to 23656 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325. 23657 23658 o Downgraded warnings: 23659 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong 23660 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635. 23661 23662 o Removed features: 23663 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no 23664 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes". 23665 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which 23666 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations, 23667 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes 23668 ticket 14848. 23669 23670 o Testing: 23671 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the 23672 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 23673 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check 23674 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files. 23675 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing 23676 (existing behavior). 23677 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain 23678 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor". 23679 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests. 23680 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set. 23681 Closes ticket 14107. 23682 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows. 23683 Patch from Gisle Vanem. 23684 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow" 23685 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes 23686 ticket 13243. 23687 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the 23688 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi. 23689 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. 23690 23691 23692 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31 23693 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series. 23694 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on 23695 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance 23696 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better 23697 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes. 23698 23699 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major 23700 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney. 23701 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks 23702 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes. 23703 23704 o Major features (relay, infrastructure): 23705 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell 23706 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on 23707 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any 23708 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from 23709 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic. 23710 23711 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global 23712 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for 23713 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among 23714 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to 23715 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it 23716 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in 23717 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements 23718 ticket 9262. 23719 23720 o Major features (hidden services): 23721 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the 23722 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port. 23723 Closes ticket 13667. 23724 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to 23725 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of 23726 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on, 23727 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services 23728 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if 23729 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will 23730 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed 23731 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so 23732 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see 23733 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This 23734 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192. 23735 23736 o Major bugfixes (client, automap): 23737 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should 23738 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we 23739 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to 23740 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on 23741 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas 23742 Izquierdo Riera. 23743 23744 o Major bugfixes (hidden services): 23745 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel 23746 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable. 23747 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction 23748 point would make the other introduction points get marked as 23749 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2. 23750 23751 o Directory authority changes: 23752 - Remove turtles as a directory authority. 23753 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements 23754 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9. 23755 23756 o Major removed features: 23757 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services 23758 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices 23759 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services 23760 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803. 23761 23762 o Minor features (client): 23763 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks 23764 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames. 23765 Resolves ticket 13315. 23766 23767 o Minor features (controller): 23768 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to 23769 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements 23770 feature 9503. 23771 23772 o Minor features (geoip): 23773 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 23774 Country database. 23775 23776 o Minor features (hidden services): 23777 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction 23778 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes 23779 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled. 23780 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447. 23781 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the 23782 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements 23783 feature 13212. 23784 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service 23785 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch 23786 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291. 23787 23788 o Minor features (systemd): 23789 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful 23790 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer. 23791 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part 23792 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer. 23793 23794 o Minor features (transparent proxy): 23795 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw 23796 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002. 23797 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy 23798 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas 23799 Izquierdo Riera. 23800 23801 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety): 23802 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from 23803 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents 23804 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal) 23805 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all 23806 versions of Tor. 23807 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not 23808 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs 23809 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves 23810 ticket 14041. 23811 23812 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors): 23813 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when 23814 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from 23815 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever 23816 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix 23817 on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 23818 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes, 23819 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug 23820 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 23821 23822 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 23823 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening, 23824 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const 23825 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional 23826 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix 23827 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 23828 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the 23829 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix 23830 on 0.2.1.2-alpha. 23831 23832 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 23833 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous 23834 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha. 23835 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid 23836 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a 23837 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1. 23838 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor 23839 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug 23840 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. 23841 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only 23842 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also 23843 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents 23844 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service 23845 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported 23846 by "special". 23847 23848 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox): 23849 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2 23850 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch 23851 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera. 23852 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox 23853 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc. 23854 23855 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 23856 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level. 23857 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible 23858 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix 23859 on 0.0.6rc3. 23860 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID 23861 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6. 23862 23863 o Minor bugfixes (misc): 23864 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain 23865 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all 23866 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix 23867 on 0.0.2pre14. 23868 23869 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup): 23870 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If 23871 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test 23872 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have 23873 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor 23874 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch 23875 by "teor". 23876 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since 23877 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses 23878 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists 23879 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 23880 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor". 23881 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking 23882 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume 23883 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test 23884 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in 23885 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on 23886 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor". 23887 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now 23888 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not 23889 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit 23890 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor". 23891 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a 23892 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0, 23893 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a 23894 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix 23895 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor". 23896 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are 23897 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only 23898 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will 23899 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control- 23900 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build 23901 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit 23902 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on 23903 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor". 23904 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when 23905 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus. 23906 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals. 23907 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch 23908 by "teor". 23909 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test 23910 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would 23911 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor 23912 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of 23913 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor". 23914 23915 o Code simplification and refactoring: 23916 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it 23917 with a function instead. 23918 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us 23919 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly. 23920 Closes ticket 13172. 23921 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and 23922 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456. 23923 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel 23924 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of 23925 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356. 23926 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename 23927 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less 23928 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644. 23929 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL 23930 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840. 23931 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single 23932 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map 23933 type trivially. 23934 23935 o Documentation: 23936 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file. 23937 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom". 23938 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in 23939 manpage. Resolves issue 13707. 23940 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a 23941 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in 23942 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of 23943 relays. Closes ticket 13381. 23944 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make 23945 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current 23946 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not 23947 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913. 23948 23949 o Testing: 23950 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux 23951 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262. 23952 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456. 23953 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit 23954 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky 23955 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups. 23956 Closes 13678. 23957 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch 23958 by 'rl1987'. 23959 23960 23961 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30 23962 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It 23963 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large 23964 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better 23965 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and 23966 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also, 23967 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable 23968 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk 23969 of introducing infinite download loops. 23970 23971 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be 23972 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay 23973 with 0.2.5.x for now. 23974 23975 o New compiler and system requirements: 23976 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99 23977 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects 23978 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and 23979 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile. 23980 23981 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant 23982 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't 23983 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233. 23984 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we 23985 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have 23986 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the 23987 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer 23988 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading 23989 support. Resolves ticket 12439. 23990 23991 o Removed platform support: 23992 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far 23993 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time. 23994 Closes ticket 11446. 23995 23996 o Major features (bridges): 23997 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable 23998 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY" 23999 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves 24000 ticket 8402. 24001 24002 o Major features (client performance, hidden services): 24003 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden 24004 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service 24005 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements 24006 ticket 13211. 24007 24008 o Major features (directory system): 24009 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest 24010 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again. 24011 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep 24012 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243. 24013 24014 o Major features (sample torrc): 24015 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is 24016 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as 24017 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for 24018 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed. 24019 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more 24020 generally useful "sample torrc". 24021 24022 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities): 24023 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or 24024 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 24025 24026 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance): 24027 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing 24028 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of 24029 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and 24030 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23. 24031 24032 o Minor features (security, memory wiping): 24033 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after 24034 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file 24035 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477. 24036 24037 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling): 24038 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for 24039 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115. 24040 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of 24041 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib 24042 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792. 24043 24044 o Minor features: 24045 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a 24046 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle 24047 document. Implements feature 10427. 24048 24049 o Minor features (client): 24050 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they 24051 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays 24052 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the 24053 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153. 24054 24055 o Minor features (directory authorities): 24056 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus. 24057 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000. 24058 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same 24059 argument more than once. 24060 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the 24061 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus 24062 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is 24063 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite" 24064 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus 24065 method. Implements part of proposal 215. 24066 24067 o Minor features (logging): 24068 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of 24069 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files. 24070 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX". 24071 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that 24072 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log 24073 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only 24074 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938. 24075 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of 24076 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583. 24077 24078 o Minor features (portability, Solaris): 24079 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe 24080 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all 24081 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495. 24082 24083 o Minor features (relay): 24084 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from 24085 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO 24086 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582. 24087 Patch from "ra". 24088 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like 24089 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound 24090 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic. 24091 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe". 24092 24093 o Minor features (testing networks): 24094 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign 24095 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit 24096 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any 24097 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to 24098 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements 24099 ticket 13161. 24100 24101 o Minor features (validation): 24102 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and 24103 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account. 24104 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476. 24105 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system 24106 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099. 24107 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates, 24108 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file 24109 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476. 24110 24111 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients): 24112 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not 24113 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when 24114 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 24115 24116 o Minor bugfixes (bridges): 24117 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport 24118 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213; 24119 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 24120 24121 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness): 24122 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN. 24123 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches 24124 from "teor". 24125 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c, 24126 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps 24127 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix 24128 on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 24129 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug 24130 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 24131 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r) 24132 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally 24133 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. 24134 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems 24135 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. 24136 24137 o Minor bugfixes (client): 24138 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the 24139 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug 24140 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. 24141 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not 24142 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 24143 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by 24144 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the 24145 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. 24146 24147 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc): 24148 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just 24149 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor 24150 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files 24151 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix 24152 on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 24153 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide 24154 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug 24155 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1". 24156 24157 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 24158 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the 24159 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we 24160 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes 24161 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns". 24162 24163 o Minor bugfixes (directory system): 24164 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info 24165 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not. 24166 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 24167 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve 24168 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them 24169 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 24170 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality. 24171 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other 24172 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when 24173 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix 24174 on 0.2.0.7-alpha. 24175 24176 o Minor bugfixes (networking): 24177 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather 24178 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt() 24179 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302; 24180 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 24181 24182 o Minor bugfixes (relay): 24183 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the 24184 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. 24185 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a 24186 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix 24187 on 0.1.1.6-alpha. 24188 24189 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks): 24190 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a 24191 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 24192 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both 24193 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially 24194 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 24195 24196 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 24197 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the 24198 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading 24199 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. 24200 24201 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows): 24202 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary 24203 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392; 24204 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem. 24205 24206 o Minor bugfixes (windows): 24207 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when 24208 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually 24209 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix 24210 on 0.0.2pre26. 24211 24212 o Minor bugfixes (zlib): 24213 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an 24214 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23. 24215 24216 o Build fixes: 24217 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62 24218 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 24219 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that 24220 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add 24221 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves 24222 ticket 13228. 24223 24224 o Code simplification and refactoring: 24225 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield 24226 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes 24227 ticket 12202. 24228 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c. 24229 Resolves ticket 12205. 24230 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply- 24231 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an 24232 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855. 24233 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our 24234 own SIZE_T_MAX. 24235 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in 24236 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO 24237 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues 24238 like 13163. 24239 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using 24240 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes 24241 bug 13284. 24242 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to 24243 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of 24244 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197. 24245 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in 24246 or_options_t structure. 24247 24248 o Documentation: 24249 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of 24250 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning 24251 message to point to this file when running out of sockets 24252 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves 24253 ticket 9708. 24254 24255 o Removed features: 24256 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have 24257 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak. 24258 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code. 24259 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform 24260 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only 24261 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a 24262 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In 24263 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained 24264 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes 24265 ticket 13126. 24266 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and 24267 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the 24268 ntor handshake. 24269 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which 24270 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked 24271 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226. 24272 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus 24273 anymore, and ignore it. 24274 24275 o Testing: 24276 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more 24277 easily be tested; write some tests for it. 24278 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503; 24279 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks." 24280 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393. 24281 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and 24282 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit 24283 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476. 24284 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized 24285 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires 24286 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray. 24287 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the 24288 unit tests. 24289 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to 24290 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated 24291 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119. 24292 24293 o Distribution (systemd): 24294 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and 24295 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading 24296 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751. 24297 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children 24298 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves 24299 ticket 12939. 24300 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor 24301 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196. 24302 24303 o Removed features (directory authorities): 24304 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays 24305 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already 24306 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of 24307 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152. 24308 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as 24309 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated. 24310 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore. 24311 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete. 24312 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory 24313 flag anymore. 24314 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus 24315 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were 24316 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them 24317 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes 24318 ticket 10163. 24319 24320 o Testing (test-network.sh): 24321 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't 24322 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes 24323 bug 13161. 24324 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes 24325 bug 13331. 24326 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the 24327 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission. 24328 Partially implements ticket 13161. 24329 24330 24331 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24 24332 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series. 24333 24334 It adds several new security features, including improved 24335 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening 24336 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux 24337 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features, 24338 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays 24339 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more 24340 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build 24341 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts 24342 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable 24343 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes 24344 and features mentioned below. 24345 24346 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions 24347 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade. 24348 24349 o Deprecated versions: 24350 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or 24351 attention for some while. 24352 24353 24354 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20 24355 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x 24356 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack 24357 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash 24358 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack 24359 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes. 24360 24361 o Major security fixes: 24362 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor 24363 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support 24364 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426. 24365 24366 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround): 24367 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or 24368 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug 24369 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug. 24370 24371 o Minor bugfixes: 24372 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve: 24373 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was 24374 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on 24375 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha. 24376 24377 o Compilation fixes: 24378 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have 24379 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its 24380 implementations. Fixes issue 13325. 24381 24382 o Downgraded warnings: 24383 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client' 24384 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093. 24385 24386 24387 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20 24388 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack 24389 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash 24390 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack 24391 (which does affect Tor). 24392 24393 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc): 24394 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor 24395 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support 24396 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426. 24397 24398 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc): 24399 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or 24400 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug 24401 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug. 24402 24403 24404 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22 24405 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x 24406 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when 24407 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of 24408 the directory authorities. 24409 24410 o Major bugfixes: 24411 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous 24412 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send 24413 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because 24414 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if 24415 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous 24416 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it, 24417 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden 24418 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant 24419 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were 24420 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for 24421 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151; 24422 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 24423 24424 o Directory authority changes: 24425 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority). 24426 24427 24428 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22 24429 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when 24430 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of 24431 the directory authorities. 24432 24433 o Major bugfixes: 24434 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous 24435 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send 24436 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because 24437 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if 24438 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous 24439 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it, 24440 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden 24441 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant 24442 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were 24443 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for 24444 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151; 24445 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 24446 24447 o Directory authority changes: 24448 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority). 24449 24450 o Minor features (geoip): 24451 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 24452 Country database. 24453 24454 24455 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11 24456 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x 24457 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability 24458 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release 24459 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series. 24460 24461 o Major bugfixes (client, startup): 24462 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off. 24463 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly 24464 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly 24465 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when 24466 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix 24467 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 24468 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix 24469 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that 24470 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword 24471 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set 24472 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the 24473 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes 24474 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24475 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same 24476 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908. 24477 24478 o Major bugfixes (relay): 24479 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we 24480 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. 24481 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks". 24482 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a 24483 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling 24484 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the 24485 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 24486 24487 o Minor features (bridge): 24488 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the 24489 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default. 24490 24491 o Minor features (geoip): 24492 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 24493 Country database. 24494 24495 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 24496 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not 24497 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message, 24498 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in 24499 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks 24500 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous. 24501 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha. 24502 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning 24503 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do 24504 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves 24505 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1. 24506 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS 24507 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997. 24508 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log 24509 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix 24510 on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 24511 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't 24512 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700; 24513 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha. 24514 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging 24515 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor". 24516 24517 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 24518 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes 24519 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24520 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to 24521 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch 24522 by "teor". 24523 24524 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 24525 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem; 24526 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. 24527 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on 24528 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker". 24529 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a 24530 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL. 24531 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor". 24532 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang 24533 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings 24534 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes 24535 ticket 13036. 24536 24537 o Distribution (systemd): 24538 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit 24539 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730. 24540 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our 24541 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not 24542 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their 24543 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case 24544 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc 24545 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains 24546 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves 24547 ticket 12731. 24548 24549 o Documentation: 24550 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of 24551 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from 24552 Matt Pagan. 24553 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves 24554 ticket 12878. 24555 24556 24557 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28 24558 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the 24559 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get 24560 us closer to a release candidate. 24561 24562 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23): 24563 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new 24564 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory 24565 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus 24566 parameter. Implements ticket 12688. 24567 24568 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23): 24569 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna 24570 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit 24571 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with 24572 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently 24573 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a 24574 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor 24575 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694; 24576 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from 24577 Adam Langley. 24578 24579 o Major bugfixes: 24580 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit 24581 construction operations are disabled (because the network is 24582 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information). 24583 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we 24584 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on 24585 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we 24586 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information 24587 to build circuits". 24588 24589 o Minor features: 24590 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the 24591 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus 24592 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the 24593 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500. 24594 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards 24595 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected 24596 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690. 24597 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 24598 Country database. 24599 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184. 24600 24601 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23): 24602 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early' 24603 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits 24604 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from 24605 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves 24606 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19. 24607 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit 24608 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or 24609 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718; 24610 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 24611 24612 o Minor bugfixes: 24613 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This 24614 configuration is still not expected to work, however.) 24615 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and 24616 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan 24617 Gunasekaran. 24618 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as 24619 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on 24620 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill". 24621 24622 24623 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28 24624 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from 24625 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the 24626 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series. 24627 24628 o Major features: 24629 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to 24630 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop 24631 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections 24632 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS 24633 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational 24634 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386. 24635 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new 24636 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory 24637 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus 24638 parameter. Implements ticket 12688. 24639 24640 o Major bugfixes: 24641 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna 24642 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit 24643 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with 24644 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently 24645 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a 24646 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor 24647 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694; 24648 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from 24649 Adam Langley. 24650 24651 o Minor bugfixes: 24652 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early' 24653 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits 24654 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from 24655 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves 24656 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19. 24657 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit 24658 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or 24659 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718; 24660 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 24661 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS 24662 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers 24663 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 24664 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight". 24665 24666 o Minor features: 24667 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 24668 Country database. 24669 24670 24671 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18 24672 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor 24673 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some 24674 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux 24675 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds 24676 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to 24677 track down. 24678 24679 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance): 24680 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to 24681 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections 24682 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was 24683 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the 24684 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of 24685 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection 24686 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known 24687 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3 24688 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance 24689 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead 24690 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799. 24691 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24692 24693 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22): 24694 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse 24695 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory 24696 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix 24697 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 24698 24699 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities): 24700 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's 24701 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor. 24702 24703 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"), 24704 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple 24705 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same 24706 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only 24707 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could 24708 selectively disable some client use of target relays by 24709 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the 24710 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to 24711 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an 24712 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the 24713 router's identity is not forgeable. 24714 24715 o Major bugfixes (relay): 24716 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous 24717 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would 24718 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of 24719 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha. 24720 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its 24721 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of 24722 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one 24723 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a 24724 bugfix on every version of Tor. 24725 24726 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports): 24727 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities 24728 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any 24729 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix 24730 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 24731 24732 o Minor features (diagnostic): 24733 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the 24734 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may 24735 help diagnose bug 7164. 24736 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have 24737 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about 24738 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387. 24739 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on 24740 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing 24741 bug 11233. 24742 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion 24743 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635. 24744 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184, 24745 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs. 24746 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to 24747 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory 24748 circuits sometimes do not get closed. 24749 24750 o Minor features (security, memory management): 24751 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now 24752 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with 24753 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're 24754 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough 24755 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated 24756 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476. 24757 24758 o Minor features (security): 24759 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping 24760 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we 24761 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back 24762 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750. 24763 24764 o Minor features (build): 24765 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off 24766 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or 24767 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628. 24768 24769 o Minor features (other): 24770 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 24771 Country database. 24772 24773 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22): 24774 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0; 24775 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also 24776 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849; 24777 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 24778 24779 o Minor bugfixes (performance): 24780 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute 24781 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to 24782 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value 24783 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as 24784 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of 24785 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This 24786 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often. 24787 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. 24788 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This 24789 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug 24790 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31. 24791 24792 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 24793 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix 24794 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem. 24795 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in 24796 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix 24797 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch. 24798 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to 24799 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of 24800 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch. 24801 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug 24802 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha. 24803 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519 24804 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit 24805 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on 24806 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev". 24807 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761; 24808 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks". 24809 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix 24810 on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 24811 24812 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server): 24813 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors, 24814 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write 24815 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to 24816 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as 24817 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug 24818 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23. 24819 24820 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox): 24821 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug 24822 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24823 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp 24824 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24825 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with 24826 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24827 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly 24828 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix 24829 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24830 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and 24831 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix 24832 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24833 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with 24834 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix 24835 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24836 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the 24837 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug 24838 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 24839 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled, 24840 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug 24841 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24842 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check 24843 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was 24844 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix 24845 on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24846 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics 24847 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 24848 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf. 24849 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same 24850 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory 24851 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24852 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled 24853 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes 24854 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24855 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the 24856 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 24857 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24858 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses 24859 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox 24860 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address 24861 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with 24862 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes 24863 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24864 24865 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports): 24866 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the 24867 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR 24868 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had 24869 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable 24870 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 24871 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable- 24872 transport-using configuration when we already have cached 24873 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix 24874 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 24875 24876 o Minor bugfixes (client): 24877 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings 24878 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork 24879 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first 24880 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 24881 24882 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 24883 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well 24884 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will 24885 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix 24886 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 24887 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests 24888 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were 24889 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from 24890 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 24891 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were 24892 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced 24893 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug 24894 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor. 24895 24896 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper): 24897 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch. 24898 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a 24899 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix 24900 on 0.2.4.2-alpha. 24901 24902 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading): 24903 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we 24904 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to 24905 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor 24906 versions. Found by "skruffy". 24907 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an 24908 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to 24909 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported 24910 by "cypherpunks". 24911 24912 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention): 24913 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do 24914 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an 24915 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix 24916 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. 24917 24918 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other): 24919 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for 24920 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might 24921 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix 24922 on 0.0.8pre1. 24923 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module 24924 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the 24925 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found 24926 by "starlight". 24927 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them 24928 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send 24929 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 24930 24931 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 24932 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches. 24933 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha. 24934 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for 24935 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases; 24936 fixes bug 10616. 24937 24938 o Distribution: 24939 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd. 24940 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified; 24941 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie 24942 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368. 24943 24944 o Documentation: 24945 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real 24946 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and 24947 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a 24948 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves 24949 ticket 11634. 24950 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory 24951 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats", 24952 not "status".) 24953 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the 24954 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory 24955 caches don't get confused. 24956 24957 o Package cleanup: 24958 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was 24959 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things. 24960 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which 24961 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves 24962 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987". 24963 24964 o Removed code: 24965 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU 24966 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742. 24967 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer 24968 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since 24969 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a 24970 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break 24971 hidden services. 24972 24973 24974 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16 24975 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5 24976 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing 24977 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug, 24978 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing 24979 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out 24980 of RAM, and several others. 24981 24982 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha): 24983 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities 24984 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We 24985 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're 24986 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464. 24987 24988 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM): 24989 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse 24990 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory 24991 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix 24992 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 24993 24994 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha): 24995 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on 24996 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with 24997 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left 24998 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or 24999 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by 25000 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 25001 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of 25002 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug 25003 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client 25004 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.) 25005 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over 25006 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over 25007 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528. 25008 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as 25009 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM 25010 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops 25011 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites. 25012 Resolves ticket 11438. 25013 25014 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security): 25015 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0: 25016 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would 25017 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make 25018 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849; 25019 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 25020 25021 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha): 25022 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is 25023 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. 25024 25025 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha): 25026 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record. 25027 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 25028 25029 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha): 25030 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is 25031 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229; 25032 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 25033 25034 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha): 25035 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a 25036 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393. 25037 25038 o Minor bugfixes (compilation): 25039 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519. 25040 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc. 25041 25042 o Minor bugfixes: 25043 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still 25044 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code 25045 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in 25046 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning 25047 from bug 7164. 25048 25049 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha): 25050 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one 25051 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits 25052 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553. 25053 25054 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha): 25055 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but 25056 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi 25057 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha. 25058 25059 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha): 25060 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before 25061 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on 25062 0.2.3.18-rc. 25063 25064 25065 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25 25066 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance 25067 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority 25068 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL 25069 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays, 25070 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time 25071 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on 25072 the Linux sandbox code. 25073 25074 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients 25075 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on 25076 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes. 25077 25078 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions 25079 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade. 25080 25081 o Major features (security): 25082 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to 25083 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously, 25084 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by 25085 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396. 25086 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities 25087 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We 25088 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're 25089 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464. 25090 25091 o Major features (relay performance): 25092 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point 25093 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These 25094 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on 25095 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841. 25096 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is 25097 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan 25098 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we 25099 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random 25100 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes 25101 a possible root cause of ticket 11553. 25102 25103 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only): 25104 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours 25105 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs 25106 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux 25107 host. Resolves ticket 11351. 25108 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments 25109 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part 25110 of ticket 11351. 25111 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack 25112 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465. 25113 25114 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection): 25115 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on 25116 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with 25117 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left 25118 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or 25119 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by 25120 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 25121 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of 25122 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug 25123 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client 25124 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.) 25125 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over 25126 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over 25127 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528. 25128 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as 25129 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM 25130 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops 25131 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites. 25132 Resolves ticket 11438. 25133 25134 o Major bugfixes (bridge client): 25135 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is 25136 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229; 25137 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 25138 25139 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD): 25140 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on 25141 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket 25142 10267; patch from "yurivict". 25143 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for 25144 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType 25145 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy 25146 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the 25147 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use 25148 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch. 25149 25150 o Minor features (security): 25151 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security 25152 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and 25153 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which 25154 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket 25155 11477. 25156 25157 o Minor features (log verbosity): 25158 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times 25159 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless. 25160 Resolves ticket 5286. 25161 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup 25162 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice 25163 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice 25164 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963. 25165 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed 25166 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279. 25167 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one 25168 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits 25169 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553. 25170 25171 o Minor features (relay): 25172 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a 25173 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new 25174 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454. 25175 25176 o Minor features (controller): 25177 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via 25178 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from 25179 "rl1987". 25180 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory 25181 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The 25182 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues. 25183 25184 o Minor features (bridge client): 25185 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a 25186 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport 25187 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto. 25188 25189 o Minor features (diagnostic): 25190 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes 25191 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced" 25192 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we 25193 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's 25194 still referenced by a live node_t object. 25195 25196 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort): 25197 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA 25198 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when 25199 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on 25200 0.2.4.7-alpha. 25201 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply 25202 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior 25203 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we 25204 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch 25205 from "epoch". 25206 25207 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay): 25208 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record. 25209 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 25210 25211 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client): 25212 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would 25213 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was 25214 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 25215 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor 25216 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at 25217 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha. 25218 25219 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap): 25220 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously, 25221 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870; 25222 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 25223 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR 25224 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error 25225 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 25226 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without 25227 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this 25228 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with 25229 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 25230 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with 25231 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on 25232 0.2.3.9-alpha. 25233 25234 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections): 25235 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails, 25236 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call 25237 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than 25238 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on 25239 0.2.4.4-alpha. 25240 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use 25241 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections 25242 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on 25243 0.2.4.4-alpha. 25244 25245 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 25246 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is 25247 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. 25248 25249 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper): 25250 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its 25251 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha. 25252 25253 o Minor bugfixes (bridges): 25254 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a 25255 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily 25256 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. 25257 25258 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific): 25259 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes 25260 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha. 25261 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in 25262 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on 25263 0.2.2.1-alpha. 25264 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming 25265 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close 25266 early. Fixes bug 10081. 25267 25268 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks): 25269 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug 25270 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha. 25271 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a 25272 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 25273 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting 25274 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately 25275 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on 25276 0.2.5.3-alpha. 25277 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on 25278 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our 25279 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks 25280 should never have affected anyone in practice. 25281 25282 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service): 25283 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8 25284 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 25285 25286 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness): 25287 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c, 25288 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct 25289 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid 25290 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to 25291 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha, 25292 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom". 25293 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to 25294 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug 25295 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha. 25296 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile; 25297 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can 25298 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from 25299 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor 25300 versions. 25301 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer. 25302 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false 25303 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior 25304 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers; 25305 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly) 25306 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be 25307 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable 25308 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many, 25309 many tor versions. 25310 25311 o Documentation: 25312 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying 25313 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't 25314 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321; 25315 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 25316 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug 25317 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 25318 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before 25319 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on 25320 0.2.3.18-rc. 25321 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen. 25322 25323 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 25324 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645. 25325 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c. 25326 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek". 25327 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that 25328 confuse Doxygen. 25329 25330 o Deprecated versions: 25331 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or 25332 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept 25333 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor 25334 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149. 25335 25336 o Testing: 25337 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit 25338 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch. 25339 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507. 25340 Patch from Dana Koch. 25341 25342 o Removed code: 25343 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol. 25344 Resolves ticket 11070. 25345 25346 25347 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22 25348 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains 25349 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept 25350 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability 25351 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused 25352 directory formats. 25353 25354 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature 25355 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x. 25356 25357 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance): 25358 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to 25359 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for 25360 streams attached to each circuit. 25361 25362 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in 25363 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays 25364 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the 25365 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed 25366 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169. 25367 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure 25368 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this 25369 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted 25370 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large 25371 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position, 25372 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash 25373 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key, 25374 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes 25375 ticket 4900. 25376 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave 25377 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes 25378 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha. 25379 25380 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports): 25381 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key 25382 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to 25383 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This 25384 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in 25385 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884. 25386 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge 25387 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener. 25388 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043. 25389 25390 o Minor features (other): 25391 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long 25392 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor 25393 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests 25394 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176. 25395 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy, 25396 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or 25397 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address 25398 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108. 25399 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 25400 Country database. 25401 25402 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21): 25403 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that 25404 define static functions only some of which will get used later in 25405 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the 25406 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904. 25407 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the 25408 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py". 25409 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch. 25410 25411 o Minor bugfixes (client): 25412 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service 25413 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its 25414 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which 25415 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 25416 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of 25417 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and 25418 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on 25419 0.2.1.2-alpha. 25420 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits. 25421 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their 25422 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this 25423 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a 25424 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor 25425 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. 25426 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable 25427 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous 25428 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. 25429 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were 25430 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client 25431 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 25432 25433 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges): 25434 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a 25435 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23. 25436 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for 25437 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when 25438 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965; 25439 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan. 25440 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related 25441 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 25442 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for 25443 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. 25444 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch 25445 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are 25446 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix 25447 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 25448 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a 25449 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393. 25450 25451 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support): 25452 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the 25453 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is 25454 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer" 25455 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet 25456 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected. 25457 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 25458 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the 25459 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if 25460 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate 25461 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by 25462 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. 25463 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on 25464 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper. 25465 25466 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests): 25467 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests 25468 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928; 25469 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch. 25470 25471 o Removed code: 25472 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service 25473 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes 25474 the rest of bug 10841. 25475 25476 o Documentation: 25477 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as 25478 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as 25479 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222. 25480 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort. 25481 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did 25482 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059. 25483 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't 25484 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108. 25485 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field 25486 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field 25487 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099; 25488 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 25489 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient: 25490 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118; 25491 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 25492 25493 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 25494 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the 25495 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528. 25496 25497 o Test infrastructure: 25498 - Update to the latest version of tinytest. 25499 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so 25500 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they 25501 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. 25502 25503 25504 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28 25505 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who 25506 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability 25507 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch. 25508 25509 o Major features (client security): 25510 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains 25511 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension 25512 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building 25513 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds 25514 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game 25515 theory. Implements ticket 9777. 25516 25517 o Major bugfixes: 25518 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason 25519 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure, 25520 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes 25521 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 25522 25523 o Code simplification and refactoring: 25524 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the 25525 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp 25526 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did 25527 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870. 25528 25529 o Minor features: 25530 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums 25531 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by 25532 Florent Daigniere. 25533 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that 25534 define static functions only some of which will get used later in 25535 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the 25536 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904. 25537 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind 25538 GeoLite2 Country database. 25539 25540 o Minor bugfixes: 25541 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported 25542 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716; 25543 bugfix on every released Tor. 25544 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an 25545 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they 25546 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort 25547 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 25548 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the 25549 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py". 25550 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch. 25551 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did 25552 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602; 25553 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 25554 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with 25555 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides 25556 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 25557 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a 25558 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc. 25559 25560 o Documentation fixes: 25561 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise 25562 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha. 25563 25564 25565 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13 25566 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20, 25567 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many 25568 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential 25569 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches 25570 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating 25571 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor 25572 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default). 25573 25574 o Major features (client security): 25575 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains 25576 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension 25577 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building 25578 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds 25579 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game 25580 theory. Implements ticket 9777. 25581 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to 25582 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop 25583 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections 25584 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS 25585 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational 25586 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386. 25587 25588 o Major features (bridges): 25589 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any 25590 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many 25591 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it 25592 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018. 25593 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable, 25594 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all 25595 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features 25596 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes 25597 bug 9859. 25598 25599 o Major features (other): 25600 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter, 25601 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW, 25602 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage. 25603 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the 25604 goal of being able to better track performance and load during 25605 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359. 25606 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based 25607 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other 25608 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces 25609 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces 25610 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are 25611 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299. 25612 25613 o Major bugfixes: 25614 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did 25615 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602; 25616 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 25617 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason 25618 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure, 25619 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes 25620 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 25621 25622 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20): 25623 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when 25624 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses 25625 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and 25626 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's 25627 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged 25628 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy 25629 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in 25630 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman" 25631 and "rl1987". 25632 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6 25633 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 25634 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending. 25635 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new 25636 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to 25637 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. 25638 25639 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc): 25640 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when 25641 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit 25642 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731. 25643 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from 25644 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix 25645 on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 25646 25647 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports): 25648 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by 25649 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117. 25650 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW 25651 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled 25652 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x, 25653 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297. 25654 25655 o Minor features (security): 25656 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums 25657 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by 25658 Florent Daignière. 25659 25660 o Minor features (config options and command line): 25661 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to 25662 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available. 25663 Implements ticket 10060. 25664 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux. 25665 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more 25666 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582. 25667 25668 o Minor features (controller): 25669 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities 25670 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510. 25671 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry 25672 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards 25673 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934; 25674 patch from "ra". 25675 25676 o Minor features (build): 25677 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile, 25678 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named 25679 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed 25680 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz. 25681 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector 25682 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing 25683 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz. 25684 25685 o Minor features (testing): 25686 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond 25687 the unit test scripts. 25688 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get 25689 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can 25690 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of 25691 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206. 25692 25693 o Minor features (log messages): 25694 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more 25695 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors, 25696 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a 25697 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651. 25698 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address. 25699 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe". 25700 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of 25701 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko. 25702 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a 25703 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc. 25704 25705 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc): 25706 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when 25707 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most 25708 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued 25709 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us 25710 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper 25711 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093. 25712 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching 25713 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927. 25714 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 25715 25716 o Minor bugfixes (clients): 25717 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close 25718 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay. 25719 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for 25720 finding this bug. 25721 25722 o Minor bugfixes (relays): 25723 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an 25724 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they 25725 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort 25726 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 25727 25728 o Minor bugfixes (bridges): 25729 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a 25730 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send 25731 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't 25732 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet, 25733 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162; 25734 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987". 25735 25736 o Minor bugfixes (node selection): 25737 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service 25738 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded 25739 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is 25740 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those 25741 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that 25742 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 25743 Reported by "mr-4". 25744 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes 25745 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we 25746 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to 25747 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 25748 25749 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line): 25750 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable 25751 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the 25752 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only 25753 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config 25754 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman". 25755 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that 25756 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with 25757 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet 25758 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578; 25759 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. 25760 25761 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness): 25762 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to 25763 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376. 25764 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer 25765 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds 25766 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on 25767 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield. 25768 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it 25769 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046; 25770 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb". 25771 25772 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness): 25773 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close 25774 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug 25775 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by 25776 "rl1987". 25777 25778 o Minor bugfixes (build): 25779 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER 25780 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes 25781 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet". 25782 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with 25783 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on 25784 0.2.5.1-alpha. 25785 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an 25786 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha. 25787 25788 o Minor bugfixes (testing): 25789 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with 25790 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides 25791 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 25792 25793 o Minor bugfixes (log messages): 25794 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves 25795 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document. 25796 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 25797 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority 25798 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot 25799 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842; 25800 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. 25801 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading 25802 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs 25803 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha 25804 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at 25805 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958; 25806 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343). 25807 25808 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20): 25809 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor 25810 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 25811 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid 25812 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on 25813 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom". 25814 25815 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc): 25816 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them 25817 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 25818 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using 25819 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since 25820 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After 25821 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all 25822 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is 25823 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on 25824 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 25825 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit 25826 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha. 25827 25828 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc): 25829 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the 25830 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would 25831 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping. 25832 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable 25833 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. 25834 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the 25835 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was 25836 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. 25837 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address, 25838 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes 25839 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister". 25840 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when 25841 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper. 25842 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than 25843 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by 25844 Pedro Ribeiro. 25845 25846 o Removed code and features: 25847 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking 25848 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since 25849 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional 25850 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162. 25851 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system, 25852 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves 25853 ticket 10758. 25854 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc 25855 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden 25856 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service 25857 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or 25858 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also 25859 part of a fix for bug 10841. 25860 25861 o Code simplification and refactoring: 25862 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working 25863 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we 25864 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't 25865 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926. 25866 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536; 25867 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks". 25868 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the 25869 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition 25870 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which 25871 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements 25872 ticket 10870. 25873 25874 o Documentation (man page) fixes: 25875 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to 25876 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839. 25877 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise 25878 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha. 25879 25880 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc): 25881 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line 25882 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854. 25883 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of 25884 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866. 25885 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and 25886 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124. 25887 25888 o Tool changes: 25889 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators 25890 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since 25891 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324. 