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      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