25892 25893 25894 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22 25895 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users 25896 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their 25897 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors, 25898 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on 25899 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity 25900 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones. 25901 25902 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build 25903 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need. 25904 25905 o Major bugfixes: 25906 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when 25907 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses 25908 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and 25909 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's 25910 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged 25911 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy 25912 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in 25913 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman" 25914 and "rl1987". 25915 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6 25916 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 25917 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending. 25918 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new 25919 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to 25920 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. 25921 25922 o Minor bugfixes: 25923 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor 25924 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 25925 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid 25926 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on 25927 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom". 25928 25929 25930 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11 25931 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz 25932 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide 25933 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing 25934 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing 25935 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest 25936 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights, 25937 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us. 25938 25939 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features 25940 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide 25941 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit 25942 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration 25943 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable 25944 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database; 25945 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes 25946 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised 25947 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS 25948 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge 25949 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design 25950 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits 25951 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay 25952 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of 25953 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability, 25954 security, and privacy fixes. 25955 25956 25957 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16 25958 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x 25959 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve 25960 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases. 25961 25962 o Major features: 25963 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later. 25964 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or 25965 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented 25966 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled 25967 them to solve bug 6033.) 25968 25969 o Major bugfixes: 25970 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when 25971 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit 25972 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731. 25973 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not 25974 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug 25975 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 25976 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from 25977 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix 25978 on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 25979 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits, 25980 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The 25981 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from 25982 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc. 25983 25984 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x): 25985 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them 25986 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 25987 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using 25988 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since 25989 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After 25990 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all 25991 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is 25992 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on 25993 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 25994 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit 25995 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha. 25996 25997 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier): 25998 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the 25999 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would 26000 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping. 26001 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable 26002 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. 26003 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the 26004 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was 26005 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. 26006 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address, 26007 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes 26008 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister". 26009 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when 26010 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper. 26011 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than 26012 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by 26013 Pedro Ribeiro. 26014 26015 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps): 26016 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were 26017 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients 26018 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to 26019 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222. 26020 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest 26021 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or 26022 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus, 26023 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222. 26024 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such 26025 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual 26026 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222. 26027 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors. 26028 Implements part of proposal 222. 26029 26030 o Minor features (other): 26031 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when 26032 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most 26033 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued 26034 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us 26035 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper 26036 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093. 26037 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching 26038 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927. 26039 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 26040 26041 o Documentation fixes: 26042 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line 26043 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854. 26044 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of 26045 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866. 26046 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and 26047 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124. 26048 26049 26050 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02 26051 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing 26052 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage 26053 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides 26054 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a 26055 release of the new branch. 26056 26057 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to 26058 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should 26059 stay with 0.2.4.x for now. 26060 26061 o Major features (security): 26062 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit 26063 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental, 26064 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown 26065 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc 26066 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support 26067 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained 26068 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more 26069 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for 26070 Google Summer of Code. 26071 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later. 26072 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or 26073 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented 26074 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled 26075 them to solve bug 6033.) 26076 26077 o Major features (other): 26078 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport 26079 proxies. Implements ticket 3594. 26080 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users 26081 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage 26082 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773 26083 and 5040. 26084 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch 26085 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests, 26086 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752. 26087 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network. 26088 Implements ticket 8530. 26089 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the 26090 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561. 26091 26092 o Major bugfixes: 26093 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection 26094 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells. 26095 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too 26096 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting 26097 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912; 26098 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 26099 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not 26100 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug 26101 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 26102 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits, 26103 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The 26104 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from 26105 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc. 26106 26107 o Build features: 26108 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids 26109 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes 26110 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at 26111 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more 26112 radical measures to let the unit tests test things. 26113 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in 26114 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for 26115 unit-testing are now static in production builds. 26116 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit 26117 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test 26118 coverage support. 26119 26120 o Testing: 26121 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit 26122 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking 26123 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with 26124 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without 26125 invoking the other functions it calls. 26126 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and 26127 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912. 26128 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake. 26129 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions. 26130 26131 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps): 26132 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were 26133 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients 26134 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to 26135 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222. 26136 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest 26137 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or 26138 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus, 26139 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222. 26140 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such 26141 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual 26142 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222. 26143 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors. 26144 Implements part of proposal 222. 26145 26146 o Minor features (config options): 26147 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing 26148 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5. 26149 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the 26150 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line 26151 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647. 26152 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially 26153 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity 26154 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584. 26155 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset 26156 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for 26157 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532. 26158 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows 26159 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their 26160 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929. 26161 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in 26162 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes", 26163 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214. 26164 Patch by CharlieB. 26165 26166 o Minor features (build): 26167 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384. 26168 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make 26169 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093. 26170 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during 26171 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from 26172 Arlo Breault. 26173 26174 o Minor features (other): 26175 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking 26176 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129. 26177 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining 26178 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat 26179 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff. 26180 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that 26181 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable 26182 transports. Resolves ticket 5609. 26183 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation 26184 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to 26185 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our 26186 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl. 26187 Closes ticket 8109. 26188 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 26189 26190 o Minor bugfixes: 26191 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported 26192 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716; 26193 bugfix on every released Tor. 26194 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from 26195 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767; 26196 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1. 26197 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of 26198 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed 26199 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch 26200 from Arlo Breault. 26201 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a 26202 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that 26203 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments. 26204 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 26205 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously, 26206 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor 26207 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258; 26208 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. 26209 26210 o Minor bugfixes (command line): 26211 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the 26212 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid 26213 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same 26214 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on 26215 0.0.9pre5. 26216 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug 26217 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 26218 26219 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs): 26220 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since 26221 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch 26222 from Guilhem. 26223 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and 26224 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on 26225 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault. 26226 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should 26227 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 26228 26229 o Minor code improvements: 26230 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and 26231 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch 26232 from Arlo Breault. 26233 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't 26234 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's 26235 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis 26236 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and 26237 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault. 26238 26239 o Removed features: 26240 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers" 26241 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This 26242 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code 26243 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar. 26244 26245 o Code simplification and refactoring: 26246 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory 26247 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket 26248 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff. 26249 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output 26250 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(), 26251 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170. 26252 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data 26253 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet". 26254 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket 26255 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault. 26256 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp() 26257 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043. 26258 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list. 26259 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski. 26260 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere. 26261 26262 26263 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05 26264 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x 26265 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive 26266 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor" 26267 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to 26268 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a 26269 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests. 26270 26271 o Major features: 26272 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests 26273 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake 26274 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve 26275 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter 26276 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to. 26277 Implements ticket 9574. 26278 26279 o Major bugfixes: 26280 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus, 26281 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits. 26282 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. 26283 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes; 26284 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving 26285 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth 26286 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge, 26287 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent 26288 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 26289 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in 26290 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the 26291 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on 26292 0.2.3.14-alpha. 26293 26294 o Minor bugfixes: 26295 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair() 26296 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on 26297 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400; 26298 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity. 26299 26300 o Minor fixes (config options): 26301 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a 26302 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day 26303 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness. 26304 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat 26305 message is logged at notice, not at info. 26306 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any 26307 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor, 26308 or we just won't work.) 26309 26310 o Minor features: 26311 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get, 26312 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay 26313 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658. 26314 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 26315 26316 26317 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10 26318 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x 26319 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch. 26320 26321 o Major bugfixes: 26322 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results 26323 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200; 26324 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 26325 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote 26326 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 26327 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x 26328 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to 26329 the recent news.) 26330 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the 26331 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 26332 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on 26333 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests. 26334 26335 o Minor bugfixes: 26336 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable 26337 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol. 26338 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 26339 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't 26340 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version, 26341 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_ 26342 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on 26343 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy. 26344 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track 26345 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get 26346 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26347 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of 26348 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha. 26349 26350 o Minor features: 26351 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 26352 26353 26354 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01 26355 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x 26356 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable. 26357 Please test it and let us know whether it is! 26358 26359 o Major bugfixes: 26360 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's 26361 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent. 26362 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 26363 26364 o Minor features: 26365 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled. 26366 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely 26367 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147. 26368 26369 26370 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18 26371 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems 26372 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha. 26373 26374 o Major bugfixes: 26375 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new 26376 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most 26377 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if 26378 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063; 26379 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond 26380 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc. 26381 26382 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha, 26383 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit 26384 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach 26385 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to 26386 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes 26387 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha. 26388 26389 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction 26390 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002; 26391 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. 26392 26393 26394 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14 26395 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash 26396 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation 26397 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch 26398 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate. 26399 26400 o Major bugfixes (robustness): 26401 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes 26402 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further 26403 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc. 26404 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of 26405 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized 26406 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by 26407 eugenis. 26408 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs) 26409 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately 26410 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on 26411 0.2.3.1-alpha. 26412 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus 26413 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix 26414 on 0.2.4.12-alpha. 26415 26416 o Major bugfixes: 26417 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we 26418 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to 26419 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix 26420 on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 26421 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest, 26422 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a 26423 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given 26424 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really 26425 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/" 26426 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on 26427 0.2.0.8-alpha. 26428 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password 26429 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it 26430 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on 26431 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879. 26432 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the 26433 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822; 26434 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. 26435 26436 o Minor bugfixes: 26437 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes 26438 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis. 26439 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while 26440 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that 26441 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the 26442 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location. 26443 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 26444 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration 26445 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. 26446 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man 26447 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982; 26448 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26449 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to 26450 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on 26451 0.2.4.1-alpha. 26452 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control 26453 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in 26454 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr() 26455 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on 26456 0.2.4.12-alpha. 26457 26458 o Minor bugfixes (log messages): 26459 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that 26460 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either 26461 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success(). 26462 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix 26463 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix 26464 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 26465 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4 26466 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix 26467 on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 26468 26469 o Minor features: 26470 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x, 26471 to tolerate bug 8093 for now. 26472 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines 26473 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough 26474 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor) 26475 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711. 26476 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 26477 26478 o Removed documentation: 26479 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others 26480 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965. 26481 26482 o Code simplification and refactoring: 26483 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory 26484 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead, 26485 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done. 26486 26487 26488 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18 26489 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the 26490 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory 26491 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5 26492 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide 26493 variety of other issues. 26494 26495 o Major features: 26496 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from 26497 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES 26498 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client 26499 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable 26500 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus 26501 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. 26502 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to 26503 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves 26504 ticket 8273. 26505 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number 26506 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured 26507 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435. 26508 26509 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use): 26510 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain 26511 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU 26512 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. 26513 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell 26514 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another 26515 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 26516 26517 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy): 26518 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it 26519 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness 26520 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps 26521 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26. 26522 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries 26523 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that 26524 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. 26525 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but 26526 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc 26527 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting. 26528 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular 26529 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. 26530 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with 26531 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer 26532 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor 26533 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications 26534 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects 26535 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable 26536 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes 26537 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. 26538 26539 o Major bugfixes (other): 26540 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a 26541 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working 26542 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231; 26543 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26544 26545 o Minor features: 26546 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL. 26547 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037. 26548 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more 26549 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes 26550 bug 8638. 26551 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol 26552 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves 26553 ticket 8596. 26554 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 26555 26556 o Minor features (build): 26557 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support 26558 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support. 26559 Fixes bug 6673. 26560 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking 26561 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation. 26562 Fixes bug 8014. 26563 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there 26564 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can 26565 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably 26566 some will remain. 26567 26568 o Minor bugfixes (build): 26569 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and 26570 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem. 26571 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 26572 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES. 26573 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon 26574 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 26575 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build 26576 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587; 26577 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26578 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would 26579 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch 26580 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch 26581 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix 26582 on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 26583 26584 o Minor bugfixes (protocol): 26585 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the 26586 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1. 26587 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a 26588 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as 26589 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have 26590 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on 26591 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously. 26592 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups 26593 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes 26594 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy". 26595 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2 26596 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and 26597 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26598 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26599 26600 o Minor bugfixes (other): 26601 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with 26602 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 26603 Bug reported by "cypherpunks". 26604 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's 26605 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the 26606 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported 26607 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 26608 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a 26609 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add 26610 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias 26611 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling. 26612 Should help resolve bug 8235. 26613 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to 26614 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use 26615 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix 26616 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha. 26617 26618 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls): 26619 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and 26620 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in 26621 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return 26622 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from 26623 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor. 26624 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor 26625 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it 26626 less common. 26627 26628 o Minor bugfixes (config): 26629 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a 26630 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix 26631 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. 26632 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 26633 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes 26634 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. 26635 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available 26636 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the 26637 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002; 26638 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 26639 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes, 26640 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes 26641 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. 26642 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for 26643 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've 26644 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 26645 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the 26646 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix 26647 on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 26648 26649 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs): 26650 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log 26651 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it. 26652 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log 26653 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is 26654 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time. 26655 Diagnostic for bug 7707. 26656 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help 26657 track bug 7799. 26658 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a 26659 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, 26660 or at least make it more diagnosable. 26661 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug: 26662 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.") 26663 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly. 26664 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26665 26666 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy): 26667 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits. 26668 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of 26669 the relaxed timeout log message. 26670 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This 26671 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused 26672 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on 26673 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26674 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message 26675 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196; 26676 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26677 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup. 26678 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 26679 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in 26680 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on 26681 0.2.4.11-alpha. 26682 26683 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy): 26684 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we 26685 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the 26686 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427; 26687 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 26688 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes 26689 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. 26690 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount 26691 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha. 26692 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a 26693 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus, 26694 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302; 26695 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 26696 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating. 26697 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one 26698 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually 26699 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. 26700 26701 o Documentation fixes: 26702 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option 26703 names match. Fixes bug 7768. 26704 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't 26705 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha. 26706 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks. 26707 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to 26708 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent 26709 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk. 26710 26711 o Removed files: 26712 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We 26713 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves 26714 ticket 8290. 26715 26716 26717 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11 26718 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities 26719 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and 26720 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport. 26721 26722 o Major features (directory authorities): 26723 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17) 26724 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which 26725 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286. 26726 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer 26727 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the 26728 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has 26729 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783. 26730 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of 26731 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags. 26732 Implements ticket 8151. 26733 26734 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities): 26735 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every 26736 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes 26737 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes 26738 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha. 26739 26740 o Major bugfixes (hidden services): 26741 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we 26742 refactored the hidden service introduction code back 26743 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks 26744 whether authentication information is present, causing all 26745 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix 26746 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615. 26747 26748 o Minor features (relays, bridges): 26749 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP 26750 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves 26751 bugs 1913 and 1992. 26752 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we 26753 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from 26754 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname). 26755 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses 26756 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in 26757 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267. 26758 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making 26759 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal 26760 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors 26761 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall 26762 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred 26763 them). Resolves ticket 4994. 26764 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't 26765 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443; 26766 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33. 26767 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit 26768 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented 26769 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements 26770 proposal 214. 26771 26772 o Minor features (portability): 26773 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems 26774 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26775 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine 26776 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old 26777 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling. 26778 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the 26779 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727; 26780 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 26781 26782 o Minor features (other): 26783 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values 26784 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in 26785 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054. 26786 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to 26787 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do 26788 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit, 26789 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would 26790 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on 26791 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26792 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 26793 26794 o Minor bugfixes (clients): 26795 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no 26796 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS 26797 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases 26798 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug 26799 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". 26800 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an 26801 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message 26802 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose 26803 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on 26804 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26805 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn. 26806 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages 26807 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161; 26808 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 26809 26810 o Minor bugfixes (relays): 26811 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we 26812 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached 26813 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc) 26814 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha). 26815 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status 26816 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix 26817 on 0.1.2.6-alpha. 26818 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake 26819 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously, 26820 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a 26821 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with 26822 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on 26823 0.2.2.20-alpha. 26824 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and 26825 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more 26826 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated 26827 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha. 26828 26829 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): 26830 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical 26831 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix 26832 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 26833 26834 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816): 26835 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature 26836 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. 26837 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix 26838 on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 26839 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication. 26840 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. 26841 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into 26842 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 26843 26844 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues): 26845 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor. 26846 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity; 26847 this is CID 718634. 26848 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to 26849 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually 26850 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken. 26851 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this 26852 is CID 743383. 26853 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset 26854 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650. 26855 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 26856 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how 26857 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us 26858 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes 26859 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. 26860 26861 o Code simplification and refactoring: 26862 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a 26863 rate-limit" case. 26864 26865 26866 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04 26867 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from 26868 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue 26869 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based 26870 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety 26871 of other issues. 26872 26873 o Major bugfixes (directory authority): 26874 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil 26875 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast, 26876 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes 26877 bug 8146. 26878 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics 26879 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard, 26880 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes 26881 bug 8147. 26882 26883 o Major bugfixes: 26884 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember 26885 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were 26886 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 26887 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc. 26888 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream 26889 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits 26890 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent" 26891 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth 26892 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version 26893 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". 26894 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_". 26895 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts 26896 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix 26897 on 0.2.4.6-alpha. 26898 26899 o Major features (relay): 26900 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit 26901 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit 26902 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to 26903 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will 26904 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time 26905 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to 26906 configure MaxOnionsPending again. 26907 26908 o Major features (portability): 26909 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch 26910 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including 26911 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669. 26912 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC. 26913 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26914 26915 o Minor features: 26916 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags, 26917 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096 26918 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths 26919 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change 26920 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn 26921 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves 26922 ticket 8145. 26923 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion 26924 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting 26925 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and 26926 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites 26927 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204. 26928 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to 26929 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to 26930 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291. 26931 26932 o Minor features (path selection): 26933 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits, 26934 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction 26935 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach 26936 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to 26937 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is 26938 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the 26939 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956. 26940 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes, 26941 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown 26942 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the 26943 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always 26944 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature 26945 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto" 26946 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706. 26947 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit 26948 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream 26949 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to 26950 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that 26951 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802. 26952 26953 o Minor features (log messages): 26954 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding 26955 transport type. Implements ticket 7896. 26956 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell 26957 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093. 26958 26959 o Minor bugfixes: 26960 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the 26961 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115; 26962 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 26963 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling; 26964 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we 26965 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell() 26966 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802. 26967 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also, 26968 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes 26969 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26970 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes 26971 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 26972 26973 o Build improvements: 26974 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag 26975 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka. 26976 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with 26977 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with 26978 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of 26979 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304. 26980 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where 26981 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such 26982 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice 26983 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't 26984 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail 26985 than to perform erroneously. 26986 26987 o Removed features: 26988 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares 26989 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate. 26990 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves 26991 ticket 5823. 26992 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent 26993 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; 26994 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 26995 6826. 26996 26997 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 26998 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves 26999 ticket 5285. 27000 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts 27001 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves 27002 ticket 7599. 27003 27004 27005 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15 27006 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake 27007 work more robustly. 27008 27009 o Major bugfixes: 27010 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor 27011 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug: 27012 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix 27013 on 0.2.4.8-alpha. 27014 27015 27016 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14 27017 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration 27018 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers 27019 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it. 27020 27021 o Major features: 27022 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when 27023 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous 27024 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note 27025 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus 27026 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less 27027 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards, 27028 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of 27029 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526. 27030 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell 27031 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity, 27032 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200; 27033 closes ticket 7199. 27034 27035 o Major features (new circuit handshake): 27036 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian 27037 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original 27038 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow 27039 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and 27040 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake 27041 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman 27042 function, making it significantly more secure than the older 27043 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in 27044 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it 27045 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present. 27046 27047 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building 27048 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the 27049 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts. 27050 27051 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since 27052 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set 27053 UseNTorHandshake to 1. 27054 27055 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202. 27056 27057 o Major features (better link encryption): 27058 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available 27059 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure 27060 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our 27061 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default, 27062 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer 27063 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the 27064 TLSECGroup option. 27065 27066 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time, 27067 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing 27068 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side 27069 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now 27070 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the 27071 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients 27072 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages. 27073 27074 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later, 27075 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later 27076 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option 27077 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended. 27078 27079 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200. 27080 27081 o Major bugfixes: 27082 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a 27083 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug 27084 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 27085 27086 o Minor features: 27087 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services. 27088 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending 27089 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type 27090 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel 27091 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid. 27092 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are 27093 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason. 27094 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". 27095 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 27096 27097 o Minor features (testing): 27098 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH 27099 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench. 27100 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance. 27101 27102 o Minor features (path bias detection): 27103 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms 27104 of reporting timeouts and other statistics. 27105 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just 27106 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc 27107 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate. 27108 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively. 27109 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards, 27110 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards. 27111 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off). 27112 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards 27113 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate. 27114 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and 27115 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150). 27116 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a 27117 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias. 27118 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your 27119 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting 27120 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc. 27121 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating 27122 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues. 27123 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed 27124 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this 27125 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any 27126 detection capability loss. 27127 27128 o Minor bugfixes (log messages): 27129 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a 27130 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to 27131 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does 27132 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. 27133 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of 27134 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some 27135 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on 27136 0.2.3.3-alpha. 27137 27138 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 27139 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared 27140 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2. 27141 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue 27142 and the different handshakes it supports. 27143 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to 27144 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The 27145 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so 27146 any encoding is overkill. 27147 27148 27149 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24 27150 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback 27151 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where 27152 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits; 27153 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able 27154 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time; 27155 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks; 27156 and fixes a variety of other issues. 27157 27158 o Major features (client resilience): 27159 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use 27160 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a 27161 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities 27162 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks, 27163 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a 27164 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first 27165 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the 27166 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured 27167 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old 27168 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well 27169 enough to use it. Closes bug 572. 27170 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the 27171 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic 27172 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the 27173 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443. 27174 27175 o Major features (IPv6): 27176 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6 27177 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your 27178 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all 27179 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6 27180 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the 27181 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6, 27182 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes 27183 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208. 27184 27185 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start 27186 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet. 27187 27188 o Major features (geoip database): 27189 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1", 27190 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a 27191 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip 27192 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1" 27193 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to 27194 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details. 27195 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite 27196 Country database, as modified above. 27197 27198 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS): 27199 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using 27200 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port 27201 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain 27202 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't 27203 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an 27204 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and 27205 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have 27206 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's 27207 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since 27208 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten 27209 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially 27210 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same 27211 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic 27212 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide 27213 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies 27214 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements 27215 ticket 7570. 27216 27217 o Major bugfixes (other): 27218 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point 27219 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit 27220 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more 27221 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time 27222 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443. 27223 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when 27224 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather 27225 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on 27226 0.2.4.4-alpha. 27227 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug 27228 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha. 27229 27230 o Minor features: 27231 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge 27232 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will 27233 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013. 27234 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the 27235 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with 27236 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059. 27237 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message. 27238 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743. 27239 27240 o Minor features (IPv6): 27241 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we 27242 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of 27243 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4 27244 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort 27245 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571. 27246 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid 27247 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications 27248 connect to the wrong addresses. 27249 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when 27250 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we 27251 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space; 27252 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual 27253 addresses anyway. 27254 27255 o Minor bugfixes: 27256 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error 27257 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than 27258 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on 27259 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha. 27260 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean 27261 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113. 27262 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from 27263 "yayooo". 27264 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a 27265 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306; 27266 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage". 27267 27268 o Renamed options: 27269 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with 27270 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form. 27271 27272 o Code simplification and refactoring: 27273 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code 27274 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module. 27275 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers" 27276 documents. Fixes bug 6887. 27277 27278 27279 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19 27280 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi" 27281 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher, 27282 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer, 27283 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of 27284 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on 27285 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing 27286 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so. 27287 27288 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features 27289 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors), 27290 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new 27291 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better 27292 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka 27293 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6 27294 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients 27295 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and 27296 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design 27297 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many 27298 stability, security, and privacy fixes. 27299 27300 o Major bugfixes: 27301 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so 27302 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory, 27303 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler 27304 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the 27305 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program, 27306 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that 27307 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler 27308 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use 27309 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352. 27310 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov. 27311 27312 o Minor bugfixes: 27313 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor 27314 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on 27315 0.2.3.9-alpha. 27316 27317 27318 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13 27319 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays, 27320 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to 27321 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics, 27322 27323 o Major bugfixes: 27324 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection 27325 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on 27326 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha. 27327 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so 27328 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory, 27329 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler 27330 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the 27331 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program, 27332 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that 27333 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler 27334 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use 27335 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352. 27336 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov. 27337 27338 o Minor features: 27339 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option 27340 is GeoIPv6File. 27341 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6: 27342 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and 27343 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol 27344 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial 27345 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055. 27346 27347 o Minor bugfixes: 27348 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled; 27349 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with 27350 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 27351 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor 27352 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on 27353 0.2.3.9-alpha. 27354 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration. 27355 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. 27356 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp. 27357 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile. 27358 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct 27359 channel functions; emit a warning and then call 27360 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212 27361 and 7267. 27362 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer 27363 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 27364 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is 27365 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED, 27366 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being 27367 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 27368 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell. 27369 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. 27370 27371 o Code simplification and refactoring: 27372 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't 27373 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we 27374 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating 27375 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all 27376 present the same extensions.) 27377 27378 27379 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25 27380 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix 27381 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely 27382 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients 27383 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code. 27384 27385 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc): 27386 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to 27387 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed 27388 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on 27389 0.2.3.6-alpha. 27390 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority 27391 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory 27392 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory 27393 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 27394 27395 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc): 27396 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had 27397 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that 27398 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating 27399 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would 27400 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work, 27401 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now 27402 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192; 27403 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 27404 27405 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc): 27406 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option 27407 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether 27408 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes 27409 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 27410 27411 o Minor bugfixes: 27412 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS 27413 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox 27414 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc. 27415 27416 o Code simplification and refactoring: 27417 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by 27418 Niels Provos). 27419 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file. 27420 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c 27421 to its own file. 27422 27423 27424 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25 27425 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that 27426 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes 27427 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit 27428 nodes. 27429 27430 o Major bugfixes (security): 27431 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to 27432 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed 27433 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on 27434 0.2.3.6-alpha. 27435 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority 27436 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory 27437 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory 27438 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 27439 27440 o Major bugfixes: 27441 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had 27442 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that 27443 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating 27444 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would 27445 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work, 27446 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now 27447 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192; 27448 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 27449 27450 o Minor bugfixes: 27451 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option 27452 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether 27453 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes 27454 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 27455 27456 27457 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20 27458 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy 27459 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely 27460 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions 27461 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell 27462 scheduling algorithms. 27463 27464 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc): 27465 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory 27466 authority. Closes ticket 5749. 27467 27468 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc): 27469 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving 27470 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when 27471 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that 27472 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection 27473 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked 27474 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière. 27475 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link 27476 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to 27477 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249; 27478 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France". 27479 27480 o Internal abstraction features: 27481 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and 27482 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR 27483 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a 27484 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and 27485 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from 27486 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels 27487 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465. 27488 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it 27489 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking 27490 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the 27491 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now. 27492 Implements the rest of ticket 6465. 27493 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for 27494 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and 27495 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden 27496 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior 27497 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816. 27498 27499 o Required libraries: 27500 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is 27501 strongly recommended. 27502 27503 o Minor features: 27504 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with 27505 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be 27506 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the 27507 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first 27508 place). Resolves ticket 6889. 27509 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from 27510 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982. 27511 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and 27512 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876. 27513 27514 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc): 27515 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a 27516 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it 27517 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the 27518 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149. 27519 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling 27520 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David 27521 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 27522 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path 27523 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. 27524 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending 27525 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up 27526 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather 27527 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a 27528 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. 27529 27530 o Minor bugfixes: 27531 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997. 27532 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for 27533 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029. 27534 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of 27535 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were 27536 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting 27537 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we 27538 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix 27539 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039. 27540 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug" 27541 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer 27542 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha. 27543 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again, 27544 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and 27545 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 27546 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places 27547 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy 27548 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport 27549 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield. 27550 27551 o Code refactoring and cleanup: 27552 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext; 27553 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor. 27554 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard 27555 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an 27556 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix 27557 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit. 27558 27559 27560 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20 27561 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy 27562 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety 27563 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release. 27564 27565 o New directory authorities: 27566 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory 27567 authority. Closes ticket 5749. 27568 27569 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy): 27570 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving 27571 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when 27572 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that 27573 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection 27574 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked 27575 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière. 27576 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link 27577 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to 27578 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249; 27579 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France". 27580 27581 o Major bugfixes: 27582 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits 27583 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341; 27584 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously. 27585 27586 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x): 27587 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling 27588 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David 27589 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 27590 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert 27591 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866; 27592 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. 27593 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path 27594 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. 27595 27596 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier): 27597 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's 27598 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might 27599 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the 27600 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149. 27601 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending 27602 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up 27603 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather 27604 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a 27605 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037. 27606 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid 27607 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844; 27608 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha. 27609 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported 27610 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor. 27611 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version 27612 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes 27613 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis. 27614 27615 o Documentation fixes: 27616 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024. 27617 27618 27619 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22 27620 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable 27621 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort, 27622 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs. 27623 27624 o Security fixes: 27625 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered 27626 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with 27627 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 27628 27629 o Major bugfixes: 27630 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits 27631 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341; 27632 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously. 27633 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When 27634 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also 27635 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our 27636 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815; 27637 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. 27638 27639 o Security features: 27640 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes 27641 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the 27642 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower 27643 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its 27644 choice. Addresses ticket 6538. 27645 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage 27646 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web 27647 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous 27648 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves 27649 ticket 6888. 27650 27651 o Minor features: 27652 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from 27653 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive 27654 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044. 27655 27656 o Minor bugfixes: 27657 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid 27658 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844; 27659 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha. 27660 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853; 27661 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 27662 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log 27663 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on 27664 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry. 27665 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert 27666 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866; 27667 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. 27668 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it 27669 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our 27670 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on 27671 0.2.4.1-alpha. 27672 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6 27673 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 27674 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred 27675 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port. 27676 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 27677 27678 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness): 27679 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior 27680 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless 27681 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 27682 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even 27683 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly. 27684 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 27685 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported 27686 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor. 27687 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version 27688 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes 27689 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis. 27690 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8. 27691 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 27692 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't 27693 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by 27694 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. 27695 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles 27696 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process 27697 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538. 27698 27699 o Code simplification and refactoring: 27700 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c" 27701 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823. 27702 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic 27703 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is 27704 testable, and a little less fragile too. 27705 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used 27706 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha. 27707 27708 o Documentation fixes: 27709 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024. 27710 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on 27711 0.2.3.14-alpha. 27712 27713 27714 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11 27715 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable 27716 assertion. 27717 27718 o Security fixes: 27719 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered 27720 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with 27721 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 27722 27723 o Minor bugfixes: 27724 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old 27725 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix 27726 on 0.2.2.23-alpha. 27727 27728 27729 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11 27730 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable 27731 assertions. 27732 27733 o Security fixes: 27734 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered 27735 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with 27736 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 27737 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an 27738 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote 27739 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to 27740 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix 27741 on 0.2.1.10-alpha. 27742 27743 27744 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10 27745 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports, 27746 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping 27747 log messages less noisy. 27748 27749 o Major features: 27750 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport 27751 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements 27752 ticket 4567. 27753 27754 o Major bugfixes: 27755 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB 27756 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically 27757 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+ 27758 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the 27759 last time we raised it). 27760 27761 o Minor features: 27762 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the 27763 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to- 27764 track-down errors. 27765 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent 27766 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves 27767 part of ticket 6736. 27768 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of 27769 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha. 27770 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements 27771 ticket 6789. 27772 27773 o Minor bugfixes: 27774 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option 27775 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it. 27776 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha. 27777 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old 27778 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix 27779 on 0.2.2.23-alpha. 27780 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option 27781 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 27782 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails. 27783 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.) 27784 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 27785 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and 27786 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some 27787 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 27788 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug 27789 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 27790 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly 27791 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. 27792 27793 o Removed features: 27794 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer 27795 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a 27796 bunch of compatibility code. 27797 27798 o Code refactoring: 27799 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary 27800 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports: 27801 the ORPort and the DirPort. 27802 27803 27804 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05 27805 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to 27806 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities 27807 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface. 27808 27809 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to 27810 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should 27811 stay with 0.2.3.x for now. 27812 27813 o Major features (bridges): 27814 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the 27815 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to 27816 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements 27817 ticket 3589. 27818 27819 o Major features (IPv6): 27820 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include 27821 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534. 27822 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over 27823 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely 27824 to happen. Implements ticket 5535. 27825 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6 27826 OR port. Implements ticket 6362. 27827 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus 27828 method 14. Implements ticket 6363. 27829 27830 o Major features (build): 27831 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each 27832 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master 27833 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build 27834 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for 27835 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various 27836 fixes by Jim Meyering. 27837 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by 27838 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old 27839 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522. 27840 27841 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance): 27842 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in 27843 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of 27844 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys(). 27845 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot 27846 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385. 27847 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the 27848 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but 27849 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use. 27850 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on 27851 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction. 27852 27853 o Minor features (streamlining); 27854 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos 27855 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes 27856 ticket 5124. 27857 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush 27858 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our 27859 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code 27860 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number 27861 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported 27862 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 27863 27864 o Minor features (controller): 27865 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements 27866 ticket 3842. 27867 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults". 27868 Implements ticket 4971. 27869 27870 o Minor features (IPv6): 27871 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory 27872 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to 27873 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974. 27874 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO 27875 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364. 27876 27877 o Minor features (log messages): 27878 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything 27879 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages. 27880 Resolves ticket 6758. 27881 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our 27882 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a 27883 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves 27884 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 27885 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're 27886 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new 27887 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves 27888 ticket 6760. 27889 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling 27890 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote 27891 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others 27892 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta. 27893 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their 27894 asciidoc source. 27895 27896 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 27897 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate 27898 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses 27899 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so 27900 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity 27901 CID 448. 27902 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620. 27903 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t. 27904 Implements ticket 5529. 27905 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor 27906 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug, 27907 and test. Resolves bug 6177. 27908 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size. 27909 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more 27910 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only 27911 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that 27912 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us 27913 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a 27914 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity. 27915 27916 o New requirements: 27917 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build 27918 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building 27919 from a source distribution.) 27920 27921 27922 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05 27923 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x 27924 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where 27925 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor 27926 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly, 27927 and cleans up other smaller issues. 27928 27929 o Major bugfixes (security): 27930 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients 27931 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster 27932 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network, 27933 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on 27934 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- 27935 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed 27936 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271. 27937 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work. 27938 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without 27939 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal 27940 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug 27941 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. 27942 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an 27943 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote 27944 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to 27945 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix 27946 on 0.2.1.10-alpha. 27947 27948 o Major bugfixes: 27949 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting 27950 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family 27951 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first 27952 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 27953 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running 27954 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence 27955 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay, 27956 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any 27957 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also 27958 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. 27959 27960 o Minor bugfixes: 27961 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can 27962 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS 27963 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1. 27964 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc. 27965 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 27966 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build 27967 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them 27968 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where 27969 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because 27970 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743; 27971 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static 27972 30 seconds. 27973 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor 27974 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a 27975 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on 27976 0.2.2.6-alpha. 27977 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and 27978 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay 27979 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0" 27980 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug 27981 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. 27982 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work 27983 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously, 27984 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were 27985 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 27986 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias 27987 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. 27988 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of 27989 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors 27990 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves 27991 ticket 6514. 27992 27993 o Minor bugfixes (log messages): 27994 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info" 27995 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never 27996 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs 27997 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 27998 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get 27999 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction 28000 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high 28001 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice 28002 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug 28003 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta. 28004 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus 28005 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time 28006 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes 28007 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc. 28008 28009 o Minor features: 28010 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic 28011 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly 28012 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423. 28013 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files. 28014 Resolves ticket 6732. 28015 28016 28017 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12 28018 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing 28019 attack that could in theory leak path information. 28020 28021 o Security fixes: 28022 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus 28023 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could 28024 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 28025 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is 28026 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would 28027 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it 28028 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked 28029 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this 28030 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible), 28031 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays 28032 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to 28033 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by 28034 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best 28035 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1. 28036 28037 28038 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05 28039 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x 28040 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity 28041 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues. 28042 28043 o Security fixes: 28044 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur 28045 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480; 28046 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 28047 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus 28048 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could 28049 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 28050 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is 28051 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would 28052 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it 28053 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked 28054 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this 28055 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible), 28056 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays 28057 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to 28058 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by 28059 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best 28060 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1. 28061 28062 o Minor features: 28063 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress 28064 a little more useful. 28065 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a 28066 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 28067 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure 28068 reasons. Fixes bug 6436. 28069 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can 28070 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public 28071 address. Resolves ticket 6490. 28072 28073 o Minor bugfixes: 28074 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate 28075 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 28076 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as 28077 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 28078 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed 28079 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix 28080 on 0.2.3.17-beta. 28081 28082 o Packaging (RPM): 28083 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild 28084 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and 28085 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor" 28086 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the 28087 patch series. Fixes bug 6043. 28088 28089 o Testing: 28090 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration 28091 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority 28092 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377. 28093 28094 o Documentation: 28095 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options. 28096 Fixes bug 6387. 28097 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500. 28098 28099 o Code simplification and refactoring: 28100 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds 28101 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has 28102 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the 28103 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400. 28104 28105 28106 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06 28107 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x 28108 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database 28109 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around 28110 since the beginning of Tor. 28111 28112 o Major bugfixes: 28113 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could 28114 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed 28115 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced 28116 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152. 28117 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the 28118 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1", 28119 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes 28120 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. 28121 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation 28122 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. 28123 28124 o Minor bugfixes: 28125 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218; 28126 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha. 28127 28128 28129 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28 28130 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x 28131 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable. 28132 Please test it and let us know whether it is! 28133 28134 o Major bugfixes: 28135 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the 28136 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 28137 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers 28138 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes 28139 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173; 28140 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. 28141 28142 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier): 28143 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing 28144 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha. 28145 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching 28146 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're 28147 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected 28148 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 28149 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in 28150 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about 28151 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on 28152 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028. 28153 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages 28154 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238; 28155 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. 28156 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus 28157 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right 28158 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 28159 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. 28160 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. 28161 28162 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x): 28163 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding 28164 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix 28165 on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 28166 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to 28167 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 28168 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with 28169 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch 28170 to 0.2.3.2-alpha. 28171 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes 28172 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 28173 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol 28174 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 28175 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller, 28176 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244; 28177 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 28178 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0. 28179 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. 28180 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning 28181 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. 28182 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing 28183 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we 28184 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. 28185 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses 28186 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on 28187 0.2.3.17-beta. 28188 28189 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests: 28190 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use 28191 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible. 28192 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c. 28193 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function. 28194 28195 o Documentation: 28196 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3) 28197 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of 28198 options. Closes bug 4748. 28199 28200 28201 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15 28202 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default, 28203 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with 28204 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction 28205 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release 28206 candidate. 28207 28208 o Major features: 28209 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210. 28210 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves 28211 ticket 4744. 28212 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for 28213 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that 28214 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not 28215 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents 28216 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers 28217 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or 28218 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL 28219 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand 28220 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected. 28221 28222 o Major bugfixes: 28223 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in 28224 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less 28225 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at 28226 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087) 28227 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598. 28228 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This 28229 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes 28230 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. 28231 28232 o Minor bugfixes: 28233 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are 28234 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes 28235 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special 28236 case for flushing marked connections. 28237 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the 28238 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 28239 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work. 28240 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an 28241 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide 28242 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940; 28243 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 28244 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by 28245 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 28246 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the 28247 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or 28248 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; 28249 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. 28250 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure 28251 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always 28252 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding. 28253 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha. 28254 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined. 28255 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha. 28256 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities 28257 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network 28258 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886; 28259 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. 28260 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of 28261 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix 28262 on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 28263 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line 28264 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha. 28265 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on 28266 0.2.3.11-alpha. 28267 28268 o Minor features: 28269 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add 28270 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it 28271 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235. 28272 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in 28273 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and 28274 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452. 28275 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is 28276 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send 28277 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted 28278 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663. 28279 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits. 28280 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and 28281 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by- 28282 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits. 28283 Addresses ticket 5458. 28284 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 28285 28286 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 28287 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning 28288 message is now handled by connection_or_connect(). 28289 28290 28291 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06 28292 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation 28293 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself 28294 currently). 28295 28296 o Major bugfixes: 28297 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS 28298 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak 28299 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL 28300 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033. 28301 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add 28302 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue. 28303 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 28304 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service 28305 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit 28306 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our 28307 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 28308 28309 o Minor bugfixes: 28310 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf. 28311 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha. 28312 28313 o Minor features: 28314 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed 28315 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions. 28316 28317 28318 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05 28319 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation 28320 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself 28321 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups 28322 that get us closer to a release candidate. 28323 28324 o Major bugfixes (general): 28325 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS 28326 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak 28327 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL 28328 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033. 28329 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add 28330 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue. 28331 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 28332 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy), 28333 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on 28334 0.2.3.9-alpha. 28335 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating 28336 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its 28337 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix). 28338 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves 28339 part of bug 2988. 28340 28341 o Major bugfixes (clients): 28342 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports, 28343 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build 28344 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6, 28345 which introduced predicted ports. 28346 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service 28347 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit 28348 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our 28349 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 28350 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked 28351 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only 28352 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard 28353 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. 28354 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority, 28355 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open 28356 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. 28357 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, 28358 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable. 28359 28360 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities): 28361 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the 28362 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities 28363 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale 28364 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial 28365 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. 28366 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from 28367 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously, 28368 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of 28369 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters, 28370 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix 28371 on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 28372 28373 o Minor features: 28374 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to 28375 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and 28376 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we 28377 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory 28378 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the 28379 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822. 28380 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor 28381 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. 28382 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988. 28383 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit 28384 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves 28385 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a 28386 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less 28387 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes 28388 ticket 3196. 28389 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the 28390 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369. 28391 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070. 28392 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted". 28393 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous 28394 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted 28395 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make 28396 sure. Closes bug 5139. 28397 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller, 28398 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers 28399 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while 28400 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954. 28401 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed 28402 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions. 28403 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 28404 28405 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36): 28406 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time(). 28407 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3. 28408 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time(). 28409 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave 28410 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from 28411 Esteban Manchado Velázques. 28412 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values 28413 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the 28414 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these 28415 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the 28416 underlying integer type, these functions would return those 28417 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error. 28418 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9. 28419 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an 28420 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that 28421 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug 28422 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. 28423 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service 28424 circuits. Fixes issue 5259. 28425 28426 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier): 28427 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell 28428 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an 28429 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable, 28430 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty, 28431 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code 28432 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. 28433 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the 28434 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes 28435 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable 28436 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case). 28437 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping; 28438 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on 28439 0.1.2.1-alpha. 28440 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large 28441 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 28442 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make 28443 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 28444 Tor 0.2.0.8-alpha. 28445 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with 28446 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091; 28447 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 28448 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed 28449 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; 28450 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 28451 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf. 28452 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha. 28453 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol 28454 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes 28455 bug 5645. 28456 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so 28457 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues 28458 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861. 28459 28460 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier): 28461 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as 28462 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to 28463 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which 28464 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT. 28465 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound 28466 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has 28467 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the 28468 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha. 28469 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to 28470 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657; 28471 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 28472 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites 28473 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to 28474 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates). 28475 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 28476 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP 28477 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when 28478 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP 28479 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix 28480 on 0.2.1.9-alpha. 28481 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not 28482 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954; 28483 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 28484 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that 28485 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges, 28486 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on 28487 0.2.2.11-alpha. 28488 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent 28489 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found 28490 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor 28491 0.2.2.26-beta. 28492 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting 28493 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as 28494 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half 28495 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta. 28496 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with 28497 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha. 28498 28499 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x): 28500 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a 28501 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on 28502 0.2.3.1-alpha. 28503 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously, 28504 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug 28505 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 28506 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in 28507 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix 28508 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 28509 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting 28510 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as 28511 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half 28512 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. 28513 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request 28514 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108; 28515 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha. 28516 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no 28517 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk. 28518 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in 28519 a better way. 28520 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set. 28521 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them. 28522 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 28523 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy 28524 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug 28525 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 28526 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1. 28527 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 28528 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX. 28529 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. 28530 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to 28531 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha. 28532 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves 28533 bug 5859. 28534 28535 o Documentation fixes: 28536 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line 28537 options. Addresses ticket 3964. 28538 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437. 28539 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the 28540 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and 28541 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597. 28542 28543 o Removed files: 28544 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and 28545 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves 28546 bug 5622. 28547 28548 28549 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24 28550 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory 28551 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues, 28552 and fixes several crash bugs. 28553 28554 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many 28555 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If 28556 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using 28557 those packages and upgrade anyway. 28558 28559 o Directory authority changes: 28560 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority). 28561 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename 28562 it to turtles. 28563 28564 o Security fixes: 28565 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier 28566 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL 28567 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher 28568 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive 28569 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor 28570 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server 28571 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that 28572 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to 28573 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building 28574 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely 28575 to make sure that the bug can't happen. 28576 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even 28577 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 28578 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors) 28579 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors). 28580 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total 28581 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit" 28582 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which 28583 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that 28584 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343. 28585 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie 28586 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally 28587 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor 28588 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling 28589 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE" 28590 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent 28591 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193. 28592 28593 o Major bugfixes: 28594 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden 28595 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 28596 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2 28597 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on 28598 0.2.1.6-alpha. 28599 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains 28600 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix 28601 on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 28602 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions 28603 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub() 28604 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is 28605 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778; 28606 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. 28607 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket 28608 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533; 28609 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet. 28610 28611 o Minor bugfixes: 28612 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time(). 28613 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3. 28614 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values 28615 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the 28616 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these 28617 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the 28618 underlying integer type, these functions would return those 28619 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error. 28620 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9. 28621 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior 28622 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length 28623 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously, 28624 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was 28625 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to 28626 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix 28627 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo". 28628 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time(). 28629 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave 28630 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from 28631 Esteban Manchado Velázques. 28632 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community" 28633 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent 28634 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary 28635 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543; 28636 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha. 28637 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in 28638 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us 28639 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated 28640 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and 28641 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further 28642 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch 28643 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668); 28644 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. 28645 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc 28646 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 28647 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version 28648 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init 28649 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet. 28650 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header. 28651 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 28652 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE 28653 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 28654 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an 28655 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that 28656 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug 28657 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. 28658 28659 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages): 28660 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened(). 28661 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6. 28662 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't 28663 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005. 28664 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays 28665 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34). 28666 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice 28667 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it 28668 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes 28669 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 28670 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a 28671 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. 28672 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service 28673 circuits. Fixes issue 5259. 28674 28675 o Minor features: 28676 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than 28677 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha 28678 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of 28679 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves 28680 issue 4788. 28681 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 28682 28683 o Feature removal: 28684 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert 28685 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link 28686 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which 28687 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported 28688 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing 28689 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule, 28690 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786. 28691 28692 28693 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30 28694 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making 28695 the development branch build on Windows again. 28696 28697 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier): 28698 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before 28699 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but 28700 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls(). 28701 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528. 28702 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup 28703 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat 28704 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in 28705 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha. 28706 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if 28707 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures 28708 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from 28709 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. 28710 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not 28711 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103. 28712 28713 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x): 28714 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few 28715 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28 28716 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 28717 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha 28718 and 0.2.3.12-alpha. 28719 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from 28720 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha. 28721 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix 28722 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem. 28723 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ 28724 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. 28725 28726 o Minor features: 28727 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting 28728 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't 28729 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future 28730 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors, 28731 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479. 28732 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be 28733 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error 28734 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6 28735 connection. Implements ticket 5537. 28736 28737 o Removed features: 28738 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option; 28739 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working 28740 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but 28741 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed 28742 or used. 28743 28744 28745 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23 28746 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release 28747 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should 28748 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library. 28749 28750 o Directory authority changes: 28751 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename 28752 it to turtles. 28753 28754 o Major bugfixes: 28755 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden 28756 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 28757 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2 28758 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on 28759 0.2.1.6-alpha. 28760 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other 28761 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching 28762 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on 28763 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus 28764 documents entirely. 28765 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached, 28766 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011; 28767 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 28768 28769 o Major features (performance): 28770 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64 28771 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or 28772 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much, 28773 much faster than other AES implementations. 28774 28775 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier): 28776 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits 28777 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider 28778 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second 28779 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes 28780 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1. 28781 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community" 28782 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent 28783 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary 28784 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543; 28785 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha. 28786 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%' 28787 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13. 28788 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header. 28789 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 28790 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor" 28791 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942; 28792 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. 28793 28794 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x): 28795 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert) 28796 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write 28797 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 28798 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option 28799 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 28800 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf 28801 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during 28802 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on 28803 0.2.3.12-alpha. 28804 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're 28805 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug 28806 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. 28807 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16 28808 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by 28809 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. 28810 28811 o Minor features: 28812 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down 28813 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a 28814 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!), 28815 please let us know about it. 28816 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a 28817 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875. 28818 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country 28819 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053; 28820 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 28821 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 28822 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of 28823 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987. 28824 28825 o Default torrc changes: 28826 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks 28827 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything 28828 in practice. 28829 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in 28830 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438. 28831 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc. 28832 Fixes bug 5621. 28833 28834 o Removed features: 28835 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier 28836 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor. 28837 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and 28838 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh". 28839 28840 o Code refactoring: 28841 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and 28842 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions. 28843 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and 28844 it would be a bad idea to start. 28845 28846 28847 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26 28848 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs 28849 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups 28850 that get us closer to a release candidate. 28851 28852 o Directory authority changes: 28853 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority). 28854 28855 o Security fixes: 28856 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie 28857 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally 28858 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor 28859 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling 28860 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE" 28861 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent 28862 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193. 28863 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even 28864 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 28865 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors) 28866 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors). 28867 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total 28868 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit" 28869 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which 28870 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that 28871 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343. 28872 28873 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x): 28874 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured, 28875 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This 28876 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to 28877 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084; 28878 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 28879 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were 28880 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on 28881 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 28882 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork 28883 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on 28884 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of 28885 torrc files. 28886 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally 28887 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was 28888 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 28889 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on 28890 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile. 28891 28892 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier): 28893 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops 28894 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more 28895 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on 28896 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization. 28897 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in 28898 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us 28899 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated 28900 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and 28901 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further 28902 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch 28903 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668); 28904 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. 28905 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc 28906 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 28907 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because 28908 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured 28909 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on 28910 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg. 28911 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework. 28912 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for 28913 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved 28914 identifiers. 28915 28916 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x): 28917 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug 28918 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 28919 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell 28920 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix 28921 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty". 28922 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket 28923 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4 28924 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 28925 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override 28926 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed 28927 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every 28928 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new 28929 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited 28930 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to 28931 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems; 28932 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows. 28933 28934 o Minor features: 28935 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. 28936 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau. 28937 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 28938 28939 28940 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13 28941 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients 28942 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs 28943 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy. 28944 28945 o Major bugfixes: 28946 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains 28947 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix 28948 on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 28949 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing 28950 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop 28951 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950; 28952 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. 28953 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client 28954 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported 28955 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the 28956 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. 28957 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The 28958 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy, 28959 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs 28960 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 28961 28962 o Minor features: 28963 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces 28964 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent 28965 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle. 28966 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about 28967 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and 28968 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652. 28969 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 28970 28971 o Minor bugfixes: 28972 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice 28973 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it 28974 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes 28975 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 28976 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a 28977 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment. 28978 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't 28979 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor 28980 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set 28981 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix 28982 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 28983 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every 28984 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on 28985 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett. 28986 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973; 28987 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. 28988 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't 28989 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005. 28990 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and 28991 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on 28992 0.2.3.11-alpha. 28993 28994 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 28995 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows. 28996 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic 28997 'MS_WINDOWS'.) 28998 28999 29000 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22 29001 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys 29002 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes 29003 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes, 29004 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn 29005 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues. 29006 29007 o Major features: 29008 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final 29009 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by 29010 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early 29011 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service 29012 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length. 29013 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service 29014 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points 29015 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes 29016 part of bug 3825. 29017 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface 29018 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was 29019 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That 29020 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall 29021 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of 29022 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(), 29023 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the 29024 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827. 29025 29026 o Major security workaround: 29027 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier 29028 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL 29029 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher 29030 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive 29031 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor 29032 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server 29033 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that 29034 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to 29035 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building 29036 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely 29037 to make sure that the bug can't happen. 29038 29039 o Major bugfixes: 29040 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket 29041 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533; 29042 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet. 29043 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions 29044 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub() 29045 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is 29046 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778; 29047 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha. 29048 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug 29049 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode 29050 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack 29051 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix 29052 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal. 29053 29054 o Minor features (controller): 29055 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the 29056 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc 29057 file. Resolves bug 1101. 29058 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's 29059 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO 29060 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411. 29061 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address 29062 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC 29063 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part 29064 of ticket 2411. 29065 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller, 29066 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881. 29067 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a 29068 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements 29069 part of ticket 3457. 29070 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2 29071 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO 29072 circuit-status' control-port command. 29073 29074 o Minor features (directory authorities): 29075 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than 29076 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha 29077 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of 29078 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves 29079 issue 4788. 29080 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given 29081 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected. 29082 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and 29083 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths 29084 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run 29085 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node. 29086 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements 29087 ticket 3946. 29088 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays 29089 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34). 29090 29091 o Minor features (other): 29092 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax 29093 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is 29094 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only 29095 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics. 29096 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files. 29097 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that 29098 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571. 29099 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger 29100 attachment. 29101 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch 29102 them from the other auths. 29103 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed. 29104 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending, 29105 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and 29106 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during 29107 the 0.2.3.x series. 29108 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 29109 29110 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 29111 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost 29112 finished connecting to their destination when they reach 29113 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close 29114 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement 29115 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have 29116 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service, 29117 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch 29118 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can 29119 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout 29120 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 29121 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they 29122 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can 29123 be disabled using the new 29124 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the 29125 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 29126 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having 29127 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point 29128 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a 29129 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have 29130 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in 29131 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced 29132 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service 29133 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on 29134 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which 29135 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same 29136 hidden service. 29137 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side 29138 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process 29139 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported 29140 by murb. 29141 29142 o Minor bugfixes (log messages): 29143 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a 29144 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and 29145 0.2.3.2-alpha. 29146 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened(). 29147 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6. 29148 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering 29149 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug 29150 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 29151 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it 29152 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 29153 29154 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes): 29155 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version 29156 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init 29157 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet. 29158 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as 29159 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking 29160 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug 29161 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes 29162 Pedersen. 29163 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions 29164 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial 29165 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. 29166 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments 29167 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior 29168 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version, 29169 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some 29170 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part 29171 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin 29172 Hebnes Pedersen. 29173 29174 o Minor bugfixes (other): 29175 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior 29176 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length 29177 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously, 29178 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was 29179 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to 29180 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix 29181 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo". 29182 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed. 29183 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was 29184 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had 29185 accidentally been reverted. 29186 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't 29187 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever 29188 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.) 29189 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer. 29190 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for 29191 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix 29192 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. 29193 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a 29194 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but 29195 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 29196 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value 29197 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are 29198 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at 29199 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct 29200 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 29201 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is 29202 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 29203 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on 29204 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 29205 29206 o Feature removal: 29207 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert 29208 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link 29209 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which 29210 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported 29211 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing 29212 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule, 29213 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786. 29214 29215 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 29216 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our 29217 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from 29218 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653. 29219 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry 29220 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts. 29221 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer 29222 supported). 29223 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf. 29224 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently. 29225 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an 29226 invalid value, rather than just -1. 29227 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto 29228 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an 29229 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object" 29230 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that 29231 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older 29232 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like 29233 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like 29234 type_env_t. 29235 29236 29237 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16 29238 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in 29239 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade. 29240 29241 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous 29242 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was 29243 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an 29244 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this 29245 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to 29246 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor 29247 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy 29248 (which Tor does not do by default). 29249 29250 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be 29251 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating 29252 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately! 29253 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special 29254 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us! 29255 29256 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered 29257 in 0.2.3.9-alpha. 29258 29259 o Major bugfixes: 29260 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull 29261 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had 29262 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778; 29263 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor". 29264 29265 o Minor bugfixes: 29266 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we 29267 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous 29268 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams 29269 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation 29270 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all 29271 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on 29272 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655. 29273 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on 29274 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile. 29275 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled 29276 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. 29277 29278 o Minor features: 29279 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 29280 29281 29282 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16 29283 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's 29284 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade. 29285 29286 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous 29287 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was 29288 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an 29289 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this 29290 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to 29291 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor 29292 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy 29293 (which Tor does not do by default). 29294 29295 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be 29296 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating 29297 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately! 29298 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special 29299 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us! 29300 29301 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including 29302 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that 29303 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian 29304 AV software. 29305 29306 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its 29307 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and 29308 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the 29309 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are 29310 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway. 29311 29312 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no 29313 longer receive support after some time in early 2012. 29314 29315 o Major bugfixes: 29316 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull 29317 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had 29318 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778; 29319 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor". 29320 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so 29321 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause 29322 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for 29323 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through 29324 2.0.15-stable. 29325 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process, 29326 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further 29327 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the 29328 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, 29329 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for 29330 close based on processing a cell on it. 29331 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory 29332 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction 29333 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410; 29334 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 29335 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service 29336 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug 29337 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. 29338 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP 29339 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix 29340 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already. 29341 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain 29342 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request" 29343 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a 29344 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes 29345 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34. 29346 29347 o Minor bugfixes: 29348 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better 29349 detection for future instances of bug 4457. 29350 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers 29351 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some 29352 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8. 29353 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity(). 29354 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by 29355 Mansour Moufid. 29356 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with 29357 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on 29358 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads. 29359 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop 29360 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded 29361 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. 29362 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address 29363 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found 29364 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 29365 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331; 29366 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901". 29367 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that 29368 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge 29369 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. 29370 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows. 29371 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta. 29372 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of 29373 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized 29374 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. 29375 Reported by "troll_un". 29376 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from 29377 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 29378 Reported by "troll_un". 29379 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed. 29380 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". 29381 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug 29382 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un". 29383 29384 o Minor features: 29385 - Add two new config options for directory authorities: 29386 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the 29387 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold 29388 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for 29389 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate 29390 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484. 29391 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration, 29392 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message. 29393 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service 29394 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426. 29395 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 29396 29397 o Packaging changes: 29398 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows, 29399 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command. 29400 29401 29402 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16 29403 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for 29404 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and 29405 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be 29406 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer. 29407 29408 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in 29409 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then. 29410 29411 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x): 29412 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory 29413 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction 29414 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410; 29415 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 29416 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull 29417 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had 29418 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778; 29419 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor". 29420 29421 o Minor features: 29422 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 29423 29424 29425 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08 29426 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds 29427 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid 29428 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on 29429 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service 29430 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from 29431 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues. 29432 29433 o Major features: 29434 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges 29435 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to 29436 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the 29437 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one 29438 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186. 29439 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any 29440 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port. 29441 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk 29442 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections 29443 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this 29444 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off. 29445 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate 29446 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race 29447 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It 29448 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472). 29449 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode 29450 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one 29451 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide). 29452 Resolves ticket 4526. 29453 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden 29454 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety 29455 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing 29456 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at 29457 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode 29458 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553. 29459 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no 29460 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new 29461 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has 29462 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents, 29463 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long 29464 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98. 29465 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at 29466 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must 29467 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the 29468 consensus. Implements proposal 178. 29469 29470 o Major bugfixes: 29471 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells. 29472 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes 29473 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their 29474 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused 29475 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when 29476 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp 29477 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460. 29478 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled, 29479 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525; 29480 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. 29481 29482 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection): 29483 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random 29484 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating 29485 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584. 29486 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by 29487 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus 29488 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help 29489 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static 29490 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548. 29491 29492 o Minor features (new/different config options): 29493 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default) 29494 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes. 29495 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313. 29496 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains, 29497 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit". 29498 Implements issue 933. 29499 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config 29500 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in 29501 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options 29502 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line 29503 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior 29504 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and 29505 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply 29506 appending to the list. 29507 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list" 29508 options by prefixing the option name with a "+". 29509 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command 29510 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name 29511 with a "/". 29512 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed 29513 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's 29514 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc. 29515 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which 29516 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP 29517 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its 29518 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions 29519 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552. 29520 29521 o Minor features: 29522 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on 29523 startup more useful for actually finding help and information. 29524 Resolves ticket 2474. 29525 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that 29526 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400. 29527 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points. 29528 Required by fix for bug 3460. 29529 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of 29530 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures. 29531 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden 29532 service. Required by fix for bug 3460. 29533 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman 29534 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This 29535 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple 29536 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can 29537 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it. 29538 29539 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier): 29540 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity(). 29541 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by 29542 Mansour Moufid. 29543 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages. 29544 Fixes bug 4574. 29545 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling 29546 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions 29547 named 'op()'. 29548 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent 29549 email address. Fixes bug 3448. 29550 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed. 29551 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". 29552 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router 29553 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably 29554 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on 29555 0.2.1.1-alpha. 29556 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of 29557 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized 29558 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. 29559 Reported by "troll_un". 29560 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from 29561 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 29562 Reported by "troll_un". 29563 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug 29564 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un". 29565 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes 29566 bug 4532; found by "troll_un". 29567 29568 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x): 29569 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha; 29570 fixes bug 4554. 29571 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new 29572 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point. 29573 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed 29574 with help from wanoskarnet. 29575 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar 29576 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. 29577 29578 o Build fixes: 29579 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same 29580 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i, 29581 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953; 29582 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 29583 29584 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings: 29585 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it 29586 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the 29587 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have 29588 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements 29589 changes suggested in ticket 4421. 29590 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432. 29591 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637. 29592 29593 29594 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22 29595 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a 29596 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds 29597 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network 29598 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side), 29599 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it 29600 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the 29601 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show 29602 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity. 29603 29604 o Major bugfixes: 29605 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so 29606 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause 29607 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for 29608 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through 29609 2.0.15-stable. 29610 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory 29611 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction 29612 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410; 29613 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 29614 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast 29615 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked 29616 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and 29617 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules 29618 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has 29619 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489. 29620 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden 29621 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and 29622 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first 29623 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in 29624 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can 29625 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411. 29626 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un. 29627 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own 29628 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green. 29629 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain 29630 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request" 29631 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a 29632 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes 29633 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha. 29634 29635 o Major features: 29636 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor 29637 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously, 29638 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a 29639 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor 29640 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes 29641 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 29642 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES 29643 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves 29644 ticket 4442. 29645 29646 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier): 29647 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better 29648 detection for future instances of bug 4457. 29649 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers 29650 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some 29651 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8. 29652 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with 29653 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on 29654 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads. 29655 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface 29656 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because 29657 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the 29658 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893. 29659 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of 29660 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch 29661 by Anders Sundman. 29662 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes 29663 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman. 29664 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop 29665 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded 29666 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. 29667 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address 29668 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found 29669 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 29670 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest 29671 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on 29672 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest. 29673 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service 29674 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug 29675 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. 29676 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that 29677 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge 29678 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. 29679 29680 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x): 29681 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on 29682 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem. 29683 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized 29684 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 29685 Found by frosty_un. 29686 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer, 29687 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to 29688 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by 29689 "frosty". 29690 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate 29691 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual 29692 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix 29693 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 29694 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication 29695 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on 29696 0.2.3.6-alpha. 29697 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix 29698 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha. 29699 29700 o Minor features: 29701 - Add two new config options for directory authorities: 29702 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the 29703 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold 29704 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for 29705 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate 29706 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484. 29707 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration, 29708 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message. 29709 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service 29710 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426. 29711 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we 29712 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in 29713 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug 29714 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through 29715 2.0.15-stable. 29716 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define 29717 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile. 29718 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 29719 29720 o Packaging changes: 29721 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows, 29722 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command. 29723 29724 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 29725 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code. 29726 Patch from Andrea Gelmini. 29727 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our 29728 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and 29729 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL 29730 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES. 29731 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type; 29732 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others. 29733 29734 o Testing: 29735 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by 29736 Anders Sundman. 29737 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own 29738 ./src/test/bench binary. 29739 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than 29740 gettimeofday() when such timers are available. 29741 29742 29743 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30 29744 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by 29745 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address 29746 enumeration issue. 29747 29748 o Major bugfixes: 29749 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process, 29750 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further 29751 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the 29752 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, 29753 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for 29754 close based on processing a cell on it. 29755 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid 29756 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343; 29757 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. 29758 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing 29759 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients. 29760 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by 29761 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO 29762 cells were introduced. 29763 29764 o Trivial fixes: 29765 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331; 29766 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901". 29767 29768 29769 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26 29770 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical 29771 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor 29772 users. Everybody should upgrade. 29773 29774 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake 29775 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust. 29776 29777 o Major features: 29778 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to 29779 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting 29780 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for 29781 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176. 29782 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of 29783 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184. 29784 29785 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients): 29786 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on 29787 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would 29788 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until 29789 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client 29790 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using. 29791 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un". 29792 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it 29793 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a 29794 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the 29795 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet. 29796 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays 29797 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests 29798 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can 29799 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither 29800 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new 29801 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option 29802 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no 29803 guard relays. 29804 29805 o Major bugfixes (hidden services): 29806 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to 29807 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service 29808 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them 29809 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the 29810 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last 29811 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running 29812 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335. 29813 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be 29814 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying 29815 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the 29816 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor. 29817 Partly fixes bug 3825. 29818 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a 29819 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would 29820 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service 29821 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never 29822 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a 29823 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and 29824 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212. 29825 29826 o Major bugfixes (other): 29827 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections 29828 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge 29829 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for 29830 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 29831 Found by "frosty_un". 29832 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever 29833 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth 29834 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting 29835 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix 29836 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped 29837 immensely in tracking this bug down. 29838 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup 29839 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix 29840 by "Tey'". 29841 29842 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier): 29843 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction 29844 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and 29845 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit 29846 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction 29847 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251. 29848 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is 29849 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094. 29850 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily. 29851 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced 29852 bridges. Patch by "warms0x". 29853 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the 29854 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes 29855 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. 29856 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch 29857 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly 29858 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan. 29859 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479. 29860 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our 29861 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 29862 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484. 29863 29864 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x): 29865 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure 29866 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430; 29867 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 29868 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the 29869 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously, 29870 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback 29871 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas. 29872 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and 29873 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; 29874 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487. 29875 29876 o Minor features: 29877 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider 29878 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the 29879 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched 29880 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825. 29881 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has 29882 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that 29883 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves 29884 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar. 29885 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge 29886 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors 29887 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly 29888 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and 29889 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294. 29890 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 29891 29892 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 29893 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors 29894 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and 29895 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around. 29896 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that 29897 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and 29898 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This 29899 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512. 29900 29901 29902 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26 29903 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker 29904 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade. 29905 29906 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert 29907 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by 29908 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's 29909 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key 29910 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active 29911 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis 29912 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to 29913 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using. 29914 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards 29915 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This 29916 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack; 29917 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to 29918 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us! 29919 29920 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS 29921 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a 29922 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are 29923 currently connected to them. 29924 29925 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker 29926 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still 29927 remain; see for example proposal 188. 29928 29929 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients): 29930 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on 29931 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would 29932 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until 29933 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client 29934 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using. 29935 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un". 29936 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it 29937 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a 29938 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the 29939 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet. 29940 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays 29941 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests 29942 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can 29943 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither 29944 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new 29945 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option 29946 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no 29947 guard relays. 29948 29949 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration): 29950 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS 29951 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting 29952 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another 29953 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35. 29954 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar 29955 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for 29956 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, 29957 when bridges were introduced. 29958 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections 29959 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge 29960 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for 29961 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 29962 Found by "frosty_un". 29963 29964 o Major bugfixes: 29965 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup 29966 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix 29967 by "Tey'". 29968 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a 29969 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would 29970 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service 29971 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never 29972 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a 29973 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and 29974 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212. 29975 29976 o Minor bugfixes: 29977 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so 29978 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch 29979 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059. 29980 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction 29981 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and 29982 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit 29983 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction 29984 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251. 29985 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily. 29986 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced 29987 bridges. Patch by "warms0x". 29988 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch 29989 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly 29990 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan. 29991 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479. 29992 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our 29993 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 29994 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484. 29995 29996 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation): 29997 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the 29998 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes 29999 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. 30000 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has 30001 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that 30002 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves 30003 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar. 30004 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from 30005 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human 30006 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063; 30007 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. 30008 30009 o Minor features: 30010 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in 30011 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database. 30012 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951. 30013 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 30014 30015 30016 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26 30017 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for 30018 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and 30019 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be 30020 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer. 30021 30022 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x): 30023 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations 30024 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being 30025 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an 30026 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn 30027 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp 30028 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.) 30029 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6 30030 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when 30031 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. 30032 30033 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x): 30034 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on 30035 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would 30036 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until 30037 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client 30038 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using. 30039 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un". 30040 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it 30041 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a 30042 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the 30043 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet. 30044 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections 30045 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge 30046 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for 30047 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 30048 Found by "frosty_un". 30049 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for 30050 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any 30051 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it 30052 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate 30053 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client 30054 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6. 30055 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget 30056 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a 30057 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6. 30058 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory 30059 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge 30060 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak. 30061 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 30062 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL 30063 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous 30064 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a 30065 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before 30066 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on 30067 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375. 30068 30069 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x): 30070 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection 30071 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests, 30072 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no 30073 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This 30074 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller 30075 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a 30076 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; 30077 fixes bug 1172. 30078 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings 30079 enabled. Fixes bug 1526. 30080 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done 30081 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc. 30082 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned. 30083 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making 30084 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28. 30085 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured 30086 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on 30087 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei". 30088 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds 30089 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by 30090 John Brooks. 30091 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under 30092 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 30093 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile, 30094 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 30095 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public 30096 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 30097 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for 30098 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up 30099 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix 30100 on 0.0.9pre6. 30101 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option. 30102 Fixes bug 3208. 30103 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before 30104 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are 30105 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity; 30106 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha. 30107 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're 30108 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements 30109 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by 30110 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. 30111 30112 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x): 30113 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages 30114 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30. 30115 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our 30116 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402. 30117 30118 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x): 30119 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to 30120 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014. 30121 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574. 30122 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 30123 30124 30125 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28 30126 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate 30127 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting 30128 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than 30129 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements. 30130 30131 o Security fixes: 30132 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS 30133 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting 30134 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another 30135 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35. 30136 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar 30137 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for 30138 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, 30139 when bridges were introduced. 30140 30141 o Major bugfixes: 30142 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could 30143 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t 30144 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha. 30145 30146 o Major features (networking): 30147 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets 30148 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network 30149 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less 30150 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by 30151 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by 30152 Florian Tschorsch. 30153 30154 o Minor bugfixes: 30155 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so 30156 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch 30157 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059. 30158 30159 o Minor bugfixes (usability): 30160 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from 30161 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human 30162 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063; 30163 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. 30164 30165 o Minor features (diagnostics): 30166 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the 30167 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027. 30168 30169 30170 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13 30171 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight 30172 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run 30173 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new 30174 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not 30175 listed in the network consensus and republish. 30176 30177 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33): 30178 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with 30179 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug 30180 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. 30181 30182 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33): 30183 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an 30184 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of 30185 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks 30186 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a 30187 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to 30188 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think 30189 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send 30190 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval), 30191 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of 30192 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers. 30193 30194 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33): 30195 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to 30196 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014. 30197 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as 30198 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours. 30199 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649. 30200 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory 30201 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir 30202 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649. 30203 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 30204 30205 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33): 30206 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden 30207 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different 30208 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that 30209 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; 30210 fixes part of bug 2442. 30211 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info 30212 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do 30213 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part 30214 of bug 2442. 30215 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in 30216 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log 30217 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have 30218 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_" 30219 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 30220 30221 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33): 30222 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older 30223 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp". 30224 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling. 30225 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti. 30226 30227 o Major bugfixes: 30228 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get 30229 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress 30230 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by 30231 Fabian Keil. 30232 30233 o Major features: 30234 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more 30235 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the 30236 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too 30237 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines 30238 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even 30239 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough 30240 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327. 30241 30242 o Minor features: 30243 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors 30244 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will 30245 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future. 30246 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User 30247 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure 30248 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will 30249 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio. 30250 30251 o Minor bugfixes: 30252 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a 30253 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't 30254 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did 30255 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log 30256 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller 30257 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. 30258 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and 30259 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched. 30260 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 30261 30262 o Code refactoring: 30263 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge 30264 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller. 30265 30266 30267 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13 30268 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's 30269 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version 30270 reachable from Iran again. 30271 30272 o Major bugfixes: 30273 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with 30274 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug 30275 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. 30276 30277 o Minor features (security): 30278 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an 30279 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of 30280 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks 30281 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a 30282 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to 30283 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think 30284 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send 30285 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval), 30286 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of 30287 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers. 30288 30289 o Minor features: 30290 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to 30291 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014. 30292 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as 30293 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours. 30294 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649. 30295 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory 30296 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir 30297 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649. 30298 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 30299 30300 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages): 30301 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and 30302 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method 30303 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha, 30304 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue 30305 raised by bug 3898. 30306 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden 30307 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different 30308 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that 30309 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; 30310 fixes part of bug 2442. 30311 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info 30312 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do 30313 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part 30314 of bug 2442. 30315 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in 30316 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log 30317 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have 30318 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_" 30319 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 30320 30321 o Build fixes: 30322 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which 30323 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem. 30324 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older 30325 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp". 30326 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling. 30327 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti. 30328 30329 30330 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01 30331 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's 30332 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor 30333 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x 30334 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional) 30335 bufferevent-based networking backend. 30336 30337 o Major features (stream isolation): 30338 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different 30339 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an 30340 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from 30341 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way 30342 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different 30343 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses 30344 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the 30345 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the 30346 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171. 30347 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as 30348 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare 30349 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each. 30350 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't 30351 mix it with the new *Port syntax. 30352 30353 o Major features (other): 30354 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows 30355 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information. 30356 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and 30357 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file. 30358 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the 30359 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows. 30360 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now 30361 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that 30362 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting 30363 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing). 30364 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently 30365 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData" 30366 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg. 30367 30368 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha): 30369 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows 30370 threading support. 30371 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified 30372 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option. 30373 Fixes part of bug 3752. 30374 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using 30375 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history 30376 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803. 30377 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering 30378 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read 30379 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents 30380 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804. 30381 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered 30382 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write 30383 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are 30384 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804. 30385 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent 30386 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805. 30387 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory 30388 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814. 30389 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting 30390 buckets. Fixes bug 3888. 30391 30392 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc): 30393 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write 30394 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way, 30395 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory 30396 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes 30397 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta. 30398 30399 o Minor features: 30400 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified 30401 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the 30402 user. Implements ticket 1692. 30403 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory 30404 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to 30405 best copy data out of a buffer. 30406 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we 30407 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to 30408 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930. 30409 30410 o Minor features (build compatibility): 30411 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC. 30412 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which 30413 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem. 30414 30415 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc): 30416 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 30417 30418 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha): 30419 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with 30420 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. 30421 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running 30422 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http 30423 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related 30424 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. 30425 30426 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier): 30427 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and 30428 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method 30429 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha, 30430 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue 30431 raised by bug 3898. 30432 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's 30433 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in 30434 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on 30435 0.2.0.10-alpha. 30436 30437 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc): 30438 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text 30439 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are: 30440 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays 30441 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for 30442 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert 30443 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously, 30444 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an 30445 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when 30446 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered 30447 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure 30448 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha. 30449 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion 30450 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643. 30451 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error 30452 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on 30453 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732. 30454 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value 30455 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix 30456 on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 30457 30458 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 30459 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports 30460 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports 30461 we want. 30462 30463 o Build changes: 30464 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent 30465 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in 30466 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor 30467 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows 30468 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs 30469 introduced after 2.0.8-rc. 30470 30471 30472 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27 30473 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas 30474 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research, 30475 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor, 30476 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility 30477 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I 30478 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that 30479 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the 30480 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your 30481 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore." 30482 30483 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally 30484 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved 30485 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility 30486 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than 30487 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling, 30488 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and 30489 many many other features and bugfixes. 30490 30491 30492 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17 30493 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate 30494 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series. 30495 30496 o Major bugfixes: 30497 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error 30498 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on 30499 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732. 30500 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write 30501 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way, 30502 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory 30503 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes 30504 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta. 30505 30506 o Minor features: 30507 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 30508 30509 o Minor bugfixes: 30510 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when 30511 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577; 30512 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 30513 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text 30514 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are: 30515 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays 30516 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for 30517 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert 30518 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously, 30519 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an 30520 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when 30521 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered 30522 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure 30523 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha. 30524 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion 30525 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643. 30526 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value 30527 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix 30528 on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 30529 30530 30531 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18 30532 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features: 30533 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning 30534 up a variety of recently introduced features. 30535 30536 o Major features: 30537 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors 30538 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated 30539 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change 30540 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is 30541 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet 30542 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches 30543 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future 30544 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on. 30545 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate 30546 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist 30547 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation 30548 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841. 30549 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections 30550 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures 30551 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up 30552 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116. 30553 30554 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha): 30555 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with 30556 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a 30557 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random 30558 order. Fixes bug 2798. 30559 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus 30560 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361. 30561 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit 30562 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599. 30563 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from 30564 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes 30565 bug 3601. 30566 30567 o Minor features: 30568 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574. 30569 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the 30570 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that 30571 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves 30572 bug 1666. 30573 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are 30574 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider 30575 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag. 30576 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor 30577 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a 30578 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data 30579 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet". 30580 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain 30581 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events. 30582 Implements ticket 3264. 30583 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri; 30584 implements ticket 3439. 30585 30586 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha): 30587 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just 30588 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113. 30589 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent 30590 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118. 30591 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that 30592 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point 30593 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183. 30594 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed 30595 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL 30596 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command 30597 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the 30598 command at all. Fixes bug 3349. 30599 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or 30600 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found 30601 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367. 30602 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs. 30603 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker. 30604 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents 30605 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403. 30606 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434. 30607 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names' 30608 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465. 30609 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all() 30610 fails. Spotted by coverity. 30611 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being 30612 present. Found by coverity. 30613 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from 30614 a directory cache that provides them. 30615 30616 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier): 30617 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed 30618 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that 30619 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits, 30620 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service 30621 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332; 30622 bugfix on 0.0.6. 30623 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key, 30624 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and 30625 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. 30626 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when 30627 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577; 30628 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 30629 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix 30630 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427. 30631 30632 o Code simplification and refactoring: 30633 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the 30634 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and 30635 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell 30636 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one. 30637 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures. 30638 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that 30639 one of them fails. 30640 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each 30641 connection type. 30642 30643 o Build changes: 30644 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they 30645 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide, 30646 if they want, to require a later version of Windows. 30647 30648 30649 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07 30650 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x 30651 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable. 30652 Please test it and let us know whether it is! 30653 30654 o Minor bugfixes: 30655 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse 30656 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue 30657 discovered by katmagic. 30658 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before 30659 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are 30660 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity; 30661 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha. 30662 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're 30663 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements 30664 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by 30665 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. 30666 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO 30667 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha; 30668 fixes part of bug 3465. 30669 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden 30670 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix 30671 on 0.2.2.26-beta. 30672 30673 o Minor features: 30674 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 30675 30676 30677 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20 30678 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who 30679 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets 30680 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian; 30681 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs. 30682 30683 o Major bugfixes: 30684 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta. 30685 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any 30686 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges 30687 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them. 30688 Partial resolution for bug 3354. 30689 30690 o Privacy fixes: 30691 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL 30692 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous 30693 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a 30694 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before 30695 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on 30696 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375. 30697 30698 o Minor bugfixes: 30699 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The 30700 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not 30701 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393; 30702 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. 30703 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers 30704 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF; 30705 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with 30706 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or 30707 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting 30708 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha; 30709 fixes part of bug 3407. 30710 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers 30711 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it 30712 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on 30713 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407. 30714 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly. 30715 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a 30716 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George 30717 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14. 30718 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state 30719 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on 30720 0.2.2.4-alpha. 30721 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a 30722 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty 30723 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha. 30724 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity. 30725 30726 o Minor features: 30727 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 30728 30729 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 30730 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity. 30731 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by 30732 coverity. 30733 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found 30734 by coverity. 30735 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity. 30736 30737 30738 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04 30739 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we 30740 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently, 30741 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly, 30742 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia 30743 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it" 30744 usability issue. 30745 30746 o Major bugfixes: 30747 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal. 30748 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the 30749 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering 30750 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. 30751 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574. 30752 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we 30753 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on 30754 0.2.2.26-beta. 30755 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with 30756 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. 30757 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits 30758 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the 30759 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation; 30760 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit 30761 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297. 30762 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction 30763 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout 30764 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may 30765 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in 30766 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts 30767 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix 30768 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297. 30769 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured 30770 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran 30771 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge 30772 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you 30773 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; 30774 fixes bug 3321. 30775 30776 o Major features: 30777 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a 30778 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure 30779 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049. 30780 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will 30781 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set. 30782 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are 30783 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will 30784 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym, 30785 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor 30786 user on startup. 30787 30788 o Minor bugfixes: 30789 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option. 30790 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the 30791 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix 30792 on 0.1.2.5-alpha. 30793 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds. 30794 Fixes bug 3270. 30795 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point 30796 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing 30797 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289. 30798 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes 30799 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 30800 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol 30801 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message 30802 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior 30803 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix 30804 on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 30805 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each 30806 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM. 30807 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL 30808 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried 30809 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to 30810 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha; 30811 fixes bug 3309. 30812 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in 30813 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on 30814 0.2.0.1-alpha. 30815 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128 30816 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017 30817 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 30818 30819 o Minor features: 30820 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor, 30821 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810. 30822 Resolves ticket 3252. 30823 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to 30824 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be 30825 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely 30826 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045. 30827 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client 30828 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM. 30829 30830 o Removed options: 30831 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done 30832 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc. 30833 30834 30835 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18 30836 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous 30837 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes. 30838 30839 o Major bugfixes: 30840 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process. 30841 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. 30842 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60 30843 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on 30844 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355). 30845 30846 o Minor bugfixes: 30847 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too. 30848 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. 30849 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters. 30850 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines. 30851 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich. 30852 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit 30853 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could 30854 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic 30855 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes 30856 bug 3200. 30857 30858 30859 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17 30860 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It 30861 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it 30862 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of 30863 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate. 30864 30865 o Security/privacy fixes: 30866 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations 30867 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being 30868 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an 30869 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn 30870 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp 30871 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.) 30872 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for 30873 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any 30874 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it 30875 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate 30876 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client 30877 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6. 30878 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client 30879 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what 30880 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 30881 30882 o Major features: 30883 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a 30884 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A 30885 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its 30886 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option 30887 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as 30888 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same 30889 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves 30890 part of ticket 3076. 30891 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should 30892 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just 30893 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves 30894 issue 2850. 30895 30896 o Minor features: 30897 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return 30898 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a 30899 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured 30900 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got 30901 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076. 30902 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when 30903 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default 30904 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements 30905 ticket 2972. 30906 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is 30907 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable 30908 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not 30909 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the 30910 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere. 30911 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus 30912 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352. 30913 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to 30914 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230. 30915 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain 30916 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code. 30917 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich. 30918 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 30919 30920 o Minor bugfixes: 30921 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when 30922 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors. 30923 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix 30924 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230. 30925 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for 30926 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up 30927 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix 30928 on 0.0.9pre6. 30929 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor 30930 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still 30931 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us 30932 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet. 30933 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options 30934 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the 30935 man page. Resolves issue 2379. 30936 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to 30937 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha, 30938 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026. 30939 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden 30940 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This 30941 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes 30942 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do, 30943 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir, 30944 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on 30945 0.2.0.10-alpha. 30946 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for 30947 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on 30948 0.1.0.1-rc. 30949 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings 30950 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on 30951 0.1.1.19-rc. 30952 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove 30953 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix 30954 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 30955 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we 30956 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes 30957 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 30958 30959 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup): 30960 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size. 30961 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing 30962 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in 30963 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 30964 Fix posted by "cypherpunks." 30965 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is 30966 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length 30967 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230. 30968 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a 30969 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of 30970 clang's analyzer. 30971 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc 30972 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on 30973 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer. 30974 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair, 30975 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on 30976 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106. 30977 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(), 30978 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check 30979 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an 30980 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit 30981 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 30982 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys 30983 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix 30984 on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 30985 30986 o Removed features: 30987 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents 30988 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't 30989 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves 30990 bug 3022. 30991 30992 30993 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05 30994 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support 30995 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows, 30996 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic 30997 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements 30998 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with. 30999 31000 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be 31001 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should 31002 stay with 0.2.2.x for now. 31003 31004 o Major features: 31005 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO 31006 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you 31007 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the 31008 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from 31009 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible, 31010 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient 31011 zero-copy transports where available. 31012 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows. 31013 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better 31014 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To 31015 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor 31016 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to 31017 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help 31018 debug it as it breaks. 31019 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP 31020 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options 31021 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to 31022 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here. 31023 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams. 31024 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was 31025 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable 31026 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without 31027 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch 31028 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.) 31029 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many 31030 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on 31031 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp 31032 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the 31033 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or 31034 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new 31035 PortForwarding option. 31036 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the 31037 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors. 31038 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small 31039 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the 31040 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code, 31041 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth 31042 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors. 31043 31044 o Minor features: 31045 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity 31046 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second. 31047 Implements enhancement 1668. 31048 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket 31049 2444. 31050 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like 31051 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting. 31052 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this 31053 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara. 31054 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as 31055 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from 31056 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket 31057 2702. 31058 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how 31059 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior. 31060 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in 31061 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database. 31062 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the 31063 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours. 31064 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements 31065 enhancement 1883. 31066 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to 31067 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves 31068 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes. 31069 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message 31070 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for 31071 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor 31072 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis. 31073 31074 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha): 31075 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size. 31076 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing 31077 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in 31078 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 31079 Fix posted by "cypherpunks." 31080 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is 31081 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length 31082 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230. 31083 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 31084 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. 31085 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106. 31086 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when 31087 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors. 31088 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix 31089 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 31090 31091 o Minor features (controller): 31092 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that 31093 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves 31094 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks. 31095 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch 31096 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345. 31097 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about 31098 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits. 31099 31100 o Build changes: 31101 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the 31102 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4. 31103 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git; 31104 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing 31105 the Makefile.am files should be fine. 31106 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and 31107 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes 31108 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own. 31109 31110 o Minor packaging issues: 31111 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not 31112 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573. 31113 31114 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 31115 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic. 31116 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of 31117 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors, 31118 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With 31119 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems 31120 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase. 31121 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent 31122 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all 31123 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t. 31124 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey 31125 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but 31126 our library structure used to force them to link it. 31127 31128 o Removed features: 31129 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that 31130 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor 31131 are no longer in use as servers. 31132 31133 o Documentation fixes: 31134 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307. 31135 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options 31136 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves 31137 issue 2379. 31138 31139 31140 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29 31141 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more 31142 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash 31143 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button) 31144 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It 31145 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is 31146 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and 31147 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more 31148 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options, 31149 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page. 31150 31151 o Major bugfixes: 31152 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because 31153 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the 31154 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the 31155 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha. 31156 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have 31157 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not 31158 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently 31159 have, retry with an introduction point from the current 31160 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and 31161 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 31162 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given 31163 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node. 31164 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 31165 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return 31166 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug 31167 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper. 31168 31169 o Security and stability fixes: 31170 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if 31171 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable 31172 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954. 31173 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks". 31174 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a 31175 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay. 31176 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the 31177 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic 31178 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being 31179 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which 31180 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq. 31181 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under 31182 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 31183 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget 31184 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a 31185 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6. 31186 31187 o Major features: 31188 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we 31189 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators 31190 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their 31191 contributions to the network. 31192 31193 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection): 31194 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes, 31195 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes 31196 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what 31197 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes 31198 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built 31199 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from 31200 surprises. Now the intended behavior is: 31201 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means 31202 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network. 31203 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the 31204 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct 31205 connections to directory servers. 31206 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes. 31207 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When 31208 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in 31209 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When 31210 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes 31211 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to 31212 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a 31213 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory 31214 information, or fetch directory information. 31215 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090. 31216 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if 31217 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded. 31218 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if 31219 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1. 31220 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1 31221 unless you really want your Tor to break. 31222 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving. 31223 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests. 31224 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes. 31225 - When StrictNodes is 1: 31226 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points 31227 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This 31228 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution! 31229 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay 31230 reachability self-tests. 31231 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not 31232 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay. 31233 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node. 31234 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags 31235 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. 31236 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings 31237 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on 31238 0.1.0.1-rc. 31239 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even 31240 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 31241 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to 31242 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent 31243 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved 31244 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. 31245 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a 31246 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency 31247 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our 31248 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic. 31249 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes. 31250 31251 o Minor bugfixes: 31252 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long 31253 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on 31254 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020. 31255 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit 31256 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously, 31257 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6. 31258 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6. 31259 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. 31260 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed 31261 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to 31262 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason. 31263 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 31264 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte 31265 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection 31266 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta. 31267 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds 31268 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by 31269 John Brooks. 31270 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden 31271 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no 31272 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will 31273 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no 31274 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 31275 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from 31276 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 31277 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 31278 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. 31279 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple 31280 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST 31281 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir. 31282 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file, 31283 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop 31284 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039; 31285 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. 31286 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should 31287 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option. 31288 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the 31289 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options. 31290 31291 o Minor features: 31292 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours. 31293 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state 31294 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity 31295 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012. 31296 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors. 31297 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such 31298 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs. 31299 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients. 31300 Required by fix for bug 3000. 31301 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required 31302 by fix for bug 3000. 31303 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added 31304 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497. 31305 31306 o Code simplification and refactoring: 31307 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers 31308 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_ 31309 send a body too). Since only server versions before 31310 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to 31311 keep the workaround in place. 31312 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for 31313 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and 31314 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three 31315 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is 31316 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll 31317 want to do it differently. 31318 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned. 31319 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making 31320 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28. 31321 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on 31322 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by 31323 Gisle Vanem. 31324 31325 31326 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08 31327 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that 31328 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges, 31329 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users 31330 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked. 31331 31332 o Major bugfixes: 31333 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical 31334 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical 31335 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be 31336 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked 31337 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes 31338 bug 2510. 31339 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and 31340 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue 31341 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is 31342 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a 31343 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511. 31344 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own 31345 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag 31346 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in 31347 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small 31348 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole 31349 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be 31350 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709. 31351 31352 o Minor bugfixes: 31353 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection 31354 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests, 31355 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no 31356 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This 31357 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller 31358 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a 31359 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; 31360 fixes bug 1172. 31361 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when 31362 relays that have failed several reachability tests became 31363 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable, 31364 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716. 31365 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on 31366 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 31367 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing 31368 the --with-static-libevent configure option). 31369 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit) 31370 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on 31371 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the 31372 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which 31373 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we 31374 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix 31375 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest 31376 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152). 31377 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a 31378 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in 31379 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong 31380 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original 31381 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix). 31382 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile, 31383 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 31384 31385 o Minor features: 31386 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3 31387 networkstatus vote. 31388 - Make compilation with clang possible when using 31389 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang 31390 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements 31391 ticket 2696. 31392 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than 31393 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a 31394 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right 31395 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit 31396 timeout values. 31397 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch 31398 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously, 31399 we would retry after 15 seconds.) 31400 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 31401 31402 o Packaging fixes: 31403 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is 31404 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573. 31405 31406 o Documentation changes: 31407 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707. 31408 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation. 31409 Fixes bug 2705. 31410 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types. 31411 31412 31413 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08 31414 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when 31415 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This 31416 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from 31417 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about 31418 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority. 31419 31420 o Major bugfixes: 31421 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever 31422 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock. 31423 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority 31424 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes 31425 the rest of bug 1074. 31426 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6 31427 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when 31428 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. 31429 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory 31430 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge 31431 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak. 31432 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 31433 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate, 31434 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting, 31435 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on 31436 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470. 31437 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor 31438 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled 31439 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 31440 31441 o Major features: 31442 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their 31443 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved) 31444 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on 31445 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their 31446 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting. 31447 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and 31448 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously, 31449 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not 31450 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability 31451 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the 31452 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035. 31453 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution 31454 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for 31455 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks. 31456 31457 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier): 31458 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured 31459 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on 31460 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei". 31461 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a 31462 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes 31463 bug 2279. 31464 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378; 31465 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first 31466 Tor release, in svn commit r110. 31467 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so 31468 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue 31469 spotted by keb and G-Lo. 31470 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been 31471 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing 31472 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on 31473 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha. 31474 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve 31475 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but 31476 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental 31477 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is 31478 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should 31479 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366. 31480 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac. 31481 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your 31482 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last 31483 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead. 31484 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer". 31485 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't 31486 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504, 31487 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 31488 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X). 31489 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by 31490 "piebeer". 31491 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix 31492 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660. 31493 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time 31494 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime 31495 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give 31496 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing 31497 bug 1035. 31498 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork 31499 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control 31500 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha. 31501 31502 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x): 31503 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node 31504 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit 31505 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights. 31506 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203. 31507 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an 31508 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on 31509 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha. 31510 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects 31511 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha. 31512 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer". 31513 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to 31514 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix 31515 on 0.2.2.22-alpha. 31516 31517 o Minor features: 31518 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve 31519 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004. 31520 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer 31521 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181. 31522 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private 31523 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with 31524 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always 31525 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually 31526 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent 31527 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting 31528 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc. 31529 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable 31530 allocation error. 31531 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 31532 31533 o Minor features (log subsystem): 31534 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in 31535 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha, 31536 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes 31537 bug 2215. 31538 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B". 31539 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say 31540 "[~A,~B]". 31541 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log 31542 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way 31543 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot 31544 of guessing. 31545 31546 o Packaging changes: 31547 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents 31548 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at 31549 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git 31550 31551 31552 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23 31553 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other 31554 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays 31555 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again. 31556 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it 31557 buys us time until we roll out a better solution. 31558 31559 o Major bugfixes: 31560 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever 31561 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock. 31562 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority 31563 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes 31564 the rest of bug 1074. 31565 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to 31566 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 31567 Found by "piebeer". 31568 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate, 31569 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting, 31570 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on 31571 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470. 31572 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor 31573 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled 31574 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 31575 31576 o Minor features: 31577 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by 31578 Apache's mod_ssl. 31579 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 31580 31581 o Minor bugfixes: 31582 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and 31583 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions. 31584 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss". 31585 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the 31586 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from 31587 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a 31588 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because 31589 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an 31590 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request) 31591 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR 31592 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 31593 31594 o Packaging changes: 31595 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents 31596 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at 31597 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git 31598 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when 31599 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched 31600 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402. 31601 31602 31603 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25 31604 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The 31605 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes 31606 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again. 31607 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it 31608 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution. 31609 31610 o Major bugfixes: 31611 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to 31612 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 31613 Found by "piebeer". 31614 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa 31615 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly 31616 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes 31617 bug 2433. Reported by bastik. 31618 31619 o Minor features: 31620 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by 31621 Apache's mod_ssl. 31622 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing 31623 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file. 31624 Implements ticket 2432. 31625 31626 o Minor bugfixes: 31627 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and 31628 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions. 31629 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss". 31630 31631 31632 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15 31633 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which 31634 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves 31635 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code 31636 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert 31637 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely. 31638 31639 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29: 31640 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap 31641 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution 31642 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on 31643 0.1.2.10-rc. 31644 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any 31645 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly 31646 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss". 31647 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes 31648 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by 31649 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able 31650 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough 31651 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9. 31652 31653 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29: 31654 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers. 31655 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially 31656 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running 31657 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages. 31658 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190. 31659 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid 31660 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324. 31661 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a 31662 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into 31663 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix 31664 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss. 31665 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly 31666 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27. 31667 Found by doorss. 31668 31669 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29: 31670 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup 31671 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a 31672 bug reported by doorss. 31673 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library 31674 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't 31675 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 31676 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual 31677 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix 31678 on 0.1.2.1-alpha. 31679 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but 31680 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on 31681 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss. 31682 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual 31683 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. 31684 31685 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29: 31686 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 31687 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions. 31688 31689 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29: 31690 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier; 31691 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with 31692 Automake 1.7 or later. 31693 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c 31694 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that 31695 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular 31696 among really fast exit relays on Linux. 31697 31698 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: 31699 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus 31700 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix 31701 on 0.2.2.14-alpha. 31702 31703 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: 31704 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe 31705 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes 31706 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value. 31707 31708 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: 31709 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't 31710 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier. 31711 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before 31712 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug 31713 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha. 31714 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later, 31715 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe 31716 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages 31717 get through. 31718 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to 31719 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom. 31720 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5. 31721 Resolves bug 2314. 31722 31723 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: 31724 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather 31725 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix 31726 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss. 31727 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to 31728 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned 31729 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor, 31730 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss. 31731 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent 31732 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns 31733 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*() 31734 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug 31735 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger". 31736 31737 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: 31738 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for 31739 tor-resolve. 31740 31741 31742 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15 31743 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main 31744 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote 31745 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs, 31746 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely. 31747 31748 o Major bugfixes (security): 31749 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap 31750 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution 31751 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on 31752 0.1.2.10-rc. 31753 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any 31754 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly 31755 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss". 31756 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes 31757 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by 31758 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able 31759 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough 31760 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9. 31761 31762 o Major bugfixes (crashes): 31763 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers. 31764 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially 31765 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running 31766 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages. 31767 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190. 31768 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid 31769 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324. 31770 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a 31771 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into 31772 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix 31773 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss. 31774 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly 31775 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27. 31776 Found by doorss. 31777 31778 o Minor bugfixes (other): 31779 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup 31780 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a 31781 bug reported by doorss. 31782 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library 31783 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't 31784 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 31785 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual 31786 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix 31787 on 0.1.2.1-alpha. 31788 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but 31789 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on 31790 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss. 31791 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual 31792 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. 31793 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c 31794 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that 31795 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular 31796 among really fast exit relays on Linux. 31797 31798 o Minor features: 31799 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 31800 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions. 31801 31802 o Build changes: 31803 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier; 31804 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with 31805 Automake 1.7 or later. 31806 31807 31808 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17 31809 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely 31810 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs, 31811 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update 31812 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network. 31813 31814 o Major bugfixes: 31815 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances 31816 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution 31817 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should 31818 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later. 31819 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large 31820 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals. 31821 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper. 31822 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that 31823 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits 31824 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch 31825 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; 31826 fix by boboper. 31827 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given 31828 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or 31829 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was 31830 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152. 31831 31832 o Directory authority changes: 31833 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority). 31834 31835 o Minor bugfixes: 31836 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235. 31837 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper. 31838 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command 31839 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since 31840 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by 31841 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. 31842 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its 31843 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on 31844 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha. 31845 31846 o Minor features: 31847 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 31848 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of 31849 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have 31850 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous 31851 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081. 31852 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor 31853 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches 31854 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156. 31855 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to 31856 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements 31857 task 2196. 31858 31859 31860 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17 31861 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely 31862 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address 31863 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database 31864 we ship. 31865 31866 o Major bugfixes: 31867 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances 31868 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution 31869 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should 31870 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later. 31871 31872 o Directory authority changes: 31873 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority). 31874 31875 o Minor features: 31876 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 31877 31878 31879 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23 31880 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor: 31881 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We 31882 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new 31883 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database. 31884 31885 o Major bugfixes: 31886 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b: 31887 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects; 31888 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting 31889 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204; 31890 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 31891 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer 31892 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection 31893 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals 31894 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125; 31895 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. 31896 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if 31897 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, 31898 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to 31899 be useful. Fixes bug 2050. 31900 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on 31901 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously 31902 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk 31903 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer. 31904 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your 31905 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks 31906 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an 31907 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on 31908 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981. 31909 31910 o Major features: 31911 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather 31912 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that 31913 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll 31914 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries. 31915 31916 o New directory authorities: 31917 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory 31918 authority. 31919 31920 o Minor bugfixes: 31921 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or 31922 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing 31923 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 31924 0.2.0.8-alpha. 31925 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on 31926 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer. 31927 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod 31928 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after 31929 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they 31930 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san 31931 for analysis help. 31932 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable 31933 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings 31934 pass on OpenBSD 4.8. 31935 31936 o Minor features: 31937 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code, 31938 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new 31939 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE. 31940 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize 31941 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793. 31942 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8. 31943 Patch from mingw-san. 31944 31945 o Removed files: 31946 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution. 31947 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL 31948 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git 31949 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We 31950 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in 31951 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway. 31952 31953 31954 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22 31955 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor: 31956 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. 31957 31958 o Major bugfixes: 31959 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b: 31960 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects; 31961 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting 31962 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204; 31963 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 31964 31965 o Minor bugfixes: 31966 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing 31967 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very 31968 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics. 31969 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183. 31970 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info 31971 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router 31972 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast 31973 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the 31974 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195. 31975 31976 31977 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16 31978 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging 31979 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP 31980 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer 31981 to a stable release. 31982 31983 o Major bugfixes: 31984 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on 31985 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously 31986 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk 31987 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer. 31988 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer 31989 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection 31990 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals 31991 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125; 31992 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. 31993 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if 31994 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, 31995 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to 31996 be useful. Fixes bug 2050. 31997 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and 31998 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the 31999 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections. 32000 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988. 32001 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS 32002 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same 32003 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on 32004 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988. 32005 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a 32006 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have, 32007 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor. 32008 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha. 32009 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while 32010 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom. 32011 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097. 32012 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would 32013 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than 32014 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix 32015 on 0.2.2.17-alpha. 32016 32017 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier): 32018 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as 32019 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess 32020 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it 32021 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious 32022 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534. 32023 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the 32024 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from 32025 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a 32026 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because 32027 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an 32028 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request) 32029 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR 32030 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. 32031 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object. 32032 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a 32033 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes 32034 bug 1994. 32035 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on 32036 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer. 32037 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during 32038 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case, 32039 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020. 32040 32041 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x): 32042 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc 32043 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings 32044 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb. 32045 32046 o Minor features: 32047 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not 32048 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor 32049 DHT. Implements ticket 2088. 32050 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address" 32051 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2. 32052 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the 32053 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay. 32054 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 32055 32056 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 32057 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send 32058 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long 32059 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were 32060 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081. 32061 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms 32062 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the 32063 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms. 32064 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date 32065 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage. 32066 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged 32067 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc. 32068 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X. 32069 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6, 32070 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274. 32071 32072 32073 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30 32074 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients 32075 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk, 32076 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting 32077 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a 32078 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure; 32079 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves 32080 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things 32081 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks. 32082 32083 o Major features: 32084 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown 32085 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies 32086 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus 32087 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your 32088 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751. 32089 32090 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier): 32091 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice 32092 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to 32093 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed 32094 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than 32095 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred 32096 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 32097 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and 32098 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954. 32099 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your 32100 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks 32101 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an 32102 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on 32103 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981. 32104 32105 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x): 32106 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to 32107 bug 1797. 32108 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with 32109 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha. 32110 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast 32111 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where 32112 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight 32113 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that 32114 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to 32115 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce 32116 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha. 32117 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust 32118 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them 32119 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons: 32120 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they 32121 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a 32122 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges 32123 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet 32124 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available 32125 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. 32126 32127 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x): 32128 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times. 32129 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden 32130 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious 32131 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740. 32132 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is 32133 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we 32134 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's 32135 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore 32136 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our 32137 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the 32138 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people 32139 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix 32140 on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 32141 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than 32142 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time 32143 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that 32144 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 32145 32146 o Minor features: 32147 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build 32148 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when 32149 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of 32150 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362. 32151 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with 32152 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously, 32153 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of 32154 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure 32155 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic, 32156 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation. 32157 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all 32158 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when 32159 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882. 32160 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't 32161 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs 32162 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943. 32163 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line 32164 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and 32165 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line. 32166 Resolves bug 1929. 32167 32168 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier): 32169 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate 32170 based on the time during which we were active and not in 32171 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were 32172 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this 32173 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth 32174 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the 32175 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. 32176 32177 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x): 32178 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages, 32179 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in 32180 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739. 32181 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when 32182 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on 32183 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805. 32184 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized 32185 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not 32186 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha. 32187 32188 32189 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17 32190 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most 32191 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little 32192 bugs that have been filling up trac lately. 32193 32194 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness): 32195 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try 32196 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously 32197 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the 32198 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust 32199 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any 32200 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected 32201 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the 32202 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of 32203 the longest-lived bug prize. 32204 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started 32205 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the 32206 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in 32207 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a 32208 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix 32209 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by 32210 "yetonetime". 32211 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits, 32212 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain. 32213 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be 32214 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely. 32215 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from 32216 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially 32217 fixes bug 1298. 32218 32219 o Minor features: 32220 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 32221 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is 32222 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable. 32223 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic. 32224 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages 32225 got suppressed since the last warning. 32226 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to 32227 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc 32228 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if 32229 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" 32230 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through 32231 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947. 32232 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch 32233 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899. 32234 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad, 32235 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures 32236 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity 32237 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290. 32238 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because 32239 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones 32240 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145. 32241 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint, 32242 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least 32243 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor 32244 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha; 32245 closes bug 1138. 32246 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable 32247 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings 32248 pass on OpenBSD 4.8. 32249 32250 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier): 32251 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their 32252 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change 32253 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and 32254 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus 32255 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix 32256 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300. 32257 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the 32258 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The 32259 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent 32260 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525. 32261 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod 32262 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after 32263 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they 32264 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san 32265 for analysis help. 32266 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings. 32267 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed. 32268 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it, 32269 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed, 32270 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next 32271 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 32272 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked 32273 for close. 32274 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for 32275 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published 32276 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on 32277 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911. 32278 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes 32279 bug 1848. 32280 32281 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x): 32282 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays 32283 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either 32284 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down 32285 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are 32286 then you could quickly run out of entry points. 32287 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in 32288 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load 32289 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files. 32290 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776; 32291 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha. 32292 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option 32293 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921. 32294 Reported by Moritz Bartl. 32295 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support. 32296 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like 32297 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no 32298 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797. 32299 32300 o Testing 32301 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code. 32302 32303 32304 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18 32305 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability, 32306 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance 32307 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks, 32308 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up 32309 trac lately. 32310 32311 o Major bugfixes: 32312 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their 32313 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This 32314 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services: 32315 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays 32316 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently 32317 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on 32318 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693. 32319 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the 32320 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's 32321 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we 32322 update them if the config options change, and update them every time 32323 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge 32324 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth, 32325 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it 32326 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830. 32327 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives 32328 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919. 32329 32330 o Major features: 32331 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This 32332 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes, 32333 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also 32334 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when 32335 they first get the Guard flag. 32336 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while 32337 Tor is running. 32338 32339 o Minor features: 32340 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. 32341 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than 32342 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests. 32343 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc 32344 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and 32345 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384. 32346 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8. 32347 Patch from mingw-san. 32348 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like 32349 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes 32350 bug 1094. 32351 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory 32352 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history. 32353 Implements enhancement 1790. 32354 32355 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier): 32356 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that 32357 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future. 32358 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107. 32359 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration. 32360 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928. 32361 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline." 32362 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client 32363 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix 32364 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222. 32365 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl" 32366 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key 32367 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. 32368 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't 32369 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found 32370 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the 32371 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other 32372 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on 32373 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately 32374 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling 32375 it as a bridge. 32376 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when 32377 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix 32378 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808. 32379 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code, 32380 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new 32381 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE. 32382 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize 32383 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on 32384 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793. 32385 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours, 32386 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise 32387 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus, 32388 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 32389 932 even more. 32390 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch 32391 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later. 32392 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125. 32393 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users 32394 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network. 32395 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. 32396 32397 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x): 32398 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes 32399 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to 32400 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights. 32401 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha. 32402 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that 32403 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was 32404 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. 32405 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like 32406 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an 32407 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like 32408 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix 32409 on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 32410 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when 32411 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms 32412 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in 32413 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on 32414 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773. 32415 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about 32416 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes 32417 bug 1741. 32418 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; 32419 fixes bug 1832. 32420 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while 32421 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. 32422 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(), 32423 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every 32424 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha, 32425 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831. 32426 32427 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 32428 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out 32429 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave 32430 structures and defines in or.h for now. 32431 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of 32432 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824. 32433 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit 32434 statistics code to be more easily tested. 32435 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution. 32436 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL 32437 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git 32438 32439 32440 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12 32441 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of 32442 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve 32443 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to 32444 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security, 32445 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more 32446 minor issues. 32447 32448 o Major bugfixes: 32449 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a 32450 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix 32451 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532. 32452 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an 32453 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522. 32454 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can 32455 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various 32456 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245. 32457 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for 32458 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the 32459 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering 32460 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases, 32461 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; 32462 fixes bug 1335. 32463 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a 32464 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the 32465 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely 32466 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated 32467 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335. 32468 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach 32469 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not 32470 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile 32471 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done 32472 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile 32473 can be controlled by the consensus. 32474 32475 o Major features: 32476 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the 32477 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count 32478 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have 32479 more accurate data for many African countries. 32480 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using 32481 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi. 32482 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default) 32483 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures 32484 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables 32485 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection 32486 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if 32487 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security 32488 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny. 32489 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default) 32490 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does 32491 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format. 32492 32493 o New directory authorities: 32494 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory 32495 authority. 32496 32497 o Minor features: 32498 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that 32499 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of 32500 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather 32501 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine, 32502 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case. 32503 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections 32504 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and 32505 what should go in a patch. 32506 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port 32507 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts 32508 over our stored history. 32509 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus 32510 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also 32511 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are 32512 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state 32513 file. Fixes bug 1296. 32514 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts 32515 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state. 32516 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer 32517 system headers. 32518 32519 o Minor bugfixes: 32520 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings 32521 enabled. 32522 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead 32523 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation. 32524 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our 32525 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to 32526 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943. 32527 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and 32528 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP 32529 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the 32530 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the 32531 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and 32532 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway. 32533 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 32534 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log 32535 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging 32536 if bug 1209 ever remanifests. 32537 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape 32538 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl. 32539 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This 32540 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because 32541 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords 32542 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that 32543 two-hop circuits are actually created. 32544 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again. 32545 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 32546 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed 32547 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 32548 32549 32550 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02 32551 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload 32552 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their 32553 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off 32554 because it used too many resources, give this release a try. 32555 32556 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries 32557 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus. 32558 32559 o Major bugfixes: 32560 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays 32561 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended 32562 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing 32563 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are 32564 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling 32565 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets 32566 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling 32567 their directory fetches over TLS). 32568 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos 32569 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality 32570 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation 32571 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346. 32572 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2 32573 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should. 32574 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading 32575 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324. 32576 32577 o Minor bugfixes: 32578 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique 32579 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to 32580 every other relay. 32581 32582 o Testsuite fixes: 32583 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all 32584 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 32585 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on 32586 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed 32587 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps 32588 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads 32589 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 32590 32591 32592 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24 32593 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload 32594 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their 32595 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off 32596 because it used too many resources, give this release a try. 32597 32598 o Major bugfixes: 32599 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays 32600 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended 32601 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing 32602 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are 32603 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling 32604 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets 32605 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling 32606 their directory fetches over TLS). 32607 32608 o Minor features: 32609 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique 32610 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to 32611 every other relay. 32612 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon 32613 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce 32614 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running 32615 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting 32616 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users. 32617 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every 32618 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached, 32619 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides, 32620 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half 32621 hour of their uptime. 32622 32623 32624 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20 32625 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities 32626 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of 32627 the consensus. 32628 32629 o Major bugfixes: 32630 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because 32631 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get 32632 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol, 32633 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each 32634 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3 32635 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix 32636 on 0.2.1.23. 32637 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows, 32638 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that 32639 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on 32640 0.2.2.11-alpha. 32641 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled 32642 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on 32643 0.2.2.11-alpha. 32644 32645 o Minor bugfixes: 32646 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when 32647 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's 32648 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix 32649 on 0.2.0.14-alpha. 32650 32651 32652 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15 32653 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL 32654 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus. 32655 32656 o Major bugfixes: 32657 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2 32658 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should. 32659 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading 32660 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324. 32661 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of 32662 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix 32663 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to 32664 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays 32665 about the option without breaking older ones. 32666 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos 32667 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality 32668 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation 32669 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346. 32670 32671 o Minor features: 32672 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients 32673 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it 32674 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look 32675 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know 32676 how it goes! 32677 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying 32678 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking 32679 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358. 32680 32681 o Minor bugfixes: 32682 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using 32683 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha; 32684 fixes bug 1341. 32685 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left 32686 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295. 32687 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but 32688 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the 32689 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either 32690 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered 32691 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 32692 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor 32693 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We 32694 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include 32695 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322. 32696 32697 o Testsuite fixes: 32698 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all 32699 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 32700 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on 32701 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed 32702 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps 32703 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads 32704 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 32705 32706 32707 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07 32708 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that 32709 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also 32710 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since 32711 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the 32712 Guard flag and the Exit flag. 32713 32714 o Major bugfixes: 32715 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays 32716 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address 32717 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on 32718 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269. 32719 32720 o Major features (performance): 32721 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct 32722 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit, 32723 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute 32724 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The 32725 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in 32726 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty 32727 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature. 32728 32729 o Minor features (performance): 32730 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth, 32731 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast 32732 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays 32733 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to 32734 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into 32735 a stable release. 32736 32737 o Minor features: 32738 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage 32739 speeds up the build considerably. 32740 32741 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x): 32742 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity. 32743 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 32744 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst 32745 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. 32746 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can 32747 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files 32748 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. 32749 32750 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier): 32751 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing 32752 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes 32753 bug 1255. 32754 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on 32755 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256. 32756 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly. 32757 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257. 32758 32759 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 32760 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict 32761 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau. 32762 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore. 32763 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and 32764 building with asciidoc isn't disabled. 32765 32766 32767 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22 32768 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the 32769 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs. 32770 32771 o Directory authority changes: 32772 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and 32773 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden 32774 service directory authority) from the list. 32775 32776 o Major bugfixes: 32777 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to 32778 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL 32779 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because 32780 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its 32781 libraries in a security patch. 32782 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request() 32783 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix 32784 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've 32785 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found 32786 by aakova. 32787 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays 32788 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw 32789 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug 32790 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk. 32791 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed 32792 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and 32793 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254. 32794 32795 o Minor bugfixes: 32796 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right 32797 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237. 32798 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we 32799 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In 32800 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning 32801 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit 32802 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior 32803 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott 32804 Bennett and Downie on or-talk. 32805 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file 32806 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting 32807 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.) 32808 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by 32809 "memcpyfail". 32810 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the 32811 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit. 32812 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed. 32813 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since 32814 control-spec.txt said they were. 32815 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore. 32816 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik. 32817 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token 32818 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by 32819 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 32820 32821 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 32822 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This 32823 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and 32824 produce nicer HTML. 32825 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco 32826 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent 32827 iPhone SDK versions. 32828 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The 32829 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the 32830 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the 32831 projects directory in svn. 32832 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled 32833 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these 32834 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated 32835 high latency links. 32836 32837 o Minor features: 32838 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with 32839 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build 32840 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection 32841 algorithms. 32842 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes 32843 to the circuit build timeout. 32844 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword 32845 arguments we do not recognize. 32846 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a 32847 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into 32848 open() without checking it. 32849 32850 32851 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16 32852 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could 32853 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes 32854 several minor potential security bugs. 32855 32856 o Major bugfixes: 32857 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays 32858 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address 32859 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on 32860 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269. 32861 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed 32862 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and 32863 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254. 32864 32865 o Minor bugfixes: 32866 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing 32867 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes 32868 bug 1255. 32869 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on 32870 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256. 32871 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly. 32872 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257. 32873 32874 32875 32876 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21 32877 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time 32878 for sure! 32879 32880 o Minor bugfixes: 32881 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions 32882 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need 32883 customized patches to run/build. 32884 32885 32886 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13 32887 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work 32888 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory 32889 authority. 32890 32891 o Major bugfixes (performance): 32892 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting 32893 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance 32894 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and 32895 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we 32896 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also 32897 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes 32898 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry. 32899 32900 o Major bugfixes: 32901 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to 32902 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL 32903 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because 32904 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its 32905 libraries in a security patch. 32906 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request() 32907 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix 32908 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've 32909 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found 32910 by aakova. 32911 32912 o Directory authority changes: 32913 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and 32914 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden 32915 service directory authority) from the list. 32916 32917 o Minor bugfixes: 32918 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore. 32919 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik. 32920 32921 o Minor features: 32922 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client 32923 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out 32924 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp 32925 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves 32926 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17. 32927 32928 32929 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26 32930 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been 32931 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge, 32932 please upgrade. 32933 32934 o Major bugfixes: 32935 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the 32936 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the 32937 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in 32938 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian. 32939 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. 32940 32941 o Minor bugfixes: 32942 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost. 32943 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else 32944 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often 32945 refuse to listen. 32946 32947 32948 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19 32949 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well 32950 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It 32951 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes, 32952 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options. 32953 32954 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a 32955 security breach of some of the Torproject servers. 32956 32957 o Directory authority changes: 32958 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1 32959 and gabelmoo. 32960 32961 o Major features (performance): 32962 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting 32963 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance 32964 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and 32965 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we 32966 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also 32967 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes 32968 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry. 32969 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor 32970 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency 32971 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this 32972 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override 32973 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config 32974 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris 32975 Alexander. 32976 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read 32977 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha, 32978 but never per-conn write limits. 32979 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us 32980 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's 32981 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for 32982 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163. 32983 32984 o Major features (relay selection options): 32985 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous 32986 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a 32987 "StrictExcludeNodes" option. 32988 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes 32989 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin 32990 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the 32991 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before 32992 the change. 32993 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an 32994 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it, 32995 they get it. 32996 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when 32997 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested 32998 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others 32999 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of 33000 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're 33001 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set. 33002 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus 33003 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as 33004 the network changes. 33005 33006 o Major bugfixes: 33007 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt 33008 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all 33009 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 33010 33011 o Minor features: 33012 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier 33013 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application 33014 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196. 33015 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal 33016 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from 33017 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly 33018 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60. 33019 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the 33020 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command, 33021 so the controller can write the file to disk itself. 33022 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages 33023 generated while acting as a relay. 33024 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too. 33025 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client 33026 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out 33027 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp 33028 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves 33029 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17. 33030 33031 o Minor bugfixes (compiling): 33032 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but 33033 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. 33034 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the 33035 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for 33036 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on 33037 0.2.2.6-alpha. 33038 33039 o Minor bugfixes (crashes): 33040 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed 33041 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on 33042 0.2.2.1-alpha. 33043 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth 33044 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there 33045 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix 33046 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 33047 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay 33048 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15. 33049 33050 o Minor bugfixes (privacy): 33051 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally 33052 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on 33053 0.1.0.1-rc. 33054 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made 33055 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix 33056 on 0.1.1.8-alpha. 33057 33058 o Minor bugfixes (other): 33059 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight 33060 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1. 33061 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that 33062 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour 33063 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals. 33064 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it 33065 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed 33066 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested 33067 by bug 1055. 33068 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m 33069 too. 33070 33071 o Removed features: 33072 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden 33073 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall 33074 hidden service usage. 33075 33076 33077 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19 33078 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory 33079 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors 33080 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also 33081 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations. 33082 33083 o Directory authority changes: 33084 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1 33085 and gabelmoo. 33086 33087 o Major bugfixes: 33088 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt 33089 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all 33090 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 33091 33092 33093 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21 33094 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL 33095 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL 33096 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an 33097 upgrade if you're an exit relay. 33098 33099 o Major bugfixes: 33100 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our 33101 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we 33102 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL 33103 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are. 33104 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the 33105 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side 33106 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150. 33107 33108 o Minor bugfixes: 33109 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus 33110 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might 33111 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 33112 Spotted and fixed by xmux. 33113 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to- 33114 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity 33115 Scan. 33116 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to- 33117 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173. 33118 33119 33120 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19 33121 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features: 33122 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design, 33123 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or 33124 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with 33125 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs. 33126 33127 o Major features: 33128 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple 33129 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process. 33130 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in 33131 multiple flavors". 33132 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries 33133 of router information that clients can use in place of regular 33134 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients 33135 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the 33136 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients 33137 download consensus + microdescriptors". 33138 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash 33139 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats 33140 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better 33141 hash algorithm in the future. 33142 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all 33143 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported 33144 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X), 33145 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out 33146 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root -- 33147 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option 33148 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor. 33149 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas 33150 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones. 33151 33152 o Major bugfixes: 33153 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our 33154 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we 33155 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l 33156 won't work unless we say we are. 33157 33158 o Minor bugfixes: 33159 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in 33160 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc. 33161 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries 33162 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol 33163 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about 33164 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13. 33165 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus 33166 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might 33167 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 33168 Spotted and fixed by xmux. 33169 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3. 33170 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote, 33171 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus 33172 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a 33173 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066. 33174 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create 33175 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit 33176 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042. 33177 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix 33178 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113. 33179 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was 33180 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind. 33181 33182 33183 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15 33184 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden 33185 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and 33186 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs. 33187 33188 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia, 33189 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo. 33190 33191 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install 33192 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If 33193 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo 33194 in the Vidalia Settings window. 33195 33196 o Major bugfixes: 33197 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased 33198 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered 33199 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance 33200 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002, 33201 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the 33202 oldest-bug prize. 33203 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document 33204 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on 33205 0.2.0.3-alpha. 33206 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit 33207 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key 33208 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz. 33209 33210 o Major features: 33211 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus, 33212 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the 33213 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168. 33214 33215 o New directory authorities: 33216 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory 33217 authority. 33218 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses. 33219 33220 o Minor bugfixes: 33221 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19. 33222 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on 33223 0.2.1.14-rc. 33224 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if 33225 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem. 33226 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. 33227 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian 33228 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and 33229 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor". 33230 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 33231 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever 33232 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has 33233 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when 33234 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix 33235 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit. 33236 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and 33237 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing 33238 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the 33239 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or 33240 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported 33241 by SwissTorExit. 33242 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node 33243 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access 33244 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on 33245 0.2.1.6-alpha. 33246 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that 33247 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being 33248 freed. 33249 33250 o Minor features: 33251 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller 33252 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn 33253 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at 33254 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor 33255 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them. 33256 33257 33258 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11 33259 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha. 33260 33261 o Major bugfixes: 33262 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. 33263 33264 o Directory authorities: 33265 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate 33266 IP address. 33267 33268 33269 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10 33270 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also 33271 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority 33272 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events, 33273 and fixes a few smaller bugs. 33274 33275 o Major bugfixes: 33276 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for 33277 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have 33278 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on 33279 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108. 33280 33281 o New directory authorities: 33282 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses. 33283 33284 o Minor features: 33285 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and 33286 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future 33287 SSL handshake issues. 33288 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen 33289 during the TLS handshake. 33290 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one 33291 seems to have removed most US IP addresses. 33292 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than 33293 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network, 33294 none of which are very big. 33295 33296 o Minor bugfixes: 33297 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes 33298 on 0.2.2.1-alpha. 33299 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of 33300 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 33301 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it 33302 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit 33303 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 33304 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on, 33305 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been 33306 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. 33307 Fixes bug 1023. 33308 33309 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 33310 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we 33311 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown 33312 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own 33313 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules. 33314 33315 33316 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23 33317 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. 33318 33319 o Major bugfixes: 33320 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code. 33321 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103. 33322 33323 o Minor bugfixes: 33324 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a 33325 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll 33326 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. 33327 33328 33329 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21 33330 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for 33331 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and 33332 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections, 33333 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky 33334 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does! 33335 33336 o Major features: 33337 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits 33338 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance. 33339 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide 33340 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by 33341 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates 33342 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data 33343 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151. 33344 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with 33345 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband 33346 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets 33347 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice 33348 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout. 33349 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as 33350 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set 33351 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167. 33352 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus, 33353 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the 33354 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168. 33355 33356 o Major bugfixes: 33357 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document 33358 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on 33359 0.2.0.3-alpha. 33360 33361 o Minor bugfixes: 33362 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if 33363 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem. 33364 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. 33365 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between 33366 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076. 33367 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec 33368 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 33369 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian 33370 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and 33371 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor". 33372 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 33373 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever 33374 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has 33375 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when 33376 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix 33377 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit. 33378 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and 33379 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing 33380 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the 33381 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or 33382 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported 33383 by SwissTorExit. 33384 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node 33385 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access 33386 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems 33387 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 33388 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that 33389 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being 33390 freed. 33391 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of 33392 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user; 33393 and explain our warning about tsocks better. 33394 33395 o Minor features: 33396 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller 33397 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn 33398 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at 33399 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor 33400 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them. 33401 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file. 33402 33403 33404 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26 33405 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows 33406 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable, 33407 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators, 33408 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays. 33409 33410 o Security fixes: 33411 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it 33412 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks 33413 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix 33414 on 0.0.9rc5. 33415 33416 o New directory authorities: 33417 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory 33418 authority. 33419 33420 o Major features: 33421 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL 33422 hardware crypto acceleration engines. 33423 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over 33424 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy 33425 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis. 33426 33427 o Major bugfixes: 33428 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased 33429 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered 33430 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance 33431 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002, 33432 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the 33433 oldest-bug prize. 33434 33435 o New options for gathering stats safely: 33436 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics 33437 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the 33438 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements: 33439 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated 33440 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at 33441 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed 33442 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times. 33443 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the 33444 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every 33445 24 hours. 33446 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long 33447 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours. 33448 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the 33449 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24 33450 hours. 33451 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set 33452 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in 33453 their extra-info documents. 33454 33455 o Minor features: 33456 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the 33457 source files Tor was built with. 33458 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available. 33459 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area 33460 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might 33461 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930. 33462 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to 33463 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for 33464 AccountingMax. 33465 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may 33466 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this 33467 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on 33468 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same 33469 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should 33470 set this option. 33471 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report 33472 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout). 33473 33474 o Minor bugfixes: 33475 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should 33476 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix 33477 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator". 33478 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit. 33479 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on 33480 0.2.1.14-rc. 33481 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk. 33482 Might help diagnosing bug 1051. 33483 33484 o Deprecated and removed features: 33485 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/" 33486 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values. 33487 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients 33488 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden 33489 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors 33490 when contacted by older hidden services/clients. 33491 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now 33492 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible 33493 controllers. 33494 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using 33495 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users 33496 via application-level web tricks. 33497 33498 o Packaging changes: 33499 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X 33500 installer bundles. See 33501 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG 33502 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3. 33503 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta. 33504 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific 33505 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy. 33506 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as 33507 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard. 33508 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for 33509 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard. 33510 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced 33511 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change 33512 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3. 33513 33514 33515 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28 33516 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden 33517 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18. 33518 33519 o Major bugfixes: 33520 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again. 33521 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and 33522 part of patch provided by "optimist". 33523 33524 o Minor features: 33525 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to 33526 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now 33527 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation, 33528 and confuse fewer users. 33529 33530 o Minor bugfixes: 33531 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change 33532 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up 33533 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc; 33534 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian. 33535 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have 33536 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha; 33537 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr. 33538 33539 33540 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24 33541 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements, 33542 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds 33543 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a 33544 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of 33545 other features and bug fixes. 33546 33547 o Build fixes: 33548 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent. 33549 33550 33551 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07 33552 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release 33553 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further 33554 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory 33555 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags 33556 poorly. 33557 33558 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we 33559 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles 33560 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic 33561 failure message (oops). 33562 33563 o Major features: 33564 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than 33565 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens 33566 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory 33567 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of 33568 proposal 141. 33569 33570 o Major bugfixes: 33571 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their 33572 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached 33573 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but 33574 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they 33575 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by 33576 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the 33577 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 33578 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their 33579 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without 33580 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories 33581 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being 33582 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" 33583 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable 33584 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 33585 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. 33586 33587 o Minor bugfixes: 33588 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching 33589 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha. 33590 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long 33591 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued 33592 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all 33593 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious 33594 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected 33595 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch 33596 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016. 33597 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor, 33598 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message. 33599 Workaround for bug 1024. 33600 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option. 33601 Resolves bug 1027. 33602 33603 o Minor features: 33604 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose 33605 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down 33606 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses. 33607 33608 33609 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24 33610 o Security fix: 33611 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors. 33612 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing. 33613 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a 33614 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP 33615 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta. 33616 33617 o Major bugfixes: 33618 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their 33619 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling 33620 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they 33621 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they 33622 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that 33623 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for 33624 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900. 33625 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug 33626 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts 33627 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957. 33628 33629 o Minor bugfixes: 33630 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak 33631 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on 33632 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672. 33633 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that 33634 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either, 33635 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2 33636 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within 33637 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep. 33638 33639 33640 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20 33641 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes 33642 a bunch of minor bugs. 33643 33644 o Security fixes: 33645 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a 33646 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP 33647 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta. 33648 33649 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x): 33650 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan 33651 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50% 33652 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found 33653 by Jacob. 33654 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile 33655 data. 33656 33657 o Minor features: 33658 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. 33659 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses; 33660 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine. 33661 33662 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): 33663 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on 33664 Windows. 33665 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption 33666 when running as a server with a controller listening for log 33667 messages. 33668 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or 33669 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it, 33670 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996. 33671 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that 33672 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either, 33673 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2 33674 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within 33675 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep. 33676 33677 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x): 33678 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they 33679 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on 33680 0.2.1.15-rc. 33681 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start 33682 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed. 33683 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as 33684 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen 33685 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point. 33686 Fix for bug 984. 33687 33688 33689 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25 33690 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x 33691 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety 33692 of more minor bugs. 33693 33694 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): 33695 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug 33696 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts 33697 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957. 33698 33699 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): 33700 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage(). 33701 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value 33702 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. 33703 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer 33704 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away. 33705 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated 33706 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory 33707 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930. 33708 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't 33709 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once. 33710 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 33711 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a 33712 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932. 33713 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of 33714 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932. 33715 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the 33716 controller. 33717 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had 33718 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy. 33719 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys 33720 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 33721 33722 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x): 33723 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable 33724 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha. 33725 33726 33727 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12 33728 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x 33729 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also 33730 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP 33731 addresses to fall out of the directory. 33732 33733 o Major features: 33734 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months 33735 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance, 33736 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been 33737 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded. 33738 33739 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0): 33740 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their 33741 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling 33742 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they 33743 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they 33744 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that 33745 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for 33746 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900. 33747 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for 33748 part of a day if they changed their local config but the 33749 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently 33750 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed 33751 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962; 33752 patch by Sebastian. 33753 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors. 33754 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing. 33755 33756 o Minor features: 33757 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for 33758 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a 33759 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had 33760 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941. 33761 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443. 33762 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to 33763 understand. 33764 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480 33765 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update 33766 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays 33767 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly 33768 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster 33769 on average. 33770 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file. 33771 33772 o Minor bugfixes: 33773 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to 33774 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on 33775 0.2.1.9-alpha. 33776 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by 33777 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than 33778 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 33779 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 33780 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak 33781 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on 33782 0.2.0.33. 33783 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden 33784 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 33785 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when 33786 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was 33787 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by 33788 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 33789 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K. 33790 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from 33791 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959; 33792 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;). 33793 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to 33794 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by 33795 bug 959. 33796 33797 33798 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09 33799 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and 33800 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate. 33801 33802 o Major bugfixes: 33803 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as 33804 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by 33805 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 33806 33807 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier): 33808 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and 33809 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions. 33810 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no 33811 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863. 33812 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as 33813 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit, 33814 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not 33815 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal 33816 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752. 33817 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not 33818 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. 33819 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry 33820 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to 33821 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. 33822 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that 33823 stream never finished making its connection, it would live 33824 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout 33825 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry. 33826 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle 33827 of a circuit. Patch from lark. 33828 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit 33829 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark. 33830 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request 33831 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had 33832 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for 33833 bug 929. 33834 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be 33835 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is 33836 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604. 33837 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent 33838 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input. 33839 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source 33840 path. Patch from Michael Gold. 33841 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port 33842 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address 33843 of 0. Suggested by lark. 33844 33845 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x): 33846 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY 33847 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878. 33848 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting 33849 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha. 33850 33851 o Minor features: 33852 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user 33853 is option is set. 33854 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus 33855 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow 33856 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using. 33857 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file. 33858 33859 33860 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08 33861 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should 33862 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a 33863 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older 33864 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). 33865 33866 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions 33867 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should 33868 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, 33869 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway. 33870 33871 o Security fixes: 33872 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain 33873 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. 33874 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by 33875 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark. 33876 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed 33877 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33. 33878 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid. 33879 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27. 33880 33881 o Minor bugfixes: 33882 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer. 33883 Patch from Matthias Drochner. 33884 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes 33885 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20. 33886 33887 33888 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08 33889 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You 33890 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or 33891 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older 33892 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also 33893 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups. 33894 33895 o Security fixes: 33896 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain 33897 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. 33898 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by 33899 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark. 33900 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed 33901 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. 33902 33903 o Minor bugfixes: 33904 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for 33905 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha; 33906 reported by Matt Edman. 33907 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against 33908 0.2.1.11-alpha. 33909 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden 33910 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses. 33911 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting 33912 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on 33913 0.0.9pre6. 33914 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux 33915 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 33916 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New 33917 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 33918 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes 33919 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20. 33920 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv: 33921 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and 33922 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing, 33923 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously. 33924 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. 33925 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced 33926 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver 33927 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. 33928 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP. 33929 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. 33930 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing 33931 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application 33932 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 33933 33934 o Minor features: 33935 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations, 33936 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner. 33937 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case 33938 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late. 33939 33940 o Build changes: 33941 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the 33942 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates 33943 the letter of C99's alias rules. 33944 33945 33946 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21 33947 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less 33948 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client 33949 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap. 33950 33951 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by 33952 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details 33953 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.) 33954 33955 o Security fixes: 33956 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on 33957 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel. 33958 33959 o Major bugfixes: 33960 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or 33961 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay 33962 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If 33963 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never 33964 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha; 33965 reported by "wood". 33966 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit 33967 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port 33968 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between 33969 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely 33970 identify a connection. 33971 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching 33972 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume 33973 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge 33974 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would 33975 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to 33976 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete 33977 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 33978 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document 33979 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially 33980 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on 33981 0.2.0.13-alpha. 33982 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old, 33983 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be 33984 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice 33985 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that 33986 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as 33987 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion 33988 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887. 33989 33990 o Minor bugfixes: 33991 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug 33992 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix 33993 on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 33994 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t. 33995 - Compile without warnings on solaris. 33996 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection. 33997 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv. 33998 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key 33999 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. 34000 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 34001 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status. 34002 CID 349. 34003 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not 34004 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed 34005 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject 34006 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691. 34007 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with 34008 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse. 34009 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have 34010 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that 34011 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv. 34012 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested, 34013 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows. 34014 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv. 34015 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10 34016 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the 34017 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian. 34018 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the 34019 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on 34020 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian. 34021 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to 34022 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID. 34023 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. 34024 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread 34025 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on 34026 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889. 34027 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a 34028 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug 34029 840. Patch from rovv. 34030 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to 34031 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from 34032 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch 34033 from rovv. 34034 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere, 34035 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection. 34036 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv. 34037 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's 34038 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the 34039 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes 34040 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. 34041 34042 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 34043 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on 34044 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874. 34045 34046 o Minor features: 34047 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected 34048 differently than the case where there is an error handling the 34049 detached set. 34050 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached 34051 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than 34052 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten. 34053 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the 34054 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do 34055 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the 34056 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3% 34057 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See 34058 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding" 34059 for more info. 34060 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS 34061 poisoning. 34062 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to 34063 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or 34064 both. 34065 34066 34067 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20 34068 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a 34069 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes 34070 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You 34071 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people 34072 have had some time to upgrade.) 34073 34074 o Security fixes: 34075 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on 34076 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel. 34077 34078 o Major bugfixes: 34079 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than 34080 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then 34081 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion 34082 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix 34083 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887. 34084 34085 o Minor features: 34086 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with 34087 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug 34088 897 and others. 34089 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix 34090 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. 34091 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change 34092 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to 34093 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA 34094 entirely. Patch from coderman. 34095 34096 o Minor bugfixes: 34097 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting. 34098 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha. 34099 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy 34100 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also 34101 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they 34102 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. 34103 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your 34104 DNS requests. 34105 34106 34107 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06 34108 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that 34109 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0, 34110 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information 34111 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay 34112 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply 34113 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs. 34114 34115 o Major bugfixes: 34116 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old, 34117 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could 34118 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in 34119 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory 34120 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit; 34121 bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 34122 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching 34123 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume 34124 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge 34125 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would 34126 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to 34127 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete 34128 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 34129 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document 34130 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially 34131 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on 34132 0.2.0.13-alpha. 34133 34134 o Minor features: 34135 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary 34136 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers 34137 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making 34138 a difference. 34139 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built 34140 without support for deprecated functions. 34141 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file. 34142 34143 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): 34144 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose 34145 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF. 34146 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus 34147 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. 34148 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid. 34149 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27. 34150 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address, 34151 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and 34152 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix 34153 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv. 34154 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider 34155 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv. 34156 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over 34157 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for 34158 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious 34159 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709. 34160 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's 34161 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the 34162 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes 34163 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. 34164 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by 34165 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions. 34166 34167 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x): 34168 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop 34169 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address. 34170 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to 34171 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110 34172 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis 34173 thanks to Karsten. 34174 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit, 34175 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need 34176 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell 34177 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving 34178 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like 34179 this later. 34180 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order. 34181 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do 34182 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on 34183 0.2.1.9-alpha. 34184 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control 34185 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on 34186 0.2.1.9-alpha. 34187 34188 o Deprecated and removed features: 34189 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out 34190 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It 34191 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to 34192 maintain. 34193 34194 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 34195 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict 34196 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting 34197 with log.h on Android. 34198 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or 34199 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now. 34200 34201 34202 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25 34203 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related. 34204 34205 o New directory authorities: 34206 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new 34207 IP address. 34208 34209 o Security fixes: 34210 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a 34211 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical 34212 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's 34213 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor. 34214 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service 34215 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 34216 34217 o Major bugfixes: 34218 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first 34219 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for 34220 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman. 34221 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or 34222 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay 34223 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If 34224 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never 34225 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha; 34226 reported by "wood". 34227 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not 34228 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed 34229 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject 34230 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691. 34231 34232 o Minor features: 34233 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says 34234 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for 34235 users to diagnose. 34236 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address, 34237 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug 34238 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses. 34239 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn. 34240 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection 34241 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory 34242 authorities. Fixes bug 366. 34243 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that 34244 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. 34245 Partial implementation of proposal 157. 34246 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest> 34247 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157. 34248 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'. 34249 Implements proposal 148. 34250 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog 34251 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the 34252 system to do it for us. 34253 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation, 34254 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall, 34255 this fix will be slightly helpful. 34256 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses. 34257 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as 34258 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right 34259 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 34260 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn. 34261 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify 34262 Tor that new directory information has arrived. 34263 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections 34264 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial 34265 bugfix on bug 891. 34266 34267 o Minor features (controller): 34268 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has 34269 been fetched and validated. 34270 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached 34271 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather 34272 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten. 34273 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for 34274 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the 34275 configuration. Fixes bug 856. 34276 34277 o Minor bugfixes: 34278 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the 34279 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha. 34280 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list 34281 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the 34282 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805. 34283 Spotted by rovv. 34284 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10 34285 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the 34286 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian. 34287 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the 34288 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on 34289 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian. 34290 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread 34291 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on 34292 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889. 34293 34294 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 34295 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on 34296 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're 34297 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted 34298 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874. 34299 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous 34300 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor 34301 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. 34302 34303 o Deprecated and removed features: 34304 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since 34305 0.2.0.3-alpha. 34306 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It 34307 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha. 34308 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored. 34309 34310 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 34311 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate 34312 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it 34313 belongs. 34314 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not 34315 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment, 34316 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps." 34317 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig 34318 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility. 34319 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit. 34320 34321 34322 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08 34323 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases, 34324 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and 34325 fixes a variety of other issues. 34326 34327 o Major features: 34328 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes 34329 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a 34330 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's 34331 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html. 34332 34333 o Security fixes: 34334 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most 34335 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with 34336 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator. 34337 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. 34338 34339 o Major bugfixes: 34340 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process 34341 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 34342 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix 34343 on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 34344 34345 o Minor bugfixes: 34346 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes 34347 bug 859. 34348 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired 34349 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854. 34350 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on 34351 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862. 34352 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix 34353 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian. 34354 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on 34355 0.1.2.8-beta. 34356 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the 34357 rest, and don't automatically fail. 34358 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix 34359 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. 34360 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug 34361 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix 34362 on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 34363 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t. 34364 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection. 34365 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv. 34366 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will 34367 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop 34368 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861. 34369 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact 34370 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write(). 34371 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key 34372 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix 34373 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 34374 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status. 34375 CID 349. 34376 34377 o Minor features: 34378 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or 34379 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them 34380 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete. 34381 34382 o Minor features (controller): 34383 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes 34384 bug 858. 34385 34386 34387 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20 34388 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu 34389 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes 34390 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local 34391 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a 34392 variety of other issues. 34393 34394 o Security fixes: 34395 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the 34396 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option 34397 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified 34398 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more 34399 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL 34400 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum 34401 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857. 34402 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being 34403 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its 34404 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address 34405 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's 34406 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv. 34407 34408 o Major bugfixes: 34409 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process 34410 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 34411 34412 o Major bugfixes (hidden services): 34413 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel, 34414 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0 34415 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and 34416 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were 34417 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is 34418 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 34419 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a 34420 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all 34421 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been 34422 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the 34423 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is 34424 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous 34425 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router 34426 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix 34427 on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 34428 34429 o Minor bugfixes: 34430 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity. 34431 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable 34432 correctly. Found by Riastradh. 34433 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from 34434 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on 34435 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam. 34436 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A 34437 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to 34438 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume 34439 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix 34440 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr. 34441 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as 34442 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke 34443 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when 34444 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv. 34445 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??). 34446 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default 34447 list. It has been gone for many months. 34448 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on 34449 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862. 34450 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on 34451 0.1.2.8-beta. 34452 34453 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 34454 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on 34455 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807. 34456 34457 34458 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08 34459 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu 34460 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes 34461 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local 34462 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit 34463 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a 34464 variety of other issues. 34465 34466 o Security fixes: 34467 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being 34468 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its 34469 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address 34470 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's 34471 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv. 34472 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the 34473 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option 34474 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified 34475 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more 34476 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL 34477 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum 34478 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848. 34479 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch 34480 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851. 34481 34482 o Minor features: 34483 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in 34484 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in. 34485 Suggested by Lucky Green. 34486 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the 34487 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do 34488 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the 34489 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3% 34490 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See 34491 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding" 34492 for more info. 34493 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support 34494 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks. 34495 34496 o Hidden service performance improvements: 34497 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a 34498 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds. 34499 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel 34500 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms). 34501 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather 34502 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service 34503 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much 34504 faster after restart. 34505 34506 o Minor bugfixes: 34507 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems 34508 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when 34509 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase. 34510 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have 34511 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that 34512 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv. 34513 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a 34514 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug 34515 840. Patch from rovv. 34516 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere, 34517 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection. 34518 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv. 34519 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested, 34520 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows. 34521 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv. 34522 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to 34523 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from 34524 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch 34525 from rovv. 34526 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit 34527 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811. 34528 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that 34529 have already been marked for close. 34530 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding 34531 introduction points. 34532 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve 34533 memory performance during directory parsing. 34534 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do 34535 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over. 34536 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it 34537 because of a pending download. 34538 34539 34540 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30 34541 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of 34542 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection, 34543 and fixes a variety of smaller issues. 34544 34545 o Major features: 34546 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services 34547 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is 34548 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable 34549 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the 34550 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature 34551 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden 34552 services. Code by Karsten Loesing. 34553 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default, 34554 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is 34555 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service 34556 lookups more reliable. 34557 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The 34558 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is 34559 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some 34560 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if 34561 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it. 34562 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just 34563 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan. 34564 34565 o Major bugfixes: 34566 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused 34567 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge 34568 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 34569 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a 34570 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all 34571 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been 34572 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router 34573 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients 34574 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have 34575 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and 34576 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix 34577 on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 34578 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel, 34579 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0 34580 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and 34581 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were 34582 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is 34583 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 34584 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but 34585 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily 34586 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 34587 34588 o Minor features: 34589 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file. 34590 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had 34591 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly 34592 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better 34593 locked down these days. 34594 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not 34595 simultaneously running with the same datadir. 34596 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control 34597 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it. 34598 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory 34599 servers. 34600 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and 34601 serving v2 hidden service descriptors. 34602 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to 34603 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations. 34604 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit 34605 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build 34606 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch 34607 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768. 34608 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some 34609 people find host:port too confusing. 34610 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not 34611 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan. 34612 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller. 34613 34614 o Minor bugfixes: 34615 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. 34616 Reported by Tas. 34617 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost 34618 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity. 34619 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable 34620 correctly. Found by Riastradh. 34621 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix 34622 for bug 811. 34623 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor 34624 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x. 34625 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from 34626 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on 34627 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam. 34628 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A 34629 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to 34630 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume 34631 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix 34632 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr. 34633 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden 34634 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix 34635 on 0.2.0.10-alpha. 34636 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as 34637 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke 34638 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when 34639 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv. 34640 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??). 34641 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime 34642 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. 34643 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not 34644 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves 34645 bug 807. 34646 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough 34647 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if 34648 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing 34649 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing 34650 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing 34651 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha. 34652 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout 34653 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on 34654 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain 34655 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes 34656 bug 820, reported by seeess. 34657 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default 34658 list. It has been gone for many months. 34659 34660 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 34661 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant 34662 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any 34663 actual mistakes we're making here. 34664 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly 34665 with unit tests to check for memory leaks. 34666 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit 34667 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory. 34668 34669 34670 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03 34671 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix 34672 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream 34673 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues. 34674 34675 o Major bugfixes: 34676 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection 34677 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This 34678 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc. 34679 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes 34680 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that 34681 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested 34682 by rovv. 34683 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new 34684 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the 34685 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix 34686 pointed out by rovv. 34687 34688 o Minor bugfixes: 34689 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug 34690 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 34691 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header 34692 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. 34693 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows. 34694 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30. 34695 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir 34696 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir 34697 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir. 34698 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 34699 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User 34700 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open 34701 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from 34702 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. 34703 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2 34704 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two 34705 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix 34706 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743. 34707 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is 34708 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on 34709 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch. 34710 34711 34712 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31 34713 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts 34714 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden 34715 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load 34716 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than 34717 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity 34718 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues. 34719 34720 o Major features: 34721 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold 34722 IPv6 addresses. 34723 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements. 34724 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses. 34725 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for 34726 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client 34727 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure 34728 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next 34729 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client 34730 authorization. 34731 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus 34732 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each 34733 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this 34734 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every 34735 known descriptor before building circuits. 34736 34737 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before): 34738 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit 34739 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port 34740 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between 34741 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely 34742 identify a connection. 34743 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes 34744 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that 34745 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested 34746 by rovv. 34747 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new 34748 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the 34749 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix 34750 pointed out by rovv. 34751 34752 o Minor bugfixes: 34753 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug 34754 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 34755 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User 34756 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf 34757 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher 34758 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. 34759 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header 34760 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. 34761 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message. 34762 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with 34763 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse. 34764 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir 34765 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir 34766 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir. 34767 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 34768 34769 o Minor features: 34770 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen 34771 a lot. Resolves bug 748. 34772 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in 34773 answer sections match. 34774 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code 34775 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob. 34776 34777 34778 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04 34779 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha. 34780 34781 o Major bugfixes: 34782 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written 34783 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed 34784 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix 34785 on 0.2.1.3-alpha. 34786 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay 34787 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by 34788 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. 34789 34790 o Minor bugfixes: 34791 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router 34792 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes 34793 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually 34794 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix 34795 on 0.2.1.3-alpha. 34796 34797 o Removed features: 34798 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for 34799 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21. 34800 34801 34802 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03 34803 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent 34804 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that 34805 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows 34806 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and 34807 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs. 34808 34809 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha): 34810 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the 34811 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down). 34812 34813 o Major features: 34814 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent 34815 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early" 34816 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block 34817 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must 34818 be sent using an "early" cell. 34819 34820 o Major bugfixes: 34821 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2 34822 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two 34823 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix 34824 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743. 34825 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection 34826 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This 34827 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc. 34828 34829 o Minor features: 34830 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit 34831 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend 34832 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard, 34833 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654; 34834 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht. 34835 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes 34836 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but 34837 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151. 34838 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in 34839 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists. 34840 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to 34841 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of 34842 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509. 34843 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port, 34844 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's 34845 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn. 34846 34847 o Minor bugfixes: 34848 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new 34849 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally 34850 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov. 34851 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful 34852 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to 34853 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann. 34854 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate 34855 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor, 34856 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763. 34857 Bugfix on 0.0.9.3. 34858 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and 34859 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly, 34860 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on 34861 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms. 34862 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks. 34863 Spotted by rovv. 34864 34865 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 34866 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit 34867 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. 34868 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch. 34869 34870 o Removed features: 34871 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running 34872 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the 34873 Tor network. 34874 34875 34876 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15 34877 o Minor bugfixes: 34878 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful 34879 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to 34880 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann. 34881 34882 34883 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08 34884 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more 34885 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs. 34886 34887 o Major bugfixes: 34888 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, 34889 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one 34890 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but 34891 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000 34892 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 34893 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the 34894 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all 34895 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same 34896 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 34897 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point, 34898 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we 34899 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one 34900 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha. 34901 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point, 34902 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built 34903 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used, 34904 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no 34905 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from 34906 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x. 34907 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in 34908 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only 34909 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP 34910 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy. 34911 34912 o Minor bugfixes: 34913 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers: 34914 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. 34915 Fixes bug 707. 34916 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers. 34917 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch. 34918 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the 34919 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes 34920 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19. 34921 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that 34922 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch 34923 from coderman. 34924 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation 34925 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying 34926 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in 34927 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug 34928 found by Geoff Goodell. 34929 34930 34931 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20 34932 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to 34933 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several 34934 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with 34935 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better 34936 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller. 34937 34938 o Major features: 34939 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of 34940 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow 34941 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten. 34942 34943 o Major bugfixes: 34944 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests, 34945 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one 34946 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but 34947 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000 34948 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 34949 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests, 34950 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel 34951 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the 34952 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 34953 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that 34954 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not 34955 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another 34956 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix 34957 from long ago (0.0.9.x?) 34958 34959 o Minor features: 34960 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants. 34961 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down. 34962 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements 34963 proposal 138. 34964 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow 34965 fingerprints with or without space. 34966 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the 34967 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches 34968 partway through and wants to catch up. 34969 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a 34970 state to start out in. 34971 34972 o Minor bugfixes: 34973 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints> 34974 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a 34975 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. 34976 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like 34977 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on 34978 0.2.0.x. 34979 34980 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha): 34981 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping 34982 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and 34983 some of the connection attempts fail. 34984 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in 34985 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about 34986 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure. 34987 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings 34988 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting 34989 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than 34990 ten bridges. 34991 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit 34992 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status 34993 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT". 34994 34995 34996 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13 34997 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that 34998 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS 34999 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to 35000 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and 35001 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits; 35002 and adds a variety of smaller features. 35003 35004 o Major features: 35005 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list 35006 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more 35007 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that 35008 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't 35009 know about. 35010 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller, 35011 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory 35012 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller 35013 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements 35014 proposal 137. 35015 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable) 35016 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then 35017 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that 35018 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the 35019 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll() 35020 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if 35021 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version. 35022 35023 o Major bugfixes: 35024 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our 35025 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that 35026 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much 35027 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on 35028 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger. 35029 35030 o Memory fixes and improvements: 35031 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c, 35032 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools. 35033 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using 35034 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously, 35035 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code 35036 on a typical directory cache. 35037 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which 35038 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old 35039 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly, 35040 and may reduce fragmentation. 35041 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that 35042 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops. 35043 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal 35044 buffers. 35045 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS 35046 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This 35047 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution 35048 before too long. 35049 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to 35050 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, 35051 or both. 35052 35053 o Minor bugfixes: 35054 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we 35055 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading 35056 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't 35057 done that for a long time. 35058 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were 35059 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the 35060 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor 35061 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.) 35062 35063 o Minor features: 35064 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging 35065 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings, 35066 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or 35067 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor. 35068 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3, 35069 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under 35070 GCC 4.3. 35071 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet 35072 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the 35073 output to messages of warning and error severity. 35074 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that 35075 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted. 35076 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust 35077 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this 35078 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running 35079 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134. 35080 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats, 35081 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served 35082 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents 35083 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total 35084 directory requests we should expect to see. 35085 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser 35086 behavior. 35087 - Lots of new unit tests. 35088 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through 35089 two parallel lists in lockstep. 35090 35091 35092 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13 35093 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service 35094 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs. 35095 35096 o Anonymity fixes: 35097 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to 35098 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor 35099 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The 35100 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether 35101 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity 35102 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays, 35103 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug. 35104 35105 o Major bugfixes: 35106 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits 35107 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for 35108 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on 35109 0.2.0.14-alpha. 35110 35111 o Minor features: 35112 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file. 35113 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so 35114 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests. 35115 35116 o Minor bugfixes: 35117 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay 35118 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have 35119 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor. 35120 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35121 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document 35122 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on 35123 0.2.0.27-rc. 35124 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to 35125 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc. 35126 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc, 35127 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes 35128 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35129 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother 35130 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix 35131 on 0.1.2.x. 35132 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when 35133 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on 35134 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger. 35135 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc. 35136 - Fix compile on Windows. 35137 35138 35139 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03 35140 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier 35141 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country 35142 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a 35143 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized 35144 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal 35145 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.) 35146 35147 o Major features: 35148 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge 35149 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing. 35150 35151 o Minor features: 35152 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by 35153 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681. 35154 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs. 35155 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series 35156 on mingw. 35157 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set. 35158 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay 35159 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries. 35160 35161 o Minor bugfixes: 35162 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first 35163 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller 35164 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681. 35165 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents 35166 from time to time. 35167 35168 35169 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13 35170 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug 35171 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version 35172 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not. 35173 35174 o Major security fixes: 35175 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and 35176 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with 35177 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be 35178 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated 35179 with an affected version of OpenSSL. 35180 35181 o Major bugfixes: 35182 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer 35183 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35184 35185 o Minor features: 35186 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for 35187 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to. 35188 35189 35190 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23 35191 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs. 35192 35193 o Major bugfixes: 35194 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging. 35195 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on 35196 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. 35197 35198 o Minor bugfixes: 35199 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on 35200 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35201 35202 35203 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22 35204 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth 35205 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no 35206 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few 35207 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs. 35208 35209 o New directory authorities: 35210 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since 35211 it has been down for months. 35212 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory 35213 authority. 35214 35215 o Major bugfixes: 35216 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror 35217 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652. 35218 35219 o Minor features (security): 35220 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in 35221 a private address space. Patch from lodger. 35222 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch 35223 from lodger. 35224 35225 o Minor bugfixes (crashes): 35226 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much 35227 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden 35228 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf. 35229 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise, 35230 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha. 35231 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when 35232 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf, 35233 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. 35234 35235 o Minor bugfixes (resource management): 35236 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount 35237 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. 35238 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory 35239 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha. 35240 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on 35241 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35242 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit 35243 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova. 35244 35245 o Minor bugfixes (misc): 35246 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to 35247 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix 35248 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn. 35249 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves 35250 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite 35251 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn. 35252 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why. 35253 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should 35254 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests. 35255 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35256 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from 35257 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663. 35258 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent, 35259 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing 35260 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves. 35261 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646. 35262 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has 35263 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger. 35264 35265 35266 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24 35267 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It 35268 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact 35269 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release. 35270 35271 o Major bugfixes: 35272 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server 35273 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also, 35274 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can 35275 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap. 35276 35277 35278 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18 35279 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It 35280 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes 35281 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many 35282 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17. 35283 35284 o Major features: 35285 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, 35286 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their 35287 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in 35288 certain censored countries by default again. 35289 35290 o Major bugfixes: 35291 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during 35292 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 35293 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in 35294 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug 35295 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 35296 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit 35297 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix 35298 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632. 35299 35300 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x): 35301 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled 35302 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge. 35303 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection, 35304 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not 35305 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network. 35306 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the 35307 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614. 35308 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of 35309 a directory. Fix from lodger. 35310 35311 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): 35312 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO. 35313 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but 35314 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be 35315 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the 35316 RelayBandwidth* values. 35317 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch. 35318 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha 35319 CPUs. Fixes bug 625. 35320 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane. 35321 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of 35322 get_interface_address6(). 35323 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for 35324 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE. 35325 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and 35326 16k pages on ia64. 35327 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc. 35328 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid 35329 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix 35330 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 35331 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by 35332 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash 35333 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. 35334 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it 35335 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup. 35336 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 35337 35338 o Minor features: 35339 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed. 35340 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will 35341 make "INFO" 75% less verbose. 35342 35343 35344 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02 35345 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It 35346 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug, 35347 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 35348 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16. 35349 35350 o Major bugfixes: 35351 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth 35352 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman; 35353 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615. 35354 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message. 35355 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its 35356 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy. 35357 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the 35358 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly. 35359 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger. 35360 35361 o Minor bugfixes: 35362 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported 35363 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch 35364 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616. 35365 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. 35366 35367 35368 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24 35369 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It 35370 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes 35371 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't 35372 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's 35373 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000 35374 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode. 35375 35376 o Major features: 35377 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by 35378 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It 35379 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in 35380 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors 35381 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of 35382 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation 35383 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely 35384 in the future. 35385 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth, 35386 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for 35387 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes. 35388 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row, 35389 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437. 35390 35391 o Major bugfixes: 35392 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors. 35393 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha 35394 and 0.2.0.19-alpha. 35395 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we 35396 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after 35397 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported 35398 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35399 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the 35400 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort 35401 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help 35402 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609. 35403 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number 35404 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also 35405 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug 35406 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming 35407 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35408 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings 35409 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35410 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35411 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers 35412 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get 35413 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a 35414 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for 35415 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor 35416 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but 35417 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586. 35418 35419 o Minor features (performance): 35420 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of 35421 RAM overhead used. 35422 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc 35423 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly 35424 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass 35425 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code. 35426 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link 35427 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for 35428 non-system include paths. 35429 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors 35430 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from 35431 Sebastian Hahn. 35432 35433 o Minor features (other): 35434 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS 35435 errors. 35436 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's 35437 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available. 35438 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for 35439 scriptability. 35440 35441 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems): 35442 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length 35443 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2. 35444 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and 35445 Dan Kaminsky. 35446 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed 35447 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" 35448 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode. 35449 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file. 35450 Should fix bug 537. 35451 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write 35452 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us 35453 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35454 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from 35455 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 35456 35457 o Minor bugfixes (other): 35458 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make 35459 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten 35460 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge. 35461 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c. 35462 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP 35463 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24 35464 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses. 35465 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting. 35466 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten. 35467 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates 35468 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606. 35469 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for 35470 example, when answering a directory request), reset the 35471 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something 35472 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35473 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor" 35474 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears. 35475 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should 35476 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x. 35477 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error" 35478 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing 35479 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without 35480 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected. 35481 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver 35482 correctly. 35483 35484 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 35485 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused, 35486 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far 35487 more easily. 35488 35489 35490 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09 35491 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS 35492 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address 35493 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation 35494 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable. 35495 35496 o Major features: 35497 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of 35498 Tor's x509 certificates. 35499 35500 o Major bugfixes: 35501 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point, 35502 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug 35503 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35504 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory 35505 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from 35506 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35507 35508 o Minor features (security): 35509 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(), 35510 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy. 35511 35512 o Minor features (directory authority): 35513 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject, 35514 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit. 35515 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or 35516 bandwidthburst values. 35517 35518 o Minor features (controller): 35519 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue 35520 processes from running us out of memory. 35521 35522 o Minor features (misc): 35523 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range 35524 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions. 35525 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history 35526 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use. 35527 35528 o Deprecated features (controller): 35529 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring 35530 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol: 35531 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used. 35532 35533 o Minor bugfixes: 35534 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop 35535 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix 35536 on 0.1.2.x. 35537 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities 35538 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not 35539 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35540 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert 35541 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as 35542 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35543 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the 35544 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix 35545 on 0.2.0.x. 35546 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority 35547 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35548 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops. 35549 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35550 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a 35551 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1). 35552 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers 35553 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix 35554 on 0.1.2.x. 35555 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control 35556 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of 35557 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed. 35558 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few 35559 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35560 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure 35561 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35562 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like 35563 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35564 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all 35565 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from 35566 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35567 35568 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 35569 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved 35570 type-safety. 35571 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin 35572 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be 35573 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to 35574 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600. 35575 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a 35576 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload. 35577 35578 35579 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25 35580 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC, 35581 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options 35582 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with 35583 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. 35584 35585 o New directory authorities: 35586 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory 35587 authority. 35588 35589 o Major bugfixes: 35590 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS 35591 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589. 35592 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake 35593 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while 35594 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590. 35595 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory 35596 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients 35597 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially 35598 fixes bug 593. 35599 35600 o Major features: 35601 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a 35602 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've 35603 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556. 35604 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we 35605 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could 35606 handle more, do another bandwidth test. 35607 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so 35608 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with 35609 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23, 35610 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. 35611 35612 o Minor bugfixes: 35613 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir 35614 listeners. Reported by mwenge. 35615 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than 35616 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported 35617 by Kyle Williams. 35618 35619 o Minor features: 35620 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if 35621 the request isn't encrypted. 35622 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too. 35623 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more 35624 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available; 35625 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we 35626 already have a usable v0 rend desc. 35627 35628 35629 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17 35630 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops). 35631 35632 o Compile fixes: 35633 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball. 35634 35635 35636 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17 35637 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten 35638 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs. 35639 35640 o New directory authorities: 35641 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory 35642 authority. 35643 35644 o Major performance improvements: 35645 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that 35646 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb 35647 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation 35648 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to 35649 memory fragmentation. 35650 35651 o Minor features: 35652 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This 35653 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration 35654 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557. 35655 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503 35656 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out 35657 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such 35658 bodies when they receive them. 35659 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason 35660 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory 35661 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them. 35662 35663 o Minor performance improvements: 35664 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5% 35665 of them were actually distinct. 35666 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is 35667 interested in a given message. 35668 35669 o Minor bugfixes: 35670 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to 35671 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix 35672 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569. 35673 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads: 35674 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the 35675 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare 35676 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222. 35677 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client 35678 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't 35679 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor. 35680 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on 35681 0.2.0.15-alpha. 35682 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried 35683 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583. 35684 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest 35685 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from 35686 this country" and "1 person from this country". 35687 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2. 35688 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in 35689 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0. 35690 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning 35691 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions. 35692 Bugfix on 0.1.2. 35693 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of 35694 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2. 35695 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix 35696 on 0.2.0. 35697 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present 35698 but client versions are not. 35699 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no 35700 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had 35701 happened. 35702 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're 35703 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k 35704 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0. 35705 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service. 35706 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre 35707 error conditions. 35708 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the 35709 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current 35710 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on 35711 0.2.0.9-alpha. 35712 35713 o Minor features (controller): 35714 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup. 35715 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values 35716 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file. 35717 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly. 35718 35719 o Minor features (directory authorities): 35720 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of 35721 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for 35722 running a test network on a single host. 35723 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert. 35724 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert. 35725 35726 o Minor features (bridges): 35727 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over 35728 unencrypted connections. 35729 35730 o Minor features (other): 35731 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make 35732 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no 35733 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if 35734 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579. 35735 35736 35737 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17 35738 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default 35739 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an 35740 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues. 35741 35742 o Security fixes: 35743 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a 35744 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless 35745 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too 35746 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based 35747 on network address. 35748 35749 o Major bugfixes: 35750 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth 35751 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544. 35752 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t 35753 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry. 35754 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden 35755 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero. 35756 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir" 35757 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are 35758 crashing or mis-answering these requests. 35759 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do 35760 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole 35761 purpose. Fixes bug 539. 35762 35763 o Minor bugfixes: 35764 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to 35765 rebuild our server descriptor. 35766 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for 35767 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about 35768 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.) 35769 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result 35770 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define 35771 nonstandard integer types. 35772 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or 35773 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540. 35774 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the 35775 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for 35776 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported 35777 by lodger. 35778 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503 35779 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there 35780 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies 35781 when they receive them. 35782 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long. 35783 This includes some 64-bit systems. 35784 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where 35785 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max 35786 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). 35787 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. 35788 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of 35789 router_get_by_hexdigest(). 35790 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no 35791 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had 35792 happened. 35793 35794 35795 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25 35796 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the 35797 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha. 35798 35799 o Major bugfixes: 35800 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests 35801 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This 35802 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who 35803 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash 35804 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x. 35805 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than 35806 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority 35807 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35808 35809 o Minor bugfixes: 35810 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation. 35811 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was 35812 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just 35813 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes 35814 on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 35815 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example 35816 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests. 35817 35818 o Minor features: 35819 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang. 35820 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure. 35821 35822 35823 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23 35824 o Major bugfixes: 35825 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh 35826 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported 35827 by Zax. 35828 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be 35829 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started 35830 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we 35831 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35832 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first 35833 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but 35834 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by 35835 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. 35836 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't 35837 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on 35838 0.2.0.13-alpha. 35839 35840 o Major features: 35841 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a 35842 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to 35843 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default. 35844 35845 o Minor bugfixes: 35846 - Make the unit tests build again. 35847 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work. 35848 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't 35849 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions. 35850 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to 35851 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes 35852 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35853 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an 35854 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard 35855 the next one as a duplicate. 35856 35857 o Minor features: 35858 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for 35859 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3". 35860 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set 35861 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out. 35862 35863 35864 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21 35865 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff 35866 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for 35867 upcoming features. 35868 35869 o New directory authorities: 35870 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory 35871 authority. 35872 35873 o Major bugfixes: 35874 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have 35875 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick 35876 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was 35877 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been 35878 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448. 35879 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden 35880 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix 35881 on 0.1.2.x. 35882 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds 35883 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on 35884 0.2.0.3-alpha. 35885 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir" 35886 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are 35887 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests. 35888 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2 35889 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only 35890 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities. 35891 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35892 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring 35893 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose 35894 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. 35895 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we 35896 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the 35897 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35898 35899 o Major features: 35900 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time 35901 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they 35902 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval, 35903 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document. 35904 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority, 35905 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the 35906 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type, 35907 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers. 35908 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one 35909 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses 35910 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country. 35911 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users 35912 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their 35913 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn 35914 where Tor is blocked. 35915 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the 35916 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the 35917 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries 35918 to a file periodically. 35919 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is 35920 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely. 35921 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly 35922 config option. 35923 35924 o Minor bugfixes: 35925 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network 35926 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single 35927 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and 35928 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed 35929 in the relevant networkstatus document. 35930 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the 35931 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman; 35932 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. 35933 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors 35934 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried 35935 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have 35936 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch 35937 by Karsten Loesing. 35938 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc. 35939 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're 35940 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll 35941 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer. 35942 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr 35943 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35944 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're 35945 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe 35946 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use 35947 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35948 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're 35949 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays 35950 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick 35951 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35952 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for 35953 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown 35954 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.) 35955 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result 35956 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define 35957 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35958 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35959 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes 35960 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 35961 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should 35962 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors 35963 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. 35964 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info 35965 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 35966 35967 o Minor features: 35968 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory 35969 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.) 35970 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents 35971 less often, now that v3 is encouraged. 35972 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to 35973 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes 35974 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info, 35975 even if your DirPort isn't on. 35976 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can 35977 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need 35978 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge 35979 addresses. 35980 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support 35981 multiple controller passwords. 35982 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given 35983 router based on the router's purpose. 35984 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for 35985 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the 35986 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in 35987 the approved-routers file. 35988 35989 35990 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16 35991 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as 35992 well as a few minor bugs. 35993 35994 o Compile fixes: 35995 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup. 35996 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes 35997 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc. 35998 35999 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x): 36000 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to 36001 rebuild our server descriptor. 36002 36003 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): 36004 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous 36005 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing. 36006 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a 36007 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry. 36008 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same 36009 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting 36010 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a 36011 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they 36012 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running' 36013 in the consensus. 36014 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way 36015 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know 36016 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to 36017 fall back to asking the bridge authority. 36018 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our 36019 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards, 36020 then be flexible about families. 36021 36022 o Minor features: 36023 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented), 36024 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've 36025 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for 36026 proposal 110. 36027 36028 36029 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12 36030 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with 36031 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit 36032 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and 36033 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list. 36034 36035 o Security fixes: 36036 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a 36037 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless 36038 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too 36039 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based 36040 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36041 36042 o Major bugfixes: 36043 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t 36044 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix 36045 on 0.1.2.x. 36046 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply 36047 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22 36048 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an 36049 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the 36050 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548. 36051 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so, 36052 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. 36053 36054 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha: 36055 - We were including instructions about what to do with the 36056 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually 36057 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now. 36058 36059 o Minor features: 36060 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than 36061 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there. 36062 36063 o Minor bugfixes: 36064 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document 36065 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend 36066 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 36067 36068 36069 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10 36070 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority 36071 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service 36072 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced 36073 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation, 36074 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and 36075 addresses many more minor issues. 36076 36077 o New directory authorities: 36078 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority. 36079 36080 o Major features: 36081 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted 36082 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit" 36083 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir 36084 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and 36085 fetching. 36086 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to 36087 implement new hidden service descriptor format. 36088 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to 36089 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default 36090 and are reaching it. 36091 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes 36092 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of 36093 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those 36094 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime. 36095 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels 36096 it doesn't have enough directory info yet. 36097 36098 o Major bugfixes: 36099 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or 36100 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported 36101 by Fabian Keil. 36102 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in 36103 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges 36104 no longer work for clients. 36105 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth 36106 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544. 36107 36108 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha): 36109 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were 36110 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the 36111 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers 36112 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have 36113 enough directory information to build a circuit. 36114 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive 36115 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only 36116 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help. 36117 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the 36118 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching 36119 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it 36120 right after. 36121 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad 36122 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending 36123 requests for all of them. 36124 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes 36125 bug 546. 36126 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running 36127 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly 36128 started authority would vote that everyone was down. 36129 36130 o New requirements: 36131 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using 36132 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since 36133 2004. 36134 36135 o Minor features: 36136 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times 36137 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll 36138 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously, 36139 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes). 36140 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus 36141 networkstatuses that we already have. 36142 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults 36143 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way 36144 we start knowing some directory caches. 36145 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew. 36146 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message 36147 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters. 36148 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that 36149 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address. 36150 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log. 36151 Good in combination with --hash-password. 36152 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to 36153 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements 36154 fix for bug 535. 36155 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful. 36156 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to 36157 track down the second incarnation of bug 546. 36158 36159 o Minor features (bridges): 36160 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest 36161 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall 36162 back to trying the bridge directly. 36163 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to 36164 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns. 36165 36166 o Minor features (controller): 36167 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least 36168 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value, 36169 report the value as a "minimum skew." 36170 36171 o Utilities: 36172 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of 36173 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike 36174 Perry. 36175 36176 o Minor bugfixes: 36177 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix 36178 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman. 36179 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is 36180 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; 36181 reported by tup and ioerror. 36182 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority. 36183 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message. 36184 36185 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks): 36186 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix 36187 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 36188 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix 36189 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536. 36190 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on 36191 0.2.0.3-alpha. 36192 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus. 36193 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 36194 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature. 36195 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 36196 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or 36197 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 36198 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on 36199 0.2.0.9-alpha. 36200 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a 36201 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when 36202 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 36203 36204 - Minor bugfixes (portability): 36205 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned 36206 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is 36207 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In 36208 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5. 36209 36210 36211 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28 36212 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with 36213 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big 36214 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status 36215 lists for a few hours each day. 36216 36217 o Major bugfixes (crashes): 36218 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that 36219 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call 36220 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451: 36221 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed" 36222 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha. 36223 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from 36224 rend_process_relay_cell(). 36225 36226 o Major bugfixes (hidden services): 36227 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by 36228 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor 36229 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname. 36230 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service 36231 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity 36232 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These 36233 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically. 36234 36235 o Major bugfixes (other): 36236 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a 36237 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting 36238 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day. 36239 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well 36240 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced 36241 circuit cannibalization). 36242 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving 36243 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named, 36244 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means 36245 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we 36246 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus 36247 consensus. Fixes bug 529. 36248 36249 o Minor bugfixes: 36250 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running 36251 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves 36252 bug 499. 36253 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given 36254 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is 36255 absent. Resolves bug 467. 36256 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't 36257 a way to trigger this remotely.) 36258 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an 36259 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we 36260 were reporting the dir port.) 36261 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO 36262 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17. 36263 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in 36264 the future. Fixes bug 434. 36265 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information 36266 in the future. 36267 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an 36268 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop 36269 the onion key from getting rotated. 36270 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect 36271 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483. 36272 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS 36273 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff 36274 is fishy. Resolves bug 463. 36275 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration 36276 option. Patch from Robert Hogan. 36277 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or 36278 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540. 36279 36280 36281 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24 36282 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory 36283 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they 36284 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other 36285 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear 36286 from the network status lists for a few hours each day. 36287 36288 o Major features (directory system): 36289 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead 36290 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their 36291 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only 36292 download router descriptors listed in the consensus. 36293 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as 36294 a different named server, but list them with a new flag, 36295 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same 36296 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then 36297 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122. 36298 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned 36299 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name. 36300 Partially implements proposal 122. 36301 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to 36302 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility. 36303 36304 o Major bugfixes: 36305 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or 36306 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish 36307 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the 36308 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule. 36309 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36310 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving 36311 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named, 36312 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means 36313 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we 36314 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus 36315 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36316 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch 36317 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not 36318 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 36319 36320 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol): 36321 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing 36322 the signing key. 36323 - Allow certificates to include an address. 36324 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting 36325 and download operations. 36326 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as 36327 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet. 36328 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading 36329 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a 36330 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure, 36331 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a 36332 failure. 36333 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a 36334 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are 36335 more reliable.) 36336 36337 o Minor features (router descriptor cache): 36338 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more 36339 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from 36340 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good 36341 routers anyway. 36342 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed 36343 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire, 36344 and don't expire the descriptor until then. 36345 36346 o Minor features (performance): 36347 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should 36348 speed startup, especially on directory caches. 36349 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we 36350 already have enough directory information to build circuits. 36351 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing 36352 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once 36353 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to 36354 OpenSSL. 36355 36356 o Minor features (compilation): 36357 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to 36358 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on. 36359 36360 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x): 36361 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately 36362 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them 36363 stick around indefinitely. 36364 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as 36365 an error. 36366 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a 36367 v3 directory authority. 36368 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed 36369 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct 36370 the listing. 36371 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put 36372 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to 36373 "moria on moria:9031." 36374 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and 36375 detached signatures for a divergent vote. 36376 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus. 36377 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30 36378 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based 36379 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals 36380 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't 36381 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote. 36382 36383 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x): 36384 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set. 36385 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately 36386 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice. 36387 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus 36388 should exist before trying to replace the current one. 36389 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus 36390 downloads than for other types. 36391 36392 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues): 36393 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on 36394 0.2.0.8-alpha. 36395 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix 36396 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're 36397 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36398 36399 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 36400 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration 36401 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36402 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the 36403 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in 36404 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on 36405 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really 36406 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman. 36407 36408 o Minor bugfixes (misc): 36409 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor" 36410 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman. 36411 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make 36412 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha. 36413 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to 36414 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough 36415 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 36416 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its 36417 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits 36418 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix 36419 on 0.1.2.x. 36420 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just 36421 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix 36422 on 0.1.2.x. 36423 36424 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 36425 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing 36426 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since 36427 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors 36428 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to 36429 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier. 36430 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory. 36431 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c. 36432 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server 36433 so that they all take the same named flags. 36434 36435 o Utilities 36436 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide 36437 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by 36438 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day). 36439 36440 36441 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12 36442 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering 36443 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge 36444 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working, 36445 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors, 36446 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks. 36447 36448 o Major features (router descriptor cache): 36449 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in 36450 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers 36451 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store 36452 annotations along with descriptors. 36453 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its 36454 source, and its purpose. 36455 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now 36456 obsolete. 36457 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using 36458 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command. 36459 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning 36460 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them 36461 to blocked users. 36462 36463 o Major features (directory authorities): 36464 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries 36465 to fetch them. 36466 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as 36467 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding 36468 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding 36469 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because 36470 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to 36471 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections. 36472 36473 o Major features (v3 directory system): 36474 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed, 36475 and download the descriptors listed in them. 36476 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority 36477 certificates, and re-attempt after failures. 36478 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing. 36479 36480 o Major bugfixes (crashes): 36481 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that 36482 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call 36483 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on 36484 0.1.2.7-alpha. 36485 36486 o Major bugfixes (performance): 36487 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of 36488 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info " 36489 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo 36490 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like. 36491 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1. 36492 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that 36493 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the 36494 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather 36495 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush 36496 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can 36497 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha. 36498 36499 o Minor features (v3 authority system): 36500 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the 36501 current consensus. 36502 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or 36503 certificate is requested. 36504 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of 36505 certificate requests. 36506 36507 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses): 36508 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most 36509 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location 36510 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on 36511 0.2.0.3-alpha. 36512 36513 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 36514 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an 36515 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we 36516 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36517 36518 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system): 36519 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on 36520 0.2.0.7-alpha. 36521 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already 36522 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may 36523 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. 36524 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule. 36525 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting 36526 schedule, not on our preferred schedule. 36527 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and 36528 downloads more sensible. 36529 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and 36530 another when serving certificates. 36531 36532 o Minor bugfixes (performance): 36533 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's 36534 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take 36535 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly 36536 voodoo. 36537 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state 36538 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. 36539 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on 36540 0.2.0.7-alpha. 36541 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO 36542 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. 36543 36544 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 36545 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect 36546 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483. 36547 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases. 36548 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha. 36549 36550 o Minor bugfixes (usability): 36551 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than 36552 WARN-severity events. 36553 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS 36554 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is 36555 fishy. Resolves bug 463. 36556 36557 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity): 36558 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to 36559 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves 36560 bug 516. 36561 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well 36562 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced 36563 circuit cannibalization). 36564 36565 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 36566 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code. 36567 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a 36568 new module, networkstatus.c. 36569 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into 36570 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each 36571 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally 36572 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally 36573 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common 36574 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use, 36575 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions; 36576 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone. 36577 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more 36578 uniform. 36579 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to 36580 dirserver_mode(). 36581 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format. 36582 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha. 36583 36584 36585 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21 36586 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge 36587 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws 36588 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues. 36589 36590 o New directory authorities: 36591 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See 36592 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design. 36593 36594 o Major bugfixes (crashes): 36595 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from 36596 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36597 36598 o Major bugfixes (bridges): 36599 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to 36600 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers 36601 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort, 36602 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. 36603 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge 36604 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity 36605 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the 36606 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits 36607 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later 36608 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha. 36609 36610 o Major bugfixes (hidden services): 36611 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by 36612 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor 36613 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname. 36614 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service 36615 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity 36616 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both 36617 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service 36618 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing. 36619 36620 o Minor features (security): 36621 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an 36622 address maps to an internal address space. 36623 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and 36624 CookieAuthentication at the same time. 36625 36626 o Minor features (guard nodes): 36627 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that 36628 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way, 36629 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches 36630 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards. 36631 36632 o Minor features (speed): 36633 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the 36634 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate 36635 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e., 36636 on big-endian hosts.) 36637 36638 o Minor features (controller): 36639 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a 36640 hard time generating real Internet newlines. 36641 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events 36642 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from 36643 Robert Hogan. 36644 36645 o Removed features: 36646 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their 36647 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info 36648 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60% 36649 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes 36650 implementation of proposal 104. 36651 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py, 36652 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol, 36653 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway. 36654 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used 36655 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on 36656 patch from Karsten Loesing. 36657 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is 36658 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages. 36659 36660 o Minor bugfixes: 36661 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given 36662 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes 36663 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. 36664 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault 36665 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36666 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort. 36667 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. 36668 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running 36669 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves 36670 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36671 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their 36672 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth 36673 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and 36674 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36675 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed 36676 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set 36677 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services 36678 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36679 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status. 36680 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode. 36681 36682 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 36683 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire 36684 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor, 36685 meet stdio. 36686 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type. 36687 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file. 36688 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc. 36689 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies. 36690 36691 36692 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30 36693 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS 36694 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the 36695 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important 36696 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller) 36697 should upgrade. 36698 36699 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with 36700 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people 36701 have upgraded. 36702 36703 o Major bugfixes (security): 36704 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been 36705 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has 36706 become more of a headache than it's worth. 36707 36708 o Major bugfixes (load balancing): 36709 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards 36710 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch 36711 from Mike Perry. 36712 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This 36713 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention. 36714 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current 36715 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These 36716 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity 36717 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements. 36718 36719 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration): 36720 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if 36721 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are 36722 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new 36723 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger. 36724 36725 o Minor features (controller): 36726 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it 36727 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells 36728 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what 36729 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119. 36730 36731 o Minor bugfixes (performance): 36732 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus 36733 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup. 36734 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all 36735 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now 36736 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of 36737 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over 36738 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad). 36739 36740 o Minor bugfixes (misc): 36741 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then 36742 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths. 36743 Based on patch from Mike Perry. 36744 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and 36745 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we 36746 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves 36747 if we ran off the end of the list. 36748 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the 36749 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state 36750 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit. 36751 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie 36752 every time we change any piece of our config. 36753 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and 36754 encourage people using them to stop. 36755 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch 36756 from tup. 36757 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable 36758 servers to choose a circuit. 36759 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly 36760 unparseable piece of it. 36761 36762 36763 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26 36764 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the 36765 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for 36766 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important 36767 security risks. 36768 36769 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems 36770 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many 36771 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new 36772 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable, 36773 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime. 36774 36775 o New directory authorities: 36776 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority. 36777 36778 o Major features: 36779 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted 36780 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data, 36781 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether 36782 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108. 36783 36784 o Major bugfixes (load balancing): 36785 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards 36786 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch 36787 from Mike Perry. 36788 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This 36789 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention. 36790 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current 36791 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These 36792 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity 36793 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements. 36794 36795 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing): 36796 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug 36797 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. 36798 36799 o Minor features: 36800 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack" 36801 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos. 36802 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output 36803 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible 36804 from localhost. 36805 36806 o Minor bugfixes: 36807 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added 36808 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x) 36809 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected 36810 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix 36811 on 0.2.0.x) 36812 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate 36813 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their 36814 address. 36815 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0" 36816 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the 36817 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman. 36818 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that 36819 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman. 36820 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable 36821 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36822 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly 36823 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. 36824 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit. 36825 36826 36827 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19 36828 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again; 36829 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put 36830 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory 36831 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based 36832 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs. 36833 36834 o Removed features: 36835 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead, 36836 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list 36837 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from 36838 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those 36839 versions anyway. 36840 36841 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x): 36842 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types. 36843 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do 36844 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32. 36845 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui 36846 Zhou. 36847 36848 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration): 36849 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if 36850 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are 36851 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new 36852 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454; 36853 reported by lodger. 36854 36855 o Minor features (directory servers): 36856 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have 36857 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200. 36858 36859 o Minor features (directory voting): 36860 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them 36861 on startup. 36862 36863 o Minor features (security): 36864 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations. 36865 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and 36866 encourage people using them to stop. 36867 36868 o Minor features (controller): 36869 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it 36870 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells 36871 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what 36872 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119. 36873 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the 36874 cookie authentication file, and config option 36875 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable. 36876 36877 o Minor features (unit testing): 36878 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can 36879 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having 36880 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on 36881 logging for the unit tests. 36882 36883 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x): 36884 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the 36885 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state 36886 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit. 36887 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie 36888 every time we change any piece of our config. 36889 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in 36890 the future. Fixes bug 434. 36891 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information 36892 in the future. 36893 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an 36894 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop 36895 the onion key from getting rotated. 36896 - Clean up torrc sample config file. 36897 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This 36898 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other 36899 programs. 36900 36901 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): 36902 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause 36903 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on 36904 0.2.0.3-alpha. 36905 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes 36906 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup. 36907 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location. 36908 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code. 36909 36910 36911 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01 36912 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a 36913 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc 36914 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users 36915 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles, 36916 TorK, etc. Or worse. 36917 36918 o Major security fixes: 36919 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port; 36920 do not allow multiple authentication attempts. 36921 36922 36923 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01 36924 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability 36925 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody 36926 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha. 36927 36928 o Major security fixes: 36929 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port; 36930 do not allow multiple authentication attempts. 36931 36932 o Major bugfixes (compilation): 36933 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already 36934 defined there. 36935 36936 o Minor features (performance): 36937 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small 36938 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too 36939 performance-intensive. 36940 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all 36941 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and 36942 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice 36943 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values 36944 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad). 36945 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it 36946 exists. 36947 36948 36949 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29 36950 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental 36951 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3 36952 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features 36953 and bugfixes. 36954 36955 o Major features: 36956 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance 36957 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities; 36958 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients 36959 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network. 36960 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for 36961 details. 36962 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured 36963 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values 36964 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports 36965 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already 36966 pick these ports.) 36967 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and 36968 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running 36969 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.) 36970 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed 36971 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.) 36972 36973 o Major features (experimental): 36974 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will 36975 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing 36976 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case 36977 handling before it's ready for use. 36978 36979 o Security fixes: 36980 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is 36981 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a 36982 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix 36983 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x] 36984 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as 36985 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and 36986 Damon McCoy.) 36987 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation 36988 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate 36989 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term 36990 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into 36991 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread. 36992 36993 o Major bugfixes (directory): 36994 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of 36995 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x] 36996 36997 o Minor features (controller): 36998 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can 36999 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.) 37000 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch 37001 from Robert Hogan.) 37002 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch 37003 from Robert Hogan.) 37004 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether 37005 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch 37006 from Tup.) 37007 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for 37008 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that 37009 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.) 37010 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for 37011 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.) 37012 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings 37013 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated. 37014 (Patch from Tup.) 37015 37016 o Minor features (misc): 37017 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch 37018 from croup.) 37019 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all 37020 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects 37021 the authority identity key. 37022 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory 37023 free-lists. 37024 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit. 37025 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly 37026 if they generate a network status document that is somehow 37027 malformed. 37028 37029 o Traffic load balancing improvements: 37030 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then 37031 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths. 37032 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.) 37033 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and 37034 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we 37035 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves 37036 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x] 37037 37038 o Performance improvements: 37039 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the 37040 memory free lists. 37041 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads 37042 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing 37043 between processes. 37044 37045 o Deprecated and removed features: 37046 - RedirectExits is now deprecated. 37047 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes. 37048 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time 37049 to reject them. (Patch from croup.) 37050 37051 o Minor bugfixes (directory): 37052 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by 37053 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha] 37054 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't 37055 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory 37056 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha] 37057 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not 37058 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory 37059 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix 37060 on 0.2.0.1-alpha] 37061 37062 o Minor bugfixes (dns): 37063 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert 37064 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha] 37065 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we 37066 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix 37067 on 0.2.0.2-alpha] 37068 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is 37069 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on 37070 0.2.0.2-alpha] 37071 37072 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 37073 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward 37074 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended 37075 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing. 37076 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events. 37077 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch 37078 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha] 37079 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM 37080 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha] 37081 37082 37083 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17 37084 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related 37085 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other 37086 bugs. Everybody should upgrade. 37087 37088 o Major bugfixes (compilation): 37089 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops. 37090 37091 o Major bugfixes (crashes): 37092 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after 37093 an mmap(). Reported by lodger. 37094 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the 37095 routerlist while inserting a new router. 37096 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size, 37097 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea 37098 from croup.) 37099 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include 37100 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected 37101 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS. 37102 37103 o Major bugfixes (security): 37104 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug 37105 found by croup. 37106 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include 37107 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't, 37108 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger. 37109 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This 37110 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject 37111 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446. 37112 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list, 37113 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our 37114 guard list unless we need to. 37115 37116 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes): 37117 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes 37118 don't get overused as guards. 37119 37120 o Minor bugfixes (directory): 37121 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each 37122 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1. 37123 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at 37124 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458. 37125 37126 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 37127 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a 37128 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure. 37129 Resolves bug 444. 37130 37131 o Minor bugfixes (misc): 37132 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading 37133 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar. 37134 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by 37135 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact 37136 unlikely. Patch from lodger. 37137 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes. 37138 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes. 37139 37140 37141 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02 37142 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha: 37143 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests. 37144 Resolves bugs 441 and 442. 37145 37146 o Minor features (directory): 37147 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for 37148 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents. 37149 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those 37150 are downloaded by descriptor digest.) 37151 37152 o Minor build issues: 37153 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings. 37154 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK 37155 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed 37156 in the tarball, not as "x". 37157 37158 37159 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01 37160 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running 37161 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth 37162 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us 37163 forward on a lot of fronts. 37164 37165 o Major features, server usability: 37166 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst: 37167 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now 37168 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and 37169 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. 37170 37171 o Major features, client usability: 37172 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for 37173 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen 37174 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them 37175 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server. 37176 The code still only implements a subset of DNS. 37177 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when 37178 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now 37179 do all of their connections protected by TLS. 37180 37181 o Major features, performance and efficiency: 37182 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for 37183 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors 37184 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess 37185 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors, 37186 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements 37187 proposal 104.] 37188 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts 37189 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download 37190 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements 37191 proposal 104.] 37192 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write. 37193 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each 37194 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate 37195 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and 37196 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds 37197 of traffic. 37198 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory 37199 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient. 37200 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit 37201 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out. 37202 37203 o Major features, other: 37204 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities 37205 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without 37206 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker. 37207 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities: 37208 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.) 37209 37210 o Security fixes: 37211 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an 37212 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime 37213 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer 37214 and Damon McCoy. 37215 37216 o Minor fixes (resource management): 37217 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number 37218 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing 37219 our allocated connection limit. 37220 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an 37221 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection. 37222 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data 37223 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the 37224 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair() 37225 workaround. 37226 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k 37227 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the 37228 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while. 37229 37230 o Minor features (build): 37231 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently. 37232 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in. 37233 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us 37234 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the 37235 warning. 37236 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version 37237 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do 37238 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use 37239 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz. 37240 Use this version consistently in log messages. 37241 37242 o Minor features (logging): 37243 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug. 37244 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log 37245 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's 37246 OpenBSD or Windows or what. 37247 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by 37248 buffer type. 37249 37250 o Minor features (directory system): 37251 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory 37252 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose 37253 not to serve V2 directory information. 37254 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra 37255 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make 37256 implementing proposal 104 simpler. 37257 37258 o Minor features (controller): 37259 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for 37260 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits 37261 preemptively. 37262 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM, 37263 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit. 37264 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established". 37265 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell 37266 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions 37267 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.) 37268 37269 o Minor features (hidden services): 37270 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual 37271 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one 37272 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by 37273 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining. 37274 37275 o Minor features (other): 37276 - More unit tests. 37277 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any 37278 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to 37279 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This 37280 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By 37281 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of 37282 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes. 37283 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion 37284 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no 37285 longer a completely silly thing to do. 37286 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia), 37287 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman. 37288 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb, 37289 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth. 37290 37291 o Removed features: 37292 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol. 37293 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued 37294 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send 37295 back an error and close the connection. 37296 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default 37297 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new 37298 eventdns code. 37299 37300 o Minor bugfixes (portability): 37301 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators, 37302 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it 37303 makes the log messages nicer. 37304 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE. 37305 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns 37306 partial results on small file reads. 37307 37308 o Minor bugfixes (directory): 37309 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear 37310 more often than they are allowed to appear. 37311 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were 37312 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first. 37313 37314 o Minor bugfixes (logging): 37315 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down), 37316 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as 37317 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.) 37318 37319 o Minor bugfixes (other): 37320 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published 37321 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests 37322 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address, 37323 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept 37324 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.) 37325 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast". 37326 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading 37327 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar) 37328 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by 37329 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it 37330 in Oct 2004.) 37331 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions. 37332 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache, 37333 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when 37334 we restart. 37335 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417. 37336 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2. 37337 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth. 37338 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely. 37339 37340 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 37341 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a 37342 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported 37343 by daejees. 37344 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that 37345 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported 37346 by daejees. 37347 37348 o Code simplifications and refactoring: 37349 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are 37350 implicit in other procedure arguments. 37351 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the 37352 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue 37353 feature, OR conns don't get full any more. 37354 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits 37355 properly, so the caller doesn't have to. 37356 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw. 37357 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as 37358 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections 37359 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets. 37360 37361 37362 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25 37363 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this 37364 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services), 37365 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs. 37366 37367 o Directory authority changes: 37368 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new 37369 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve 37370 or use hidden services. 37371 37372 o Major bugfixes (crashes): 37373 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table 37374 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream 37375 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable 37376 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.) 37377 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities 37378 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios. 37379 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.) 37380 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported 37381 by lodger.) 37382 37383 o Major bugfixes (security): 37384 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards 37385 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards 37386 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.) 37387 37388 o Major bugfixes (resource management): 37389 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get 37390 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking 37391 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384. 37392 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we 37393 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep 37394 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422. 37395 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses 37396 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we 37397 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422. 37398 37399 o Minor bugfixes: 37400 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with 37401 purpose=controller. 37402 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config, 37403 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our 37404 network-statuses. 37405 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are 37406 having a hard time downloading. 37407 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns 37408 partial results on small file reads. 37409 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of 37410 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when 37411 the gaps in the store get very large. 37412 37413 o Minor features: 37414 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors, 37415 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus 37416 documents. 37417 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on 37418 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads. 37419 37420 37421 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24 37422 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path 37423 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better 37424 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as 37425 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of 37426 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11. 37427 37428 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo 37429 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for 37430 free speech on the Internet. 37431 37432 o Minor fixes: 37433 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we 37434 get one we don't recognize. 37435 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417. 37436 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371. 37437 37438 37439 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16 37440 o Major bugfixes: 37441 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve 37442 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via 37443 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was 37444 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess. 37445 37446 o Minor bugfixes: 37447 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched' 37448 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better. 37449 37450 37451 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15 37452 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees: 37453 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds 37454 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. 37455 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code 37456 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people 37457 ask for GUARDS too. 37458 37459 37460 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07 37461 o Major bugfixes (Windows): 37462 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist) 37463 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run 37464 on Win98 and friends again. 37465 37466 o Minor bugfixes (other): 37467 - Clarify a couple of log messages. 37468 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number. 37469 37470 37471 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02 37472 o Major bugfixes (Windows): 37473 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead 37474 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit 37475 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get 37476 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default 37477 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400 37478 and maybe also bug 397.) 37479 37480 o Minor bugfixes (performance): 37481 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster. 37482 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage. 37483 37484 o Minor bugfixes (server): 37485 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first 37486 time. 37487 37488 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): 37489 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time 37490 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect 37491 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs. 37492 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory. 37493 37494 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): 37495 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce 37496 load on authorities. 37497 37498 o Minor bugfixes (other): 37499 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then 37500 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel. 37501 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth 37502 to INT32_MAX. 37503 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by 37504 Stefan Nordhausen. 37505 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode 37506 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes 37507 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix 37508 the last of bug 326.) 37509 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server 37510 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in 37511 the 0.2.0 branch. 37512 37513 37514 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26 37515 o Major bugfixes (crashes): 37516 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than 37517 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.) 37518 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line 37519 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll 37520 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha; 37521 resolves bug 389.) 37522 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when 37523 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.) 37524 37525 o Major bugfixes (hidden services): 37526 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are 37527 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.) 37528 37529 o Major bugfixes (accounting): 37530 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake 37531 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.) 37532 37533 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 37534 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we 37535 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later 37536 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part 37537 3 of bug 367. 37538 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks 37539 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them 37540 "INTERNAL". 37541 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when 37542 we finally get the IP from an exit node. 37543 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very 37544 long. 37545 37546 o Minor bugfixes (other): 37547 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are 37548 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.) 37549 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random: 37550 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth 37551 from all known directories, not that it will have the average 37552 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list. 37553 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0 37554 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key. 37555 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the 37556 user when cached-routers doesn't exist. 37557 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason 37558 other than file-not-found. 37559 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's 37560 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time. 37561 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain, 37562 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the 37563 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before. 37564 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal 37565 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes 37566 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.) 37567 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of 37568 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call. 37569 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but 37570 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses 37571 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if 37572 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't. 37573 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network 37574 comes back online. 37575 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding 37576 DNS request. 37577 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the 37578 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends. 37579 37580 o Minor features (controller): 37581 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0 37582 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during 37583 the next development series, so it's good to give people some 37584 advance warning. 37585 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth 37586 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.) 37587 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that 37588 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from 37589 mwenge; closes bug 394.) 37590 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and 37591 make them generated in every case where we get a successful 37592 connected or resolved cell. 37593 37594 o Minor bugfixes (performance): 37595 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in 37596 some profiles, but not others.) 37597 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its 37598 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured. 37599 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.) 37600 37601 o Minor features: 37602 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as 37603 obsolete. 37604 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed 37605 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients 37606 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in 37607 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS 37608 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other 37609 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.) 37610 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about 37611 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing. 37612 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for 37613 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists). 37614 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes, 37615 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes 37616 are down. (Fixes bug 348.) 37617 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking 37618 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes 37619 bug 373.) 37620 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth. 37621 37622 37623 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06 37624 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting): 37625 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when 37626 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and 37627 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency. 37628 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses. 37629 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus 37630 request. 37631 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller 37632 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty. 37633 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative 37634 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting 37635 buckets go absurdly negative. 37636 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're 37637 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before 37638 trying to flush. 37639 37640 o Major bugfixes (NT services): 37641 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a 37642 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying 37643 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect 37644 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service 37645 will look for its configuration file in the service user's 37646 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata 37647 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that 37648 directory.) 37649 37650 o Major bugfixes (other): 37651 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents 37652 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we 37653 discard them if they are more than 10 days old. 37654 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew 37655 Del Vecchio). 37656 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular 37657 pointer loops. 37658 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards, 37659 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth 37660 to become a guard. 37661 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor, 37662 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want 37663 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will 37664 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to 37665 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have 37666 to wait for 0.2.0.) 37667 37668 o Minor bugfixes (dns): 37669 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch 37670 possible memory-stomping bugs. 37671 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with 37672 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the 37673 extra bytes.) 37674 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles 37675 in the correct order, and doesn't crash. 37676 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit. 37677 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks. 37678 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups. 37679 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error. 37680 37681 o Minor bugfixes (other): 37682 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess). 37683 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what 37684 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what 37685 time it is now. 37686 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the 37687 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for 37688 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either. 37689 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a 37690 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it. 37691 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like. 37692 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses 37693 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first 37694 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent 37695 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need. 37696 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS 37697 connections. (Fixes bug 382.) 37698 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use 37699 unstable ones. 37700 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script. 37701 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible. 37702 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection 37703 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug. 37704 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers 37705 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes 37706 to the resulting address. 37707 37708 o Major features: 37709 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can 37710 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to 37711 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when 37712 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.) 37713 37714 o Minor features: 37715 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The 37716 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development 37717 versions too. 37718 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well 37719 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can 37720 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1. 37721 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script 37722 take arguments rather than require direct editing. 37723 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a 37724 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It 37725 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful. 37726 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted 37727 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not 37728 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a 37729 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router. 37730 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53. 37731 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies. 37732 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can 37733 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't 37734 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command 37735 line. 37736 37737 o Minor features (controller): 37738 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons 37739 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.) 37740 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers 37741 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor. 37742 - Clean up documentation for controller status events. 37743 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's 37744 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress 37745 directive. 37746 37747 37748 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09 37749 o Major bugfixes: 37750 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS 37751 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash. 37752 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an 37753 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when 37754 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet. 37755 Refuse the connection rather than crashing. 37756 37757 o Minor bugfixes: 37758 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we 37759 weren't planning to resolve. 37760 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be 37761 unnecessarily slow (even for select()). 37762 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently 37763 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent 37764 the controller from learning about current events. 37765 37766 o Minor features (more controller status events): 37767 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can 37768 learn when our address changes. 37769 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers 37770 can learn when directories reject our descriptor. 37771 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers 37772 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol 37773 to our SocksPort. 37774 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers 37775 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses. 37776 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when 37777 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants. 37778 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn 37779 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly. 37780 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR 37781 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors 37782 are accepted by a directory. 37783 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED} 37784 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in 37785 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside. 37786 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn 37787 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to 37788 be changed. 37789 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED, 37790 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn 37791 about changes to DNS server status. 37792 37793 o Minor features (directory): 37794 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift 37795 too much load to the exit nodes. 37796 37797 37798 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06 37799 o Major features: 37800 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice 37801 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather 37802 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits. 37803 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we 37804 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used 37805 to send them. 37806 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same 37807 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in 37808 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch 37809 from Matt Edman. 37810 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to 37811 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change 37812 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening. 37813 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory 37814 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than 37815 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns 37816 config options if you like. 37817 37818 o Minor features (config and docs): 37819 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data: 37820 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it 37821 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha. 37822 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few 37823 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in 37824 a timely fashion. 37825 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when 37826 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set. 37827 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested). 37828 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options: 37829 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved 37830 options files. 37831 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject 37832 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition. 37833 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should 37834 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option 37835 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody 37836 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #. 37837 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing 37838 documentation: "make check-docs". 37839 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case 37840 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect. 37841 37842 o Minor features (DNS): 37843 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server 37844 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it. 37845 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups. 37846 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5. 37847 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch 37848 our tests for DNS hijacking. 37849 37850 o Minor features (directory): 37851 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds 37852 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows 37853 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't. 37854 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future 37855 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions. 37856 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so 37857 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without 37858 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1, 37859 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration. 37860 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they 37861 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests. 37862 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic. 37863 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a 37864 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has 37865 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503. 37866 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't 37867 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed 37868 for the thing we're trying to download. 37869 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory 37870 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal 37871 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're 37872 internal. 37873 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers. 37874 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities 37875 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be 37876 broken. 37877 37878 o Minor features (controller): 37879 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled. 37880 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the 37881 actual keys. 37882 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint". 37883 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on 37884 entry guard status as it changes. 37885 37886 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces): 37887 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least 37888 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and 37889 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log 37890 to set log options. 37891 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and 37892 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and 37893 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1. 37894 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be 37895 preceded by "opt". 37896 37897 o Major bugfixes (security): 37898 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory 37899 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor. 37900 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file. 37901 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging 37902 is set. 37903 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest 37904 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k. 37905 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion 37906 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if 37907 we never stay up for a week ourselves. 37908 37909 o Major bugfixes (other): 37910 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of 37911 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to 37912 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it 37913 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out 37914 after that. 37915 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry 37916 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10 37917 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help 37918 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry. 37919 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that 37920 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported 37921 by John Kimble. 37922 37923 o Minor bugfixes: 37924 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets 37925 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an 37926 unlisted router. Reported by seeess. 37927 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines. 37928 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from 37929 Fabian Keil. 37930 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking 37931 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for 37932 it by name. 37933 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line, 37934 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure 37935 family lists conveniently. 37936 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no 37937 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the 37938 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves 37939 bug 363.) 37940 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies. 37941 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has 37942 changed. 37943 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of 37944 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver, 37945 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead. 37946 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable 37947 if their identity keys are as expected. 37948 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop 37949 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement. 37950 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD. 37951 37952 o Minor bugfixes (controller): 37953 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug 37954 reported by Mike Perry. 37955 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs 37956 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth. 37957 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the 37958 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist. 37959 37960 37961 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14 37962 o Security bugfixes: 37963 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory 37964 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor. 37965 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file. 37966 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging 37967 is set. 37968 37969 o Minor bugfixes: 37970 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets 37971 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an 37972 unlisted router (reported by seeess). 37973 37974 37975 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03 37976 o Major features: 37977 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than 37978 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using 37979 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.) 37980 37981 o Minor features: 37982 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect" 37983 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos 37984 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by 37985 watching for STREAM events. 37986 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh 37987 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.) 37988 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key 37989 operations, for profiling. 37990 37991 o Major bugfixes: 37992 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their 37993 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick 37994 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors. 37995 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before 37996 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang 37997 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from 37998 Zajcev Evgeny.) 37999 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on 38000 startup. 38001 38002 o Minor bugfixes: 38003 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we 38004 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor. 38005 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime 38006 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that 38007 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors 38008 per day. 38009 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual 38010 correctly in the Windows installer. 38011 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall 38012 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia. 38013 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its 38014 MIPSpro C compiler. 38015 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion() 38016 when we're running as a client. 38017 38018 38019 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04 38020 o Major bugfixes: 38021 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to) 38022 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached 38023 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all. 38024 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict 38025 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all 38026 its circuits on demand. 38027 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we 38028 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before 38029 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived 38030 connections more stable on average. 38031 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new 38032 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable 38033 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams. 38034 38035 o Security bugfixes: 38036 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS 38037 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information. 38038 38039 o Minor bugfixes: 38040 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for 38041 the first time. 38042 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing 38043 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not 38044 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully. 38045 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input. 38046 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we 38047 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor. 38048 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall 38049 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia. 38050 38051 38052 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29 38053 o Minor features: 38054 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never 38055 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is 38056 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for 38057 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended 38058 routers for even longer. 38059 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients 38060 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider 38061 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits. 38062 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires' 38063 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of 38064 caching HTTP proxies. 38065 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by 38066 address. 38067 38068 o Minor features, controller: 38069 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this 38070 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended 38071 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why 38072 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from 38073 Mike Perry) 38074 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the 38075 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit. 38076 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields, 38077 working much like those for circuit events. 38078 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor 38079 about the current status of a router. 38080 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of 38081 a router's status has changed. 38082 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers 38083 can tell which events and features are supported. 38084 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the 38085 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits. 38086 38087 o Security bugfixes: 38088 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS 38089 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information. 38090 38091 o Minor bugfixes: 38092 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller 38093 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames. 38094 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden 38095 service circuits (reported by mwenge). 38096 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input. 38097 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it 38098 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use 38099 long nicknames where appropriate. 38100 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us 38101 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users. 38102 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test 38103 chews through many circuits before giving up. 38104 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending 38105 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options. 38106 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually 38107 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295. 38108 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events: 38109 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when 38110 not requested. 38111 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid 38112 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge). 38113 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time 38114 for sure!) 38115 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling. 38116 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is 38117 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems 38118 with mmap). This bug was harmless. 38119 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt 38120 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should 38121 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since 38122 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out. 38123 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache 38124 (reported by fookoowa). 38125 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler, 38126 and reported by some Centos users. 38127 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define 38128 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect. 38129 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more 38130 values before failing, and always enables eventdns. 38131 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy. 38132 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions 38133 before we check for libevent. 38134 38135 38136 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07 38137 o Major features: 38138 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers, 38139 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads. 38140 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR 38141 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given 38142 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers 38143 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns. 38144 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS 38145 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). 38146 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to 38147 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed 38148 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers. 38149 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the 38150 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than 38151 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes. 38152 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing 38153 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful" 38154 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around 38155 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid 38156 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0" 38157 lets you turn it off. 38158 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established 38159 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully 38160 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps 38161 us into the directory more quickly. 38162 38163 o New/improved config options: 38164 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator 38165 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns. 38166 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude 38167 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this 38168 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with 38169 all the machines on the same subnet. 38170 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the 38171 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as 38172 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off 38173 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time. 38174 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities 38175 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and 38176 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old 38177 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1" 38178 to continue being hidden service authorities too. 38179 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS). 38180 38181 o Minor features, controller: 38182 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the 38183 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths. 38184 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead 38185 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames 38186 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname, 38187 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt 38188 for more information. 38189 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's 38190 best guess to the user. 38191 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server 38192 descriptor has changed. 38193 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure. 38194 38195 o Minor features, other: 38196 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless 38197 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be 38198 useful to the network. 38199 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages. 38200 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick 38201 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory 38202 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router; 38203 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed. 38204 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages. 38205 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on 38206 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users. 38207 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try 38208 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us. 38209 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's 38210 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it. 38211 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and 38212 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms 38213 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.) 38214 38215 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security: 38216 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server 38217 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we 38218 could return an unnamed server instead. 38219 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM 38220 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD 38221 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower(). 38222 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If 38223 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become 38224 a more attractive target for compromise.) 38225 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be 38226 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now 38227 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set. 38228 38229 o Major bugfixes, other: 38230 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire) 38231 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to) 38232 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer. 38233 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all. 38234 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their 38235 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter). 38236 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated 38237 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all 38238 its circuits on demand. 38239 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0. 38240 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new 38241 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable 38242 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams. 38243 38244 o Minor bugfixes, correctness: 38245 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status 38246 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities 38247 we don't recognize. 38248 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for 38249 the first time. 38250 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands 38251 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle 38252 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully. 38253 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an 38254 "extendcircuit" request. 38255 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings" 38256 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails. 38257 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream 38258 is detached. 38259 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c. 38260 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y" 38261 instead of "X resolved to X". 38262 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers. 38263 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate 38264 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory 38265 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by 38266 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever. 38267 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than 38268 2GB/s total advertised capacity. 38269 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of 38270 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of 38271 an address. 38272 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that 38273 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and 38274 then ignoring it is a sign of madness. 38275 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same 38276 result more than once. 38277 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on 38278 non-versioning dirservers. 38279 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup 38280 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address. 38281 38282 o Minor bugfixes, performance: 38283 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors. 38284 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change 38285 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n). 38286 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where 38287 malloc(0) returns a pointer. 38288 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're 38289 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly. 38290 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor. 38291 38292 o Packaging, features: 38293 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are 38294 now universal binaries. 38295 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting, 38296 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors. 38297 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b. 38298 38299 o Packaging, bugfixes: 38300 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows. 38301 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again. 38302 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume 38303 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on 38304 Debian woody. 38305 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems. 38306 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup). 38307 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again. 38308 38309 o Documentation 38310 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and 38311 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options. 38312 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated 38313 multiple times. 38314 38315 38316 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29 38317 o Major bugfixes: 38318 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their 38319 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter). 38320 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking 38321 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to 38322 do something, only check when the directory information has changed. 38323 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%. 38324 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while, 38325 it can't resolve its hostname. 38326 38327 o Minor bugfixes: 38328 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set. 38329 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an 38330 "extendcircuit" request. 38331 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings" 38332 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails. 38333 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with 38334 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto* 38335 voodoo. 38336 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force 38337 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This 38338 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check 38339 tolower(). 38340 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue 38341 methods: these are known to be buggy. 38342 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status 38343 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities 38344 we don't recognize. 38345 38346 38347 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27 38348 o Major features: 38349 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to 38350 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the 38351 --enable-eventdns argument to configure. 38352 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their 38353 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only 38354 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address" 38355 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care. 38356 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying 38357 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first, 38358 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after 38359 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience. 38360 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections: 38361 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor 38362 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter 38363 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor 38364 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs. 38365 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server 38366 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers 38367 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers 38368 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too. 38369 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same 38370 /16 network when constructing a circuit. 38371 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add 38372 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst. 38373 38374 o Minor features: 38375 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and 38376 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs. 38377 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll 38378 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec. 38379 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b 38380 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when 38381 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and 38382 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent 38383 recommendation system saner.) 38384 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks 38385 to Phobos). 38386 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers 38387 don't need to guess what it is / will be later. 38388 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings. 38389 - Add TestVia config option to the man page. 38390 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs, 38391 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells. 38392 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you 38393 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently 38394 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again 38395 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.] 38396 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download 38397 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not 38398 your ORPort is set. 38399 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers 38400 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory 38401 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild 38402 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up 38403 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it 38404 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til 38405 0.1.1.x is obsolete. 38406 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells 38407 to have the wrong circ_id_type. 38408 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP 38409 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" -- 38410 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn 38411 it is. 38412 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort 38413 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors 38414 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely 38415 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too. 38416 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document, 38417 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec. 38418 38419 o Major bugfixes: 38420 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor 38421 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx). 38422 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important 38423 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising 38424 our DirPort now, etc. 38425 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set. 38426 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and 38427 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts 38428 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it, 38429 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start. 38430 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with 38431 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto* 38432 voodoo. 38433 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on 38434 whether the config options are bad or good. 38435 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every 38436 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally 38437 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried 38438 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for 38439 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.) 38440 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because 38441 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then 38442 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail. 38443 38444 o Minor bugfixes: 38445 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi). 38446 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio). 38447 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even 38448 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname. 38449 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do 38450 useless IPv6 DNS resolves. 38451 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command 38452 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down. 38453 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry. 38454 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes. 38455 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor 38456 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1. 38457 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller. 38458 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted", 38459 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard 38460 of it), is not therefore "up". 38461 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not 38462 actually mattered since 0.0.9. 38463 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients: 38464 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks 38465 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory 38466 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them. 38467 38468 38469 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30 38470 o Major bugfixes: 38471 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts 38472 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some 38473 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them. 38474 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input. 38475 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable, 38476 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting 38477 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP 38478 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to 38479 test reachability, so you won't publish. 38480 38481 o Minor bugfixes: 38482 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports 38483 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1. 38484 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether 38485 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute 38486 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published 38487 later than now. 38488 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our 38489 own server descriptor yet. 38490 38491 38492 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05 38493 o Major bugfixes: 38494 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves 38495 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+ 38496 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically 38497 make sure to test via one of these. 38498 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from 38499 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through. 38500 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published 38501 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few 38502 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute. 38503 o Minor bugfixes: 38504 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about 38505 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests. 38506 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work. 38507 38508 38509 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10 38510 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20: 38511 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation. 38512 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one 38513 directory authority. 38514 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers 38515 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're 38516 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time. 38517 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms. 38518 38519 o Other fixes: 38520 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages. 38521 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our 38522 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down 38523 right after that. 38524 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard, 38525 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him 38526 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude 38527 current guards when picking a new guard. 38528 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection 38529 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them 38530 when we had more than one pending. 38531 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the 38532 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send 38533 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing. 38534 - Make options->RedirectExit work again. 38535 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again. 38536 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to 38537 mapaddress. It's none of our business. 38538 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred 38539 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me 38540 debug the reachability problems better. 38541 38542 o Log / documentation fixes: 38543 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't 38544 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear 38545 about protocol violations by others. 38546 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page. 38547 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file 38548 about what happened to our old torrc. 38549 38550 38551 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23 38552 o Bugfixes: 38553 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're 38554 invalid. 38555 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD. 38556 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291. 38557 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon 38558 more thoroughly when we're running on windows. 38559 38560 38561 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03 38562 o Minor bugs: 38563 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use 38564 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection). 38565 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the 38566 old ORPort and receive connections. 38567 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian 38568 GNU/kFreeBSD. 38569 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist. 38570 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories 38571 and network-statuses. 38572 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every 38573 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities. 38574 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not 38575 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many 38576 false positives. 38577 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors. 38578 38579 o Features: 38580 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses 38581 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works 38582 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified. 38583 38584 38585 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10 38586 o Major fixes: 38587 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the 38588 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold 38589 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases. 38590 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask 38591 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404. 38592 38593 o Minor fixes: 38594 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will 38595 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory 38596 mirrors. 38597 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider 38598 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity. 38599 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now. 38600 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu. 38601 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. 38602 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html 38603 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work. 38604 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails, 38605 rather than not sending anything back at all. 38606 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing 38607 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just 38608 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.) 38609 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort 38610 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.) 38611 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again. 38612 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver 38613 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make 38614 clients more convinced that it's recommended. 38615 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running 38616 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for 38617 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try 38618 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one. 38619 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long. 38620 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too. 38621 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug. 38622 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string 38623 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status. 38624 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000, 38625 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the 38626 default ulimit -n is 1024. 38627 38628 o New features: 38629 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server. 38630 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default, 38631 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want 38632 to know about even the non-running descriptors. 38633 38634 38635 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28 38636 o Major fixes: 38637 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring 38638 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do* 38639 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will 38640 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing 38641 entry guards running these flawed versions. 38642 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This 38643 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers. 38644 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old, 38645 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only 38646 include them if they're 20 hours old or less. 38647 38648 o Minor fixes: 38649 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc. 38650 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of 38651 "-Wall -g -O2". 38652 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore, 38653 and it is confusing some users. 38654 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often. 38655 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold 38656 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale. 38657 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what 38658 win32 versions it thinks it's found. 38659 38660 o New features: 38661 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory 38662 server. 38663 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error 38664 message in a string and hand it back to the controller. 38665 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just 38666 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the 38667 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard. 38668 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't 38669 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it. 38670 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing. 38671 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask 38672 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when 38673 dirport is set for now. 38674 38675 o New config options rather than constants in the code: 38676 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait 38677 unattached before we fail it? 38678 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born 38679 at least this many seconds ago. 38680 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born 38681 at least this many seconds ago. 38682 38683 38684 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18 38685 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc: 38686 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait 38687 or resolve-wait stream. 38688 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach 38689 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify 38690 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is. 38691 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people 38692 can automatically check if their torrc will parse. 38693 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from 38694 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because 38695 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to 38696 hang up on them. 38697 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again. 38698 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never 38699 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network. 38700 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory 38701 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories. 38702 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are 38703 given as hex digests. 38704 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he 38705 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding. 38706 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers. 38707 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to 38708 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol. 38709 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both 38710 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications 38711 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names 38712 at the socks side. 38713 38714 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 38715 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs, 38716 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list. 38717 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up 38718 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating. 38719 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when 38720 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions. 38721 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and 38722 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an 38723 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines 38724 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default. 38725 38726 o New features: 38727 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask 38728 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. 38729 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors 38730 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement 38731 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this. 38732 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections 38733 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off. 38734 38735 38736 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11 38737 o Bugfixes and cleanups: 38738 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print 38739 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape 38740 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into 38741 misreading their logs. 38742 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you 38743 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with 38744 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router 38745 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no 38746 valid router descriptors. 38747 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status" 38748 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections. 38749 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections. 38750 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc 38751 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than 38752 silently resetting it to its default. 38753 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for 38754 a whole month. 38755 - Cleaner and quieter log messages. 38756 38757 o New features: 38758 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests 38759 use clean circuits. 38760 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask 38761 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT 38762 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're 38763 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller 38764 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been 38765 created. 38766 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet 38767 because older Tors do not understand it. 38768 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter 38769 Thoenen. 38770 38771 38772 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20 38773 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x: 38774 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly) 38775 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn. 38776 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that 38777 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other 38778 fast Tor servers. This time for sure! 38779 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again. 38780 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even 38781 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to 38782 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing 38783 had changed. 38784 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus 38785 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request. 38786 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status, 38787 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast" 38788 connections. 38789 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file 38790 permissions), let the controller know that it failed. 38791 38792 o Features: 38793 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME 38794 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash. 38795 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory, 38796 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way 38797 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*, 38798 without getting overloaded. 38799 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines 38800 and remove them. 38801 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when 38802 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable. 38803 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can 38804 be forward-compatible. 38805 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can; 38806 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix. 38807 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be 38808 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it 38809 makes sense. 38810 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and 38811 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80 38812 and OR conns to port 443. 38813 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by 38814 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the 38815 target arch. 38816 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors 38817 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server 38818 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and 38819 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors. 38820 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config 38821 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via 38822 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits). 38823 38824 38825 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17 38826 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 38827 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation, 38828 sometimes they would trigger an assert. 38829 38830 o Other important bugfixes: 38831 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were 38832 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024 38833 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000 38834 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems. 38835 38836 o Backported features: 38837 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory, 38838 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way 38839 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*, 38840 without getting overloaded. 38841 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try 38842 once more. This will become important once servers start sending 38843 503's whenever they feel busy. 38844 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes. 38845 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old 38846 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot. 38847 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload 38848 from 20 minutes to 1 hour. 38849 38850 38851 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09 38852 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x: 38853 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would 38854 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad. 38855 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast 38856 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's 38857 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me 38858 know if the crashes continue. 38859 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find 38860 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce 38861 seg faults in at least some cases.) 38862 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for 38863 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again: 38864 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed" 38865 38866 o Major fixes: 38867 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB 38868 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading 38869 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we 38870 try to be a bit more fair. 38871 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest 38872 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat. 38873 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We 38874 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on 38875 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a 38876 bug that let it go negative. 38877 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid 38878 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses 38879 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a 38880 transparent squid so they don't even realize it. 38881 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were 38882 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024 38883 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000 38884 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems. 38885 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to 38886 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private 38887 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off. 38888 38889 o Major features: 38890 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running 38891 descriptors. 38892 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it 38893 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden 38894 service descriptors. 38895 38896 o Minor features: 38897 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately 38898 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have 38899 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping. 38900 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't 38901 do anything about. 38902 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make 38903 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what 38904 versions *are* still recommended. 38905 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full: 38906 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal. 38907 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this 38908 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy. 38909 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful 38910 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?" 38911 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian 38912 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more 38913 easily. 38914 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit 38915 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors 38916 that must be available else Tor refuses to start. 38917 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure 38918 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON. 38919 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean, 38920 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote 38921 on it. Not used by clients yet. 38922 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve 38923 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too. 38924 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB 38925 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a 38926 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy. 38927 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have 38928 established a circuit. 38929 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like 38930 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and 38931 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure 38932 that the controller hears about new and closing connections. 38933 38934 38935 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11 38936 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x: 38937 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all 38938 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit 38939 quickly enough. Oops. 38940 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit. 38941 38942 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 38943 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file. 38944 38945 38946 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10 38947 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x: 38948 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16. 38949 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some 38950 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet. 38951 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services. 38952 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname. 38953 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at 38954 that moment you dump his server descriptor. 38955 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would 38956 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments. 38957 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list 38958 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel). 38959 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in 38960 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP, 38961 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits. 38962 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f. 38963 38964 o Major features: 38965 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry 38966 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards 38967 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards 38968 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security 38969 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes 38970 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you 38971 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those. 38972 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by 38973 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from 38974 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches. 38975 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better. 38976 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of 38977 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay 38978 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts 38979 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc 38980 connections more reliable. 38981 38982 o Major fixes: 38983 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18 38984 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using 38985 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using 38986 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only 38987 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable. 38988 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients 38989 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then 38990 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these 38991 server descriptors so clients can't get them. 38992 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week, 38993 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only 38994 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot. 38995 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire 38996 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every 38997 20 minutes. 38998 38999 o Minor fixes: 39000 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because 39001 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the 39002 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't 39003 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions. 39004 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics 39005 need to be uint64_t's. 39006 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements 39007 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow 39008 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked 39009 carefully. 39010 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every 39011 setconf/reload. 39012 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all 39013 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout". 39014 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service 39015 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant. 39016 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece 39017 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh. 39018 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost 39019 connections. 39020 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for 39021 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one. 39022 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log 39023 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing." 39024 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic, 39025 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the 39026 descriptor that clients downloaded were different. 39027 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but 39028 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly). 39029 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET 39030 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian). 39031 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config 39032 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas). 39033 39034 o Minor features: 39035 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of 39036 keeping forward and backward compatibility. 39037 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it: 39038 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443. 39039 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists, 39040 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can 39041 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities 39042 to bootstrap. 39043 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only 39044 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too. 39045 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server 39046 can answer v2 directory requests too. 39047 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that 39048 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint, 39049 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor. 39050 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order 39051 of fields. 39052 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a 39053 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports" 39054 line. Remove support for the "ports" line. 39055 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as 39056 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can 39057 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file. 39058 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or 39059 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to 39060 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid. 39061 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes. 39062 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can 39063 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet. 39064 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status 39065 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too. 39066 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any 39067 are known. 39068 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the 39069 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about. 39070 39071 39072 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02 39073 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 39074 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid 39075 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize 39076 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.) 39077 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access 39078 too -- so detect and avoid this. 39079 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and 39080 giving an error). 39081 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c. 39082 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that 39083 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts. 39084 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We 39085 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.) 39086 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR 39087 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory. 39088 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two 39089 rendezvous circuits. 39090 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch. 39091 39092 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 39093 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log 39094 messages so the operator knows what to expect. 39095 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing 39096 advertising it because of hibernation. 39097 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl. 39098 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around 39099 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones 39100 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it. 39101 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused 39102 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones. 39103 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via 39104 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work. 39105 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ". 39106 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason 39107 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit 39108 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just 39109 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times, 39110 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries. 39111 39112 39113 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11 39114 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 39115 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid 39116 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize 39117 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.) 39118 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure 39119 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy. 39120 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that 39121 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts. 39122 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR 39123 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory. 39124 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around 39125 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones 39126 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it. 39127 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are 39128 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS 39129 connections once a week. 39130 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused 39131 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones. 39132 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits 39133 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at 39134 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN. 39135 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to 39136 build with -ldl. 39137 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user, 39138 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories. 39139 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams. 39140 39141 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 39142 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match 39143 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and 39144 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line. 39145 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we 39146 don't recognize. Now we just drop it. 39147 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously: 39148 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor. 39149 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our 39150 firewall options forbid. 39151 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the 39152 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies 39153 can only proxy to certain destinations. 39154 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal 39155 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and 39156 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had 39157 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually 39158 aids some statistical attacks. 39159 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately. 39160 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits 39161 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like 39162 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations. 39163 39164 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x: 39165 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address 39166 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new 39167 server descriptor sometimes. 39168 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again. 39169 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses, 39170 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address. 39171 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the 39172 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to 39173 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running 39174 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config 39175 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their 39176 DirServer lines. 39177 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in 39178 case the controller wants to change that too. 39179 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes 39180 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one. 39181 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the 39182 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not 39183 be verified. 39184 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving 39185 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the 39186 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused 39187 otherwise. 39188 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server 39189 descriptors that they know they will reject. 39190 39191 o Features and updates: 39192 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff 39193 significantly faster. 39194 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship, 39195 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster. 39196 - Many other CPU and memory improvements. 39197 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients 39198 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has 39199 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication. 39200 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their 39201 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or 39202 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking 39203 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere. 39204 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a 39205 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies, 39206 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them, 39207 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network. 39208 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now 39209 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list 39210 every single internal or nonroutable network space. 39211 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get 39212 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role 39213 as authoritative dirserver. 39214 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html, 39215 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball. 39216 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball. 39217 39218 39219 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15 39220 o Usability improvements: 39221 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress, 39222 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address 39223 or port. 39224 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make 39225 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that 39226 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off 39227 by default. 39228 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort 39229 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose 39230 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about. 39231 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages 39232 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable". 39233 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform 39234 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize. 39235 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect 39236 memory leaks better. 39237 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by 39238 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring 39239 their operators to pay close attention. 39240 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide 39241 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries. 39242 39243 o Performance improvements: 39244 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that 39245 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to 39246 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15 39247 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.) 39248 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default. 39249 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we 39250 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest() 39251 to resolve a performance bottleneck. 39252 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from 39253 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many 39254 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when 39255 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC). 39256 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using 39257 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which 39258 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space. 39259 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out 39260 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.) 39261 39262 o Security improvements: 39263 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon 39264 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by 39265 fingerprint of server. 39266 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how 39267 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2 39268 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future. 39269 39270 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 39271 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be 39272 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows 39273 crash bug. It might also slow things down. 39274 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private 39275 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for 39276 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them 39277 periodically, so it's not so bad.) 39278 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit 39279 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was 39280 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops. 39281 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address), 39282 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too. 39283 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable 39284 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id 39285 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would 39286 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has 39287 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains. 39288 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that 39289 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config 39290 option is set by the controller, then don't close it. 39291 39292 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha: 39293 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious. 39294 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject 39295 it as obsolete. 39296 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when 39297 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says 39298 we do. 39299 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for 39300 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the 39301 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just 39302 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.) 39303 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1 39304 of the controller protocol. 39305 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we 39306 are suppressing it because of hibernation. 39307 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit. 39308 39309 39310 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07 39311 o New features (major): 39312 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they 39313 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers, 39314 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors. 39315 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details. 39316 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort. 39317 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity 39318 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and 39319 we're using a default DirPort. 39320 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later. 39321 39322 o New features (minor): 39323 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and 39324 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning. 39325 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but 39326 mirrors still cache and serve it). 39327 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have 39328 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before 39329 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete. 39330 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the 39331 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is 39332 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running 39333 and usable even if we know they're jerks. 39334 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out 39335 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete. 39336 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section. 39337 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them 39338 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses. 39339 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note 39340 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help 39341 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc 39342 responses. 39343 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop 39344 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't 39345 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on 39346 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD). 39347 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits. 39348 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from 39349 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at 39350 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks. 39351 39352 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha: 39353 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol 39354 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it. 39355 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the 39356 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor. 39357 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones. 39358 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing 39359 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable. 39360 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against 39361 its expected nickname if is_named is set. 39362 39363 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15: 39364 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we 39365 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker. 39366 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s, 39367 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor. 39368 39369 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x: 39370 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment 39371 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed 39372 through privoxy. 39373 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup 39374 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly 39375 for this case. 39376 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs. 39377 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us 39378 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks. 39379 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname; 39380 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname; 39381 don't warn twice about the same name. 39382 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn 39383 if we've not heard of the server. 39384 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter. 39385 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either. 39386 39387 39388 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23 39389 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 39390 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy. 39391 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we 39392 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker. 39393 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us 39394 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version. 39395 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to 39396 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty. 39397 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s, 39398 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor. 39399 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove(). 39400 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at 39401 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that. 39402 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs. 39403 39404 39405 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14 39406 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha: 39407 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a 39408 connection to an address not in their exit policy. 39409 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would 39410 cause a segfault. 39411 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by 39412 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him. 39413 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them. 39414 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back 39415 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail. 39416 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about 39417 unreachability. 39418 39419 o New features: 39420 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/ 39421 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by 39422 nickname) is reachable by you. 39423 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not 39424 enabled yet. 39425 39426 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x: 39427 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments, 39428 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail. 39429 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since 39430 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.] 39431 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel. 39432 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't. 39433 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like 39434 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if 39435 we fail to connect). 39436 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first. 39437 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden 39438 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address 39439 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop 39440 that anyway. 39441 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that 39442 it was self-testing that told us so. 39443 39444 39445 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09 39446 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha: 39447 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops. 39448 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops. 39449 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string. 39450 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting. 39451 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings. 39452 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning. 39453 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his 39454 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's 39455 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his 39456 exit policy using him for any exits. 39457 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is 39458 at least 0.9.7. 39459 39460 o New controller features/fixes: 39461 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like 39462 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give 39463 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it 39464 entirely (rather than setting it to its default). 39465 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is. 39466 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty. 39467 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually). 39468 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and 39469 other redundant entries to the torrc file. 39470 39471 o Start on the new directory design: 39472 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format. 39473 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by 39474 "tell me yours"). 39475 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately. 39476 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated 39477 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router 39478 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more 39479 memory-efficient. 39480 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories) 39481 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories). 39482 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities. 39483 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which 39484 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set. 39485 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they 39486 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one 39487 to see whether caches support v2 stuff. 39488 39489 o New features: 39490 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each 39491 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to 39492 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if 39493 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable. 39494 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the 39495 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address 39496 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to 39497 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end 39498 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave, 39499 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it 39500 if you can. 39501 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the 39502 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller 39503 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns 39504 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server. 39505 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18 39506 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot. 39507 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating 39508 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind 39509 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings. 39510 39511 o Config option changes: 39512 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new 39513 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies. 39514 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443" 39515 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us 39516 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version. 39517 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now. 39518 39519 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x: 39520 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since 39521 people have started using them for spam too. 39522 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added 39523 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network 39524 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let 39525 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a 39526 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough 39527 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing. 39528 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy 39529 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers. 39530 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for 39531 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and 39532 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to 39533 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster. 39534 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden 39535 services faster on the service end. 39536 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This 39537 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing 39538 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give 39539 it a fair shake next time we try. 39540 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info. 39541 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling. 39542 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a 39543 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that 39544 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down. 39545 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells. 39546 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be 39547 able to discover them. 39548 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers. 39549 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames 39550 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security 39551 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then 39552 preferentially resolving them to partition users. 39553 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts 39554 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're 39555 testing for reachability. 39556 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are 39557 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes) 39558 to the torrc. 39559 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config 39560 option. 39561 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor) 39562 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on. 39563 39564 39565 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08 39566 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14. 39567 39568 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 39569 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your 39570 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668", 39571 it would silently using ignore the 6668. 39572 39573 39574 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08 39575 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 39576 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes 39577 (CVE-2005-2643). 39578 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the 39579 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages. 39580 39581 39582 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04 39583 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13. 39584 39585 o Features: 39586 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows. 39587 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes. 39588 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config 39589 options, getinfo keys. 39590 39591 39592 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04 39593 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 39594 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes. 39595 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made 39596 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist. 39597 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for 39598 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory 39599 in the start menu. 39600 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the 39601 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it 39602 not-broken. 39603 39604 39605 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23 39606 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha: 39607 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor" 39608 function. 39609 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit" 39610 function. 39611 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event. 39612 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for 39613 circuit events and we go offline. 39614 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points. 39615 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if 39616 you don't have enough intro points already. 39617 39618 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha: 39619 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how 39620 many bytes we've used in this time period. 39621 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from 39622 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random 39623 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to 39624 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not 39625 enabled by default yet. 39626 39627 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12: 39628 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport, 39629 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable. 39630 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made 39631 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist. 39632 39633 39634 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18 39635 o New directory servers: 39636 - tor26 has changed IP address. 39637 39638 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 39639 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress(). 39640 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against 39641 pthreads libraries. 39642 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server 39643 claims its dirport is 0. 39644 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were 39645 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt 39646 Edman for the fix. 39647 39648 39649 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15 39650 o New directory servers: 39651 - tor26 has changed IP address. 39652 39653 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks: 39654 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from 39655 0.1.0.11. 39656 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon(). 39657 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've 39658 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open 39659 ports that have changed. 39660 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress(). 39661 39662 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability: 39663 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable 39664 Windows-style errno back. 39665 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when 39666 they 39667 want to make it an NT service. 39668 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages. 39669 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated 39670 name, give the full name in our response. 39671 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire. 39672 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed) 39673 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops. 39674 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against 39675 pthreads libraries. 39676 39677 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x: 39678 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is 39679 being used. 39680 39681 o Features: 39682 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and 39683 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't 39684 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway). 39685 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log 39686 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles. 39687 39688 39689 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30 39690 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: 39691 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their 39692 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly. 39693 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't 39694 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly. 39695 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo". 39696 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken. 39697 39698 39699 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29 39700 o Bugfixes: 39701 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't 39702 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly. 39703 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo". 39704 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers. 39705 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or 39706 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can 39707 fix it. 39708 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are 39709 temporarily unreachable. 39710 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when 39711 culling them. 39712 39713 o Features: 39714 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather 39715 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you 39716 can use the controller from your applications without caring how 39717 our protocol works. 39718 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody 39719 test this? 39720 39721 39722 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16 39723 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10): 39724 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the 39725 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read 39726 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process 39727 (CVE-2005-2050). 39728 39729 39730 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14 39731 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with 39732 libevent before 1.1a. 39733 39734 39735 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09 39736 o Bugfixes: 39737 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on 39738 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat. 39739 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords. 39740 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit. 39741 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as 39742 Administrator. 39743 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it, 39744 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs. 39745 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an 39746 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make 39747 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots 39748 of CPU time plus memory. 39749 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as 39750 normal web requests. 39751 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in 39752 tor_lookup_hostname(). 39753 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are 39754 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns. 39755 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails. 39756 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions. 39757 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option. 39758 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed 39759 on FreeBSD) 39760 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy, 39761 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy, 39762 HttpProxyAuthenticator 39763 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to 39764 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine. 39765 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in 39766 certain 39767 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless 39768 the user asks you to. 39769 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP 39770 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private 39771 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that 39772 their descriptors are being rejected. 39773 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will 39774 come later. 39775 39776 39777 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23 39778 o Bugfixes: 39779 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel 39780 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors. 39781 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm 39782 spec file. 39783 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not 39784 reentrant either. 39785 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's 39786 ancient. 39787 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again. 39788 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any 39789 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect 39790 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work 39791 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete. 39792 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents 39793 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even 39794 keys) from the exit server's process. 39795 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet 39796 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed. 39797 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller), 39798 so it doesn't seg fault on error. 39799 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction 39800 point at your Tor server. 39801 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that 39802 you're not sending a socks reply back. 39803 39804 o Features: 39805 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like 39806 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option. 39807 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64, 39808 to make it easier to write controllers. 39809 39810 39811 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17 39812 o Bugfixes: 39813 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from 39814 installing on Tiger. 39815 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it 39816 complain during installation. 39817 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your 39818 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there. 39819 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default 39820 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even 39821 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf, 39822 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful 39823 error message. 39824 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to 39825 something more reasonable when first installing. 39826 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit. 39827 39828 39829 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14 39830 o Bugfixes: 39831 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on 39832 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver 39833 functions. 39834 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent 39835 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken. 39836 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal 39837 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup 39838 when using the default exit policy. 39839 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had 39840 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops. 39841 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to 39842 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead. 39843 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py. 39844 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports 39845 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor. 39846 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving 39847 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until 39848 we fetched a new directory. 39849 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus 39850 libevent warning on some Linuxes. 39851 39852 o Features: 39853 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off 39854 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging. 39855 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid 39856 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like 39857 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu. 39858 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use 39859 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already 39860 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on 39861 clients yet. 39862 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its 39863 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address. 39864 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to 39865 save memory on systems that need to fork. 39866 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo. 39867 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc 39868 is valid without actually launching Tor. 39869 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit" 39870 rather than just rejecting it. 39871 39872 39873 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27 39874 o Bugfixes: 39875 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because 39876 we didn't like its cert. 39877 o Features: 39878 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer, 39879 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot. 39880 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based 39881 on patch from Adam Langley. 39882 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate 39883 the fast servers that have been joining lately. 39884 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt, 39885 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve 39886 robustness more. 39887 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole 39888 directory every time you regenerate it. 39889 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd 39890 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues. 39891 39892 39893 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23 39894 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x: 39895 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our 39896 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal 39897 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc. 39898 39899 39900 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23 39901 o Bugfixes: 39902 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our 39903 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling 39904 TLS errors better in other situations too. 39905 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level 39906 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while 39907 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep 39908 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller, 39909 and don't log when you are. 39910 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on 39911 non-complete success, only say "done" once. 39912 o Features: 39913 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB, 39914 of advertised bandwidth capacity. 39915 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for 39916 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without 39917 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers. 39918 39919 39920 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08 39921 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc: 39922 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or 39923 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them. 39924 - More automated handling for dirserver operators: 39925 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later, 39926 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working. 39927 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname 39928 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that 39929 nickname+key are allowed. 39930 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port, 39931 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that 39932 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget 39933 about all other descriptors for that address:port. 39934 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future. 39935 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if 39936 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could 39937 have quite wrong clocks). 39938 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew 39939 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes. 39940 - Efficiency improvements: 39941 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make 39942 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell. 39943 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(), 39944 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes. 39945 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every 39946 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to 39947 lowercase and be done with it. 39948 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells, 39949 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have 39950 to abandon partially built circuits. 39951 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist 39952 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't 39953 yell so much. 39954 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default 39955 exit policy. 39956 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to 39957 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by 39958 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types. 39959 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR 39960 fails. 39961 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors. 39962 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people. 39963 39964 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc: 39965 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server 39966 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still 39967 obeying the exit policy internally. 39968 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move 39969 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to 39970 connection_free(). 39971 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have 39972 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then 39973 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the 39974 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good. 39975 39976 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8: 39977 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was 39978 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died. 39979 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the 39980 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they 39981 get the nodes. 39982 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process, 39983 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you 39984 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set 39985 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops. 39986 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads 39987 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors 39988 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately 39989 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the 39990 descriptors we just dropped. 39991 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key 39992 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a 39993 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them. 39994 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get 39995 artificially capped at 500kB. 39996 39997 39998 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07 39999 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x: 40000 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely, 40001 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker 40002 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got 40003 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been 40004 busy for more than 100 seconds. 40005 40006 40007 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01 40008 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc: 40009 - Fixes on reachability detection: 40010 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating. 40011 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the 40012 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable. 40013 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only 40014 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail. 40015 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable 40016 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on. 40017 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't 40018 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that 40019 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier 40020 and he used that same pipe to extend to us. 40021 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection, 40022 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a 40023 server not already connected to them. 40024 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running 40025 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers" 40026 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes 40027 obsolete.) 40028 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor 40029 right then. 40030 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller. 40031 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams 40032 are in a different state than they actually are. 40033 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects 40034 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these 40035 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious 40036 libevent log msgs. 40037 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap(). 40038 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32. 40039 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails. 40040 40041 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x: 40042 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more 40043 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and 40044 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that 40045 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet. 40046 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work) 40047 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths 40048 via addresses like 40049 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path" 40050 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like 40051 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy 40052 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys. 40053 40054 40055 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01 40056 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x: 40057 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting). 40058 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to 40059 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from 40060 extending to unknown routers. Oops. 40061 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't 40062 creating actual system users. 40063 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix 40064 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more 40065 in 0.1.0.x). 40066 40067 40068 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28 40069 o New features: 40070 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try 40071 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside, 40072 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are. 40073 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy 40074 hidden services better. 40075 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy" 40076 config option. 40077 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than 40078 rejecting most low-numbered ports. 40079 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See 40080 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features, 40081 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform; 40082 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor; 40083 closestream; closecircuit; etc. 40084 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on 40085 patch by Matt Edman). 40086 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks 40087 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit 40088 required exit node for certain sites. 40089 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps 40090 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when 40091 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry). 40092 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too. 40093 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability. 40094 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of 40095 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc), 40096 rather than just "success" or "failure". 40097 - A more sane version numbering system. See 40098 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details. 40099 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to 40100 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed 40101 addresses/ports. 40102 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether 40103 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default. 40104 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory 40105 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong. 40106 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise 40107 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still 40108 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality. 40109 40110 o Robustness/stability fixes: 40111 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current 40112 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async 40113 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better 40114 on Windows too. 40115 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked, 40116 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch 40117 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and 40118 threadsafeness. 40119 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes: 40120 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes 40121 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose 40122 appropriate nodes. 40123 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit, 40124 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime. 40125 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams 40126 that will want high uptime circuits. 40127 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This 40128 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity. 40129 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his 40130 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year. 40131 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation. 40132 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without 40133 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous 40134 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve 40135 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want. 40136 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around 40137 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal 40138 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high 40139 uptime if we've seen that lately too). 40140 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs), 40141 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current 40142 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes 40143 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit. 40144 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND 40145 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around 40146 when we try to launch one. 40147 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds, 40148 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit. 40149 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option 40150 "ShutdownWaitLength". 40151 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when 40152 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c. 40153 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons. 40154 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc", 40155 and to take errno into account where possible. 40156 40157 o Bug fixes: 40158 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a 40159 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then. 40160 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding 40161 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close. 40162 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config 40163 file more reasonable. 40164 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take 40165 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion 40166 addresses -- it won't. 40167 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should 40168 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice 40169 for google.com" problem. 40170 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers, 40171 so it's not just "unknown platform". 40172 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel). 40173 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option. 40174 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that 40175 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because 40176 they're malformed. 40177 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit 40178 they could use instead. 40179 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port 40180 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32 40181 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else 40182 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32. 40183 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not 40184 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the 40185 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same 40186 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series. 40187 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in 40188 the same series. 40189 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending 40190 the socks reject. 40191 40192 o Helpful fixes: 40193 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers. 40194 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver 40195 it was. 40196 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers. 40197 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or 40198 private-IP addresses. 40199 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not 40200 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there 40201 for now. 40202 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be 40203 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients. 40204 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something 40205 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs. 40206 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses. 40207 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror 40208 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's 40209 wrong. 40210 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write 40211 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks 40212 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.) 40213 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one, 40214 launch an attempt to get a fresh one. 40215 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately. 40216 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks. 40217 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what 40218 we're leaking. 40219 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit 40220 addresses. 40221 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an 40222 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl. 40223 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer 40224 whether the server is hibernating. 40225 40226 40227 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24 40228 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts): 40229 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where 40230 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring. 40231 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash. 40232 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were 40233 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then 40234 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make 40235 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection. 40236 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package 40237 inbufs for marked-for-close streams. 40238 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable. 40239 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell 40240 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some 40241 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now. 40242 40243 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other): 40244 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message. 40245 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not 40246 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream." 40247 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds 40248 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This 40249 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory 40250 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future; 40251 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew. 40252 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite 40253 existing torrc files. 40254 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log 40255 40256 40257 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22 40258 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x: 40259 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail. 40260 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery. 40261 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service 40262 support is still not compiled into the executable by default. 40263 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under 40264 the win32 SYSTEM account. 40265 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32. 40266 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion 40267 file descriptors available. 40268 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate. 40269 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five 40270 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list. 40271 40272 40273 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03 40274 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9: 40275 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when 40276 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't 40277 freak out. 40278 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number 40279 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors. 40280 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy. 40281 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max 40282 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for 40283 logs, etc. 40284 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their 40285 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors. 40286 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann. 40287 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better. 40288 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one. 40289 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used, 40290 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who 40291 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer 40292 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts. 40293 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than 40294 800kB/s of capacity. 40295 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in). 40296 40297 40298 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21 40299 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9: 40300 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't 40301 need as much processor time. 40302 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we 40303 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by 40304 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an 40305 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the 40306 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back. 40307 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as 40308 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors 40309 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes. 40310 - Enable Mac startup script by default. 40311 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas. 40312 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the 40313 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never 40314 resetting. 40315 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up 40316 the order of reading the lines, making it fail. 40317 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we 40318 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup. 40319 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor 40320 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression 40321 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache. 40322 40323 40324 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04 40325 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts): 40326 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging 40327 to a file. 40328 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a 40329 style address, then we'd crash. 40330 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from 40331 a dirserver is broken. 40332 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers 40333 may work better. 40334 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert 40335 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process 40336 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving. 40337 40338 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32): 40339 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's 40340 name out of the warning/assert messages. 40341 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32. 40342 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our 40343 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not 40344 take any away. 40345 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one 40346 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.) 40347 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default 40348 DataDirectory. 40349 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init(). 40350 40351 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other): 40352 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again. 40353 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting 40354 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config 40355 values at once couldn't work. 40356 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection, 40357 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as 40358 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that. 40359 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory' 40360 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so 40361 they can handle any number of routers. 40362 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug. 40363 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers. 40364 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any 40365 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length. 40366 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website. 40367 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while 40368 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know). 40369 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor, 40370 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly. 40371 40372 40373 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15 40374 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9: 40375 - Make hibernation actually work. 40376 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work. 40377 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller, 40378 don't use the stream status code. 40379 40380 40381 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12 40382 o Cleanups: 40383 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file. 40384 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings. 40385 o Mistakes: 40386 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation. 40387 40388 40389 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08 40390 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc: 40391 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating. 40392 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which 40393 ports we need to build circuits to cover. 40394 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app, 40395 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first. 40396 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller. 40397 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is 40398 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit. 40399 40400 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: 40401 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks. 40402 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy 40403 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32. 40404 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32). 40405 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better. 40406 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open. 40407 - Make unit tests work on win32. 40408 40409 40410 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06 40411 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre: 40412 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable 40413 we think). 40414 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners. 40415 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather 40416 than just chopping them off. 40417 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections. 40418 40419 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: 40420 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time 40421 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If 40422 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out 40423 right after sending the begin cell. 40424 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port 40425 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as 40426 exit nodes too. Oops. 40427 40428 o Features: 40429 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've 40430 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open 40431 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port 40432 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up". 40433 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits. 40434 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so 40435 the user knows which one it's talking about. 40436 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away, 40437 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally 40438 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.) 40439 40440 40441 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01 40442 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: 40443 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug. 40444 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around 40445 forever. 40446 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE. 40447 40448 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre: 40449 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable, 40450 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for 40451 finding it. 40452 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod 40453 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose 40454 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver. 40455 Clip rather than rejecting. 40456 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is, 40457 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.) 40458 40459 o Features: 40460 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy. 40461 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1. 40462 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the 40463 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch 40464 by Geoff Goodell. 40465 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file. 40466 40467 40468 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28 40469 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: 40470 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle 40471 win32 socket errors better. 40472 40473 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1: 40474 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal. 40475 40476 40477 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25 40478 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: 40479 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file", 40480 so we don't see those messages days later. 40481 40482 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1: 40483 - Make tor-resolve work again. 40484 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it. 40485 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves. 40486 40487 40488 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24 40489 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1: 40490 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug. 40491 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes 40492 and seconds. 40493 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until 40494 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how 40495 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working. 40496 40497 40498 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23 40499 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: 40500 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year: 40501 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever 40502 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each 40503 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach 40504 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still 40505 bytes sitting in the inbuf. 40506 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values. 40507 40508 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6: 40509 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken. 40510 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for 40511 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track 40512 them too.) 40513 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options. 40514 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in. 40515 40516 o Features: 40517 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your 40518 hibernation properties by 40519 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB 40520 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM 40521 Defaults to "month 1 0:00". 40522 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes, 40523 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks. 40524 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to 40525 get back to normal.) 40526 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0, 40527 pick it anyway. 40528 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again 40529 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived 40530 to fill the last cell completely. 40531 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work. 40532 40533 40534 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15 40535 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: 40536 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests. 40537 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which 40538 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed 40539 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes 40540 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do. 40541 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our 40542 write() call will fail and we handle it there. 40543 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get 40544 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders. 40545 40546 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5: 40547 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows. 40548 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to 40549 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'. 40550 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt. 40551 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint: 40552 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again. 40553 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us 40554 down a lot. 40555 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file. 40556 - Make kill -USR1 work again. 40557 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase 40558 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better. 40559 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they 40560 have it on start-up. 40561 40562 o Features: 40563 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress 40564 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z 40565 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe. 40566 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files. 40567 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash. 40568 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink. 40569 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your 40570 configuration to torrc. 40571 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working. 40572 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball. 40573 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy. 40574 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes. 40575 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals 40576 we catch. 40577 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample. 40578 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username. 40579 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use 40580 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB. 40581 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can 40582 log more informatively. 40583 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h". 40584 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0. 40585 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified 40586 servers and clients to have any clock skew. 40587 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into: 40588 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory, 40589 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers, 40590 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor, 40591 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors. 40592 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset 40593 from each other, to hinder linkability. 40594 40595 40596 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09 40597 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4: 40598 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program). 40599 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if 40600 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down. 40601 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style 40602 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical 40603 bug). 40604 - If do_hup fails, actually notice. 40605 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener. 40606 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because 40607 they ran out of file descriptors. 40608 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new 40609 enough version of the resolve code to work right. 40610 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers. 40611 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script 40612 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well 40613 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people 40614 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is 40615 recent enough. 40616 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash. 40617 40618 o Major Features: 40619 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you 40620 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to 40621 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the 40622 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up 40623 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then 40624 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you 40625 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on. 40626 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your 40627 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive 40628 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying, 40629 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working. 40630 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt . 40631 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact 40632 with the control port. 40633 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for 40634 use in authenticating to the control interface. 40635 - New log format in config: 40636 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or 40637 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo" 40638 40639 o Minor Features: 40640 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses 40641 from their dirserver. 40642 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint 40643 and then exit. 40644 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break 40645 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules. 40646 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having 40647 them act more like real nodes. 40648 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build. 40649 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation 40650 is broken. 40651 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified 40652 nickname to its identity key. 40653 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations 40654 not on the command line. 40655 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation. 40656 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently 40657 1024) file descriptors. 40658 40659 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja: 40660 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but 40661 hey.) 40662 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places. 40663 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead. 40664 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior. 40665 40666 40667 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17 40668 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3: 40669 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default 40670 exit policy, not reject *:*. 40671 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service 40672 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using 40673 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all. 40674 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones 40675 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory. 40676 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32. 40677 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete. 40678 40679 o Features: 40680 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to 40681 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit 40682 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us. 40683 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to 40684 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit. 40685 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a 40686 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid. 40687 40688 40689 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13 40690 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: 40691 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress. 40692 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and 40693 the ones we find in directories.) 40694 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64 40695 bit platforms. 40696 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear 40697 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped 40698 the dirserver. 40699 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would 40700 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused' 40701 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response. 40702 40703 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2: 40704 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now 40705 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one. 40706 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf 40707 corruption. 40708 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too. 40709 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write 40710 any more exit policy lines. 40711 40712 o Features: 40713 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells. 40714 - Make the dirservers file obsolete. 40715 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the 40716 parsing entity which key is being used to sign. 40717 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string. 40718 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be 40719 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified, 40720 default to moria1,moria2,tor26. 40721 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls 40722 will be able to get a directory. 40723 - Http proxy support 40724 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x 40725 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will 40726 be routed through this host. 40727 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers. 40728 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache. 40729 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible 40730 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work. 40731 40732 40733 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13 40734 o Bugfixes: 40735 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor 40736 clients/servers with an open dirport. 40737 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in 40738 our cpath would expire while we're building the path. 40739 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works. 40740 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on 40741 intermittent connections. 40742 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects. 40743 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and 40744 reattaches. 40745 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable) 40746 in reporting stats locally. 40747 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail 40748 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently. 40749 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms. 40750 40751 40752 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03 40753 o Bugfixes: 40754 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too. 40755 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header. 40756 40757 40758 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01 40759 o Bugfixes: 40760 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and 40761 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort, 40762 if you don't want it open. 40763 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works. 40764 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features. 40765 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on 40766 intermittent connections. 40767 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is 40768 happier. 40769 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells 40770 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the 40771 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve 40772 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix 40773 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells. 40774 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't 40775 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue. 40776 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if 40777 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr, 40778 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit. 40779 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us 40780 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to 40781 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through 40782 the fingerprint list to see if he's there. 40783 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in 40784 our cpath would expire while we're building the path. 40785 40786 o Features: 40787 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version 40788 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course. 40789 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router 40790 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again. 40791 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete 40792 options. 40793 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as 40794 appropriate. 40795 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z". 40796 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't 40797 specified in HTTP 1.0. 40798 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100. 40799 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often 40800 than once per minute. 40801 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait 40802 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating. 40803 40804 40805 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25 40806 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena 40807 40808 40809 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20 40810 o Make it compile on cygwin again. 40811 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or 40812 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about. 40813 40814 40815 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18 40816 o Changes from 0.0.7.3: 40817 - Bugfixes: 40818 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0, 40819 don't put it into the client dns cache. 40820 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address 40821 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:* 40822 until we get our next directory. 40823 - Features: 40824 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth. 40825 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points. 40826 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace 40827 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and 40828 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time. 40829 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific 40830 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall 40831 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443) 40832 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network 40833 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop). 40834 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to 40835 "GET /". 40836 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as 40837 an exitnode. 40838 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then 40839 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry 40840 or exit nodes. 40841 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific 40842 IP address for outgoing connect()s. 40843 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]". 40844 40845 o Patches to 0.0.8preX: 40846 - Bugfixes: 40847 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)? 40848 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set. 40849 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests. 40850 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new 40851 routerinfo's arrive in a directory. 40852 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before 40853 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops. 40854 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a 40855 directory. 40856 - Features: 40857 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name 40858 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions. 40859 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default. 40860 - Add a man page for tor-resolve. 40861 40862 40863 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12 40864 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you 40865 ask them to resolve the host "". 40866 40867 40868 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09 40869 o Changes from 0.0.7.2: 40870 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when 40871 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later 40872 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires. 40873 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute 40874 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor. 40875 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the 40876 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But 40877 clients don't use this yet.) 40878 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them 40879 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL. 40880 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode() 40881 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors 40882 for pointing out this bug.) 40883 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have 40884 fewer problems with people using the wrong key. 40885 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey, 40886 kazaa, gnutella ports. 40887 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename(). 40888 40889 o Changes from 0.0.8preX: 40890 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so 40891 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys. 40892 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work. 40893 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's 40894 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget. 40895 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we 40896 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail. 40897 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry 40898 wolf unpredictably. 40899 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection 40900 that's still handshaking. 40901 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before 40902 you'll choose it for your path. 40903 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of 40904 end relay cell, etc. 40905 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12 40906 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new 40907 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one. 40908 40909 40910 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04 40911 o Changes from 0.0.7.2: 40912 - Security fixes: 40913 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're 40914 you're running an obsolete version and should exit. 40915 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers 40916 list to decide who's running or verified. 40917 - Bugfixes and features: 40918 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't 40919 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space. 40920 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people 40921 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat. 40922 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers, 40923 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew. 40924 40925 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1: 40926 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32. 40927 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you 40928 know you might want to get it verified. 40929 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server. 40930 40931 40932 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23 40933 o Bugfixes: 40934 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor 40935 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64. 40936 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so 40937 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second. 40938 40939 o Protocol changes: 40940 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the 40941 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're 40942 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we 40943 hadn't heard of before. 40944 40945 o Features: 40946 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort) 40947 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators. 40948 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted 40949 by the dirservers, and included in the directory. 40950 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers 40951 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>". 40952 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than 40953 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility. 40954 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers. 40955 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches. 40956 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet). 40957 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers. 40958 - Directory caching. 40959 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers. 40960 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest 40961 directory they've pulled down. 40962 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others. 40963 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open 40964 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly. 40965 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other 40966 authdirservers, to stay better synced. 40967 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting 40968 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed 40969 by hash-of-key). 40970 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately. 40971 This isn't used yet. 40972 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs 40973 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to, 40974 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell. 40975 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody, 40976 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise 40977 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes. 40978 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new 40979 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit. 40980 - File and name management: 40981 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found. 40982 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor 40983 as datadir. 40984 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*. 40985 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma). 40986 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname. 40987 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key, 40988 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops. 40989 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived -- 40990 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys 40991 to use. 40992 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This 40993 should tolerate down dirservers better now. 40994 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check 40995 rather than an is-in-the-list check. 40996 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname() 40997 locally. 40998 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality. 40999 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our 41000 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols. 41001 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor. 41002 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too. 41003 - Write tor version at the top of each log file 41004 - New docs in the tarball: 41005 - tor-doc.html. 41006 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too. 41007 41008 41009 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07 41010 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully 41011 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures. 41012 41013 41014 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04 41015 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve, 41016 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved". 41017 41018 41019 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07 41020 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features. 41021 41022 41023 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06 41024 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1: 41025 - Make it build on Win32 again. 41026 o Changes from 0.0.6.2: 41027 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config 41028 settings too. 41029 41030 41031 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02 41032 o Bugfixes: 41033 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first 41034 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups. 41035 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The 41036 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both 41037 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams 41038 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both. 41039 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a 41040 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed. 41041 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom 41042 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more 41043 easily. 41044 o Features: 41045 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users. 41046 41047 41048 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02 41049 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs: 41050 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed 41051 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing 41052 them. 41053 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we 41054 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then 41055 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different 41056 exit nodes. 41057 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a 41058 hidden service per 15-minute period. 41059 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing 41060 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit, 41061 even if the new directory format doesn't parse. 41062 o Fixes for security bugs: 41063 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a 41064 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's 41065 a trusted dirserver. 41066 o Other bugfixes: 41067 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to 41068 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing. 41069 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but 41070 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time; 41071 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one. 41072 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they 41073 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys. 41074 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or 41075 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines. 41076 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections 41077 have failed. 41078 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers. 41079 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames. 41080 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without 41081 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see. 41082 o Features: 41083 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables. 41084 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So 41085 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem. 41086 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's 41087 directory (not that we were anywhere close). 41088 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges. 41089 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port 41090 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config 41091 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want. 41092 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order. 41093 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it. 41094 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind 41095 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP. 41096 41097 41098 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16 41099 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell, 41100 not the previous cells like we'd thought. 41101 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw! 41102 41103 41104 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06 41105 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected 41106 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns 41107 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character 41108 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops. 41109 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw! 41110 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory 41111 server. 41112 41113 41114 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02 41115 [version bump only] 41116 41117 41118 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01 41119 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format 41120 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts 41121 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it 41122 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but 41123 then dies. 41124 o Handle windows socket errors correctly. 41125 41126 41127 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28 41128 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough 41129 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even 41130 when they had a stream attached. oops.) 41131 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread) 41132 o Better debugging for tls errors 41133 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously 41134 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending. 41135 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor. 41136 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none. 41137 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors. 41138 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places. 41139 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP. 41140 o win32's close can't close a socket. 41141 41142 41143 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26 41144 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently. 41145 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error 41146 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl 41147 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error, 41148 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun. 41149 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!) 41150 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id. 41151 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing. 41152 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them; 41153 just close the circ. 41154 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope). 41155 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit 41156 (this was quite rare). 41157 41158 41159 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25 41160 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys. 41161 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell 41162 if you decrypted them correctly. 41163 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor. 41164 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them. 41165 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too. 41166 41167 41168 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18 41169 o changes from 0.0.6pre4: 41170 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs 41171 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try 41172 a second one and it works. 41173 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept, 41174 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise 41175 alice would just have to wait to time out. 41176 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro 41177 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor 41178 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already 41179 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response... 41180 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon 41181 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but 41182 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?). 41183 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later. 41184 i'd still like to find the bug though. 41185 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then 41186 count it as a nack 41187 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable 41188 ones. oops. 41189 41190 41191 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14 41192 o changes from 0.0.6pre3: 41193 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his 41194 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then 41195 he retries a couple of times 41196 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly 41197 (sometimes they were hanging around forever) 41198 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around 41199 too long (they were sticking around forever). 41200 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with 41201 a strict glibc. 41202 41203 41204 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14 41205 o changes from 0.0.6pre2: 41206 - make hup work again 41207 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers 41208 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help 41209 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is 41210 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if 41211 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop 41212 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try 41213 again 41214 - bob publishes intro points more correctly 41215 o changes from 0.0.5: 41216 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days 41217 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!) 41218 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of 41219 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address 41220 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers 41221 is flaky). 41222 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the 41223 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the 41224 in-memory directories too 41225 41226 41227 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08 41228 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures. 41229 41230 41231 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08 41232 o Features: 41233 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to 41234 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available 41235 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as 41236 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.) 41237 41238 41239 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30 41240 [version bump only] 41241 41242 41243 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29 41244 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your 41245 torrc. (Woo!) 41246 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops) 41247 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear 41248 but that aren't warnings 41249 41250 41251 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29 41252 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible) 41253 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking 41254 the dns farm to do it. 41255 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c 41256 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the 41257 directory. 41258 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush, 41259 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed. 41260 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository 41261 41262 41263 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28 41264 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes). 41265 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were 41266 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory. 41267 This also means longer startup time; so it goes. 41268 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd 41269 expect it to have a nickname. 41270 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies 41271 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop. 41272 41273 41274 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26 41275 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down, 41276 we would crash. 41277 41278 41279 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26 41280 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters 41281 o Port to Solaris and Sparc: 41282 - include missing header fcntl.h 41283 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically 41284 - deal with hardware word alignment 41285 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention) 41286 - switch from using signal() to sigaction() 41287 o Preliminary work on reputation system: 41288 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published 41289 by kill -USR1 currently. 41290 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test 41291 circuits, even when SocksPort is off. 41292 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many. 41293 41294 41295 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19 41296 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops 41297 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris 41298 41299 41300 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14 41301 o Bugfixes: 41302 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs, 41303 now we allow them if they're set explicitly). 41304 - And fix a few endian issues. 41305 41306 41307 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14 41308 o New features: 41309 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't 41310 try that circuit again: try a new one. 41311 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up. 41312 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it 41313 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to 41314 accept it even without mail from the server operator). 41315 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors. 41316 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows 41317 about as a server. 41318 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server. 41319 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket 41320 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty. 41321 o Bugfixes: 41322 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's 41323 simply not true. 41324 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection 41325 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other 41326 side isn't reading right then. 41327 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined 41328 RecommendedVersions 41329 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops. 41330 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address. 41331 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c 41332 41333 41334 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04 41335 o New features: 41336 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way 41337 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns, 41338 e.g. poblano. 41339 o Bugfixes: 41340 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server 41341 crashed. 41342 41343 41344 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03 41345 o Bugfixes: 41346 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue 41347 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending 41348 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the 41349 connection is finished. 41350 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished 41351 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early. 41352 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream 41353 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close 41354 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it 41355 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory 41356 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests 41357 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about, 41358 rather than warn and continue. 41359 - Make --version work 41360 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date 41361 41362 41363 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29 41364 o New features: 41365 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user 41366 knows it's working. 41367 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit, 41368 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more 41369 clearly thwarted.) 41370 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits. 41371 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/", 41372 so you can collect coredumps there. 41373 o Bugfixes: 41374 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and 41375 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was 41376 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing. 41377 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client 41378 dns cache actually gets populated. 41379 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup. 41380 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an 41381 end cell down it first. 41382 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes, 41383 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory. 41384 41385 41386 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26 41387 o New features: 41388 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors. 41389 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when 41390 errors happen. 41391 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults. 41392 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one. 41393 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http 41394 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy. 41395 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change 41396 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect 41397 it. 41398 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with. 41399 o Bugfixes: 41400 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives, 41401 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I 41402 think this was the one causing recent server crashes. 41403 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky. 41404 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on. 41405 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no 41406 dirservers. 41407 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out 41408 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/. 41409 41410 41411 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18 41412 o New features: 41413 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog. 41414 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying 41415 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for 41416 tor. It even has a man page. 41417 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now. 41418 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds 41419 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc, 41420 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix 41421 his/her torrc. 41422 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy 41423 o Bugfixes: 41424 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit 41425 41426 41427 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30 41428 o New features: 41429 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to 41430 it, apt-getters. :) 41431 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many 41432 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and 41433 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap 41434 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set 41435 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good 41436 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota. 41437 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather 41438 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This 41439 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see. 41440 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach 41441 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach 41442 to new ones. 41443 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll 41444 have them reattach to new circuits instead. 41445 41446 o Bugfixes: 41447 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated 41448 after a while. 41449 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain. 41450 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root. 41451 41452 41453 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07 41454 o Bugfixes: 41455 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by 41456 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were 41457 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they 41458 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read 41459 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding 41460 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos. 41461 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding. 41462 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the 41463 logfile so you know it's working. 41464 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary. 41465 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date. 41466 41467 41468 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02 41469 o Bugfixes: 41470 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header. 41471 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state 41472 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write. 41473 41474 41475 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30 41476 o Bugfixes: 41477 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work. 41478 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart 41479 adversary could force us into an infinite loop. 41480 41481 o Features: 41482 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key, 41483 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy. 41484 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility 41485 with MorphMix). 41486 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header. 41487 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of 41488 relay cells. 41489 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get 41490 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We 41491 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to 41492 this hop. 41493 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who 41494 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have 41495 been made so far. 41496 41497 41498 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14 41499 o Bugfixes: 41500 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert 41501 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being 41502 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries. 41503 41504 o Features: 41505 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're 41506 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates 41507 the circuit and then we open streams at him. 41508 - Add port ranges to exit policies 41509 - Add a conservative default exit policy 41510 - Warn if you're running tor as root 41511 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners 41512 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node 41513 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of 41514 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred 41515 exit nodes. 41516 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building 41517 41518 41519 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03 41520 o Robustness and bugfixes: 41521 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would 41522 really screw things up. 41523 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop 41524 working. 41525 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy 41526 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is 41527 established. 41528 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up 41529 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one 41530 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch. 41531 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed). 41532 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me. 41533 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions. 41534 41535 o Documentation: 41536 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options. 41537 41538 o Configuration: 41539 - Change default loglevel to warn. 41540 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD. 41541 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks 41542 ORPort>0. 41543 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers. 41544 41545 41546 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29 41547 o Robustness and bugfixes: 41548 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself 41549 - to get ownership/permissions right 41550 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it 41551 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never 41552 pull down a directory again 41553 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was 41554 causing server crashes 41555 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs 41556 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available 41557 - exit if bind() fails 41558 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined 41559 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own) 41560 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections 41561 - fix minor bias in PRNG 41562 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory 41563 41564 o Documentation: 41565 - Wrote the design document (woo) 41566 41567 o Circuit building and exit policies: 41568 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them 41569 are down. 41570 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and 41571 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8). 41572 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit 41573 exists, rather than failing 41574 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and 41575 which AP connections are standing by 41576 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3 41577 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended. 41578 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new 41579 circuit. 41580 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses. 41581 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits 41582 41583 o Configuration: 41584 - APPort is now called SocksPort 41585 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure 41586 where to bind 41587 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than 41588 hardcoded (for dirservers) 41589 - Reloads config on HUP 41590 - Usage info on -h or --help 41591 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them. 41592 41593 41594 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19 41595 o General stability: 41596 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number 41597 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call. 41598 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down 41599 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks 41600 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have 41601 to take down the network when I approve a new router 41602 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn 41603 41604 o Buffers: 41605 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M) 41606 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs 41607 41608 o Autoconf improvements: 41609 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure 41610 - Make install now works 41611 - create var/lib/tor on make install 41612 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs 41613 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths 41614 41615 o Log files and Daemonizing now work: 41616 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug 41617 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline 41618 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup