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      1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
      2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
      3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
      4 
      5 Changes in version 0.4.9.5 - 2026-02-12
      6   This first stable release in the 0.4.9 series introduces a new
      7   circuit-level encryption design for better client security, as well
      8   as a more scalable way for large relay operators to annotate which
      9   relays they run so clients can avoid using too many of them in a
     10   single circuit.
     11 
     12   o Major features (cryptography):
     13     - Clients and relays can now negotiate Counter Galois Onion (CGO)
     14       relay cryptography, as designed by Jean Paul Degabriele,
     15       Alessandro Melloni, Jean-Pierre Münch, and Martijn Stam. CGO
     16       provides improved resistance to several kinds of tagging attacks,
     17       better forward secrecy, and better forgery resistance. Closes
     18       ticket 41047. Implements proposal 359.
     19 
     20   o Major features (path selection):
     21     - Clients and relays now support "happy families", a system to
     22       simplify relay family operation and improve directory performance.
     23       With "happy families", relays in a family share a secret "family
     24       key", which they use to prove their membership in the family.
     25       Implements proposal 321; closes ticket 41009. Note that until
     26       enough clients are upgraded, relay operators will still need to
     27       configure MyFamily lists. But once clients no longer depend on
     28       those lists, we will be able to remove them entirely, thereby
     29       simplifying family operation, and making microdescriptor downloads
     30       approximately 80% smaller. For more information, see
     31       https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/post-install/family-ids/
     32 
     33   o Major bugfixes (conflux):
     34     - Ensure conflux guards obey family and subnet restrictions. Fixes
     35       bug 40976; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
     36 
     37   o Major bugfixes (controller events):
     38     - Fix spikes occurring in bandwidth cache events on control connection.
     39       Fixes bug 31524; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
     40 
     41   o Major bugfixes (sandbox):
     42     - Fix sandbox to work on architectures that use Linux's generic
     43       syscall interface, extending support for AArch64 (ARM64) and
     44       adding support for RISC-V, allowing test_include.sh and the
     45       sandbox unit tests to pass on these systems even when building
     46       with fragile hardening enabled. Fixes bugs 40465 and 40599; bugfix
     47       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
     48 
     49   o Minor features (client security, reliability):
     50     - When KeepaliveIsolateSOCKSAuth is keeping a circuit alive, expire
     51       the circuit based on when it was last in use for any stream, not
     52       (as we did before) based on when a stream was last attached to it.
     53       Closes ticket 41157. Implements a minimal version of Proposal 368.
     54 
     55   o Minor features (exit relays):
     56     - Implement reevaluating new exit policy against existing
     57       connections. This is controlled by new config option
     58       ReevaluateExitPolicy, defaulting to 0. Closes ticket 40676.
     59     - Implement a token-bucket based rate limiter for stream creation
     60       and resolve request. It is configured by the DoSStream* family of
     61       configuration options. Closes ticket 40736.
     62     - Add Monero ports to the ReducedExitPolicy. Closes ticket 41168.
     63 
     64   o Minor features (bridges):
     65     - Save complete bridge lines to 'datadir/bridgelines'. Closes
     66       ticket 29128.
     67 
     68   o Minor features (client extensibility):
     69     - Implement new HTTPTunnelPort features for interoperability with
     70       Arti's HTTP CONNECT proxy. This work adds new headers to requests
     71       to and replies from the HttpConnectPort, support for OPTIONS
     72       requests, tightens the expected syntax for Proxy-Authorization,
     73       and increases defense-in-depth against some kinds of cross-site
     74       HTTP attacks. Closes ticket 41156. Implements proposal 365.
     75     - Detect invalid SOCKS5 username/password combinations according to
     76       new extended parameters syntax. (Currently, this rejects any
     77       SOCKS5 username beginning with "<torS0X>", except for the username
     78       "<torS0X>0". Such usernames are now reserved to communicate
     79       additional parameters with other Tor implementations.) Implements
     80       proposal 351.
     81 
     82   o Minor features (sandboxing):
     83     - Allow the fstatat64 and statx syscalls on i386 architecture when
     84       glibc >= 2.33. On i386, glibc uses fstatat64 instead of newfstatat
     85       for stat operations, and statx for time64 support. Without this,
     86       SIGHUP configuration reload fails when using sandbox mode with
     87       %include directives on i386 with Debian Bookworm or newer.
     88     - Allow the lstat64 syscall on i386 architecture. This syscall is
     89       used by glob() in glibc 2.36+ when processing %include directives
     90       with directory patterns.
     91 
     92   o Minor features (security):
     93     - Increase the size of our finite-field Diffie Hellman TLS group
     94       (which we should never actually use!) to 2048 bits. Part of
     95       ticket 41067.
     96     - Require TLS version 1.2 or later. (Version 1.3 support will be
     97       required in the near future.) Part of ticket 41067.
     98     - Update TLS 1.2 client cipher list to match current Firefox. Part
     99       of ticket 41067.
    100     - Verify needle is smaller than haystack before calling memmem.
    101       Closes ticket 40854.
    102 
    103   o Minor features (onion services):
    104     - Add 3 more keywords to the ADD_ONION control command:
    105       PoWDefensesEnabled, PoWQueueRate and PoWQueueBurst which correspond
    106       to HiddenServicePoWDefensesEnabled, HiddenServicePoWQueueRate and
    107       HiddenServicePoWQueueBurst from torrc.
    108     - Reduce the minimum value of hsdir_interval to match recent tor-
    109       spec change.
    110 
    111   o Minor feature (directory authority):
    112     - Introduce MinimalAcceptedServerVersion to allow configuring
    113       the minimum accepted relay version without requiring a new tor
    114       release. Closes ticket 40817.
    115 
    116   o Minor features (metrics port):
    117     - New metrics on the MetricsPort for the number of BUG() calls that
    118       occurred at runtime. Fixes bugs 40839 and 41104; bugfix on
    119       0.4.7.1-alpha.
    120     - Handle rephist tracking of ntor and ntor_v3 handshakes
    121       individually such that MetricsPort exposes the correct values.
    122       Fixes bug 40638; bugfix on 0.4.7.11.
    123     - Add new metrics for relays on the MetricsPort namely the count of
    124       drop cell, destroy cell and the number of circuit protocol
    125       violation seen that lead to a circuit close. Closes ticket 40816.
    126 
    127   o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
    128     - We now correctly parse microdescriptors and router descriptors
    129       that do not include TAP onion keys. (For backward compatibility,
    130       authorities continue to require these keys.) Implements part of
    131       proposal 350.
    132 
    133   o Minor features (portability, android):
    134     - Use /data/local/tmp for data storage on Android by default. Closes
    135       ticket 40487. Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
    136 
    137   o Minor features (directory authority):
    138     - Export unsigned consensus documents once we have seen a threshold
    139       of signatures, as a step toward the consensus transparency
    140       experiment.
    141 
    142   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    143     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 12, 2026.
    144 
    145   o Minor features (geoip data):
    146     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
    147       as retrieved on 2026/02/12.
    148 
    149   o Minor features (windows):
    150     - Various compilation fixes for our Windows CI. Closes ticket 41214.
    151 
    152   o Minor bugfixes (exit relays):
    153     - Clip every returned DNS TTL to 60 (RESOLVED) in order to mitigate
    154       an exit DNS cache oracle. Fixes bug 40979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
    155 
    156   o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
    157     - Set the length field correctly on RELAY_COMMAND_CONFLUX_SWITCH
    158       messages. Previously, it was always set to the maximum value.
    159       Fixes bug 41056; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    160     - Do not treat "15" as a recognized remote END reason code.
    161       Formerly, we treated it as synonymous with a local ENTRYPOLICY,
    162       which isn't a valid remote code at all. Fixes bug 41171; bugfix
    163       on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
    164 
    165   o Minor bugfixes (tooling):
    166     - Fix a false positive valgrind related to inspecting a bitfield
    167       next to another uninitialized bitfield. Fixes bug 41182; bugfix
    168       on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
    169     - Fix minor warnings from newer versions of shellcheck and clang.
    170       Fixes bug 41166; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha and several
    171       other versions.
    172     - Fix a warning when compiling with GCC 14.2. Closes 41032.
    173 
    174   o Minor bugfixes (threads):
    175     - Make thread control POSIX compliant. Fixes bug 41109; bugfix
    176       on 0.4.8.17.
    177 
    178   o Minor bugfix (client DNS):
    179     - Handle empty DNS reply without sending back an error and instead
    180       send back NOERROR (RFC1035 error code 0x0). Fixes bug 40248;
    181       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
    182 
    183   o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
    184     - After we added layer-two vanguards, directory authorities wouldn't
    185       think any of their vanguards were suitable for circuits, leading
    186       to a "Failed to find node for hop #2 of our path. Discarding this
    187       circuit." log message once per second from startup until they made
    188       a fresh consensus. Now they look to their existing consensus on
    189       startup, letting them build circuits properly from the beginning.
    190       Fixes bug 40802; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
    191 
    192   o Minor bugfixes (tests):
    193     - Fix a test failure with OpenSSL builds running at security level 1
    194       or greater, which does not permit SHA-1 certificates. Fixes bug
    195       41021; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
    196 
    197   o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
    198     - Don't warn when BridgeRelay is 1 and ExitRelay is explicitly set
    199       to 0. Fixes bug 40884; bugfix on 0.4.8.3-rc.
    200 
    201   o Minor bugfixes (conflux, client):
    202     - Avoid a non fatal assert caused by data coming in on a conflux set
    203       that is being freed during shutdown. Fixes bug 40870; bugfix
    204       on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    205 
    206   o Minor bugfixes (testing network):
    207     - Enabling TestingTorNetwork no longer forces fast hidden service
    208       intro point rotation. This reduces noise and errors when using
    209       hidden services with TestingTorNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 40922;
    210       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
    211 
    212   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
    213     - Refuse to overwrite an existing *.secret_family_key when running
    214       tor --keygen-family. Fixes bug 41184; bugfix on 0.4.9.1-alpha.
    215 
    216   o New system requirements:
    217     - When built with LibreSSL, Tor now requires LibreSSL 3.7 or later.
    218       Part of ticket 41059.
    219     - When built with OpenSSL, Tor now requires OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
    220       (We strongly recommend 3.0 or later, but still build with 1.1.1,
    221       even though it is not supported by the OpenSSL team, due to its
    222       presence in Debian oldstable.) Part of ticket 41059.
    223 
    224   o Removed features (relays):
    225     - Relays no longer support clients that falsely advertise TLS
    226       ciphers they don't really support. (Clients have not done this
    227       since 0.2.3.17-beta). Part of ticket 41031.
    228     - Relays no longer support clients that require obsolete v1 and v2
    229       link handshakes. (The v3 link handshake has been supported since
    230       0.2.3.6-alpha). Part of ticket 41031.
    231     - Relays no longer support the obsolete TAP circuit extension
    232       protocol. (For backward compatibility, however, relays still
    233       continue to include TAP keys in their descriptors.) Implements
    234       part of proposal 350.
    235     - Relays no longer support the obsolete "RSA-SHA256-TLSSecret"
    236       authentication method, which used a dangerously short RSA key, and
    237       which required access TLS session internals. The current method
    238       ("Ed25519-SHA256-RFC5705") has been supported since 0.3.0.1-alpha.
    239       Closes ticket 41020.
    240 
    241   o Removed features (directory authorities):
    242     - Directory authorities no longer support consensus methods before
    243       method 32. Closes ticket 40835.
    244     - We include a new consensus method that removes support for
    245       computing "package" lines in consensus documents. This feature was
    246       never used, and support for including it in our votes was removed
    247       in 0.4.2.1-alpha. Finishes implementation of proposal 301.
    248 
    249 
    250 Changes in version 0.4.8.22 - 2026-01-28
    251   This is likely the very last release of the 0.4.8.x series. Three major
    252   bugfixes detailed below including two affecting directory servers (basically
    253   all relays). We strongly recommend upgrading as soon as possible.
    254 
    255   o Major bugfixes (security):
    256     - Avoid an out-of-bounds read error that could occur with
    257       V1-formatted EXTEND cells. Fixes bug 41180; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    258       This is tracked as TROVE-2025-016.
    259 
    260   o Major bugfixes (directory servers):
    261     - Allow old clients to fetch the consensus even if they use version
    262       0 of the SENDME protocol. In mid 2025 we changed the required
    263       minimum version of the "FlowCtrl" protocol to 1, meaning directory
    264       caches hang up on clients that send a version 0 SENDME cell. Since
    265       old clients were no longer able to retrieve the consensus, they
    266       couldn't learn about this required minimum version -- meaning
    267       we've had many many old clients loading down directory servers for
    268       the past months. Fixes bug 41191; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
    269     - Don't count networkstatus serves until they finish. When we
    270       started serving a consensus document but the client didn't receive
    271       all of it, we were still counting that as a success in our stats.
    272       This mistake, which can be triggered for example by obsolete
    273       clients or by DPI-based censorship, led to wildly inflated user
    274       counts because we estimate total users in the world based on
    275       successful consensus fetches. Fixes bug 41192; bugfix
    276       on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
    277 
    278   o Minor feature (testing, CI):
    279     - Bump the CI version of chutney to the current version as of
    280       2026-01-21 (3338f5c).
    281 
    282   o Minor features (debugging, compression):
    283     - Do not check for compression bombs for buffers smaller than 5MB
    284       (increased from 64 KB). Fixes ticket 40739; bugfix on 0.2.1.29.
    285 
    286   o Minor features (directory servers):
    287     - Track how many times directory servers begin serving networkstatus
    288       documents, so we can compare it to the number of times we finish
    289       serving them. Motivated by the fixes in ticket 41192.
    290 
    291   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    292     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 28, 2026.
    293 
    294   o Minor features (geoip data):
    295     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    296       retrieved on 2026/01/28.
    297 
    298   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
    299     - Downgrade "Error relaying cell across rendezvous" log warn to info
    300       as the error condition is possible under normal circumstances. Fixes
    301       bug 40951; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
    302 
    303   o Code simplification and refactoring:
    304     - Simplify SOCKS4a parsing to avoid the (false) appearance of
    305       integer underflows, and to make the logic more obvious. Fixes bug
    306       41190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
    307 
    308 
    309 Changes in version 0.4.8.21 - 2025-11-17
    310   This release is a continuation of the previous one and addresses additional
    311   Conflux-related issues identified through further testing and feedback from
    312   relay operators. We strongly recommend upgrading as soon as possible.
    313 
    314   o Major bugfixes (conflux, exit):
    315     - When dequeuing out-of-order conflux cells, the circuit could be
    316       closed in between two dequeues, which could lead to mishandling
    317       a NULL pointer. Fixes bug 41162; bugfix on 0.4.8.4.
    318 
    319   o Minor feature (compiler flag):
    320     - Add -mbranch-protection=standard for arm64.
    321 
    322   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    323     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 17, 2025.
    324 
    325   o Minor features (geoip data):
    326     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    327       retrieved on 2025/11/17.
    328 
    329   o Minor bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transport):
    330     - Fix a bug causing the initial tor process to hang instead of
    331       exiting with RunAsDaemon, when pluggable transports are used.
    332       Fixes bug 41088; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    333 
    334 
    335 Changes in version 0.4.8.20 - 2025-11-10
    336   This release fixes several bugs related to Conflux edge cases as well as
    337   adding a new hardening compiler flag if supported.
    338 
    339   o Minor feature (compiler flag):
    340     - Add -fcf-protection=full if supported by the compiler.
    341       Implements ticket 41139.
    342 
    343   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    344     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2025.
    345 
    346   o Minor features (geoip data):
    347     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    348       retrieved on 2025/11/10.
    349 
    350   o Minor bugfixes (conflux fragile asserts):
    351     - Fix the root cause of some conflux fragile asserts when a control
    352       port listener is attached. Fixes bug 41037; bugfix on 0.4.8.16.
    353 
    354   o Minor bugfixes (conflux, relay):
    355     - Fix a series of conflux edge cases about sequence number
    356       arithmetic and OOM handler kicking in under heavy memory pressure.
    357       Fixes bug 41155; bugfix on 0.4.8.4.
    358 
    359 
    360 Changes in version 0.4.8.19 - 2025-10-06
    361   This release provides major bugfixes for a LibreSSL issue and a flow control
    362   C-tor specific problem (not protocol). We strongly recommend you upgrade as
    363   soon as possible.
    364 
    365   o Major bugfixes (client, TLS):
    366     - Fix some clients not being able to connect to LibreSSL relays.
    367       Fixes bug 41134; bugfix on 0.4.8.17.
    368 
    369   o Minor bugfixes (stream flow control performance):
    370     - Use a 5 ms grace period to allow an edge connection to flush its
    371       stream data to the socket before sending an XOFF. This
    372       significantly reduces the number of XON/XOFF messages sent when
    373       (1) the application is reading stream data at a fast rate, and (2)
    374       conflux is enabled. Fixes part of bug 41130; bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
    375 
    376   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    377     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on October 06, 2025.
    378 
    379   o Minor features (geoip data):
    380     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    381       retrieved on 2025/10/06.
    382 
    383   o Minor bugfix (process):
    384     - Avoid closing all possible FDs when spawning a process (PT). On
    385       some systems, this could lead to 3+ minutes hang. Fixes bug 40990;
    386       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
    387 
    388 
    389 Changes in version 0.4.8.18 - 2025-09-16
    390   This is a minor release with a major onion service directory cache (HSDir)
    391   bug fix. A series of minor bugfixes as well. As always, we strongly recommend
    392   to upgrade as soon as possible.
    393 
    394   o Major bugfixes (onion service directory cache):
    395     - Preserve the download counter of an onion service descriptor
    396       across descriptor uploads, so that recently updated descriptors
    397       don't get pruned if there is memory pressure soon after update.
    398       Additionally, create a separate torrc option MaxHSDirCacheBytes
    399       that defaults to the former 20% of MaxMemInQueues threshold, but
    400       can be controlled by relay operators under DoS. Also enforce this
    401       threshold during HSDir uploads. Fixes bug 41006; bugfix
    402       on 0.4.8.14.
    403 
    404   o Minor feature (padding, logging):
    405     - Reduce the amount of messages being logged related to channel
    406       padding timeout when log level is "notice".
    407 
    408   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    409     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 16, 2025.
    410 
    411   o Minor features (geoip data):
    412     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    413       retrieved on 2025/09/16.
    414 
    415   o Minor bugfix (conflux):
    416     - Remove the pending nonce if we realize that the nonce of the
    417       unlinked circuit is not tracked anymore. Should avoid the non
    418       fatal assert triggered with a control port circuit event. Fixes
    419       bug 41037; bugfix on 0.4.8.15.
    420 
    421   o Minor bugfixes (circuit handling):
    422     - Prevent circuit_mark_for_close() from being called twice on the
    423       same circuit. Second fix attempt Fixes bug 41106; bugfix
    424       on 0.4.8.17.
    425 
    426 
    427 Changes in version 0.4.8.17 - 2025-06-30
    428   This is a minor providing a series of minor features especially in the realm
    429   of TLS. It also brings a new set of recommended and required sub protocols.
    430   And finally, few minor bugfixes, nothing major. As always, we strongly
    431   recommend you upgrade as soon as possible.
    432 
    433   o Minor features (security, TLS):
    434     - When we are running with OpenSSL 3.5.0 or later, support using the
    435       ML-KEM768 for post-quantum key agreement. Closes ticket 41041.
    436 
    437   o Minor feature (client, TLS):
    438     - Set the TLS 1.3 cipher list instead of falling back on the
    439       default value.
    440 
    441   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    442     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 30, 2025.
    443 
    444   o Minor features (geoip data):
    445     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    446       retrieved on 2025/06/30.
    447 
    448   o Minor features (hsdesc POW):
    449     - Tolerate multiple PoW schemes in onion service descriptors, for
    450       future extensibility. Implements torspec ticket 272.
    451 
    452   o Minor features (performance TLS):
    453     - When running with with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or later, support using
    454       X25519 for TLS key agreement. (This should slightly improve
    455       performance for TLS session establishment.)
    456 
    457   o Minor features (portability):
    458     - Fix warnings when compiling with GCC 15. Closes ticket 41079.
    459 
    460   o Minor features (recommended protocols):
    461     - Directory authorities now vote to recommend that clients support
    462       certain protocols beyond those that are required. These include
    463       improved support for connecting to relays on IPv6, NtorV3, and
    464       congestion control. Part of ticket 40836.
    465 
    466   o Minor features (required protocols):
    467     - Directory authorities now vote to require clients to support the
    468       authenticated SENDME feature, which was introduced in
    469       0.4.1.1-alpha. Part of ticket 40836.
    470     - Directory authorities now vote to require relays to support
    471       certain protocols, all of which have been implemented since
    472       0.4.7.4-alpha or earlier. These include improved support for
    473       connecting to relays on IPv6, NtorV3, running as a rate-limited
    474       introduction point, authenticated SENDMEs, and congestion control.
    475       Part of ticket 40836.
    476 
    477   o Minor bugfix (conflux):
    478     - Avoid a non fatal assert when describing a conflux circuit on the
    479       control port after being prepped to be freed. Fixes bug 41037;
    480       bugfix on 0.4.8.15.
    481 
    482   o Minor bugfixes (circuit handling):
    483     - Prevent circuit_mark_for_close() from being called twice on the
    484       same circuit. Fixes bug 40951; bugfix on 0.4.8.16-dev.
    485 
    486   o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
    487     - Make sure the two bitfields in the half-closed edge struct are
    488       unsigned, as we're using them for boolean values and assign 1 to
    489       them. Fixes bug 40911; bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
    490 
    491   o Minor bugfixes (threads, memory):
    492     - Improvements in cleanup of resources used by threads. Fixes bug
    493       40991; bugfix on 0.4.8.13-dev.
    494     - Rework start and exit of worker threads.
    495 
    496 
    497 Changes in version 0.4.8.16 - 2025-03-24
    498   This is a quick second release since 0.4.8.15 due to a typo in a directory
    499   authority rule file. This only affects directory authorities.
    500 
    501   o Minor features (geoip data):
    502     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    503       retrieved on 2025/03/24.
    504 
    505   o Minor bugfix (dirauth):
    506     - Fix typo in flag assignment approved-routers file. Fixes bug
    507       41035; bugfix on 0.4.8.15.
    508 
    509 
    510 Changes in version 0.4.8.15 - 2025-03-20
    511   This is a minor release fixing a sandbox issue for bandwidth authority and a
    512   conflux issue on the control port. It also has a client fix about relay flag
    513   usage.
    514 
    515   o Minor feature (testing, CI):
    516     - Use a fixed version of chutney (be881a1e) instead of its current
    517       HEAD. This version should also be preferred when testing locally.
    518 
    519   o Minor features (continuous integration):
    520     - Upgrade CI runners to use Debian Bookworm instead of Bullseye.
    521       Closes ticket 41029.
    522 
    523   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    524     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on March 20, 2025.
    525 
    526   o Minor features (geoip data):
    527     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    528       retrieved on 2025/03/20.
    529 
    530   o Minor bugfixes (control port):
    531     - Correctly report conflux pair information to controller fields.
    532       Fixes bug 40872; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    533 
    534   o Minor bugfixes (relay flag usage):
    535     - Fix client usage of the MiddleOnly flag so that MiddleOnly relays
    536       are not used as HS IP or RP by clients or services. Additionally,
    537       give dirauths the ability to remove specific flags, as an
    538       alternative to MiddleOnly. Fixes bug 41023; bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
    539 
    540   o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, bwauth):
    541     - Fix sandbox to work for bandwidth authority. Fixes bug 40933;
    542       bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
    543 
    544 
    545 Changes in version 0.4.8.14 - 2025-02-05
    546   Minor release fixing a major bug affecting onion service directory cache,
    547   also known as HSDir. Furthermore, the fallbackdir list had more than 25% of
    548   its entries unreachable or gone from the consensus. As usual, we strongly
    549   recommend to update to this version as soon as possible.
    550 
    551   o Major bugfixes (onion service directory cache):
    552     - When the OOM killer kicks in, cleanup the descriptor cache of an
    553       HSDir by looking at the lowest downloaded count instead of time in
    554       cache. Fixes bug 40996; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
    555 
    556   o Minor feature (testing):
    557     - test-network now unconditionally includes IPv6 instead of trying
    558       to detect IPv6 support.
    559 
    560   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    561     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 05, 2025.
    562 
    563   o Minor features (geoip data):
    564     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    565       retrieved on 2025/02/05.
    566 
    567   o Minor bugfixes (memory):
    568     - Fix a pointer free that wasn't set to NULL afterwards which could
    569       be reused by calling back in the free all function. Fixes bug
    570       40989; bugfix on 0.4.8.13.
    571 
    572 
    573 Changes in version 0.4.8.13 - 2024-10-24
    574   This minor release fixes an important client circuit building (conflux
    575   related) bug which led to performance degradation and extra load on the
    576   network. Some minor memory leaks fixes as well as an important minor feature
    577   for pluggable transports. We strongly recommend to update as soon as possible
    578   for clients in order to neutralize this conflux bug.
    579 
    580   o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
    581     - Conflux circuit building was ignoring the "predicted ports"
    582       feature, which aims to make Tor stop building circuits if there
    583       have been no user requests lately. This bug led to every idle Tor
    584       on the network building and discarding circuits every 30 seconds,
    585       which added overall load to the network, used bandwidth and
    586       battery from clients that weren't actively using their Tor, and
    587       kept sockets open on guards which added connection padding
    588       essentially forever. Fixes bug 40981; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    589 
    590   o Minor feature (bridges, pluggable transport):
    591     - Add STATUS TYPE=version handler for Pluggable Transport. This
    592       allows us to gather version statistics on Pluggable Transport
    593       usage from bridge servers on our metrics portal. Closes
    594       ticket 11101.
    595 
    596   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    597     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on October 24, 2024.
    598 
    599   o Minor features (geoip data):
    600     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    601       retrieved on 2024/10/24.
    602 
    603   o Minor bugfixes (memleak, authority):
    604     - Fix a small memleak when computing a new consensus. This only
    605       affects directory authorities. Fixes bug 40966; bugfix
    606       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
    607 
    608   o Minor bugfixes (memory):
    609     - Fix memory leaks of the CPU worker code during shutdown. Fixes bug
    610       833; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
    611 
    612 
    613 Changes in version 0.4.8.12 - 2024-06-06
    614   This is a minor release with couple bugfixes affecting conflux and logging.
    615   We also have the return of faravahar directory authority with new keys and
    616   address.
    617 
    618   o Minor feature (dirauth):
    619     - Add back faravahar with a new address and new keys. Closes 40689.
    620 
    621   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    622     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 06, 2024.
    623 
    624   o Minor features (geoip data):
    625     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    626       retrieved on 2024/06/06.
    627 
    628   o Minor bugfix (circuit):
    629     - Remove a log_warn being triggered by a protocol violation that
    630       already emits a protocol warning log. Fixes bug 40932; bugfix
    631       on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    632 
    633   o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
    634     - Avoid a potential hard assert (crash) when sending a cell on a
    635       Conflux set. Fixes bug 40921; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    636     - Make sure we don't process a closed circuit when packaging data.
    637       This lead to a non fatal BUG() spamming logs. Fixes bug 40908;
    638       bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    639 
    640 
    641 Changes in version 0.4.8.11 - 2024-04-10
    642   This is a minor release mostly to upgrade the fallbackdir list.
    643   Directory authorities running this version will now automatically
    644   reject relays running the end of life 0.4.7.x version.
    645 
    646   o Minor features (directory authorities):
    647     - Reject 0.4.7.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40896.
    648 
    649   o Minor feature (dirauth, tor26):
    650     - New IP address and keys.
    651 
    652   o Minor feature (directory authority):
    653     - Allow BandwidthFiles "node_id" KeyValue without the dollar sign at
    654       the start of the hexdigit, in order to easier database queries
    655       combining Tor documents in which the relays fingerprint does not
    656       include it. Fixes bug 40891; bugfix on 0.4.7 (all supported
    657       versions of Tor).
    658 
    659   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    660     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 10, 2024.
    661 
    662   o Minor features (geoip data):
    663     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    664       retrieved on 2024/04/10.
    665 
    666   o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
    667     - Add a warning when publishing a vote or signatures to another
    668       directory authority fails. Fixes bug 40910; bugfix
    669       on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
    670 
    671 
    672 Changes in version 0.4.8.10 - 2023-12-08
    673   This is a security release fixing a high severity bug (TROVE-2023-007)
    674   affecting Exit relays supporting Conflux. We strongly recommend to update as
    675   soon as possible.
    676 
    677   o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2023-007, exit):
    678     - Improper error propagation from a safety check in conflux leg
    679       linking led to a desynchronization of which legs were part of a
    680       conflux set, ultimately causing a UAF and NULL pointer dereference
    681       crash on Exit relays. Fixes bug 40897; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    682 
    683   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    684     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 08, 2023.
    685 
    686   o Minor features (geoip data):
    687     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    688       retrieved on 2023/12/08.
    689 
    690   o Minor bugfixes (bridges, statistics):
    691     - Correctly report statistics for client count over pluggable
    692       transports. Fixes bug 40871; bugfix on 0.4.8.4.
    693 
    694 
    695 Changes in version 0.4.8.9 - 2023-11-09
    696   This is another security release fixing a high severity bug affecting onion
    697   services which is tracked by TROVE-2023-006. We are also releasing a guard
    698   major bugfix as well. If you are an onion service operator, we strongly
    699   recommend to update as soon as possible.
    700 
    701   o Major bugfixes (guard usage):
    702     - When Tor excluded a guard due to temporary circuit restrictions,
    703       it considered *additional* primary guards for potential usage by
    704       that circuit. This could result in more than the specified number
    705       of guards (currently 2) being used, long-term, by the tor client.
    706       This could happen when a Guard was also selected as an Exit node,
    707       but it was exacerbated by the Conflux guard restrictions. Both
    708       instances have been fixed. Fixes bug 40876; bugfix
    709       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
    710 
    711   o Major bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2023-006):
    712     - Fix a possible hard assert on a NULL pointer when recording a
    713       failed rendezvous circuit on the service side for the MetricsPort.
    714       Fixes bug 40883; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    715 
    716   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    717     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 09, 2023.
    718 
    719   o Minor features (geoip data):
    720     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    721       retrieved on 2023/11/09.
    722 
    723 
    724 Changes in version 0.4.8.8 - 2023-11-03
    725   We are releasing today a fix for a high security issue, TROVE-2023-004, that
    726   is affecting relays. Also a few minor bugfixes detailed below. Please upgrade
    727   as soon as possible.
    728 
    729   o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2023-004, relay):
    730     - Mitigate an issue when Tor compiled with OpenSSL can crash during
    731       handshake with a remote relay. Fixes bug 40874; bugfix
    732       on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
    733 
    734   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    735     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 03, 2023.
    736 
    737   o Minor features (geoip data):
    738     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    739       retrieved on 2023/11/03.
    740 
    741   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
    742     - Look at the network parameter "maxunmeasuredbw" with the correct
    743       spelling. Fixes bug 40869; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
    744 
    745   o Minor bugfixes (vanguards addon support):
    746     - Count the conflux linked cell as valid when it is successfully
    747       processed. This will quiet a spurious warn in the vanguards addon.
    748       Fixes bug 40878; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    749 
    750 
    751 Changes in version 0.4.8.7 - 2023-09-25
    752   This version fixes a single major bug in the Conflux subsystem on the client
    753   side. See below for more information. The upcoming Tor Browser 13 stable will
    754   pick this up.
    755 
    756   o Major bugfixes (conflux):
    757     - Fix an issue that prevented us from pre-building more conflux sets
    758       after existing sets had been used. Fixes bug 40862; bugfix
    759       on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    760 
    761   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    762     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 25, 2023.
    763 
    764   o Minor features (geoip data):
    765     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    766       retrieved on 2023/09/25.
    767 
    768 
    769 Changes in version 0.4.8.6 - 2023-09-18
    770   This version contains an important fix for onion services regarding
    771   congestion control and its reliability. Apart from that, unneeded BUG
    772   warnings have been suppressed especially about a compression bomb seen
    773   on relays.
    774 
    775   o Major bugfixes (onion service):
    776     - Fix a reliability issue where services were expiring their
    777       introduction points every consensus update. This caused
    778       connectivity issues for clients caching the old descriptor and
    779       intro points. Bug reported and fixed by gitlab user
    780       @hyunsoo.kim676. Fixes bug 40858; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
    781 
    782   o Minor features (debugging, compression):
    783     - Log the input and output buffer sizes when we detect a potential
    784       compression bomb. Diagnostic for ticket 40739.
    785 
    786   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    787     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 18, 2023.
    788 
    789   o Minor features (geoip data):
    790     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    791       retrieved on 2023/09/18.
    792 
    793   o Minor bugfix (defensive programming):
    794     - Disable multiple BUG warnings of a missing relay identity key when
    795       starting an instance of Tor compiled without relay support. Fixes
    796       bug 40848; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
    797 
    798   o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
    799     - When reporting a pseudo-networkstatus as a bridge authority, or
    800       answering "ns/purpose/*" controller requests, include accurate
    801       published-on dates from our list of router descriptors. Fixes bug
    802       40855; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    803 
    804   o Minor bugfixes (compression, zstd):
    805     - Use less frightening language and lower the log-level of our run-
    806       time ABI compatibility check message in our Zstd compression
    807       subsystem. Fixes bug 40815; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
    808 
    809 
    810 Changes in version 0.4.8.5 - 2023-08-30
    811   Quick second release after the first stable few days ago fixing minor
    812   annoying bugfixes creating log BUG stacktrace. We also fix BSD compilation
    813   failures and PoW unit test.
    814 
    815   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    816     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 30, 2023.
    817 
    818   o Minor features (geoip data):
    819     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    820       retrieved on 2023/08/30.
    821 
    822   o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, compilation):
    823     - Fix compilation issue on NetBSD by avoiding an unnecessary
    824       dependency on "huge" page mappings in Equi-X. Fixes bug 40843;
    825       bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    826 
    827   o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, testing):
    828     - Fix test failures in "crypto/hashx" and "slow/crypto/equix" on
    829       x86_64 and aarch64 NetBSD hosts, by adding support for
    830       PROT_MPROTECT() flags. Fixes bug 40844; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    831 
    832   o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
    833     - Demote a relay-side warn about too many legs to ProtocolWarn, as
    834       there are conditions that it can briefly happen during set
    835       construction. Also add additional set logging details for all
    836       error cases. Fixes bug 40841; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    837     - Prevent non-fatal assert stacktrace caused by using conflux sets
    838       during their teardown process. Fixes bug 40842; bugfix
    839       on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    840 
    841 
    842 Changes in version 0.4.8.4 - 2023-08-23
    843   Finally, this is the very first stable release of the 0.4.8.x series making,
    844   among other features, Proof-of-Work (prop#327) and Conflux (prop#329)
    845   available to the entire network. Several new features and a lot of bugfixes
    846   detailed below.
    847 
    848   o Major feature (denial of service):
    849     - Extend DoS protection to partially opened channels and known relays.
    850       Because re-entry is not allowed anymore, we can apply DoS protections
    851       onto known IP namely relays. Fixes bug 40821; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
    852 
    853   o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
    854     - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
    855       introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
    856       protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
    857       torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
    858       feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
    859 
    860   o Major features (conflux):
    861     - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
    862       traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol. These
    863       circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre- built conflux
    864       pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used. When using conflux
    865       circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency circuit to send data to
    866       the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the client, it maximizes
    867       throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits in a multiplexed fashion.
    868       Alternatively, clients can request that the Exit optimize for latency
    869       when transmitting to them, by setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX
    870       latency'. Onion services are not currently supported, but will be in
    871       arti. Many other future optimizations will also be possible using this
    872       protocol. Closes ticket 40593.
    873 
    874   o Major features (dirauth):
    875     - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with directory
    876       authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they would continue to
    877       upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to the hard-coded address in
    878       the configuration. Now, if the directory authority is listed in the
    879       consensus at a different address, they will direct queries to this new
    880       address. Implements ticket 40705.
    881 
    882   o Major bugfixes (conflux):
    883     - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug
    884       40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds additional
    885       log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug 40834; bugfix on
    886       0.4.8.3-rc.
    887 
    888   o Major bugfixes (conflux):
    889     - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux circuit
    890       between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on the conflux
    891       set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back- pointer when the
    892       last leg is removed. Additional checks and log messages have been added
    893       to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
    894 
    895   o Major bugfixes (proof of work, onion service, hashx):
    896     - Fix a very rare buffer overflow in hashx, specific to the dynamic
    897       compiler on aarch64 platforms. Fixes bug 40833; bugfix on 0.4.8.2-alpha.
    898 
    899   o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
    900     - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the Stable or
    901       Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in the L2 vanguard
    902       list but never use them, and if all of our vanguards end up like this we
    903       wouldn't have any middle nodes left to choose from so we would fail to
    904       make onion-related circuits. Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
    905 
    906   o Minor features (bridge):
    907     - warn when a bridge is also configure to be an exit relay.
    908       Closes ticket 40819.
    909 
    910   o Minor features (geoip data):
    911     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    912       retrieved on 2023/08/23.
    913 
    914   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    915     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 23, 2023.
    916 
    917   o Minor features (testing):
    918     - All Rust code is now linted (cargo clippy) as part of GitLab CI, and
    919       existing warnings have been fixed.
    920     - Any unit tests written in Rust now run as part of GitLab CI.
    921 
    922   o Minor feature (CI):
    923     - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
    924 
    925   o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
    926     - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
    927       ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
    928 
    929   o Minor feature (compilation):
    930     - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
    931       if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
    932       or NetBSD.
    933 
    934   o Minor feature (cpuworker):
    935     - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
    936       number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
    937       single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
    938 
    939   o Minor feature (lzma):
    940     - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
    941 
    942   o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
    943     - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
    944       ticket 40546.
    945 
    946   o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
    947     - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
    948       seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
    949 
    950   o Minor features (directory authorities):
    951     - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
    952       config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
    953       Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
    954       Implements ticket 40753.
    955 
    956   o Minor features (directory authority):
    957     - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
    958       router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
    959       meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
    960       compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
    961       40130; implements proposal 275.
    962 
    963   o Minor features (network documents):
    964     - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
    965       declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
    966       this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
    967       the future. Part of ticket 40130.
    968 
    969   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    970     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
    971 
    972   o Minor features (geoip data):
    973     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
    974       retrieved on 2023/06/01.
    975 
    976   o Minor features (hs, metrics):
    977     - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
    978       histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
    979       durations. Part of ticket 40757.
    980 
    981   o Minor features (metrics):
    982     - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
    983     - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
    984       failures. Closes ticket 40755.
    985     - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
    986 
    987   o Minor features (pluggable transports):
    988     - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
    989       their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
    990 
    991   o Minor features (portability, compilation):
    992     - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
    993       compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
    994 
    995   o Minor features (relay):
    996     - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
    997       anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
    998 
    999   o Minor features (relays):
   1000     - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
   1001       fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
   1002       and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
   1003       patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
   1004 
   1005   o Minor features (tests):
   1006     - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
   1007       tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
   1008 
   1009   o Minor bugfix (hs):
   1010     - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
   1011       Closes ticket 40800.
   1012 
   1013   o Minor bugfix (FreeBSD, compilation):
   1014     - Fix compilation issue on FreeBSD by properly importing
   1015       sys/param.h. Fixes bug 40825; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
   1016 
   1017   o Minor bugfixes (compression):
   1018     - Right after compression/decompression work is done, check for
   1019       errors. Before this, we would consider compression bomb before
   1020       that and then looking for errors leading to false positive on that
   1021       log warning. Fixes bug 40739; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch
   1022       by "cypherpunks".
   1023 
   1024   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
   1025     - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change.
   1026       Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1027 
   1028   o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn):
   1029     - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP
   1030       addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1031 
   1032   o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
   1033     - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
   1034       to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
   1035       bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
   1036     - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
   1037       code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
   1038       40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
   1039     - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
   1040       Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
   1041 
   1042   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
   1043     - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
   1044       manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
   1045       bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
   1046 
   1047   o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
   1048     - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
   1049       avoids infinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
   1050       failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
   1051       our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
   1052       Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
   1053     - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
   1054       were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
   1055       on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
   1056     - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
   1057       that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
   1058       handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
   1059       bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
   1060     - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
   1061       (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
   1062       on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
   1063     - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
   1064       triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
   1065       on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
   1066 
   1067   o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
   1068     - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
   1069       of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
   1070       KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
   1071       KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
   1072       Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   1073 
   1074   o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
   1075     - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
   1076       logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
   1077 
   1078   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
   1079     - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
   1080       bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
   1081     - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
   1082       40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
   1083 
   1084   o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
   1085     - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
   1086       close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
   1087 
   1088   o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
   1089     - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
   1090       execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
   1091       40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   1092 
   1093   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
   1094     - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
   1095       close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
   1096       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1097     - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
   1098       relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
   1099       fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
   1100 
   1101   o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
   1102     - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
   1103       compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1104     - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
   1105       syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
   1106       checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
   1107       breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
   1108       bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
   1109 
   1110   o Minor bugfixes (state file):
   1111     - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
   1112       along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
   1113       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1114 
   1115   o Removed features:
   1116     - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
   1117       Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
   1118       anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   1119 
   1120 
   1121 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
   1122   This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
   1123   client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
   1124   support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
   1125   We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
   1126   congestion control fix detailed below.
   1127 
   1128   o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
   1129     - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
   1130       fully in use. This prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
   1131       of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
   1132       then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
   1133       Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
   1134       bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
   1135 
   1136   o Major bugfixes (relay):
   1137     - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
   1138       include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
   1139       actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
   1140       circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
   1141       we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
   1142       be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
   1143       from "cypherpunks".
   1144 
   1145   o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
   1146     - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
   1147       SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
   1148       SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
   1149       Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1150 
   1151   o Minor feature (authority):
   1152     - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
   1153 
   1154   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   1155     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
   1156 
   1157   o Minor features (geoip data):
   1158     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   1159       retrieved on 2023/01/12.
   1160 
   1161   o Minor features (relays):
   1162     - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
   1163       sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
   1164       outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
   1165       separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
   1166       Xu (Hello71).
   1167 
   1168   o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
   1169     - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
   1170       bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
   1171 
   1172   o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
   1173     - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
   1174       {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
   1175       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1176 
   1177   o Code simplifications and refactoring:
   1178     - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
   1179       resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
   1180       on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
   1181 
   1182 
   1183 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
   1184   This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
   1185   TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
   1186   0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
   1187   2023.
   1188 
   1189   o Major bugfixes (relay):
   1190     - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
   1191       include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
   1192       actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
   1193       circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
   1194       we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
   1195       be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
   1196       from "cypherpunks".
   1197 
   1198   o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
   1199     - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
   1200       SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
   1201       SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
   1202       Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1203 
   1204   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   1205     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
   1206 
   1207   o Minor features (geoip data):
   1208     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   1209       retrieved on 2023/01/12.
   1210 
   1211 
   1212 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
   1213   This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
   1214   metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
   1215   subsystem.
   1216 
   1217   o Directory authority changes (moria1):
   1218     - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
   1219       have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
   1220       periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
   1221       confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
   1222 
   1223   o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
   1224     - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
   1225       Closes ticket 40724.
   1226 
   1227   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   1228     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
   1229 
   1230   o Minor features (geoip data):
   1231     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   1232       retrieved on 2022/12/06.
   1233 
   1234   o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
   1235     - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
   1236       used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1237 
   1238 
   1239 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
   1240   This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
   1241   major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
   1242   series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
   1243 
   1244   o Directory authority changes (dizum):
   1245     - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
   1246 
   1247   o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
   1248     - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
   1249       outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
   1250 
   1251   o Directory authority changes (moria1):
   1252     - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
   1253       have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
   1254       periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
   1255       confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
   1256 
   1257   o Major bugfixes (OSX):
   1258     - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
   1259       the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
   1260       nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
   1261       led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
   1262       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   1263 
   1264   o Major bugfixes (relay):
   1265     - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
   1266       value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1267 
   1268   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   1269     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
   1270 
   1271   o Minor features (geoip data):
   1272     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   1273       retrieved on 2022/12/06.
   1274 
   1275 
   1276 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
   1277   This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
   1278   network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
   1279   for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
   1280   and attacks.
   1281 
   1282   We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
   1283   in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
   1284 
   1285   o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
   1286     - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
   1287     - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
   1288       outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
   1289 
   1290   o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
   1291     - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
   1292       (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
   1293       allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
   1294       on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
   1295 
   1296   o Major bugfixes (onion service):
   1297     - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
   1298       circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
   1299       unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
   1300       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1301 
   1302   o Major bugfixes (OSX):
   1303     - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
   1304       the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
   1305       nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
   1306       led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
   1307       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   1308 
   1309   o Major bugfixes (relay):
   1310     - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
   1311       value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1312 
   1313   o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
   1314     - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
   1315       sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
   1316       symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
   1317       archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
   1318       Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
   1319 
   1320   o Minor feature (metrics):
   1321     - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
   1322       ticket 40708.
   1323 
   1324   o Minor feature (performance):
   1325     - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
   1326       that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
   1327       40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1328 
   1329   o Minor feature (relay):
   1330     - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
   1331       consensus parameter.
   1332     - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
   1333       queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
   1334       MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
   1335       parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
   1336 
   1337   o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
   1338     - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
   1339       max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
   1340       new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
   1341       number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
   1342 
   1343   o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
   1344     - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
   1345     - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
   1346     - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
   1347       are currently opened and how many were created.
   1348     - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
   1349     - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
   1350     - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
   1351     - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
   1352     - Related to ticket 40194.
   1353 
   1354   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   1355     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
   1356 
   1357   o Minor features (geoip data):
   1358     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   1359       retrieved on 2022/11/10.
   1360 
   1361   o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
   1362     - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
   1363       sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1364 
   1365   o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
   1366     - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
   1367       for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
   1368       considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
   1369       their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
   1370       place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
   1371       "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
   1372       bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
   1373       posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
   1374       torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
   1375       bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
   1376 
   1377   o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
   1378     - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
   1379       "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
   1380       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1381 
   1382   o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
   1383     - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
   1384       repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
   1385       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1386 
   1387   o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
   1388     - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
   1389       assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
   1390       count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
   1391       client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
   1392       claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
   1393       cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
   1394 
   1395   o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
   1396     - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
   1397       40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1398 
   1399 
   1400 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
   1401   This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
   1402   database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
   1403   latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
   1404   affected.
   1405 
   1406   o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
   1407     - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
   1408       (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
   1409       are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
   1410       Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
   1411 
   1412 
   1413 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
   1414   This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
   1415   database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
   1416   latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
   1417   affected.
   1418 
   1419   o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
   1420     - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
   1421       (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
   1422       are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
   1423       Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
   1424 
   1425 
   1426 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
   1427   This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
   1428   database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
   1429   latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
   1430   affected.
   1431 
   1432   o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
   1433     - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
   1434       (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
   1435       are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
   1436       Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
   1437 
   1438 
   1439 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
   1440   This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
   1441   relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
   1442   congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
   1443   Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
   1444   selection.
   1445 
   1446   We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
   1447   in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
   1448 
   1449   o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
   1450     - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
   1451       overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
   1452       for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
   1453       congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
   1454       the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
   1455       capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
   1456       relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
   1457       to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
   1458       on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
   1459 
   1460   o Major bugfixes (relay):
   1461     - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
   1462       close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
   1463       thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
   1464       bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   1465     - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
   1466       received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
   1467       stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
   1468 
   1469   o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
   1470     - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
   1471       guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
   1472       of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
   1473       to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
   1474       on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
   1475 
   1476   o Minor features (dirauth):
   1477     - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
   1478       percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
   1479     - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
   1480       assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
   1481       This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
   1482       hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
   1483     - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
   1484       TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
   1485       from torrc.
   1486 
   1487   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   1488     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
   1489 
   1490   o Minor features (geoip data):
   1491     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   1492       retrieved on 2022/08/11.
   1493 
   1494   o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
   1495     - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
   1496       in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
   1497       and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
   1498       data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
   1499       window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
   1500       impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
   1501 
   1502   o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
   1503     - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
   1504       _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
   1505       against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
   1506       bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   1507 
   1508   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
   1509     - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
   1510       closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
   1511       40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
   1512 
   1513 
   1514 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
   1515   This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
   1516   relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
   1517   stability or safety purposes.
   1518 
   1519   This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
   1520   end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
   1521   stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
   1522 
   1523   o Major bugfixes (relay):
   1524     - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
   1525       close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
   1526       thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
   1527       bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   1528     - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
   1529       received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
   1530       stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
   1531 
   1532   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   1533     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
   1534 
   1535   o Minor features (geoip data):
   1536     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   1537       retrieved on 2022/08/11.
   1538 
   1539   o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
   1540     - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
   1541       and later. Closes ticket 40590.
   1542 
   1543   o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
   1544     - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
   1545       controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
   1546       calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
   1547       whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
   1548       "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
   1549 
   1550   o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
   1551     - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
   1552       _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
   1553       against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
   1554       bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   1555 
   1556   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
   1557     - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
   1558       issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
   1559       40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
   1560 
   1561   o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
   1562     - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
   1563       unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
   1564       service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
   1565       unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   1566 
   1567   o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
   1568     - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
   1569       the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1570 
   1571   o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
   1572     - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
   1573       found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
   1574       causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
   1575       frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
   1576       enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   1577 
   1578   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
   1579     - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
   1580       closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
   1581       40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
   1582 
   1583 
   1584 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
   1585   This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
   1586   relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
   1587   stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
   1588   this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
   1589 
   1590   o Major bugfixes (relay):
   1591     - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
   1592       close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
   1593       thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
   1594       bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   1595     - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
   1596       received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
   1597       stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
   1598 
   1599   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   1600     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
   1601 
   1602   o Minor features (geoip data):
   1603     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   1604       retrieved on 2022/08/11.
   1605 
   1606   o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
   1607     - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
   1608       and later. Closes ticket 40590.
   1609 
   1610   o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
   1611     - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
   1612       controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
   1613       calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
   1614       whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
   1615       "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
   1616 
   1617   o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
   1618     - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
   1619       _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
   1620       against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
   1621       bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   1622 
   1623   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
   1624     - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
   1625       issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
   1626       40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
   1627 
   1628   o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
   1629     - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
   1630       unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
   1631       service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
   1632       unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   1633 
   1634   o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
   1635     - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
   1636       the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1637 
   1638   o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
   1639     - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
   1640       found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
   1641       causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
   1642       frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
   1643       enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   1644 
   1645   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
   1646     - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
   1647       closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
   1648       40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
   1649 
   1650 
   1651 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
   1652   This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
   1653   categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
   1654   should upgrade to this version.
   1655 
   1656   o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
   1657     - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
   1658       degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
   1659       impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
   1660       remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
   1661       bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
   1662 
   1663   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   1664     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
   1665 
   1666   o Minor features (geoip data):
   1667     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   1668       retrieved on 2022/06/17.
   1669 
   1670   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
   1671     - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
   1672       issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
   1673       40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
   1674 
   1675   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
   1676     - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
   1677       from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
   1678       descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
   1679       bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
   1680     - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
   1681       level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
   1682       never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
   1683       bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
   1684 
   1685   o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
   1686     - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
   1687       level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
   1688 
   1689 
   1690 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
   1691   This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series
   1692   includes several major bugfixes from previous series and several features
   1693   including one massive new one: congestion control.
   1694 
   1695   Congestion control, among other things, should improve traffic speed and
   1696   stability on the network once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more
   1697   details about it in proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
   1698 
   1699   Below are all the changes of the 0.4.7.x series:
   1700 
   1701   o Major features (congestion control):
   1702     - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
   1703       circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
   1704 
   1705   o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
   1706     - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
   1707       services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
   1708       'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
   1709 
   1710   o Major features (directory authority):
   1711     - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
   1712       enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
   1713       with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
   1714       V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
   1715       automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
   1716     - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
   1717       When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
   1718       Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
   1719       part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
   1720 
   1721   o Major features (Proposal 333, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
   1722     - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
   1723       guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
   1724       These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
   1725       1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
   1726       short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
   1727       services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
   1728       addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
   1729       40363; implements proposal 333.
   1730 
   1731   o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
   1732     - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
   1733       record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
   1734       (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
   1735       40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
   1736 
   1737   o Major bugfixes (bridges):
   1738     - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
   1739       configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
   1740       came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
   1741       of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
   1742       in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
   1743       these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
   1744       fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
   1745       and 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   1746 
   1747   o Major bugfixes (client):
   1748     - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
   1749       initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
   1750       failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
   1751       EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
   1752       connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
   1753       to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
   1754 
   1755   o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
   1756     - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
   1757       parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
   1758       bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
   1759 
   1760   o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
   1761     - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
   1762       attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
   1763       added to control these values. This change should improve observed
   1764       performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
   1765       40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1766 
   1767   o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
   1768     - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
   1769       only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
   1770       that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
   1771       was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
   1772       minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
   1773       parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
   1774 
   1775   o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
   1776     - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
   1777       fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
   1778       Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
   1779     - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
   1780       order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
   1781       and not the DNS server itself.
   1782     - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
   1783       overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
   1784       They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
   1785     - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
   1786       These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
   1787       be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
   1788       problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
   1789 
   1790   o Minor feature (authority, relay):
   1791     - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
   1792       0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
   1793     - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
   1794       ticket 40559.
   1795 
   1796   o Minor feature (onion service v2):
   1797     - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
   1798       meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
   1799       SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
   1800       Closes ticket 40476.
   1801     - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
   1802       details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
   1803 
   1804   o Minor feature (reproducible build):
   1805     - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
   1806       build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
   1807       ticket 26299.
   1808 
   1809   o Minor features (bridge testing support):
   1810     - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
   1811       bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
   1812       to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
   1813 
   1814   o Minor features (compilation):
   1815     - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
   1816       LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
   1817       with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
   1818       their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
   1819       ticket 40511.
   1820 
   1821   o Minor features (control port):
   1822     - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
   1823       port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
   1824 
   1825   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   1826     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
   1827 
   1828   o Minor features (fuzzing):
   1829     - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
   1830       that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
   1831       were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
   1832 
   1833   o Minor features (geoip data):
   1834     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   1835       retrieved on 2022/04/27.
   1836 
   1837   o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
   1838     - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
   1839       but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
   1840       how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
   1841       reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
   1842       cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
   1843       useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
   1844 
   1845   o Minor features (portability):
   1846     - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
   1847       could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
   1848       Closes ticket 40355.
   1849 
   1850   o Minor features (testing configuration):
   1851     - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
   1852       hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
   1853     - On a testing network, relays can now use the
   1854       TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
   1855       amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
   1856       maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
   1857       safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
   1858       networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
   1859     - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
   1860       they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
   1861       fix for ticket 40337.
   1862     - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
   1863       immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
   1864       been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
   1865 
   1866   o Minor features (testing):
   1867     - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
   1868       service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
   1869       ticket 40488.
   1870 
   1871   o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
   1872     - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug
   1873       40500; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   1874 
   1875   o Minor bugfix (logging):
   1876     - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
   1877       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1878 
   1879   o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
   1880     - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
   1881       emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
   1882       method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
   1883 
   1884   o Minor bugfix (relay):
   1885     - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
   1886       relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
   1887       bugfix on 0.3.5.17.
   1888 
   1889   o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
   1890     - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
   1891       disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
   1892       guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
   1893       conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
   1894       try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
   1895       do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
   1896       bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
   1897 
   1898   o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
   1899     - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
   1900     - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
   1901       empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
   1902       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1903 
   1904   o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
   1905     - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
   1906       already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
   1907       40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   1908 
   1909   o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
   1910     - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
   1911       longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
   1912       function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
   1913       for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
   1914       on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
   1915 
   1916   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
   1917     - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
   1918       40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
   1919     - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
   1920       previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
   1921       to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
   1922       40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
   1923     - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
   1924       bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
   1925 
   1926   o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
   1927     - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
   1928       40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1929 
   1930   o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
   1931     - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down
   1932       to info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix
   1933       on 0.4.5-alpha.
   1934 
   1935   o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
   1936     - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
   1937       sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
   1938       simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
   1939       Patch by Daniel Pinto.
   1940 
   1941   o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
   1942     - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
   1943       controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
   1944       calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
   1945       whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
   1946       "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
   1947 
   1948   o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
   1949     - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
   1950       to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
   1951       authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
   1952       Neel Chauhan.
   1953 
   1954   o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
   1955     - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
   1956       40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1957 
   1958   o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
   1959     - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
   1960       seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
   1961       process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
   1962       effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
   1963       requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
   1964       sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
   1965       permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
   1966 
   1967   o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
   1968     - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
   1969       consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
   1970       Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
   1971 
   1972   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
   1973     - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
   1974       client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
   1975       better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
   1976     - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
   1977       network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
   1978       reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
   1979       network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
   1980       about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   1981 
   1982   o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
   1983     - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
   1984       managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
   1985       Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   1986 
   1987   o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
   1988     - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
   1989       ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
   1990       the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
   1991       on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   1992 
   1993   o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
   1994     - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
   1995       set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
   1996       happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
   1997       Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
   1998 
   1999   o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
   2000     - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
   2001       or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
   2002       connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
   2003       wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
   2004       selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
   2005     - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
   2006       service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
   2007       bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   2008 
   2009   o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
   2010     - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
   2011       recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
   2012       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   2013 
   2014   o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
   2015     - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
   2016       if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
   2017       Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   2018 
   2019   o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
   2020     - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
   2021       the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
   2022       when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
   2023       _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
   2024       Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
   2025     - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
   2026       log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
   2027       changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
   2028 
   2029   o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
   2030     - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
   2031       found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
   2032       causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
   2033       frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
   2034       enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   2035 
   2036   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
   2037     - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
   2038       DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
   2039       be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
   2040       bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   2041 
   2042   o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
   2043     - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
   2044       assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
   2045       drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
   2046       positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
   2047 
   2048   o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
   2049     - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
   2050       "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
   2051       "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
   2052       "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
   2053 
   2054   o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
   2055     - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
   2056       we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
   2057       bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   2058 
   2059   o Minor bugfixes (tests):
   2060     - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
   2061       names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
   2062 
   2063   o Minor bugfixes (usability):
   2064     - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
   2065       at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
   2066       happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
   2067       after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
   2068       on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
   2069     - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
   2070       LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
   2071       would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
   2072       logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
   2073       Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
   2074 
   2075   o Code simplification and refactoring:
   2076     - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
   2077       to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
   2078       warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
   2079       40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   2080 
   2081   o Documentation:
   2082     - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
   2083       docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
   2084       Emily Bones.
   2085     - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
   2086       Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   2087     - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
   2088       exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
   2089       the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
   2090       several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
   2091 
   2092   o Testing:
   2093     - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
   2094       issue 16803.
   2095 
   2096   o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
   2097     - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
   2098       Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
   2099 
   2100   o Documentation (man, relay):
   2101     - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
   2102       bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
   2103 
   2104   o Testing (CI, chutney):
   2105     - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
   2106       trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
   2107       ticket 40485.
   2108 
   2109 
   2110 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
   2111   This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
   2112   don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
   2113 
   2114   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   2115     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
   2116 
   2117   o Minor features (geoip data):
   2118     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   2119       retrieved on 2022/02/04.
   2120 
   2121   o Minor bugfix (logging):
   2122     - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
   2123       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   2124 
   2125   o Minor bugfix (relay):
   2126     - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
   2127       relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
   2128       bugfix on 0.3.5.17.
   2129 
   2130   o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
   2131     - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
   2132       metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   2133 
   2134 
   2135 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
   2136   This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
   2137   piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
   2138   See below for more details.
   2139 
   2140   o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
   2141     - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
   2142       These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
   2143       be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
   2144       problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
   2145 
   2146   o Minor feature (reproducible build):
   2147     - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
   2148       build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
   2149       ticket 26299.
   2150 
   2151   o Minor features (compilation):
   2152     - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
   2153       LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
   2154       with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
   2155       their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
   2156       ticket 40511.
   2157 
   2158   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   2159     - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
   2160 
   2161   o Minor features (geoip data):
   2162     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   2163       retrieved on 2021/12/15.
   2164 
   2165   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
   2166     - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
   2167       previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
   2168       to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
   2169       40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
   2170 
   2171   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
   2172     - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
   2173       DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
   2174       be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
   2175       bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   2176 
   2177   o Documentation (man, relay):
   2178     - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
   2179       bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
   2180 
   2181 
   2182 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
   2183   This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
   2184   highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
   2185   relay overload.
   2186 
   2187   o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
   2188     - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
   2189       only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
   2190       that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
   2191       was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
   2192       minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
   2193       parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
   2194 
   2195   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   2196     - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
   2197       ticket 40493.
   2198 
   2199   o Minor features (testing):
   2200     - On a testing network, relays can now use the
   2201       TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
   2202       amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
   2203       maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
   2204       safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
   2205       networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
   2206     - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
   2207       they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
   2208       fix for ticket 40337.
   2209     - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
   2210       immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
   2211       been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
   2212 
   2213   o Minor bugfix (onion service):
   2214     - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
   2215       or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
   2216       connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
   2217       to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
   2218       path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
   2219     - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
   2220       bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
   2221 
   2222   o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
   2223     - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
   2224       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   2225 
   2226   o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
   2227     - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
   2228       longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
   2229       function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
   2230       for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
   2231       on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
   2232 
   2233   o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
   2234     - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
   2235       the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
   2236       when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
   2237       _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
   2238       Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
   2239 
   2240 
   2241 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
   2242   The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
   2243   disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
   2244   version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
   2245   last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
   2246   Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
   2247   an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
   2248   or 0.4.6.8.
   2249 
   2250   o Major feature (onion service v2):
   2251     - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
   2252       details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
   2253     - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
   2254       version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
   2255       with ADD_ONION.
   2256     - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
   2257       client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
   2258       introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
   2259       version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
   2260 
   2261   o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
   2262     - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
   2263       https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
   2264       bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
   2265 
   2266   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   2267     - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
   2268       ticket 40493.
   2269 
   2270   o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
   2271     - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
   2272       can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
   2273       rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
   2274       begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
   2275 
   2276   o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
   2277     - On a testing network, relays can now use the
   2278       TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
   2279       amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
   2280       maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
   2281       safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
   2282       networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
   2283     - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
   2284       they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
   2285       fix for ticket 40337.
   2286     - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
   2287       immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
   2288       been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
   2289 
   2290   o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
   2291     - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
   2292       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   2293 
   2294   o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
   2295     - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
   2296       or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
   2297       connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
   2298       to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
   2299       path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
   2300 
   2301   o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
   2302     - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
   2303       longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
   2304       function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
   2305       for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
   2306       on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
   2307 
   2308   o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
   2309     - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
   2310       preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
   2311       cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
   2312       consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   2313 
   2314   o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
   2315     - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
   2316       the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
   2317       when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
   2318       _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
   2319       Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
   2320 
   2321 
   2322 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
   2323   The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
   2324   disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
   2325   version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
   2326   last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
   2327   Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
   2328   an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
   2329   or 0.4.6.8.
   2330 
   2331   o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
   2332     - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
   2333       details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
   2334     - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
   2335       version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
   2336       with ADD_ONION.
   2337     - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
   2338       client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
   2339       introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
   2340       version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
   2341 
   2342   o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
   2343     - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
   2344       https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
   2345       bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
   2346 
   2347   o Minor features (fallbackdir):
   2348     - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
   2349       ticket 40493.
   2350 
   2351   o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
   2352     - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
   2353       longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
   2354       function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
   2355       for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
   2356       on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
   2357 
   2358 
   2359 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
   2360   This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
   2361   that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
   2362   version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
   2363   to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
   2364 
   2365   o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
   2366     - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
   2367       batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
   2368       code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
   2369       denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
   2370       verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
   2371       also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
   2372       Valence.
   2373 
   2374   o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
   2375     - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
   2376 
   2377   o Minor features (geoip data):
   2378     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
   2379       as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
   2380 
   2381   o Minor bugfix (crypto):
   2382     - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
   2383       bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
   2384 
   2385   o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
   2386     - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
   2387       for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
   2388 
   2389   o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
   2390     - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
   2391       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   2392 
   2393   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
   2394     - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
   2395       order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
   2396       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   2397 
   2398   o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
   2399     - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
   2400       type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
   2401       operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
   2402       function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
   2403       which could result in assertion failures when calculating
   2404       voting schedules.)  Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
   2405 
   2406 
   2407 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
   2408   This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
   2409   that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
   2410   version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
   2411   to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
   2412 
   2413   o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
   2414     - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
   2415       batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
   2416       code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
   2417       denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
   2418       verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
   2419       also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
   2420       Valence.
   2421 
   2422   o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
   2423     - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
   2424 
   2425   o Minor features (geoip data):
   2426     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
   2427       as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
   2428 
   2429   o Minor features (testing):
   2430     - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
   2431       bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
   2432 
   2433   o Minor bugfix (crypto):
   2434     - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
   2435       bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
   2436 
   2437   o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
   2438     - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
   2439       bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   2440 
   2441   o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
   2442     - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
   2443       type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
   2444       operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
   2445       function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
   2446       which could result in assertion failures when calculating
   2447       voting schedules.)  Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
   2448 
   2449   o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
   2450     - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
   2451       of NSS.  Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   2452 
   2453 
   2454 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
   2455   This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
   2456   that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
   2457   version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
   2458   to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
   2459 
   2460   o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
   2461     - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
   2462       batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
   2463       code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
   2464       denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
   2465       verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
   2466       also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
   2467       Valence.
   2468 
   2469   o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
   2470     - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
   2471 
   2472   o Minor features (geoip data):
   2473     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
   2474       as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
   2475 
   2476   o Minor bugfix (crypto):
   2477     - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
   2478       bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
   2479 
   2480   o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
   2481     - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
   2482       bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   2483 
   2484 
   2485 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
   2486   Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
   2487   allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
   2488   upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
   2489   0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
   2490 
   2491   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
   2492     - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
   2493       that does not support const variables in static initializers.
   2494       Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
   2495     - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
   2496       versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   2497 
   2498   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
   2499     - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
   2500       address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
   2501       on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
   2502 
   2503 
   2504 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
   2505   Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
   2506   series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
   2507   improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
   2508   observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
   2509   overloaded.
   2510 
   2511   This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
   2512   including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
   2513   and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
   2514   upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
   2515 
   2516   Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
   2517   0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
   2518 
   2519   o Major bugfixes (security):
   2520     - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
   2521       half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
   2522       hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
   2523       a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
   2524       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
   2525       003 and CVE-2021-34548.
   2526 
   2527   o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
   2528     - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
   2529       Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
   2530       implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
   2531       Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
   2532       when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
   2533       40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
   2534       TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
   2535 
   2536   o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
   2537     - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
   2538       relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
   2539       up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
   2540       to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
   2541       collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
   2542       SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
   2543       0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
   2544       CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
   2545     - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
   2546       parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
   2547       service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
   2548       it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
   2549       tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
   2550       Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
   2551 
   2552   o Major features (control port, onion services):
   2553     - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
   2554       client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
   2555       created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
   2556       Neel Chauhan.
   2557 
   2558   o Major features (directory authority):
   2559     - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
   2560       flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
   2561       know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
   2562       ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   2563 
   2564   o Major features (metrics):
   2565     - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
   2566       documents. This information is controlled with the
   2567       OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
   2568       decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
   2569       328; closes ticket 40222.
   2570 
   2571   o Major features (relay, denial of service):
   2572     - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
   2573       connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
   2574 
   2575   o Major features (statistics):
   2576     - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
   2577       services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
   2578       manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
   2579 
   2580   o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
   2581     - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
   2582       60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
   2583       use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
   2584       circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
   2585       estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
   2586       finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
   2587       were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
   2588       possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
   2589       likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
   2590       bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
   2591       lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
   2592       10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
   2593       histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
   2594       we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
   2595       common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
   2596       the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
   2597     - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
   2598       build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
   2599       needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
   2600       on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
   2601 
   2602   o Major bugfixes (signing key):
   2603     - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
   2604       the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
   2605       Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   2606 
   2607   o Minor features (bridge):
   2608     - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
   2609       https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
   2610       bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
   2611 
   2612   o Minor features (build system):
   2613     - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
   2614       file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
   2615       this. Closes ticket 40227.
   2616 
   2617   o Minor features (client):
   2618     - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
   2619       the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
   2620       them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
   2621       this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
   2622 
   2623   o Minor features (command line):
   2624     - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
   2625       command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
   2626       Daniel Pinto.
   2627 
   2628   o Minor features (command-line interface):
   2629     - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
   2630       reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
   2631     - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
   2632       treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
   2633       character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
   2634       our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
   2635     - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
   2636       line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
   2637       --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
   2638       relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   2639 
   2640   o Minor features (compatibility):
   2641     - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
   2642       used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
   2643       compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
   2644       ticket 40399.
   2645 
   2646   o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
   2647     - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
   2648       Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   2649 
   2650   o Minor features (dormant mode):
   2651     - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
   2652       control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
   2653       inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
   2654     - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
   2655       control over whether the client can become dormant from
   2656       inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
   2657 
   2658   o Minor features (geoip data):
   2659     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   2660       retrieved on 2021/06/10.
   2661 
   2662   o Minor features (logging):
   2663     - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
   2664       string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
   2665       from 'cypherpunks'.
   2666     - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
   2667       what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
   2668       any). Closes ticket 40308.
   2669     - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
   2670       put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
   2671       40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   2672 
   2673   o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
   2674     - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
   2675       can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
   2676       rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
   2677       begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
   2678 
   2679   o Minor features (onion services):
   2680     - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
   2681       supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
   2682 
   2683   o Minor features (performance, windows):
   2684     - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
   2685       "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
   2686       SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
   2687       Patch by Daniel Pinto.
   2688 
   2689   o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
   2690     - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
   2691       before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
   2692 
   2693   o Minor features (tests, portability):
   2694     - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
   2695       versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
   2696       Samanta Navarro.
   2697 
   2698   o Minor features (vote document):
   2699     - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
   2700       statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
   2701       help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
   2702 
   2703   o Minor bugfixes (build):
   2704     - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
   2705       been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
   2706       40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
   2707 
   2708   o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
   2709     - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
   2710       architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
   2711       architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
   2712       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
   2713 
   2714   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
   2715     - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
   2716       with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
   2717       40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
   2718 
   2719   o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
   2720     - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
   2721       preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
   2722       cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
   2723       consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   2724 
   2725   o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
   2726     - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
   2727       sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
   2728       simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
   2729       number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
   2730       sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
   2731       Daniel Pinto.
   2732 
   2733   o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
   2734     - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
   2735       authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
   2736       maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
   2737       authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
   2738       most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
   2739 
   2740   o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
   2741     - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
   2742       rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
   2743       NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
   2744       on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   2745 
   2746   o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
   2747     - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
   2748       generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
   2749       or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
   2750       0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   2751 
   2752   o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
   2753     - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
   2754       use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   2755 
   2756   o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
   2757     - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
   2758       MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
   2759       on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   2760 
   2761   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
   2762     - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
   2763       warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
   2764       0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   2765 
   2766   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
   2767     - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
   2768       This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
   2769       Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   2770 
   2771   o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
   2772     - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
   2773       on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
   2774       Daniel Pinto.
   2775 
   2776   o Code simplification and refactoring:
   2777     - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
   2778       (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
   2779       Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   2780 
   2781   o Removed features:
   2782     - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
   2783       documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
   2784       onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
   2785     - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
   2786       services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
   2787       will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
   2788       everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
   2789       see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
   2790       ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
   2791       of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
   2792       the confusion!)
   2793 
   2794   o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
   2795     - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
   2796       configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
   2797 
   2798   o Documentation (manual):
   2799     - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
   2800       Closes issue 40331.
   2801     - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
   2802       bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
   2803     - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
   2804       "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
   2805 
   2806   o Removed features (relay):
   2807     - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
   2808       advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
   2809       disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
   2810       not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
   2811       for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
   2812 
   2813 
   2814 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
   2815   Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
   2816   denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
   2817   denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
   2818   one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
   2819 
   2820   o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
   2821     - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
   2822       half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
   2823       hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
   2824       a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
   2825       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
   2826       003 and CVE-2021-34548.
   2827 
   2828   o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
   2829     - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
   2830       Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
   2831       implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
   2832       Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
   2833       when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
   2834       40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
   2835       TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
   2836 
   2837   o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
   2838     - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
   2839       relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
   2840       up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
   2841       to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
   2842       collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
   2843       SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
   2844       0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
   2845       CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
   2846     - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
   2847       parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
   2848       service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
   2849       it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
   2850       tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
   2851       Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
   2852 
   2853   o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
   2854     - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
   2855       used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
   2856       compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
   2857       ticket 40399.
   2858 
   2859   o Minor features (geoip data):
   2860     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   2861       retrieved on 2021/06/10.
   2862 
   2863   o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
   2864     - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
   2865       sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
   2866       simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
   2867       number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
   2868       sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
   2869       Daniel Pinto.
   2870 
   2871   o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
   2872     - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
   2873       MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
   2874       on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   2875 
   2876 
   2877 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
   2878   Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
   2879   denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
   2880   denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
   2881   one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
   2882 
   2883   Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
   2884   June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
   2885   still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
   2886 
   2887   o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
   2888     - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
   2889       half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
   2890       hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
   2891       a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
   2892       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
   2893       003 and CVE-2021-34548.
   2894 
   2895   o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
   2896     - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
   2897       Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
   2898       implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
   2899       Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
   2900       when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
   2901       40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
   2902       TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
   2903 
   2904   o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
   2905     - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
   2906       relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
   2907       up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
   2908       to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
   2909       collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
   2910       SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
   2911       0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
   2912       CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
   2913     - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
   2914       parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
   2915       service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
   2916       it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
   2917       tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
   2918       Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
   2919 
   2920   o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
   2921     - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
   2922       used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
   2923       compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
   2924       ticket 40399.
   2925 
   2926   o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
   2927     - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
   2928       of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
   2929 
   2930   o Minor features (geoip data):
   2931     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   2932       retrieved on 2021/06/10.
   2933 
   2934   o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
   2935     - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
   2936       when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
   2937       Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
   2938 
   2939   o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
   2940     - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
   2941       Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   2942 
   2943 
   2944 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
   2945   Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
   2946   denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
   2947   denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
   2948   one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
   2949 
   2950   o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
   2951     - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
   2952       half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
   2953       hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
   2954       a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
   2955       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
   2956       003 and CVE-2021-34548.
   2957 
   2958   o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
   2959     - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
   2960       Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
   2961       implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
   2962       Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
   2963       when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
   2964       40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
   2965       TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
   2966 
   2967   o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
   2968     - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
   2969       relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
   2970       up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
   2971       to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
   2972       collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
   2973       SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
   2974       0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
   2975       CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
   2976     - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
   2977       parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
   2978       service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
   2979       it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
   2980       tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
   2981       Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
   2982 
   2983   o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
   2984     - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
   2985       Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   2986 
   2987   o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
   2988     - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
   2989       used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
   2990       compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
   2991       ticket 40399.
   2992 
   2993   o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
   2994     - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
   2995       of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
   2996 
   2997   o Minor features (geoip data):
   2998     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   2999       retrieved on 2021/06/10.
   3000 
   3001 
   3002 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
   3003   Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
   3004   from the 0.4.6.x series.
   3005 
   3006   o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
   3007     - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
   3008       with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
   3009       fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
   3010       Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
   3011 
   3012   o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
   3013     - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
   3014       2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
   3015 
   3016   o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
   3017     - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
   3018       of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
   3019 
   3020   o Minor features (geoip data):
   3021     - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
   3022       retrieved on 2021/05/07.
   3023 
   3024   o Minor features (onion services):
   3025     - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
   3026       services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
   3027       support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
   3028 
   3029   o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
   3030     - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
   3031       line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
   3032       bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
   3033 
   3034   o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
   3035     - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
   3036       script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
   3037       it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   3038 
   3039   o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
   3040     - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
   3041       when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
   3042       Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
   3043 
   3044   o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
   3045     - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
   3046       Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   3047 
   3048   o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
   3049     - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
   3050       the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
   3051       40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   3052 
   3053   o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
   3054     - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
   3055       with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
   3056       bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   3057 
   3058   o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
   3059     - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
   3060       on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
   3061       Daniel Pinto.
   3062 
   3063 
   3064 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
   3065   Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
   3066   in earlier versions of Tor.
   3067 
   3068   One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
   3069   who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
   3070   instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
   3071   against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
   3072   caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
   3073   when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
   3074   affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
   3075   crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
   3076   been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
   3077   network stability.
   3078 
   3079   We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
   3080   these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
   3081   to you.
   3082 
   3083   This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
   3084   compatibility issue.
   3085 
   3086   o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
   3087     - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
   3088       information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
   3089       in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
   3090       bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
   3091       001 and CVE-2021-28089.
   3092     - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
   3093       document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
   3094       bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
   3095       and CVE-2021-28090.
   3096 
   3097   o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
   3098     - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
   3099       country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
   3100       their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
   3101       point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
   3102       Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
   3103       information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
   3104       IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
   3105       ticket 40224.
   3106 
   3107   o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
   3108     - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
   3109       Closes ticket 40309.
   3110 
   3111 
   3112 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
   3113   Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
   3114   in earlier versions of Tor.
   3115 
   3116   One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
   3117   who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
   3118   instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
   3119   against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
   3120   caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
   3121   when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
   3122   affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
   3123   crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
   3124   been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
   3125   network stability.
   3126 
   3127   We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
   3128   these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
   3129   to you.
   3130 
   3131   This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
   3132   compatibility issue.
   3133 
   3134   o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
   3135     - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
   3136       information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
   3137       in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
   3138       bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
   3139       001 and CVE-2021-28089.
   3140     - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
   3141       document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
   3142       bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
   3143       and CVE-2021-28090.
   3144 
   3145   o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
   3146     - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
   3147       country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
   3148       their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
   3149       point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
   3150       Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
   3151       information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
   3152       IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
   3153       ticket 40224.
   3154 
   3155   o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
   3156     - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
   3157       Closes ticket 40309.
   3158 
   3159 
   3160 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
   3161   Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
   3162   versions of Tor.
   3163 
   3164   One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
   3165   who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
   3166   instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
   3167   against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
   3168   caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
   3169   when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
   3170   affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
   3171   crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
   3172   been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
   3173   network stability.
   3174 
   3175   We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
   3176   these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
   3177   to you.
   3178 
   3179   This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
   3180   smaller bugs in earlier releases.
   3181 
   3182   o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
   3183     - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
   3184       information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
   3185       in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
   3186       bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
   3187       001 and CVE-2021-28089.
   3188     - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
   3189       document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
   3190       bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
   3191       and CVE-2021-28090.
   3192 
   3193   o Minor features (geoip data):
   3194     - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
   3195       country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
   3196       their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
   3197       point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
   3198       Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
   3199       information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
   3200       IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
   3201       ticket 40224.
   3202 
   3203   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
   3204     - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
   3205       authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
   3206       authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
   3207       40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
   3208 
   3209   o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
   3210     - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
   3211       VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
   3212 
   3213   o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
   3214     - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
   3215       have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
   3216       had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
   3217       Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
   3218 
   3219   o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
   3220     - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
   3221       handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   3222 
   3223   o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
   3224     - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
   3225       onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   3226 
   3227   o Minor bugfixes (portability):
   3228     - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
   3229       script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   3230 
   3231   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
   3232     - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
   3233       address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
   3234     - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
   3235       deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
   3236       from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
   3237       it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
   3238       at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
   3239 
   3240   o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
   3241     - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
   3242       Closes ticket 40309.
   3243 
   3244 
   3245 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
   3246   The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
   3247   Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
   3248   Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
   3249   the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
   3250   example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
   3251   v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
   3252   to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
   3253   loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
   3254   welcoming approach to growing our community.
   3255 
   3256   This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
   3257   address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
   3258   to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
   3259   help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
   3260   related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
   3261   smaller features and bugfixes.
   3262 
   3263   Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
   3264   0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
   3265 
   3266   o Major features (build):
   3267     - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
   3268       static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
   3269       programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
   3270       a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
   3271       should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
   3272 
   3273   o Major features (metrics):
   3274     - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
   3275       interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
   3276       the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
   3277       model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
   3278       information and security considerations.
   3279 
   3280   o Major features (relay, IPv6):
   3281     - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
   3282       address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
   3283       Closes ticket 33233.
   3284     - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
   3285       bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
   3286     - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
   3287       specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
   3288     - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
   3289       another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
   3290       addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
   3291       use. Closes ticket 33220.
   3292     - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
   3293       the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
   3294       descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
   3295       Closes ticket 34067.
   3296 
   3297   o Major features (tracing):
   3298     - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
   3299       few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
   3300       incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
   3301       to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
   3302       doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
   3303 
   3304   o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
   3305     - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
   3306       Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
   3307       operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
   3308       solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   3309 
   3310   o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
   3311     - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
   3312       Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
   3313       for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
   3314       Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
   3315       0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
   3316       the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
   3317 
   3318   o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
   3319     - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
   3320       read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
   3321       first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
   3322       and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
   3323       bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
   3324 
   3325   o Minor features (address discovery):
   3326     - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
   3327       their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
   3328       local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
   3329       hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
   3330 
   3331   o Minor features (admin tools):
   3332     - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
   3333       specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
   3334       timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
   3335       ticket 30045.
   3336 
   3337   o Minor features (authority, logging):
   3338     - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
   3339       consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
   3340       Closes ticket 40245.
   3341 
   3342   o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
   3343     - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
   3344       connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
   3345       Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
   3346       bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
   3347       because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
   3348 
   3349   o Minor features (build):
   3350     - When running the configure script, try to detect version
   3351       mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
   3352       that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
   3353     - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
   3354       about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
   3355 
   3356   o Minor features (configuration):
   3357     - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
   3358       configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
   3359     - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
   3360       ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
   3361       HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
   3362       Patch by Daniel Pinto.
   3363 
   3364   o Minor features (control port):
   3365     - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
   3366       and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
   3367     - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
   3368       send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
   3369       Neel Chauhan.
   3370     - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
   3371       "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
   3372       onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
   3373       Neel Chauhan.
   3374 
   3375   o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
   3376     - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
   3377       launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
   3378     - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
   3379       control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
   3380       address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
   3381       Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   3382 
   3383   o Minor features (directory authorities):
   3384     - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
   3385       padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
   3386       Daniel Pinto.
   3387     - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
   3388       Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
   3389       34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   3390     - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
   3391       from checking whether other relays are running. A new
   3392       AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
   3393       checks. Closes ticket 34445.
   3394     - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
   3395       addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
   3396       by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
   3397       Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
   3398 
   3399   o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
   3400     - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
   3401       servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
   3402       addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
   3403 
   3404   o Minor features (documentation):
   3405     - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
   3406       approved-routers file, and update the description of the
   3407       "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
   3408 
   3409   o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
   3410     - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
   3411       directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
   3412       30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   3413 
   3414   o Minor features (heartbeat):
   3415     - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
   3416       connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
   3417 
   3418   o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
   3419     - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
   3420       ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   3421 
   3422   o Minor features (logging):
   3423     - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
   3424       version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
   3425       Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
   3426     - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
   3427       processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
   3428     - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
   3429       ticket 40159.
   3430     - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
   3431       about them. Closes ticket 40041.
   3432     - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
   3433       identity. Closes ticket 22668.
   3434 
   3435   o Minor features (onion services):
   3436     - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
   3437       contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
   3438       directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   3439 
   3440   o Minor features (pluggable transports):
   3441     - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
   3442       which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
   3443       outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
   3444       pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
   3445       needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
   3446 
   3447   o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
   3448     - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
   3449       leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
   3450       likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
   3451       from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
   3452 
   3453   o Minor features (relay address tracking):
   3454     - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
   3455       way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
   3456       a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
   3457       address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
   3458       address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
   3459       connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
   3460 
   3461   o Minor features (relay):
   3462     - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
   3463       from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
   3464     - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
   3465       would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
   3466       intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
   3467       Closes ticket 34137.
   3468 
   3469   o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
   3470     - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
   3471       address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
   3472       ticket 33236.
   3473 
   3474   o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
   3475     - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
   3476       reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
   3477     - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
   3478       parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
   3479       should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
   3480       checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
   3481     - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
   3482     - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
   3483       ticket 33226.
   3484     - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
   3485       second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
   3486 
   3487   o Minor features (safety):
   3488     - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
   3489       that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
   3490       ticket 18888.
   3491 
   3492   o Minor features (specification update):
   3493     - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
   3494       consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
   3495       Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
   3496 
   3497   o Minor features (state management):
   3498     - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
   3499       that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
   3500       unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
   3501       these entries have not actually been used in any release since
   3502       before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
   3503 
   3504   o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
   3505     - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
   3506       bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
   3507     - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
   3508       if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
   3509 
   3510   o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
   3511     - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
   3512       318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
   3513 
   3514   o Minor features (testing configuration):
   3515     - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
   3516       AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
   3517       testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
   3518       functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
   3519 
   3520   o Minor features (testing):
   3521     - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
   3522       Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
   3523 
   3524   o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
   3525     - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
   3526       `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
   3527       0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
   3528       on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   3529     - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
   3530       differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
   3531       circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   3532     - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
   3533       set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
   3534       that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
   3535       others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
   3536       circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
   3537       Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   3538 
   3539   o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
   3540     - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
   3541       change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
   3542       this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
   3543       objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
   3544       0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   3545 
   3546   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
   3547     - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
   3548       it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
   3549       right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
   3550     - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
   3551       compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
   3552       on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
   3553 
   3554   o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
   3555     - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
   3556       to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
   3557       be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
   3558       bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
   3559       adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
   3560       on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
   3561 
   3562   o Minor bugfixes (control port):
   3563     - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
   3564       when a stream is attached with the purpose
   3565       CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
   3566       Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   3567 
   3568   o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
   3569     - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
   3570       with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
   3571       40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   3572 
   3573   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
   3574     - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
   3575       when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
   3576       current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
   3577       in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
   3578       the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   3579     - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
   3580       bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
   3581       Amadeusz Pawlik.
   3582     - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
   3583       level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
   3584       for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   3585     - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
   3586       been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
   3587       N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
   3588       the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
   3589       messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
   3590       on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
   3591 
   3592   o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
   3593     - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
   3594       establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
   3595       bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
   3596 
   3597   o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
   3598     - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
   3599       service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
   3600       bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
   3601     - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
   3602       undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
   3603       34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
   3604 
   3605   o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
   3606     - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
   3607       that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
   3608       the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
   3609       evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
   3610       20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
   3611 
   3612   o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
   3613     - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
   3614       certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
   3615 
   3616   o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
   3617     - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
   3618       leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
   3619     - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
   3620       NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
   3621       treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
   3622       protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
   3623       0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   3624 
   3625   o Code simplification and refactoring:
   3626     - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
   3627       connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
   3628     - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
   3629       and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
   3630       enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
   3631       many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
   3632     - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
   3633       Closes ticket 34200.
   3634     - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
   3635       connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
   3636       our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
   3637     - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
   3638       instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
   3639     - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
   3640       guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
   3641       ticket 40055.
   3642     - Split implementation of several command line options from
   3643       options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
   3644       Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
   3645     - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
   3646       the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
   3647       in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
   3648       Neel Chauhan.
   3649 
   3650   o Deprecated features:
   3651     - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
   3652       deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
   3653       you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
   3654 
   3655   o Documentation:
   3656     - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
   3657       bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
   3658 
   3659   o Removed features:
   3660     - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
   3661       systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
   3662       don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
   3663       all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
   3664       ticket 30797.
   3665     - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
   3666       versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
   3667       ticket 32181.
   3668     - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
   3669       an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
   3670       directory. Closes part of 40139.
   3671     - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
   3672       longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
   3673       of 40139.
   3674 
   3675   o Testing:
   3676     - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
   3677       Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
   3678 
   3679   o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
   3680     - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
   3681       31699; Patch by @bduszel
   3682 
   3683   o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
   3684     - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
   3685       variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
   3686       Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
   3687       make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
   3688 
   3689   o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
   3690     - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
   3691       moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
   3692       so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
   3693       interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
   3694 
   3695   o Documentation (manual page):
   3696     - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
   3697     - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
   3698       no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
   3699       versions. Closes ticket 23378.
   3700 
   3701   o Documentation (tracing):
   3702     - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
   3703       doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
   3704 
   3705   o Removed features (controller):
   3706     - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
   3707       been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
   3708 
   3709 
   3710 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
   3711   Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
   3712   including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
   3713   denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
   3714   DoS attacks harder to perform.
   3715 
   3716   o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
   3717     - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
   3718       allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
   3719       services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
   3720       consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
   3721       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   3722 
   3723   o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
   3724     - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
   3725       relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
   3726       should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
   3727       ticket 2667.
   3728 
   3729   o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
   3730     - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
   3731       used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
   3732       this. Closes ticket 40227.
   3733 
   3734   o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
   3735     - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
   3736       later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
   3737       3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
   3738       stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
   3739 
   3740   o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
   3741     - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
   3742       appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
   3743       and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
   3744       0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
   3745       weasel for diagnosing this.
   3746 
   3747   o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
   3748     - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
   3749       This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
   3750       relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
   3751       Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
   3752       endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
   3753       extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
   3754 
   3755   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
   3756     - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
   3757       annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
   3758       some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   3759 
   3760   o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
   3761     - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
   3762       would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
   3763       that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   3764 
   3765   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
   3766     - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
   3767       correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
   3768       queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
   3769     - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
   3770       handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
   3771       provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
   3772       on 0.3.1.6-rc.
   3773     - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
   3774       3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   3775 
   3776 
   3777 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
   3778   Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
   3779   including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
   3780   denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
   3781   DoS attacks harder to perform.
   3782 
   3783   Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
   3784   which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
   3785 
   3786   o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
   3787     - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
   3788       allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
   3789       services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
   3790       consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
   3791       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   3792 
   3793   o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
   3794     - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
   3795       onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
   3796       clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
   3797       Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
   3798 
   3799   o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
   3800     - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
   3801       relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
   3802       should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
   3803       ticket 2667.
   3804 
   3805   o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
   3806     - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
   3807       used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
   3808       this. Closes ticket 40227.
   3809 
   3810   o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
   3811     - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
   3812       later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
   3813       3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
   3814       stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
   3815 
   3816   o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
   3817     - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
   3818       appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
   3819       and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
   3820       0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
   3821       weasel for diagnosing this.
   3822 
   3823   o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
   3824     - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
   3825       This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
   3826       relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
   3827       Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
   3828       endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
   3829       extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
   3830 
   3831   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
   3832     - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
   3833       test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   3834 
   3835   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
   3836     - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
   3837       annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
   3838       some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   3839 
   3840   o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
   3841     - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
   3842       would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
   3843       that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   3844 
   3845   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
   3846     - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
   3847       correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
   3848       queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
   3849     - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
   3850       handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
   3851       provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
   3852       on 0.3.1.6-rc.
   3853     - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
   3854       3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   3855 
   3856 
   3857 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
   3858   Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
   3859   including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
   3860   denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
   3861   DoS attacks harder to perform.
   3862 
   3863   o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
   3864     - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
   3865       allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
   3866       services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
   3867       consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
   3868       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   3869 
   3870   o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
   3871     - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
   3872       onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
   3873       clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
   3874       Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
   3875 
   3876   o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
   3877     - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
   3878       relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
   3879       should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
   3880       ticket 2667.
   3881 
   3882   o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
   3883     - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
   3884       used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
   3885       this. Closes ticket 40227.
   3886 
   3887   o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
   3888     - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
   3889       later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
   3890       3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
   3891       stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
   3892 
   3893   o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
   3894     - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
   3895       appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
   3896       and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
   3897       0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
   3898       weasel for diagnosing this.
   3899 
   3900   o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
   3901     - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
   3902       This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
   3903       relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
   3904       Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
   3905       endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
   3906       extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
   3907 
   3908   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
   3909     - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
   3910       test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   3911 
   3912   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
   3913     - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
   3914       annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
   3915       some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   3916 
   3917   o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
   3918     - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
   3919       would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
   3920       that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   3921 
   3922   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
   3923     - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
   3924       handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
   3925       provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
   3926       on 0.3.1.6-rc.
   3927     - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
   3928       3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   3929 
   3930 
   3931 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
   3932   Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
   3933   backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
   3934   005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
   3935   adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
   3936   intended for a different relay.
   3937 
   3938   o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   3939     - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
   3940       make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
   3941       those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
   3942       identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
   3943       circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
   3944       0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
   3945 
   3946   o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   3947     - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
   3948       recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
   3949       recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
   3950       clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
   3951       they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
   3952       later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
   3953     - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
   3954       Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
   3955       ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
   3956       different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
   3957 
   3958   o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   3959     - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
   3960       Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
   3961       significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
   3962       closes ticket 40133.
   3963 
   3964   o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   3965     - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
   3966       on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
   3967       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   3968     - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
   3969       underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
   3970       bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   3971 
   3972   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   3973     - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
   3974       "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
   3975       same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
   3976     - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
   3977       test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   3978 
   3979   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   3980     - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
   3981       Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
   3982 
   3983   o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   3984     - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
   3985       connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
   3986       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   3987 
   3988   o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   3989     - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
   3990       length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
   3991       bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   3992 
   3993 
   3994 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
   3995   Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
   3996   includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
   3997   used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
   3998   on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
   3999 
   4000   Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
   4001   February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
   4002   downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
   4003   February 2022.
   4004 
   4005   o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
   4006     - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
   4007       0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
   4008       of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
   4009 
   4010   o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   4011     - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
   4012       make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
   4013       those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
   4014       identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
   4015       circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
   4016       0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
   4017 
   4018   o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
   4019     - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
   4020       nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
   4021       nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
   4022       unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
   4023       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   4024 
   4025   o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
   4026     - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
   4027       longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
   4028       only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
   4029       keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
   4030       specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
   4031 
   4032   o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   4033     - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
   4034       Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
   4035       significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
   4036       closes ticket 40133.
   4037 
   4038   o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
   4039     - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
   4040       chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
   4041       factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
   4042 
   4043   o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   4044     - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
   4045       on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
   4046       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   4047     - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
   4048       underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
   4049       bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   4050 
   4051   o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
   4052     - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
   4053       ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
   4054       buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
   4055       Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   4056 
   4057   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   4058     - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
   4059       Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
   4060 
   4061   o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
   4062     - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
   4063       default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
   4064       would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
   4065       received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
   4066       as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
   4067       address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
   4068 
   4069   o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   4070     - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
   4071       connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
   4072       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   4073 
   4074   o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
   4075     - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
   4076       connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
   4077       connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
   4078       for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
   4079       connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
   4080       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   4081 
   4082   o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
   4083     - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
   4084       on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
   4085       40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   4086 
   4087   o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   4088     - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
   4089       length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
   4090       bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   4091 
   4092   o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
   4093     - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
   4094       above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
   4095 
   4096   o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4097     - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
   4098       ticket 40003.
   4099 
   4100   o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
   4101     - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
   4102       Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
   4103       is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
   4104       before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
   4105       proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
   4106       "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
   4107 
   4108 
   4109 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
   4110   Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
   4111   includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
   4112   used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
   4113   on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
   4114 
   4115   o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
   4116     - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
   4117       0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
   4118       of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
   4119 
   4120   o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   4121     - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
   4122       make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
   4123       those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
   4124       identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
   4125       circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
   4126       0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
   4127 
   4128   o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
   4129     - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
   4130       nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
   4131       nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
   4132       unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
   4133       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   4134 
   4135   o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
   4136     - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
   4137       longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
   4138       only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
   4139       keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
   4140       specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
   4141 
   4142   o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
   4143     - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
   4144       set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
   4145       this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
   4146 
   4147   o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   4148     - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
   4149       Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
   4150       significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
   4151       closes ticket 40133.
   4152 
   4153   o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
   4154     - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
   4155       chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
   4156       factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
   4157 
   4158   o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   4159     - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
   4160       on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
   4161       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   4162     - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
   4163       underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
   4164       bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   4165 
   4166   o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
   4167     - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
   4168       ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
   4169       buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
   4170       Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   4171 
   4172   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   4173     - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
   4174       Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
   4175 
   4176   o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
   4177     - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
   4178       default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
   4179       would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
   4180       received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
   4181       as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
   4182       address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
   4183 
   4184   o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
   4185     - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
   4186       connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
   4187       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   4188 
   4189   o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
   4190     - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
   4191       connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
   4192       connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
   4193       for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
   4194       connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
   4195       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   4196 
   4197   o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
   4198     - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
   4199       descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
   4200       bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
   4201 
   4202   o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
   4203     - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
   4204       on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
   4205       40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   4206 
   4207   o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
   4208     - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
   4209       above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
   4210 
   4211   o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4212     - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
   4213       ticket 40003.
   4214 
   4215 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
   4216   Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
   4217   series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
   4218   support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
   4219   without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
   4220   enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
   4221   we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
   4222 
   4223   Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
   4224   months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
   4225   stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
   4226   that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
   4227   0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
   4228 
   4229   Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
   4230   will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
   4231   0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
   4232 
   4233   Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
   4234   since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
   4235 
   4236   o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
   4237     - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
   4238       310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
   4239       selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
   4240       algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
   4241       previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
   4242       recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
   4243       project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
   4244       This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
   4245       the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
   4246 
   4247   o Major features (fallback directory list):
   4248     - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
   4249       0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
   4250       of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
   4251 
   4252   o Major features (IPv6, relay):
   4253     - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
   4254       warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
   4255       internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
   4256       address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
   4257     - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
   4258       provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
   4259       ticket 33817.
   4260     - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
   4261       ticket 33817.
   4262     - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
   4263       ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
   4264       the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
   4265       ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
   4266 
   4267   o Major features (v3 onion services):
   4268     - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
   4269       by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
   4270       Closes ticket 32709.
   4271 
   4272   o Major bugfixes (NSS):
   4273     - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
   4274       nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
   4275       nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
   4276       unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
   4277       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   4278 
   4279   o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
   4280     - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
   4281       Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
   4282       defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
   4283       operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
   4284       40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
   4285 
   4286   o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
   4287     - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
   4288       onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
   4289       clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
   4290       Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
   4291 
   4292   o Minor features (security):
   4293     - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
   4294       longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
   4295       only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
   4296       keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
   4297       specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
   4298 
   4299   o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
   4300     - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
   4301       failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
   4302       these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
   4303       when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
   4304       ticket 32622.
   4305 
   4306   o Minor features (client-only compilation):
   4307     - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
   4308       compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
   4309     - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
   4310       is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
   4311     - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
   4312       support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
   4313 
   4314   o Minor features (code safety):
   4315     - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
   4316       functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
   4317       codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
   4318       Resolves issue 33788.
   4319 
   4320   o Minor features (continuous integration):
   4321     - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
   4322       ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
   4323       Resolves ticket 32143.
   4324 
   4325   o Minor features (control port):
   4326     - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
   4327       onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
   4328       Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   4329     - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
   4330       relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
   4331       a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
   4332       32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   4333 
   4334   o Minor features (defense in depth):
   4335     - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
   4336       them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
   4337 
   4338   o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
   4339     - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
   4340       MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
   4341       when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
   4342       minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
   4343       low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
   4344 
   4345   o Minor features (developer tooling):
   4346     - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
   4347       names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
   4348     - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
   4349       build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
   4350       all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
   4351     - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
   4352       helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
   4353 
   4354   o Minor features (directory authority):
   4355     - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
   4356       by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
   4357       deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
   4358       cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
   4359       when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
   4360 
   4361   o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
   4362     - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
   4363       code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
   4364       compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
   4365 
   4366   o Minor features (directory):
   4367     - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
   4368       purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
   4369       this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
   4370       ticket 32720.
   4371 
   4372   o Minor features (entry guards):
   4373     - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
   4374       Closes ticket 40001.
   4375 
   4376   o Minor features (IPv6 support):
   4377     - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
   4378       changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
   4379       by MrSquanchee.
   4380     - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
   4381       cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
   4382       Closes ticket 33901.
   4383 
   4384   o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
   4385     - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
   4386       report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
   4387       This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
   4388       common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
   4389     - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
   4390       to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
   4391 
   4392   o Minor features (logging):
   4393     - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
   4394       report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
   4395 
   4396   o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
   4397     - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
   4398       new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
   4399       these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
   4400       ticket 32542.
   4401 
   4402   o Minor features (onion service v3):
   4403     - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
   4404       level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   4405 
   4406   o Minor features (python scripts):
   4407     - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
   4408       hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
   4409       /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
   4410       bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
   4411 
   4412   o Minor features (testing, architecture):
   4413     - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
   4414       order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
   4415       by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
   4416     - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
   4417       harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
   4418       up from ticket 33316.
   4419     - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
   4420       chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
   4421       factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
   4422 
   4423   o Minor features (v3 onion services):
   4424     - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
   4425       triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
   4426       services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   4427 
   4428   o Minor features (windows):
   4429     - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
   4430       Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
   4431 
   4432   o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
   4433     - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
   4434       ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
   4435       'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
   4436 
   4437   o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
   4438     - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
   4439       ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
   4440       buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
   4441       Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   4442 
   4443   o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
   4444     - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
   4445       particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
   4446       it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
   4447       change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
   4448       have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
   4449 
   4450   o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
   4451     - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
   4452       hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
   4453       bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   4454 
   4455   o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
   4456     - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
   4457       corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
   4458       initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
   4459       Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   4460 
   4461   o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
   4462     - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
   4463       receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
   4464 
   4465   o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
   4466     - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
   4467       canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
   4468       consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
   4469       canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
   4470       bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   4471     - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
   4472       responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
   4473       IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
   4474       33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   4475 
   4476   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
   4477     - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
   4478       fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
   4479       but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
   4480       the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
   4481       bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
   4482     - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
   4483       according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
   4484       reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
   4485       2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
   4486       on 0.3.5.11.
   4487 
   4488   o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
   4489     - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
   4490       and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
   4491       used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
   4492       mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
   4493     - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
   4494       build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   4495 
   4496   o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
   4497     - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
   4498       size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
   4499 
   4500   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
   4501     - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
   4502       34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   4503 
   4504   o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
   4505     - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
   4506       Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   4507 
   4508   o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
   4509     - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
   4510       opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
   4511       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   4512 
   4513   o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
   4514     - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
   4515       tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
   4516       on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   4517 
   4518   o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
   4519     - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
   4520       default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
   4521       would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
   4522       received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
   4523       as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
   4524       address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
   4525 
   4526   o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
   4527     - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
   4528       circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
   4529       many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
   4530 
   4531   o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
   4532     - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
   4533       that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
   4534       a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
   4535       second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
   4536       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   4537 
   4538   o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
   4539     - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
   4540       connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
   4541       connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
   4542       for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
   4543       connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
   4544       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   4545 
   4546   o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
   4547     - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
   4548       returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
   4549       on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
   4550 
   4551   o Minor bugfixes (tests):
   4552     - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
   4553       on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
   4554       40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   4555 
   4556   o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
   4557     - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
   4558       edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   4559     - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
   4560       changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
   4561       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   4562 
   4563   o Minor bugfixes (windows):
   4564     - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
   4565       above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
   4566 
   4567   o Code simplification and refactoring:
   4568     - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
   4569       TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
   4570       brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
   4571       Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   4572     - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
   4573       manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
   4574       isolated in subsystems of their own.
   4575     - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
   4576       inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
   4577     - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
   4578       circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
   4579       ticket 33633.
   4580     - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
   4581       port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
   4582     - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
   4583       simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
   4584       ticket 33349.
   4585     - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
   4586       code. Closes ticket 33014.
   4587     - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
   4588       own files. Closes ticket 33789.
   4589 
   4590   o Documentation:
   4591     - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
   4592       https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
   4593       the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
   4594     - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
   4595       seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
   4596       0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
   4597 
   4598   o Removed features:
   4599     - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
   4600       Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
   4601       is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
   4602       before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
   4603       proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
   4604       "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
   4605     - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
   4606       randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
   4607       wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
   4608       failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
   4609       Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   4610     - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
   4611       on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
   4612 
   4613   o Testing:
   4614     - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
   4615       when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
   4616     - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
   4617       These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
   4618       test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
   4619     - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
   4620     - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
   4621       chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
   4622       ticket 33303.
   4623     - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
   4624       first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
   4625       ticket 33194.
   4626     - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
   4627       previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
   4628       allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
   4629     - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
   4630       add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
   4631       test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
   4632       targets. Closes ticket 33334.
   4633     - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
   4634       network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
   4635       February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
   4636     - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
   4637       tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
   4638 
   4639   o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
   4640     - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
   4641       ticket 40003.
   4642 
   4643   o Documentation (manual page):
   4644     - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
   4645       manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
   4646       Google Season of Docs.
   4647     - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
   4648       Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
   4649       Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
   4650       33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
   4651     - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
   4652       torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
   4653     - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
   4654       Closes ticket 33778.
   4655 
   4656 
   4657 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
   4658   Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
   4659   usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
   4660 
   4661   This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
   4662   service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
   4663   the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
   4664   Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
   4665   instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
   4666   15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
   4667   should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
   4668   or later.
   4669 
   4670   o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4671     - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
   4672       compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
   4673       0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
   4674       and CVE-2020-15572.
   4675 
   4676   o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
   4677     - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
   4678       with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
   4679       given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
   4680       find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
   4681       33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
   4682 
   4683   o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
   4684     - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
   4685       variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
   4686       should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
   4687       that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
   4688       libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
   4689 
   4690   o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4691     - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
   4692       Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
   4693 
   4694   o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   4695     - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
   4696       operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
   4697       relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
   4698       on 0.1.1.10-alpha.
   4699 
   4700   o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
   4701     - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
   4702       to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
   4703       setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
   4704       on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
   4705 
   4706   o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
   4707     - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
   4708       style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
   4709       __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
   4710       now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
   4711 
   4712   o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4713     - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
   4714       Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
   4715 
   4716   o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   4717     - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
   4718       register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
   4719       Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
   4720       like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
   4721       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   4722 
   4723   o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
   4724     - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
   4725       if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
   4726       would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
   4727       certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
   4728       33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   4729 
   4730   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4731     - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
   4732       receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
   4733       16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
   4734 
   4735   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   4736     - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
   4737       service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
   4738       rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
   4739       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   4740 
   4741   o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
   4742     - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
   4743       directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
   4744       and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
   4745       required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
   4746       Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
   4747     - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
   4748       failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
   4749       for 33643.
   4750 
   4751 
   4752 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
   4753   Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
   4754   several that affect usability and portability.
   4755 
   4756   This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
   4757   service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
   4758   the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
   4759   Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
   4760   instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
   4761   15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
   4762   should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
   4763   or later.
   4764 
   4765   o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4766     - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
   4767       compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
   4768       0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
   4769       and CVE-2020-15572.
   4770 
   4771   o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
   4772     - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
   4773       with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
   4774       given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
   4775       find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
   4776       33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
   4777 
   4778   o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
   4779     - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
   4780       sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
   4781       so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
   4782       consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
   4783 
   4784   o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   4785     - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
   4786       track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
   4787       code. Closes ticket 33290.
   4788 
   4789   o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
   4790     - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
   4791       variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
   4792       should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
   4793       that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
   4794       libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
   4795 
   4796   o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4797     - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
   4798       Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
   4799 
   4800   o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   4801     - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
   4802       operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
   4803       relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
   4804       on 0.1.1.10-alpha.
   4805 
   4806   o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
   4807     - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
   4808       to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
   4809       setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
   4810       on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
   4811 
   4812   o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
   4813     - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
   4814       style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
   4815       __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
   4816       now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
   4817     - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
   4818       on 0.4.0.3-alpha.
   4819 
   4820   o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4821     - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
   4822       Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
   4823 
   4824   o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
   4825     - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
   4826       report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
   4827       warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   4828 
   4829   o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   4830     - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
   4831       register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
   4832       Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
   4833       like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
   4834       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   4835 
   4836   o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
   4837     - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
   4838       if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
   4839       would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
   4840       certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
   4841       33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   4842 
   4843   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
   4844     - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
   4845       will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
   4846       Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
   4847       code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   4848 
   4849   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
   4850     - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
   4851       by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
   4852       recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
   4853 
   4854   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4855     - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
   4856       receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
   4857       16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
   4858 
   4859   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   4860     - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
   4861       service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
   4862       rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
   4863       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   4864 
   4865   o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
   4866     - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
   4867       directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
   4868       and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
   4869       required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
   4870       Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
   4871     - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
   4872       failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
   4873       for 33643.
   4874 
   4875 
   4876 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
   4877   Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
   4878   some affecting usability.
   4879 
   4880   This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
   4881   service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
   4882   the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
   4883   Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
   4884   instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
   4885   15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
   4886   should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
   4887   or later.
   4888 
   4889   o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4890     - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
   4891       compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
   4892       0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
   4893       and CVE-2020-15572.
   4894 
   4895   o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4896     - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
   4897       Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
   4898 
   4899   o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
   4900     - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
   4901       to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
   4902       setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
   4903       on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
   4904 
   4905   o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4906     - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
   4907       Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
   4908 
   4909   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
   4910     - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
   4911       sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
   4912       0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
   4913 
   4914   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
   4915     - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
   4916       receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
   4917       16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
   4918 
   4919   o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
   4920     - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
   4921       defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
   4922 
   4923   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
   4924     - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
   4925       descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
   4926       decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
   4927       33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
   4928 
   4929   o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
   4930     - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
   4931       using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
   4932 
   4933   o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
   4934     - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
   4935       descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
   4936       bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
   4937 
   4938   o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
   4939     - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
   4940       ticket 34255.
   4941 
   4942 
   4943 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
   4944   Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
   4945   series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
   4946   implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
   4947   services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
   4948   controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
   4949   performance issues.
   4950 
   4951   Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
   4952   months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
   4953   stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
   4954   that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
   4955   0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
   4956 
   4957   Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
   4958   year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
   4959   continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
   4960   Feb 2022.
   4961 
   4962   Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
   4963   since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
   4964 
   4965   o New system requirements:
   4966     - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
   4967       the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
   4968       upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
   4969 
   4970   o Major features (build system):
   4971     - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
   4972       configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
   4973       dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
   4974     - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
   4975       used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
   4976 
   4977   o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
   4978     - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
   4979       routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
   4980       future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
   4981       routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   4982 
   4983   o Major features (onion services):
   4984     - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
   4985       authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
   4986       a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
   4987       ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
   4988     - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
   4989       detailed error codes in information for applications that support
   4990       them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
   4991 
   4992   o Major features (proxy):
   4993     - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
   4994       SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
   4995       HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
   4996       address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
   4997       Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
   4998       Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
   4999 
   5000   o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
   5001     - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
   5002       consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
   5003       directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
   5004       services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
   5005       introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
   5006       high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
   5007       0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
   5008       as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
   5009 
   5010   o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
   5011     - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
   5012       padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
   5013       Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
   5014       This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
   5015 
   5016   o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
   5017     - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
   5018       code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
   5019       other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
   5020       bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
   5021 
   5022   o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
   5023     - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
   5024       with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
   5025       given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
   5026       find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
   5027       33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
   5028 
   5029   o Major bugfixes (networking):
   5030     - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
   5031       and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
   5032       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   5033 
   5034   o Major bugfixes (onion service):
   5035     - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
   5036       appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
   5037       failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
   5038       now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
   5039       bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   5040 
   5041   o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
   5042     - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
   5043       message. Closes ticket 31371.
   5044 
   5045   o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
   5046     - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
   5047       sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
   5048       so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
   5049       consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
   5050 
   5051   o Minor features (best practices tracker):
   5052     - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
   5053       the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
   5054       tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
   5055 
   5056   o Minor features (configuration validation):
   5057     - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
   5058       rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
   5059       the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
   5060       Closes ticket 31241.
   5061 
   5062   o Minor features (configuration):
   5063     - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
   5064       prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
   5065       ticket 32406.
   5066     - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
   5067       fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
   5068       special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
   5069       Implements ticket 32404.
   5070 
   5071   o Minor features (configure, build system):
   5072     - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
   5073       configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
   5074 
   5075   o Minor features (continuous integration):
   5076     - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
   5077       regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
   5078     - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
   5079       like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
   5080       Closes ticket 33075.
   5081 
   5082   o Minor features (controller):
   5083     - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
   5084     - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
   5085       consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
   5086 
   5087   o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
   5088     - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
   5089       set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
   5090       this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
   5091 
   5092   o Minor features (defense in depth):
   5093     - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
   5094       function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
   5095       ticket 31147.
   5096 
   5097   o Minor features (developer tools):
   5098     - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
   5099       forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
   5100       Closes ticket 32772.
   5101     - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
   5102       parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
   5103       files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
   5104     - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
   5105       target. Closes ticket 31919.
   5106     - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
   5107       identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
   5108       describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
   5109       ticket 32237.
   5110     - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
   5111       semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
   5112       fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
   5113       Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
   5114 
   5115   o Minor features (diagnostic):
   5116     - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
   5117       track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
   5118       code. Closes ticket 33290.
   5119 
   5120   o Minor features (directory authorities):
   5121     - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
   5122       Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
   5123       still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   5124 
   5125   o Minor features (Doxygen):
   5126     - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
   5127       1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
   5128     - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
   5129       ticket 32113.
   5130     - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
   5131       files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
   5132       them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
   5133     - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
   5134       default, and does not warn about items that are missing
   5135       documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
   5136       with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
   5137       fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
   5138 
   5139   o Minor features (git scripts):
   5140     - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
   5141       customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
   5142     - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
   5143       and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
   5144     - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
   5145       remote. Closes ticket 32347.
   5146     - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
   5147       hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
   5148     - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
   5149       upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
   5150       Closes ticket 32216.
   5151     - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
   5152       directory. Closes ticket 32347.
   5153     - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
   5154       checks. Related to ticket 31919.
   5155 
   5156   o Minor features (IPv6, client):
   5157     - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
   5158       connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
   5159       flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
   5160       has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
   5161       client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
   5162 
   5163   o Minor features (portability, android):
   5164     - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
   5165       and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
   5166       Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
   5167 
   5168   o Minor features (relay modularity):
   5169     - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
   5170       separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
   5171       relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
   5172     - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
   5173       ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
   5174       ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
   5175       options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
   5176     - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
   5177       that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
   5178 
   5179   o Minor features (release tools):
   5180     - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
   5181       Closes ticket 32704.
   5182 
   5183   o Minor features (testing):
   5184     - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
   5185       variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
   5186       should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
   5187       that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
   5188       libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
   5189     - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
   5190       src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
   5191     - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
   5192       configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
   5193     - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
   5194       combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
   5195       ticket 32397.
   5196     - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
   5197       a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
   5198       patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
   5199 
   5200   o Minor features (usability):
   5201     - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
   5202       value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
   5203       a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
   5204 
   5205   o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
   5206     - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
   5207       operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
   5208       relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
   5209       on 0.1.1.10-alpha.
   5210 
   5211   o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
   5212     - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
   5213       it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
   5214 
   5215   o Minor bugfixes (build system):
   5216     - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
   5217       bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
   5218 
   5219   o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
   5220     - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
   5221       style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
   5222       __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
   5223       now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
   5224     - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
   5225       on 0.4.0.3-alpha.
   5226 
   5227   o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
   5228     - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
   5229       of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
   5230       bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   5231     - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
   5232       configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
   5233     - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
   5234       the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
   5235       affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
   5236       reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
   5237       options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
   5238     - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
   5239       SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
   5240       bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
   5241     - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
   5242       DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
   5243       group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
   5244       KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   5245 
   5246   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
   5247     - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
   5248       on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
   5249 
   5250   o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
   5251     - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
   5252       report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
   5253       warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   5254 
   5255   o Minor bugfixes (controller):
   5256     - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
   5257       output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
   5258       on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
   5259 
   5260   o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
   5261     - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
   5262       31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
   5263 
   5264   o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
   5265     - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
   5266       module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
   5267       Closes ticket 32213.
   5268     - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
   5269       AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
   5270       option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   5271 
   5272   o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
   5273     - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
   5274       register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
   5275       Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
   5276       like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
   5277       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   5278 
   5279   o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
   5280     - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
   5281       ticket 32216.
   5282     - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
   5283       Closes ticket 32216.
   5284 
   5285   o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
   5286     - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
   5287       if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
   5288       would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
   5289       certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
   5290       33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   5291 
   5292   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
   5293     - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
   5294       logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
   5295     - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
   5296       by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
   5297       recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
   5298     - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
   5299       descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
   5300       on 0.4.1.6.
   5301     - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
   5302       only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
   5303       Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
   5304       us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
   5305       on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
   5306     - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
   5307       will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
   5308       Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
   5309       code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   5310 
   5311   o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
   5312     - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
   5313       level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
   5314       request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
   5315     - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
   5316       failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
   5317       is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
   5318       timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
   5319       Neel Chauhan.
   5320 
   5321   o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
   5322     - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
   5323       service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
   5324       rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
   5325       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   5326     - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
   5327       decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
   5328       diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
   5329       31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   5330     - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
   5331       ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
   5332       bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
   5333       as TROVE-2020-003.
   5334     - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
   5335       Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
   5336       introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
   5337       circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
   5338       bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   5339 
   5340   o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
   5341     - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
   5342       instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
   5343       issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
   5344       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   5345 
   5346   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
   5347     - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
   5348       connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
   5349       connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
   5350       0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   5351 
   5352   o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
   5353     - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
   5354       transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
   5355       bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   5356 
   5357   o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
   5358     - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
   5359       creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
   5360       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   5361 
   5362   o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
   5363     - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
   5364       bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   5365 
   5366   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
   5367     - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
   5368       scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
   5369       binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
   5370       on 0.2.7.3-rc.
   5371     - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
   5372       Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
   5373     - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
   5374       configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
   5375       the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
   5376       set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
   5377       verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   5378 
   5379   o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
   5380     - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
   5381       error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
   5382       some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
   5383       by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
   5384 
   5385   o Deprecated features:
   5386     - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
   5387       true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
   5388       weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
   5389       Neel Chauhan.
   5390 
   5391   o Documentation:
   5392     - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
   5393       documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
   5394       padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
   5395     - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
   5396       tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
   5397     - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
   5398       architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
   5399     - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
   5400       ticket 32467.
   5401     - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
   5402       coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
   5403 
   5404   o Removed features:
   5405     - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
   5406       reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
   5407       and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
   5408     - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
   5409       marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
   5410       clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
   5411       ticket 32807.
   5412     - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
   5413       methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
   5414       are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
   5415       relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
   5416       running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
   5417 
   5418   o Testing:
   5419     - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
   5420       real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
   5421       GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
   5422       tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
   5423       bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
   5424       Putta Khunchalee.
   5425     - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
   5426       check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
   5427       ticket 32845.
   5428     - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
   5429       on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
   5430     - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
   5431       the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
   5432     - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
   5433       ticket 32609.
   5434 
   5435   o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
   5436     - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
   5437       and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
   5438 
   5439   o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
   5440     - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
   5441       configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
   5442       checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
   5443     - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
   5444       relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
   5445       Solves part of ticket 32339.
   5446     - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
   5447       standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
   5448       Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
   5449       empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
   5450       "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
   5451     - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
   5452       to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
   5453     - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
   5454       default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
   5455       argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
   5456       ticket 32185.
   5457     - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
   5458       related options to the directory authority module. Closes
   5459       ticket 32806.
   5460     - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
   5461       "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
   5462       so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
   5463 
   5464   o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
   5465     - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
   5466       lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
   5467       protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
   5468     - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
   5469       microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
   5470 
   5471   o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
   5472     - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
   5473       Closes ticket 32163.
   5474     - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
   5475       ticket 29826.
   5476     - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
   5477 
   5478   o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
   5479     - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
   5480       checks. Closes ticket 33091.
   5481 
   5482   o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
   5483     - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
   5484       of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
   5485     - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
   5486       Closes ticket 32304.
   5487     - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
   5488       Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
   5489       in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
   5490     - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
   5491       more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
   5492       ticket 32887.
   5493 
   5494   o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
   5495     - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
   5496       ticket 32244.
   5497     - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
   5498       ticket 32245.
   5499 
   5500   o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
   5501     - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
   5502       they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
   5503       compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
   5504     - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
   5505       parse. Related to ticket 31705.
   5506     - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
   5507       formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
   5508 
   5509   o Documentation (manpage):
   5510     - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
   5511       manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
   5512       the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
   5513       Google Season of Docs.
   5514     - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
   5515       its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
   5516     - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
   5517       their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
   5518       32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
   5519     - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
   5520       ticket 32846.
   5521     - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
   5522       ticket 32708.
   5523     - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
   5524       COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
   5525       32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
   5526       of Docs.
   5527     - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
   5528       SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
   5529       Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
   5530 
   5531   o Testing (Appveyor CI):
   5532     - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
   5533       directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
   5534       and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
   5535       required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
   5536       Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
   5537     - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
   5538       failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
   5539       for 33643.
   5540 
   5541   o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
   5542     - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
   5543       ticket 32196.
   5544 
   5545   o Testing (Travis CI):
   5546     - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
   5547     - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
   5548       first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
   5549       ticket 33194.
   5550     - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
   5551       previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
   5552       allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
   5553     - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
   5554       tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
   5555 
   5556 
   5557 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
   5558   This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
   5559   numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
   5560   002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
   5561   released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
   5562   an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
   5563   disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
   5564   attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
   5565   cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
   5566   launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
   5567   or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
   5568   was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
   5569 
   5570   We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
   5571   exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
   5572   as soon as packages are available.
   5573 
   5574   o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   5575     - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
   5576       consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
   5577       directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
   5578       services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
   5579       introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
   5580       high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
   5581       0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
   5582       as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
   5583 
   5584   o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   5585     - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
   5586       padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
   5587       Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
   5588       This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
   5589 
   5590   o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   5591     - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
   5592       code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
   5593       other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
   5594       bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
   5595 
   5596   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
   5597     - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
   5598       like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
   5599       Closes ticket 33075.
   5600 
   5601   o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5602     - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
   5603       it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
   5604 
   5605   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
   5606     - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
   5607       only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
   5608       Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
   5609       us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
   5610       on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
   5611 
   5612   o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   5613     - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
   5614       ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
   5615       bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
   5616       as TROVE-2020-003.
   5617 
   5618   o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
   5619     - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
   5620       creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
   5621       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   5622 
   5623   o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   5624     - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
   5625     - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
   5626       first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
   5627       ticket 33194.
   5628     - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
   5629       previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
   5630       allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
   5631     - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
   5632       tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
   5633 
   5634 
   5635 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
   5636   Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
   5637   including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
   5638   vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
   5639   0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
   5640   instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
   5641   for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
   5642   anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
   5643   that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
   5644   much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
   5645   that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
   5646   and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
   5647 
   5648   We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
   5649   exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
   5650   as soon as packages are available.
   5651 
   5652   o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   5653     - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
   5654       consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
   5655       directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
   5656       services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
   5657       introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
   5658       high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
   5659       0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
   5660       as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
   5661 
   5662   o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   5663     - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
   5664       padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
   5665       Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
   5666       This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
   5667 
   5668   o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5669     - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
   5670       it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
   5671 
   5672   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
   5673     - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
   5674       only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
   5675       Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
   5676       us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
   5677       on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
   5678 
   5679   o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   5680     - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
   5681       ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
   5682       bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
   5683       as TROVE-2020-003.
   5684 
   5685   o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
   5686     - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
   5687       creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
   5688       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   5689 
   5690   o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   5691     - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
   5692     - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
   5693       first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
   5694       ticket 33194.
   5695     - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
   5696       previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
   5697       allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
   5698     - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
   5699       tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
   5700 
   5701 
   5702 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
   5703   Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
   5704   fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
   5705   affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
   5706   vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
   5707   amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
   5708   minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
   5709   by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
   5710   attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
   5711   disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
   5712   analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
   5713   as CVE-2020-10592.
   5714 
   5715   We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
   5716   exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
   5717   as soon as packages are available.
   5718 
   5719   o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   5720     - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
   5721       consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
   5722       directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
   5723       services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
   5724       introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
   5725       high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
   5726       0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
   5727       as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
   5728 
   5729   o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5730     - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
   5731       rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
   5732       processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
   5733       libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
   5734       libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
   5735       different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
   5736       startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
   5737       Peter Gerber.
   5738 
   5739   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
   5740     - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
   5741       like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
   5742       Closes ticket 33075.
   5743 
   5744   o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5745     - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
   5746       it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
   5747 
   5748   o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
   5749     - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
   5750       --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
   5751       if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
   5752       bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   5753 
   5754   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
   5755     - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
   5756       only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
   5757       Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
   5758       us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
   5759       on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
   5760 
   5761   o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   5762     - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
   5763       ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
   5764       bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
   5765       as TROVE-2020-003.
   5766 
   5767   o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
   5768     - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
   5769       creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
   5770       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   5771 
   5772   o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5773     - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
   5774       prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
   5775       slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
   5776       Closes ticket 32629.
   5777     - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
   5778       Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
   5779       fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
   5780 
   5781   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5782     - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
   5783 
   5784   o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
   5785     - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
   5786     - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
   5787       first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
   5788       ticket 33194.
   5789     - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
   5790       previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
   5791     - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
   5792       tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
   5793 
   5794 
   5795 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
   5796   This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
   5797   several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
   5798   the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
   5799   one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
   5800   otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
   5801 
   5802   o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5803     - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
   5804       rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
   5805       processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
   5806       libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
   5807       libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
   5808       different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
   5809       startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
   5810       Peter Gerber.
   5811     - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
   5812       experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
   5813       0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
   5814 
   5815   o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5816     - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
   5817       tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
   5818       bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   5819 
   5820   o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5821     - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
   5822       failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
   5823       Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
   5824 
   5825   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5826     - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
   5827       test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
   5828       bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
   5829     - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
   5830       skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
   5831       on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
   5832 
   5833   o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5834     - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
   5835       service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   5836 
   5837   o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5838     - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
   5839       Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
   5840       fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
   5841     - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
   5842       prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
   5843       slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
   5844       Closes ticket 32629.
   5845 
   5846   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5847     - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
   5848 
   5849 
   5850 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
   5851   This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
   5852   including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
   5853   services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
   5854   probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
   5855   current version of 0.4.1.x.
   5856 
   5857   o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5858     - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
   5859       rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
   5860       processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
   5861       libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
   5862       libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
   5863       different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
   5864       startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
   5865       Peter Gerber.
   5866     - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
   5867       experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
   5868       0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
   5869 
   5870   o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
   5871     - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
   5872       --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
   5873       if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
   5874       bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   5875 
   5876   o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5877     - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
   5878       service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   5879 
   5880   o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5881     - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
   5882       Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
   5883       fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
   5884     - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
   5885       prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
   5886       slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
   5887       Closes ticket 32629.
   5888 
   5889   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
   5890     - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
   5891 
   5892 
   5893 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
   5894   This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
   5895   improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
   5896   correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
   5897   bugs present in previous series.
   5898 
   5899   Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
   5900   months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
   5901   whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
   5902   with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
   5903 
   5904   Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
   5905   the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
   5906 
   5907   o Major features (directory authorities):
   5908     - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
   5909       deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
   5910       are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
   5911 
   5912   o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
   5913     - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
   5914       points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
   5915       parameters that can be sent by the service within the
   5916       ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
   5917       the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
   5918       ticket 30924.
   5919 
   5920   o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
   5921     - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
   5922       "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
   5923       Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
   5924       notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
   5925       close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
   5926       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   5927 
   5928   o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
   5929     - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
   5930       madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
   5931       run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
   5932       and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   5933     - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
   5934       madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
   5935       at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
   5936       syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   5937 
   5938   o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
   5939     - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
   5940       enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
   5941       31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   5942 
   5943   o Major bugfixes (relay):
   5944     - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
   5945       relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
   5946       we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
   5947       whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
   5948       new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
   5949       continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
   5950       AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   5951 
   5952   o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
   5953     - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
   5954       included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
   5955       config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
   5956       bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   5957 
   5958   o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
   5959     - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
   5960       configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
   5961       fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
   5962       pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
   5963       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   5964 
   5965   o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
   5966     - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
   5967       (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
   5968       Closes ticket 29669.
   5969 
   5970   o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
   5971     - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
   5972       spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
   5973     - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
   5974       Closes ticket 31779.
   5975 
   5976   o Minor features (best practices tracker):
   5977     - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
   5978       tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
   5979       fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
   5980       modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
   5981     - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
   5982       practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
   5983       integration. Closes ticket 31309.
   5984     - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
   5985       is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
   5986       practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
   5987       to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
   5988       practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
   5989     - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
   5990       files. Closes ticket 31175.
   5991 
   5992   o Minor features (build system):
   5993     - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
   5994       PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
   5995     - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
   5996       configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
   5997       building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
   5998 
   5999   o Minor features (compilation):
   6000     - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
   6001       the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
   6002       but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
   6003 
   6004   o Minor features (configuration):
   6005     - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
   6006       configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
   6007       configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
   6008       tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
   6009 
   6010   o Minor features (continuous integration):
   6011     - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
   6012       so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
   6013       first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
   6014     - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
   6015       ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
   6016       file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
   6017 
   6018   o Minor features (debugging):
   6019     - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
   6020       line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
   6021       should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
   6022       line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
   6023 
   6024   o Minor features (geoip):
   6025     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
   6026       Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
   6027 
   6028   o Minor features (git hooks):
   6029     - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
   6030       running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
   6031       that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
   6032       commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
   6033       branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
   6034 
   6035   o Minor features (git scripts):
   6036     - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
   6037       script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
   6038       push. Closes ticket 31314.
   6039     - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
   6040       can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
   6041     - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
   6042       git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
   6043       and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
   6044     - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
   6045       re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
   6046       Closes ticket 31314.
   6047     - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
   6048       command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
   6049     - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
   6050       script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
   6051       branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
   6052       should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
   6053       atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
   6054       arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
   6055     - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
   6056       ticket 30967.
   6057     - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
   6058       maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
   6059       -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
   6060       ticket 31314.
   6061 
   6062   o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
   6063     - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
   6064       routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
   6065 
   6066   o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
   6067     - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
   6068       decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
   6069       log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
   6070       evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
   6071       30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
   6072       operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
   6073 
   6074   o Minor features (onion service v3):
   6075     - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
   6076       from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
   6077 
   6078   o Minor features (onion service):
   6079     - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
   6080       removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
   6081       attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
   6082       off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
   6083 
   6084   o Minor features (onion services v3):
   6085     - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
   6086       services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
   6087       ticket 28966.
   6088 
   6089   o Minor features (stem tests):
   6090     - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
   6091       tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
   6092       ticket 31554.
   6093 
   6094   o Minor features (testing):
   6095     - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
   6096       libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
   6097       the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
   6098       presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
   6099     - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
   6100       --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
   6101       whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
   6102       we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
   6103       /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
   6104     - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
   6105       management API. Closes ticket 30893.
   6106     - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
   6107       outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
   6108     - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
   6109       suite. Closes ticket 31304.
   6110 
   6111   o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
   6112     - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
   6113       scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
   6114     - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
   6115       ticket 30860.
   6116     - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
   6117       Closes ticket 31859.
   6118     - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
   6119       Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
   6120 
   6121   o Minor features (token bucket):
   6122     - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
   6123       use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
   6124 
   6125   o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
   6126     - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
   6127       step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
   6128 
   6129   o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
   6130     - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
   6131       tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
   6132       Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   6133     - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
   6134       subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
   6135       subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
   6136       directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
   6137       on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   6138 
   6139   o Minor bugfixes (build system):
   6140     - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
   6141       32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   6142     - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
   6143       on 0.2.0.20-rc.
   6144     - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
   6145       found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6146     - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
   6147       pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
   6148       problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   6149     - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
   6150       systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
   6151 
   6152   o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
   6153     - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
   6154       network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
   6155       early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
   6156       renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
   6157       bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
   6158 
   6159   o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
   6160     - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
   6161       between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
   6162       gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
   6163       which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
   6164       connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   6165 
   6166   o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
   6167     - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
   6168       builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6169 
   6170   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
   6171     - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
   6172       time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
   6173       Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
   6174       look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
   6175       on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   6176     - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
   6177       floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
   6178       31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
   6179 
   6180   o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
   6181     - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
   6182       treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
   6183       ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
   6184 
   6185   o Minor bugfixes (connections):
   6186     - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
   6187       needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
   6188       30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
   6189 
   6190   o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
   6191     - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
   6192       arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
   6193       ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   6194 
   6195   o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
   6196     - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
   6197       sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
   6198       bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
   6199     - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
   6200       memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
   6201       we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
   6202       on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
   6203     - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
   6204       31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6205 
   6206   o Minor bugfixes (crash):
   6207     - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
   6208       --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
   6209       if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
   6210       bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   6211 
   6212   o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
   6213     - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
   6214       merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
   6215       on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   6216 
   6217   o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
   6218     - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
   6219       bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
   6220 
   6221   o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
   6222     - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
   6223       31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
   6224     - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
   6225       On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
   6226       the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6227     - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
   6228       only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
   6229       assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6230     - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
   6231       aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
   6232       rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
   6233       on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
   6234 
   6235   o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
   6236     - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
   6237       we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
   6238       internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
   6239       on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
   6240 
   6241   o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
   6242     - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
   6243       pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
   6244       practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   6245 
   6246   o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
   6247     - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
   6248       have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
   6249       Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6250     - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
   6251       the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6252     - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
   6253       the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
   6254       Closes ticket 31678.
   6255 
   6256   o Minor bugfixes (guards):
   6257     - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
   6258       make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
   6259       expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
   6260       31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   6261 
   6262   o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
   6263     - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
   6264       when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
   6265       for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
   6266       0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   6267     - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
   6268       policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
   6269       for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
   6270       IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
   6271       Neel Chauhan.
   6272 
   6273   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
   6274     - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
   6275       uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
   6276     - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
   6277       bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
   6278     - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
   6279       notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
   6280       could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
   6281       Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
   6282     - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
   6283       Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
   6284     - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
   6285       expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
   6286       on 0.1.1.10-alpha.
   6287     - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
   6288       as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
   6289       Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
   6290 
   6291   o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
   6292     - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
   6293       cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
   6294       protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
   6295 
   6296   o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
   6297     - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
   6298       cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
   6299       events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
   6300       with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
   6301       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   6302 
   6303   o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
   6304     - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
   6305       unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
   6306       by Xiaoyin Liu.
   6307 
   6308   o Minor bugfixes (modules):
   6309     - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
   6310       happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
   6311       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   6312 
   6313   o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
   6314     - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
   6315       31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
   6316 
   6317   o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
   6318     - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
   6319       IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
   6320       square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
   6321       making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
   6322       lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
   6323       on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
   6324     - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
   6325       DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
   6326       brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
   6327       they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
   6328       on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
   6329 
   6330   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
   6331     - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
   6332       point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
   6333       picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
   6334       introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   6335 
   6336   o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
   6337     - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
   6338       circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
   6339       This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
   6340       introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
   6341       bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   6342 
   6343   o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
   6344     - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
   6345       date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
   6346       machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6347 
   6348   o Minor bugfixes (process management):
   6349     - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
   6350       transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
   6351       on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6352     - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
   6353       would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
   6354       process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6355 
   6356   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
   6357     - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
   6358       the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
   6359       30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
   6360 
   6361   o Minor bugfixes (rust):
   6362     - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
   6363       31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   6364     - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
   6365       and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   6366 
   6367   o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
   6368     - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
   6369       sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
   6370       repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   6371 
   6372   o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
   6373     - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
   6374       big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
   6375       this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
   6376       30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
   6377 
   6378   o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
   6379     - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
   6380       dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
   6381       possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
   6382       network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
   6383       on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6384 
   6385   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
   6386     - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
   6387       inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
   6388       on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
   6389     - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
   6390       Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
   6391       Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
   6392       Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6393     - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
   6394       have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
   6395       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
   6396 
   6397   o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
   6398     - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
   6399       integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   6400 
   6401   o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
   6402     - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
   6403       filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
   6404       on 0.3.0.4-rc.
   6405 
   6406   o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
   6407     - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
   6408       a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
   6409       path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
   6410       delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
   6411       23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   6412 
   6413   o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
   6414     - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
   6415       remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
   6416       if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
   6417       its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   6418 
   6419   o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
   6420     - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
   6421       a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
   6422       path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
   6423       failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
   6424       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   6425     - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
   6426       intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
   6427       single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
   6428       via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   6429 
   6430   o Code simplification and refactoring:
   6431     - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
   6432       a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
   6433     - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
   6434       pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
   6435     - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
   6436       tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
   6437       ticket 31334.
   6438     - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
   6439       ticket 31589.
   6440 
   6441   o Documentation:
   6442     - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
   6443       bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   6444     - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
   6445       AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
   6446       powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
   6447       bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
   6448     - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
   6449       Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
   6450       ticket 31839.
   6451     - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
   6452       why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
   6453     - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
   6454       description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
   6455       This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
   6456       adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
   6457     - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
   6458       Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
   6459     - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
   6460       Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
   6461     - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
   6462       notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
   6463       themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
   6464 
   6465   o Removed features:
   6466     - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
   6467       in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
   6468       deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
   6469       will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
   6470       methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
   6471       of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
   6472       ticket 29738.
   6473     - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
   6474       ticket 30550.
   6475 
   6476   o Testing:
   6477     - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
   6478       gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
   6479       warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
   6480       Closes ticket 32500.
   6481     - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
   6482       shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
   6483     - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
   6484       Closes ticket 30967.
   6485 
   6486   o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
   6487     - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
   6488       lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
   6489     - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
   6490       more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
   6491       an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
   6492     - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
   6493       files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
   6494       any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
   6495     - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
   6496       duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
   6497       and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
   6498       logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
   6499     - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
   6500       configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
   6501       corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
   6502 
   6503   o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
   6504     - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
   6505       primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
   6506     - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
   6507       subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
   6508     - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
   6509       to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
   6510       memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
   6511       ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
   6512     - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
   6513       ticket 30956.
   6514     - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
   6515       offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
   6516       harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
   6517       ticket 31532.
   6518     - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
   6519       Closes ticket 30806.
   6520     - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
   6521       padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
   6522       and 31098.
   6523 
   6524   o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
   6525     - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
   6526       torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
   6527 
   6528   o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
   6529     - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
   6530       Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
   6531 
   6532   o Testing (continuous integration):
   6533     - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
   6534       recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
   6535       until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
   6536       32240). Related to ticket 31919.
   6537     - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
   6538       that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
   6539       builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
   6540       Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
   6541     - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
   6542 
   6543 
   6544 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
   6545   This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
   6546   correctness.  Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
   6547   including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
   6548 
   6549   o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6550     - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
   6551       deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
   6552       are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
   6553 
   6554   o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6555     - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
   6556       enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
   6557       31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   6558 
   6559   o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   6560     - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
   6561       relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
   6562       we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
   6563       whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
   6564       new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
   6565       continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
   6566       AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6567 
   6568   o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6569     - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
   6570       included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
   6571       config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
   6572       bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   6573 
   6574   o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   6575     - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
   6576       configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
   6577       fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
   6578       pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
   6579       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   6580 
   6581   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6582     - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
   6583       so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
   6584       first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
   6585 
   6586   o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
   6587     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
   6588       Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
   6589 
   6590   o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6591     - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
   6592       Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
   6593 
   6594   o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
   6595     - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
   6596       between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
   6597       gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
   6598       which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
   6599       connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   6600 
   6601   o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
   6602     - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
   6603       needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
   6604       30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
   6605 
   6606   o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   6607     - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
   6608       On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
   6609       the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6610     - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
   6611       only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
   6612       assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6613     - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
   6614       aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
   6615       rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
   6616       on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
   6617 
   6618   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6619     - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
   6620       uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
   6621     - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
   6622       bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
   6623     - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
   6624       notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
   6625       could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
   6626       Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
   6627 
   6628   o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6629     - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
   6630       cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
   6631       protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
   6632 
   6633   o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   6634     - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
   6635       cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
   6636       events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
   6637       with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
   6638       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   6639 
   6640   o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6641     - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
   6642       31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
   6643 
   6644   o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   6645     - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
   6646       transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
   6647       on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6648     - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
   6649       would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
   6650       process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6651 
   6652   o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6653     - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
   6654       the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
   6655       30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
   6656 
   6657   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   6658     - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
   6659       Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
   6660       Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
   6661       Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6662 
   6663   o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6664     - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
   6665       integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   6666 
   6667   o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   6668     - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
   6669       filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
   6670       on 0.3.0.4-rc.
   6671 
   6672   o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6673     - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
   6674       why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
   6675 
   6676   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   6677     - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
   6678       scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
   6679     - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
   6680       ticket 30860.
   6681     - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
   6682       Closes ticket 31859.
   6683     - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
   6684       Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
   6685 
   6686   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
   6687     - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
   6688     - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
   6689       recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
   6690       until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
   6691       32240). Related to ticket 31919.
   6692     - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
   6693       that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
   6694       builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
   6695       Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
   6696 
   6697   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
   6698     - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
   6699       extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
   6700       Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
   6701       Closes ticket 32500.
   6702 
   6703 
   6704 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
   6705   This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
   6706   backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness.  Anyone
   6707   experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
   6708   relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
   6709 
   6710   Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
   6711   on 2 Feb 2020.  Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
   6712   latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
   6713   support until 1 Feb 2022.
   6714 
   6715   o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
   6716     - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
   6717       ticket 31406.
   6718 
   6719   o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   6720     - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
   6721       of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
   6722       status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
   6723       therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
   6724       circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
   6725     - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
   6726       total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
   6727       changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
   6728       and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
   6729       of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   6730 
   6731   o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
   6732     - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
   6733       "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
   6734       we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
   6735       a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
   6736       behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   6737 
   6738   o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
   6739     - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
   6740       purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
   6741       other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
   6742       of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
   6743       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   6744 
   6745   o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   6746     - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
   6747       send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
   6748       to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
   6749       ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
   6750       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   6751     - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
   6752       cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
   6753       to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
   6754       client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
   6755       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   6756 
   6757   o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   6758     - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
   6759       relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
   6760       we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
   6761       whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
   6762       new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
   6763       continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
   6764       AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6765 
   6766   o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6767     - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
   6768       included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
   6769       config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
   6770       bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   6771 
   6772   o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   6773     - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
   6774       configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
   6775       fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
   6776       pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
   6777       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   6778 
   6779   o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   6780     - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
   6781       time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
   6782 
   6783   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   6784     - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
   6785       longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
   6786       issue 30213.
   6787 
   6788   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
   6789     - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
   6790       integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
   6791 
   6792   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6793     - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
   6794       so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
   6795       first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
   6796 
   6797   o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
   6798     - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
   6799       in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
   6800       list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
   6801       in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
   6802 
   6803   o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
   6804     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
   6805       Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
   6806 
   6807   o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   6808     - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
   6809       tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
   6810       ticket 31554.
   6811 
   6812   o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6813     - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
   6814       Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
   6815 
   6816   o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   6817     - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
   6818       systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
   6819 
   6820   o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
   6821     - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
   6822       being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
   6823 
   6824   o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
   6825     - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
   6826       logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
   6827       on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6828 
   6829   o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
   6830     - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
   6831       between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
   6832       gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
   6833       which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
   6834       connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   6835 
   6836   o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
   6837     - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
   6838       arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
   6839       Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
   6840       Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
   6841 
   6842   o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
   6843     - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
   6844       pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
   6845       on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
   6846 
   6847   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
   6848     - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
   6849       on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
   6850 
   6851   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   6852     - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
   6853       floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
   6854       31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
   6855 
   6856   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   6857     - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
   6858       due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
   6859       failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   6860 
   6861   o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   6862     - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
   6863       want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
   6864       ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
   6865 
   6866   o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
   6867     - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
   6868       needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
   6869       30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
   6870 
   6871   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
   6872     - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
   6873       hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   6874     - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
   6875       macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6876     - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
   6877       variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6878 
   6879   o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
   6880     - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
   6881       memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
   6882       31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
   6883 
   6884   o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
   6885     - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
   6886       annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
   6887       local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
   6888 
   6889   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   6890     - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
   6891       votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
   6892       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6893 
   6894   o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   6895     - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
   6896       On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
   6897       the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6898     - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
   6899       only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
   6900       assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6901 
   6902   o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   6903     - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
   6904       we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
   6905       internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
   6906       on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
   6907 
   6908   o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   6909     - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
   6910       make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
   6911       expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
   6912       31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   6913 
   6914   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   6915     - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
   6916       than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
   6917       compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
   6918       different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
   6919 
   6920   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   6921     - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
   6922       expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
   6923       on 0.1.1.10-alpha.
   6924 
   6925   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6926     - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
   6927       notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
   6928       could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
   6929       Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
   6930 
   6931   o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6932     - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
   6933       cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
   6934       protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
   6935 
   6936   o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   6937     - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
   6938       cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
   6939       events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
   6940       with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
   6941       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   6942 
   6943   o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   6944     - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
   6945       to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
   6946       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   6947 
   6948   o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
   6949     - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
   6950       from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
   6951       30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   6952 
   6953   o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   6954     - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
   6955       MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
   6956       30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
   6957 
   6958   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   6959     - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
   6960       implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
   6961       authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6962 
   6963   o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   6964     - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
   6965       try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
   6966       always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
   6967       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6968 
   6969   o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   6970     - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
   6971       that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
   6972       been here long enough that we question whether people are running
   6973       Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
   6974       Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
   6975       Tobias Stoeckmann.
   6976 
   6977   o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   6978     - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
   6979       transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
   6980       on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6981     - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
   6982       would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
   6983       process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   6984 
   6985   o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   6986     - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
   6987       the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
   6988       30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
   6989 
   6990   o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   6991     - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
   6992       31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   6993 
   6994   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   6995     - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
   6996       Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
   6997       Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
   6998       Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   6999 
   7000   o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   7001     - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
   7002       filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
   7003       on 0.3.0.4-rc.
   7004 
   7005   o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7006     - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
   7007       a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
   7008       path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
   7009       delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
   7010       23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   7011     - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
   7012       intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
   7013       single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
   7014       via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   7015 
   7016   o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7017     - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
   7018       notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
   7019       themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
   7020 
   7021   o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   7022     - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
   7023       integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
   7024       Resolves issue 29702.
   7025 
   7026   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   7027     - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
   7028 
   7029   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
   7030     - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
   7031       tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
   7032     - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
   7033       ticket 30694.
   7034 
   7035   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   7036     - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
   7037       scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
   7038     - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
   7039       ticket 30860.
   7040     - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
   7041       Closes ticket 31859.
   7042     - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
   7043       Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
   7044 
   7045   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
   7046     - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
   7047       recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
   7048       until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
   7049       32240). Related to ticket 31919.
   7050     - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
   7051       that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
   7052       builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
   7053       Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
   7054     - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
   7055 
   7056   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
   7057     - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
   7058       extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
   7059       Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
   7060       Closes ticket 32500.
   7061 
   7062 
   7063 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
   7064   Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
   7065   several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
   7066   and much more.
   7067 
   7068   o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
   7069     - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
   7070       ticket 31406.
   7071 
   7072   o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   7073     - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
   7074       of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
   7075       status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
   7076       therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
   7077       circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
   7078     - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
   7079       total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
   7080       changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
   7081       and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
   7082       of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   7083 
   7084   o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
   7085     - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
   7086       "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
   7087       we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
   7088       a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
   7089       behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   7090 
   7091   o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
   7092     - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
   7093       SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
   7094       these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
   7095       handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
   7096       Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7097 
   7098   o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
   7099     - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
   7100       purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
   7101       other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
   7102       of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
   7103       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   7104 
   7105   o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   7106     - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
   7107       send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
   7108       to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
   7109       ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
   7110       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   7111     - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
   7112       cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
   7113       to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
   7114       client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
   7115       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   7116 
   7117   o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   7118     - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
   7119       included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
   7120       config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
   7121       bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   7122 
   7123   o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   7124     - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
   7125       configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
   7126       fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
   7127       pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
   7128       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   7129 
   7130   o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
   7131     - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
   7132       private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
   7133       NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
   7134       RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
   7135       blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
   7136       if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
   7137       Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   7138 
   7139   o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
   7140     - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
   7141       bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
   7142       report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
   7143       their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
   7144       ticket 29806.
   7145 
   7146   o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   7147     - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
   7148       time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
   7149 
   7150   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
   7151     - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
   7152       caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
   7153       issue 29962.
   7154 
   7155   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
   7156     - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
   7157       launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
   7158       signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
   7159 
   7160   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   7161     - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
   7162       longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
   7163       issue 30213.
   7164 
   7165   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
   7166     - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
   7167       integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
   7168 
   7169   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   7170     - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
   7171       so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
   7172       first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
   7173 
   7174   o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
   7175     - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
   7176       in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
   7177       list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
   7178       in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
   7179 
   7180   o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
   7181     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
   7182       Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
   7183 
   7184   o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
   7185     - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
   7186       description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
   7187       SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
   7188 
   7189   o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7190     - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
   7191       tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
   7192       ticket 31554.
   7193 
   7194   o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
   7195     - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
   7196       with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
   7197       event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
   7198       fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
   7199     - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
   7200       The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
   7201       the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
   7202       read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
   7203       source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
   7204       issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
   7205       which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
   7206       30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
   7207       Tobias Stoeckmann.
   7208 
   7209   o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
   7210     - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
   7211       should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
   7212       suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
   7213       was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
   7214       on 0.2.9.15.
   7215     - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
   7216       (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
   7217       Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   7218 
   7219   o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   7220     - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
   7221       Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
   7222 
   7223   o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7224     - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
   7225       systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
   7226 
   7227   o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
   7228     - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
   7229       29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
   7230       CID 1444119.
   7231 
   7232   o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
   7233     - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
   7234       being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
   7235 
   7236   o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
   7237     - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
   7238       between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
   7239       gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
   7240       which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
   7241       connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   7242 
   7243   o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
   7244     - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
   7245       arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
   7246       Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
   7247       Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
   7248 
   7249   o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
   7250     - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
   7251       pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
   7252       on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
   7253 
   7254   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   7255     - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
   7256       29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
   7257 
   7258   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
   7259     - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
   7260       on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
   7261 
   7262   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7263     - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
   7264       floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
   7265       31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
   7266 
   7267   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   7268     - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
   7269       due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
   7270       failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   7271 
   7272   o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   7273     - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
   7274       want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
   7275       ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
   7276 
   7277   o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
   7278     - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
   7279       needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
   7280       30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
   7281 
   7282   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
   7283     - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
   7284       hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   7285     - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
   7286       macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7287     - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
   7288       variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7289 
   7290   o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
   7291     - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
   7292       memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
   7293       31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
   7294 
   7295   o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
   7296     - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
   7297       annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
   7298       local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
   7299 
   7300   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   7301     - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
   7302       votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
   7303       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7304 
   7305   o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7306     - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
   7307       On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
   7308       the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7309     - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
   7310       only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
   7311       assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7312 
   7313   o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7314     - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
   7315       we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
   7316       internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
   7317       on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
   7318 
   7319   o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7320     - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
   7321       make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
   7322       expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
   7323       31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   7324 
   7325   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   7326     - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
   7327       timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
   7328 
   7329   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
   7330     - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
   7331       used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
   7332       of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
   7333       0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
   7334     - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
   7335       used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
   7336       logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
   7337       on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
   7338     - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
   7339       descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7340 
   7341   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   7342     - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
   7343       than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
   7344       compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
   7345       different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
   7346 
   7347   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7348     - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
   7349       expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
   7350       on 0.1.1.10-alpha.
   7351 
   7352   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   7353     - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
   7354       notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
   7355       could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
   7356       Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
   7357 
   7358   o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   7359     - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
   7360       cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
   7361       protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
   7362 
   7363   o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   7364     - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
   7365       cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
   7366       events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
   7367       with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
   7368       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   7369 
   7370   o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   7371     - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
   7372       to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
   7373       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   7374 
   7375   o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
   7376     - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
   7377       from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
   7378       30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   7379 
   7380   o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
   7381     - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
   7382       actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
   7383       Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
   7384 
   7385   o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
   7386     - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
   7387       unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
   7388 
   7389   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   7390     - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
   7391       implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
   7392       authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7393 
   7394   o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   7395     - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
   7396       try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
   7397       always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
   7398       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7399 
   7400   o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   7401     - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
   7402       that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
   7403       been here long enough that we question whether people are running
   7404       Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
   7405       Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
   7406       Tobias Stoeckmann.
   7407 
   7408   o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
   7409     - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
   7410       the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
   7411       30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
   7412 
   7413   o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
   7414     - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
   7415       unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   7416 
   7417   o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7418     - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
   7419       31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   7420 
   7421   o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
   7422     - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
   7423       being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
   7424       for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
   7425       circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
   7426       directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
   7427       bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
   7428 
   7429   o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
   7430     - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
   7431       relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
   7432       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   7433 
   7434   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
   7435     - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
   7436       warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
   7437       configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
   7438       backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
   7439       29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
   7440     - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
   7441       correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7442 
   7443   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
   7444     - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
   7445       recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
   7446       bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
   7447     - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
   7448       warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
   7449       on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   7450 
   7451   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   7452     - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
   7453       Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
   7454       Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
   7455       Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7456 
   7457   o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
   7458     - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
   7459       client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
   7460       Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
   7461       and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
   7462       client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
   7463       was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
   7464       bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
   7465 
   7466   o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   7467     - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
   7468       filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
   7469       on 0.3.0.4-rc.
   7470 
   7471   o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7472     - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
   7473       a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
   7474       path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
   7475       delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
   7476       23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   7477     - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
   7478       intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
   7479       single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
   7480       via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   7481 
   7482   o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
   7483     - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
   7484       Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
   7485       coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
   7486       fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
   7487       bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   7488 
   7489   o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7490     - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
   7491       notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
   7492       themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
   7493 
   7494   o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
   7495     - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
   7496       integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
   7497       Resolves issue 29702.
   7498 
   7499   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
   7500     - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
   7501 
   7502   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
   7503     - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
   7504       tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
   7505     - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
   7506       ticket 30694.
   7507 
   7508   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
   7509     - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
   7510       scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
   7511     - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
   7512       ticket 30860.
   7513     - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
   7514       Closes ticket 31859.
   7515     - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
   7516       Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
   7517 
   7518   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
   7519     - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
   7520       recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
   7521       until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
   7522       32240). Related to ticket 31919.
   7523     - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
   7524       that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
   7525       builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
   7526       Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
   7527     - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
   7528 
   7529   o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
   7530     - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
   7531       extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
   7532       Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
   7533       Closes ticket 32500.
   7534 
   7535 
   7536 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
   7537   This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
   7538   correctness.  Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
   7539   or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
   7540   upgrade.
   7541 
   7542   o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7543     - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
   7544       madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
   7545       run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
   7546       and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   7547     - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
   7548       madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
   7549       at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
   7550       syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   7551 
   7552   o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7553     - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
   7554       tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
   7555       ticket 31554.
   7556 
   7557   o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7558     - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
   7559       systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
   7560 
   7561   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7562     - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
   7563       time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
   7564       Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
   7565       look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
   7566       on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   7567     - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
   7568       floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
   7569       31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
   7570 
   7571   o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
   7572     - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
   7573       arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
   7574       the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
   7575 
   7576   o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7577     - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
   7578       we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
   7579       internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
   7580       on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
   7581 
   7582   o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7583     - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
   7584       make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
   7585       expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
   7586       31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   7587 
   7588   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7589     - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
   7590       expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
   7591       on 0.1.1.10-alpha.
   7592 
   7593   o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7594     - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
   7595       31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   7596 
   7597   o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7598     - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
   7599       a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
   7600       path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
   7601       delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
   7602       23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   7603 
   7604   o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7605     - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
   7606       a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
   7607       path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
   7608       failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
   7609       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   7610     - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
   7611       intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
   7612       single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
   7613       via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   7614 
   7615   o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
   7616     - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
   7617       notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
   7618       themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
   7619 
   7620 
   7621 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
   7622   This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
   7623   adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
   7624   defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
   7625   to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
   7626   onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
   7627   bugfixes on earlier versions.
   7628 
   7629   Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
   7630   months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
   7631   whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
   7632   with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
   7633 
   7634   Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
   7635   since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
   7636 
   7637   o Directory authority changes:
   7638     - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
   7639       ticket 31406.
   7640 
   7641   o Major features (circuit padding):
   7642     - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
   7643       INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
   7644       look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
   7645       is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
   7646       extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
   7647       circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
   7648       circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
   7649       with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
   7650       with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
   7651 
   7652   o Major features (code organization):
   7653     - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
   7654       subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
   7655       hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
   7656       need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
   7657       ticket 28226.
   7658 
   7659   o Major features (controller protocol):
   7660     - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
   7661       subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
   7662       parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
   7663       Closes ticket 30091.
   7664 
   7665   o Major features (flow control):
   7666     - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
   7667       SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
   7668       acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
   7669       can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
   7670       were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
   7671       This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
   7672       the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
   7673 
   7674   o Major features (performance):
   7675     - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
   7676       Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
   7677       heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
   7678 
   7679   o Major features (performance, RNG):
   7680     - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
   7681       each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
   7682       based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
   7683       libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
   7684       outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
   7685       small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
   7686       strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
   7687       Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
   7688 
   7689   o Major bugfixes (bridges):
   7690     - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
   7691       of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
   7692       status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
   7693       therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
   7694       circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
   7695     - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
   7696       total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
   7697       changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
   7698       and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
   7699       of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   7700 
   7701   o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
   7702     - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
   7703       logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
   7704       on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   7705     - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
   7706       "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
   7707       we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
   7708       a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
   7709       behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   7710 
   7711   o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
   7712     - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
   7713       purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
   7714       other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
   7715       of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
   7716       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   7717 
   7718   o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
   7719     - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
   7720       send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
   7721       to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
   7722       ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
   7723       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   7724     - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
   7725       cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
   7726       to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
   7727       client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
   7728       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   7729 
   7730   o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
   7731     - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
   7732       an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
   7733       to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
   7734       we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
   7735       at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
   7736       ticket 26846.
   7737 
   7738   o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
   7739     - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
   7740       warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
   7741       with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
   7742 
   7743   o Minor features (circuit padding):
   7744     - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
   7745       ticket 28636.
   7746     - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
   7747       histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
   7748       exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
   7749       of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
   7750       design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   7751     - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
   7752       are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
   7753 
   7754   o Minor features (compile-time modules):
   7755     - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
   7756       time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
   7757 
   7758   o Minor features (continuous integration):
   7759     - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
   7760       integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
   7761     - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
   7762       TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
   7763       of ticket 28878.
   7764     - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
   7765       longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
   7766       issue 30213.
   7767     - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
   7768 
   7769   o Minor features (controller):
   7770     - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
   7771       Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
   7772       ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   7773 
   7774   o Minor features (debugging):
   7775     - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
   7776       logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
   7777       can use format strings to include information for trouble
   7778       shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
   7779 
   7780   o Minor features (defense in depth):
   7781     - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
   7782       case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
   7783       Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
   7784     - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
   7785       that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
   7786       performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
   7787       congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
   7788       statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
   7789       cases. Closes ticket 29542.
   7790 
   7791   o Minor features (developer tools):
   7792     - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
   7793       that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
   7794       and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
   7795       refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
   7796     - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
   7797       ticket 29391.
   7798     - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
   7799       developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
   7800       ticket 30051.
   7801     - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
   7802       unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
   7803 
   7804   o Minor features (fallback directory list):
   7805     - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
   7806       in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
   7807       list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
   7808       in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
   7809 
   7810   o Minor features (geoip):
   7811     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
   7812       Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
   7813     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
   7814       Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
   7815 
   7816   o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
   7817     - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
   7818       an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
   7819 
   7820   o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
   7821     - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
   7822       Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
   7823       addresses. Implements 26992.
   7824 
   7825   o Minor features (logging):
   7826     - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
   7827       minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
   7828       compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
   7829       Closes ticket 30686.
   7830 
   7831   o Minor features (maintenance):
   7832     - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
   7833       all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
   7834       codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
   7835 
   7836   o Minor features (modularity):
   7837     - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
   7838       even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
   7839 
   7840   o Minor features (performance):
   7841     - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
   7842       1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
   7843       Closes ticket 28837.
   7844 
   7845   o Minor features (testing):
   7846     - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
   7847       so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
   7848     - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
   7849       to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
   7850       ticket 28878.
   7851     - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
   7852       our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
   7853       changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
   7854     - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
   7855       PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
   7856       Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
   7857       Implements ticket 29732.
   7858     - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
   7859       where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
   7860       ticket 29436.
   7861     - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
   7862       int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
   7863 
   7864   o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
   7865     - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
   7866       about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
   7867       as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
   7868       modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
   7869       Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   7870 
   7871   o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
   7872     - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
   7873       counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
   7874       bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   7875 
   7876   o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
   7877     - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
   7878       being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
   7879 
   7880   o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
   7881     - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
   7882       Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   7883     - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
   7884       contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
   7885       options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
   7886       Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   7887     - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
   7888       be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
   7889       bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   7890     - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
   7891       dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   7892     - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
   7893       avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
   7894       bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   7895     - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
   7896       that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
   7897       29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   7898 
   7899   o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
   7900     - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
   7901       arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
   7902       Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
   7903       Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
   7904 
   7905   o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
   7906     - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
   7907       operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
   7908       INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
   7909       better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
   7910       Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
   7911 
   7912   o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
   7913     - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
   7914       pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
   7915       0.2.9.1-alpha.
   7916 
   7917   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
   7918     - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
   7919       on 64-bit Windows builds.  Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
   7920 
   7921   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
   7922     - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
   7923       due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
   7924       failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   7925 
   7926   o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
   7927     - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
   7928       want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
   7929       ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
   7930 
   7931   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
   7932     - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
   7933       hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   7934     - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
   7935       macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7936     - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
   7937       variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7938 
   7939   o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
   7940     - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
   7941       an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
   7942       distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
   7943       object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
   7944 
   7945   o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
   7946     - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
   7947       memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
   7948       31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
   7949 
   7950   o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
   7951     - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
   7952       to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
   7953       on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   7954 
   7955   o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
   7956     - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
   7957       annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
   7958       local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
   7959     - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
   7960       votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
   7961       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   7962     - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
   7963       as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
   7964       Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   7965 
   7966   o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
   7967     - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
   7968       bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
   7969     - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
   7970       explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
   7971       that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
   7972       on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
   7973     - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
   7974       that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
   7975 
   7976   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
   7977     - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
   7978       than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
   7979       compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
   7980       different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
   7981     - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
   7982       missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
   7983       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   7984 
   7985   o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
   7986     - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
   7987       to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
   7988       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   7989     - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
   7990       download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
   7991       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   7992 
   7993   o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
   7994     - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
   7995       MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
   7996       30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
   7997 
   7998   o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
   7999     - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
   8000       implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
   8001       authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8002     - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
   8003       rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
   8004       "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
   8005       this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
   8006       Neel Chauhan.
   8007     - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
   8008       circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
   8009       17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   8010     - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
   8011       (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
   8012       ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
   8013       0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   8014 
   8015   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
   8016     - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
   8017       less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
   8018       circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
   8019       change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
   8020       bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   8021 
   8022   o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
   8023     - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
   8024       try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
   8025       always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
   8026       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8027 
   8028   o Minor bugfixes (performance):
   8029     - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
   8030       sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
   8031       check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
   8032       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8033 
   8034   o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
   8035     - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
   8036       well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
   8037 
   8038   o Minor bugfixes (portability):
   8039     - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
   8040       that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
   8041       been here long enough that we question whether people are running
   8042       Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
   8043       Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
   8044       Tobias Stoeckmann.
   8045 
   8046   o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
   8047     - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
   8048       that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
   8049       on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   8050 
   8051   o Minor bugfixes (python):
   8052     - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
   8053       with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
   8054       python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
   8055 
   8056   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
   8057     - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
   8058       is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
   8059       IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
   8060       0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   8061 
   8062   o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
   8063     - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
   8064       lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
   8065       bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
   8066 
   8067   o Minor bugfixes (stats):
   8068     - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
   8069       statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
   8070       bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
   8071       29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
   8072 
   8073   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
   8074     - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
   8075       we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
   8076       compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8077     - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
   8078       bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   8079     - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
   8080       for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
   8081       Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
   8082     - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
   8083       This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
   8084       failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
   8085       Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
   8086 
   8087   o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
   8088     - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
   8089       a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
   8090       actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
   8091       30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
   8092 
   8093   o Code simplification and refactoring:
   8094     - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
   8095       port. Implements ticket 30007.
   8096     - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
   8097       warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
   8098     - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
   8099       for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
   8100       string to directory connection with or without compression.
   8101       Resolves issue 28816.
   8102     - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
   8103       for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
   8104     - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
   8105       relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
   8106     - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
   8107       crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
   8108     - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
   8109       believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
   8110     - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
   8111       associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
   8112       implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
   8113       code. Resolves ticket 29660.
   8114     - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
   8115       it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
   8116     - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
   8117       all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
   8118       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   8119     - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
   8120       23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   8121     - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
   8122       code. Resolves ticket 29108.
   8123     - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
   8124       distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
   8125       Closes ticket 29894.
   8126     - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
   8127       the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
   8128       know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
   8129       Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
   8130 
   8131   o Documentation:
   8132     - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
   8133       Closes ticket 30630.
   8134     - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
   8135       CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
   8136       ticket 30261.
   8137 
   8138   o Removed features:
   8139     - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
   8140       directory. Resolves issue 29434.
   8141     - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
   8142     - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
   8143       issue 30075.
   8144 
   8145   o Testing:
   8146     - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
   8147       integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
   8148       Resolves issue 29702.
   8149 
   8150   o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
   8151     - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
   8152       These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
   8153       29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
   8154       29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
   8155       (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
   8156       fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
   8157       nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
   8158       src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
   8159       (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
   8160       zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
   8161       (ticket 29067).
   8162 
   8163   o Testing (chutney):
   8164     - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
   8165       services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
   8166       Closes ticket 27251.
   8167 
   8168   o Testing (continuous integration):
   8169     - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
   8170       stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
   8171     - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
   8172       Closes ticket 30694.
   8173 
   8174 
   8175 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
   8176   This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
   8177   improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
   8178   preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
   8179   of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
   8180   long-term maintainability.
   8181 
   8182   Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
   8183   months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
   8184   whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
   8185   with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
   8186 
   8187   Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
   8188   since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
   8189 
   8190   o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
   8191     - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
   8192       it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
   8193       network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
   8194       request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
   8195       configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
   8196       2149 and 28335.
   8197     - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
   8198       has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
   8199       ticket 28624.
   8200     - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
   8201       if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
   8202       not used.
   8203 
   8204   o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
   8205     - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
   8206       uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
   8207       application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
   8208       progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
   8209       27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
   8210     - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
   8211       pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
   8212       proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
   8213       27100 and 28884.
   8214 
   8215   o Major features (circuit padding):
   8216     - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
   8217       Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
   8218       WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
   8219       relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
   8220       use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
   8221       inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
   8222       padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
   8223       this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
   8224       ticket 28142.
   8225 
   8226   o Major features (refactoring):
   8227     - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
   8228       initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
   8229       managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
   8230       (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
   8231       ticket 28330.
   8232 
   8233   o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
   8234     - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
   8235       put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
   8236       were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
   8237       is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
   8238       client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
   8239       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
   8240       TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
   8241 
   8242   o Major bugfixes (networking):
   8243     - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
   8244       username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
   8245       continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
   8246       certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8247 
   8248   o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
   8249     - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
   8250       SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
   8251       these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
   8252       handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
   8253       Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8254 
   8255   o Minor features (address selection):
   8256     - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
   8257       private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
   8258       NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
   8259       RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
   8260       blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
   8261       if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
   8262       Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   8263 
   8264   o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
   8265     - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
   8266       bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
   8267       report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
   8268       their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
   8269       ticket 29806.
   8270     - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
   8271       bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
   8272       this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
   8273       ticket 21377.
   8274 
   8275   o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
   8276     - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
   8277       situations where only internal paths are available and situations
   8278       where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
   8279       erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
   8280       ticket 27402.
   8281 
   8282   o Minor features (compilation):
   8283     - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
   8284       disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
   8285       Patches from "Mangix".
   8286 
   8287   o Minor features (continuous integration):
   8288     - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
   8289       caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
   8290       issue 29962.
   8291     - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
   8292       issue 28551.
   8293     - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
   8294       launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
   8295       signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
   8296 
   8297   o Minor features (controller):
   8298     - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
   8299       Implements ticket 28843.
   8300 
   8301   o Minor features (developer tooling):
   8302     - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
   8303       from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
   8304       release. Closes ticket 27761.
   8305     - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
   8306       any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
   8307       now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
   8308       feature 28976.
   8309     - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
   8310       commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
   8311       push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
   8312 
   8313   o Minor features (diagnostic):
   8314     - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
   8315       of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
   8316       ticket 28223.
   8317 
   8318   o Minor features (directory authority):
   8319     - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
   8320       bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
   8321       Closes ticket 26698.
   8322     - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
   8323       which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
   8324       canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
   8325       in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
   8326       proposal 298.
   8327 
   8328   o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
   8329     - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
   8330       relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
   8331       soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
   8332       descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
   8333       'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
   8334       diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
   8335 
   8336   o Minor features (dormant mode):
   8337     - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
   8338       treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
   8339       Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
   8340       used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
   8341       did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
   8342       background. Closes ticket 29357.
   8343 
   8344   o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
   8345     - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
   8346       outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
   8347 
   8348   o Minor features (FreeBSD):
   8349     - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
   8350       "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
   8351       Closes ticket 28518.
   8352 
   8353   o Minor features (geoip):
   8354     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
   8355       Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
   8356 
   8357   o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
   8358     - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
   8359       along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
   8360       browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
   8361 
   8362   o Minor features (IPv6):
   8363     - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
   8364       prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
   8365       every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
   8366       We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
   8367       quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
   8368       IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   8369     - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
   8370       paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
   8371       Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
   8372       Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   8373 
   8374   o Minor features (log messages):
   8375     - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
   8376       negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
   8377       by "ffmancera".
   8378 
   8379   o Minor features (memory usage):
   8380     - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
   8381       compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
   8382     - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
   8383       that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
   8384       memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
   8385 
   8386   o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
   8387     - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
   8388       description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
   8389       SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
   8390 
   8391   o Minor features (parsing):
   8392     - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
   8393       ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
   8394       them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
   8395 
   8396   o Minor features (performance):
   8397     - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
   8398       have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
   8399       This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
   8400       may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
   8401       ticket 27225.
   8402     - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
   8403       speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
   8404       Closes ticket 28852.
   8405     - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
   8406       improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
   8407     - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
   8408       inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
   8409     - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
   8410       startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
   8411 
   8412   o Minor features (pluggable transports):
   8413     - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
   8414       a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
   8415     - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
   8416       pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
   8417 
   8418   o Minor features (process management):
   8419     - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
   8420       allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
   8421       processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
   8422     - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
   8423       module. Closes ticket 28847.
   8424 
   8425   o Minor features (relay):
   8426     - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
   8427       the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
   8428       warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
   8429 
   8430   o Minor features (required protocols):
   8431     - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
   8432       now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
   8433       unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
   8434       date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
   8435       time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
   8436       no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
   8437       297; closes ticket 27735.
   8438 
   8439   o Minor features (testing):
   8440     - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
   8441       ticket 28668.
   8442     - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
   8443       networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
   8444     - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
   8445       in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
   8446       ticket 30001.
   8447 
   8448   o Minor bugfixes (security):
   8449     - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
   8450       The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
   8451       the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
   8452       read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
   8453       source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
   8454       issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
   8455       which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
   8456       30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
   8457       Tobias Stoeckmann.
   8458     - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
   8459       with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
   8460       event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
   8461       fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
   8462 
   8463   o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
   8464     - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
   8465       should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
   8466       suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
   8467       was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
   8468       on 0.2.9.15.
   8469     - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
   8470       (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
   8471       Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   8472 
   8473   o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
   8474     - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
   8475       version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
   8476       bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
   8477 
   8478   o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
   8479     - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
   8480       29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
   8481       CID 1444119.
   8482 
   8483   o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
   8484     - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
   8485       on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
   8486     - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
   8487       consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
   8488       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   8489 
   8490   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
   8491     - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
   8492       29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
   8493     - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
   8494       headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
   8495       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
   8496 
   8497   o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
   8498     - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
   8499       consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
   8500 
   8501   o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
   8502     - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
   8503       authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
   8504       consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   8505 
   8506   o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
   8507     - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
   8508       back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
   8509       Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
   8510       21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
   8511 
   8512   o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
   8513     - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
   8514       files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
   8515       bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
   8516 
   8517   o Minor bugfixes (guards):
   8518     - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
   8519       or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
   8520       we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
   8521       could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
   8522       many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
   8523       0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   8524 
   8525   o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
   8526     - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
   8527       IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
   8528       of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
   8529       Kris Katterjohn.
   8530 
   8531   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
   8532     - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
   8533       used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
   8534       of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
   8535       0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
   8536     - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
   8537       used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
   8538       logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
   8539       on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
   8540     - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
   8541       descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8542     - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
   8543       timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
   8544     - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
   8545       private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
   8546       read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
   8547       during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8548     - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
   8549       link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
   8550       counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
   8551       remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
   8552       developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
   8553 
   8554   o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
   8555     - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
   8556       actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
   8557       Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
   8558     - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
   8559       unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
   8560 
   8561   o Minor bugfixes (misc):
   8562     - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
   8563       using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
   8564       when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
   8565       bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
   8566 
   8567   o Minor bugfixes (networking):
   8568     - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
   8569       certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
   8570       bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
   8571 
   8572   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
   8573     - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
   8574       connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
   8575       cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
   8576       rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
   8577       28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
   8578 
   8579   o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
   8580     - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
   8581       than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
   8582       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8583     - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
   8584       "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
   8585       long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
   8586       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   8587     - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
   8588       as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
   8589       is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
   8590       bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
   8591 
   8592   o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
   8593     - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
   8594       check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
   8595       event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   8596 
   8597   o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
   8598     - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
   8599       standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
   8600       avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
   8601       bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
   8602 
   8603   o Minor bugfixes (rust):
   8604     - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
   8605       unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   8606 
   8607   o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
   8608     - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
   8609       channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
   8610       Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
   8611       of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
   8612       on 0.3.2.10.
   8613 
   8614   o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
   8615     - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
   8616       being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
   8617       for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
   8618       circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
   8619       directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
   8620       bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
   8621 
   8622   o Minor bugfixes (stats):
   8623     - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
   8624       relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
   8625       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   8626 
   8627   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
   8628     - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
   8629       recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
   8630       bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
   8631     - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
   8632       warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
   8633       on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   8634     - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
   8635       warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
   8636       configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
   8637       backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
   8638       29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
   8639     - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
   8640       correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8641     - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
   8642       Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   8643     - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
   8644       network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
   8645       on 0.2.7.3-rc.
   8646     - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
   8647       objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
   8648       one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
   8649       and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8650 
   8651   o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
   8652     - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
   8653       client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
   8654       Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
   8655       and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
   8656       client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
   8657       was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
   8658       bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
   8659 
   8660   o Minor bugfixes (usability):
   8661     - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
   8662       Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
   8663       under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
   8664       28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   8665 
   8666   o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
   8667     - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
   8668       Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
   8669       coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
   8670       fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
   8671       bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
   8672 
   8673   o Code simplification and refactoring:
   8674     - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
   8675       whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
   8676       Resolves issue 28816.
   8677     - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
   8678       connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
   8679     - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
   8680       trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
   8681     - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
   8682       ticket 28077.
   8683     - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
   8684       parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
   8685     - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
   8686       separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
   8687     - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
   8688       directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
   8689       dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
   8690       checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
   8691       ticket 28362.
   8692 
   8693   o Documentation:
   8694     - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
   8695       by default. Resolves issue 29121.
   8696     - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
   8697       example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
   8698       by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
   8699     - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
   8700       running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
   8701     - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
   8702       address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
   8703       ticket 28805.
   8704     - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
   8705 
   8706   o Removed features:
   8707     - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
   8708     - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
   8709       'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
   8710       those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
   8711       output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
   8712     - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
   8713       directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
   8714       repository. Closes ticket 27914.
   8715 
   8716   o Testing:
   8717     - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
   8718       ticket 28058.
   8719     - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
   8720       functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
   8721 
   8722   o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
   8723     - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
   8724       code from client and service into one function. Closes
   8725       ticket 27549.
   8726 
   8727   o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
   8728     - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
   8729       ticket 28007.
   8730     - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
   8731       Resolves ticket 28006.
   8732     - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
   8733       Resolves ticket 28012.
   8734     - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
   8735     - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
   8736     - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
   8737     - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
   8738       issue 28008.
   8739 
   8740 
   8741 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
   8742   Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
   8743   for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
   8744   releases.
   8745 
   8746   It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
   8747   0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
   8748   should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
   8749 
   8750   o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
   8751     - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
   8752       put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
   8753       were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
   8754       is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
   8755       client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
   8756       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
   8757       TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
   8758 
   8759   o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8760     - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
   8761       username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
   8762       continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
   8763       certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8764 
   8765   o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8766     - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
   8767       disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
   8768       Patches from "Mangix".
   8769 
   8770   o Minor features (geoip):
   8771     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
   8772       Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
   8773 
   8774   o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8775     - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
   8776       ticket 28668.
   8777 
   8778   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
   8779     - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
   8780       connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
   8781       cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
   8782       rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
   8783       28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
   8784 
   8785   o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
   8786     - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
   8787       IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
   8788       of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
   8789       Kris Katterjohn.
   8790 
   8791   o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8792     - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
   8793       version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
   8794       bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
   8795 
   8796   o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
   8797     - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
   8798       consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
   8799       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   8800 
   8801   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
   8802     - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
   8803       headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
   8804       bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
   8805 
   8806   o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8807     - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
   8808       files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
   8809       bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
   8810 
   8811   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
   8812     - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
   8813       link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
   8814       counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
   8815       remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
   8816       developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
   8817 
   8818   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8819     - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
   8820       private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
   8821       read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
   8822       during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8823 
   8824   o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8825     - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
   8826       using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
   8827       when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
   8828       bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
   8829 
   8830   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8831     - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
   8832       than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
   8833       on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   8834     - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
   8835       "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
   8836       long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
   8837       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   8838     - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
   8839       as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
   8840       is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
   8841       bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
   8842 
   8843   o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
   8844     - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
   8845       consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
   8846 
   8847   o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8848     - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
   8849       Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   8850     - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
   8851       network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
   8852       on 0.2.7.3-rc.
   8853 
   8854   o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
   8855     - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
   8856       Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
   8857       under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
   8858       28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   8859 
   8860 
   8861 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
   8862   Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series.  It includes
   8863   a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
   8864   later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
   8865   0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
   8866 
   8867   o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
   8868     - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
   8869       put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
   8870       were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
   8871       is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
   8872       client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
   8873       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
   8874       TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
   8875 
   8876   o Minor features (geoip):
   8877     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
   8878       Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
   8879 
   8880   o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8881     - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
   8882       version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
   8883       bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
   8884 
   8885   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8886     - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
   8887       as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
   8888       is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
   8889       bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
   8890 
   8891 
   8892 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
   8893   Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
   8894   0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
   8895   should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
   8896 
   8897   This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
   8898   recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
   8899   until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
   8900   receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
   8901 
   8902   o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
   8903     - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
   8904       put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
   8905       were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
   8906       is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
   8907       client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
   8908       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
   8909       TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
   8910 
   8911   o Minor features (geoip):
   8912     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
   8913       Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
   8914 
   8915   o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8916     - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
   8917       version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
   8918       bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
   8919 
   8920   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
   8921     - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
   8922       as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
   8923       is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
   8924       bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
   8925 
   8926 
   8927 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
   8928   Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
   8929   numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
   8930   1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
   8931   to this version, or to a later series.
   8932 
   8933   As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
   8934   We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
   8935   some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
   8936   should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
   8937   10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
   8938   support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
   8939 
   8940   o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
   8941     - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
   8942       OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
   8943       running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
   8944       1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
   8945       support was added).
   8946 
   8947   o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
   8948     - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
   8949       impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
   8950       Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   8951 
   8952   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
   8953     - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
   8954       errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
   8955       they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
   8956     - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
   8957       duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
   8958       Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
   8959       use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
   8960 
   8961   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
   8962     - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
   8963       Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
   8964       does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
   8965 
   8966   o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
   8967     - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
   8968       0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
   8969       functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
   8970       removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
   8971 
   8972   o Minor features (geoip):
   8973     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
   8974       Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
   8975 
   8976   o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
   8977     - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
   8978       key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
   8979       detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
   8980       version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
   8981       Closes ticket 28973.
   8982 
   8983   o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
   8984     - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
   8985       is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
   8986       discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
   8987 
   8988   o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
   8989     - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
   8990       the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
   8991       on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
   8992 
   8993   o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
   8994     - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
   8995       compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
   8996 
   8997   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
   8998     - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
   8999       some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
   9000       use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   9001 
   9002   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
   9003     - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
   9004       with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
   9005       27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9006 
   9007   o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
   9008     - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
   9009       them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
   9010       were the same, the default setting (0) for
   9011       CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
   9012       DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
   9013       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9014 
   9015   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
   9016     - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
   9017       permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
   9018       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9019 
   9020   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
   9021     - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
   9022       descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
   9023       one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
   9024       Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9025 
   9026   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
   9027     - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
   9028       descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
   9029       gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
   9030       authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   9031 
   9032   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
   9033     - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
   9034       any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
   9035       connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
   9036       HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
   9037       all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9038 
   9039   o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
   9040     - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
   9041       an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
   9042       0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9043 
   9044   o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
   9045     - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
   9046       bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
   9047 
   9048   o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
   9049     - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
   9050       padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   9051 
   9052   o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
   9053     - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
   9054       characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
   9055       on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
   9056 
   9057   o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
   9058     - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
   9059       protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
   9060       repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
   9061       to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
   9062       27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
   9063     - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
   9064       27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9065 
   9066   o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
   9067     - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
   9068       some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
   9069       bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
   9070 
   9071   o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
   9072     - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
   9073       a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9074     - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
   9075       created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
   9076       bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9077     - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
   9078       protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
   9079       directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
   9080       recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
   9081 
   9082   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
   9083     - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
   9084       nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
   9085       test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
   9086       the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
   9087       bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
   9088 
   9089   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
   9090     - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
   9091       (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
   9092       (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
   9093       0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
   9094 
   9095   o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
   9096     - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
   9097       bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   9098 
   9099 
   9100 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
   9101   Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
   9102   numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
   9103   using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an  earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
   9104   should upgrade.
   9105 
   9106   As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
   9107   2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
   9108   0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
   9109   Feb 2022.
   9110 
   9111   o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
   9112     - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
   9113       OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
   9114       running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
   9115       1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
   9116       support was added).
   9117 
   9118   o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
   9119     - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
   9120       any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
   9121       serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
   9122       first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
   9123       clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
   9124       0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
   9125 
   9126   o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
   9127     - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
   9128       artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
   9129       Implements 28459.
   9130 
   9131   o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
   9132     - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
   9133       closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
   9134       bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
   9135       either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
   9136       ticket 25573.
   9137 
   9138   o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
   9139     - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
   9140       0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
   9141       functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
   9142       removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
   9143 
   9144   o Minor features (geoip):
   9145     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
   9146       Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
   9147 
   9148   o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
   9149     - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
   9150       key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
   9151       detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
   9152       version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
   9153       Closes ticket 28973.
   9154 
   9155   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
   9156     - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
   9157       some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
   9158       use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   9159 
   9160   o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
   9161     - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
   9162       open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
   9163       Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
   9164       able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
   9165       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9166 
   9167   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
   9168     - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
   9169       mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
   9170       not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
   9171       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9172     - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
   9173       packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
   9174       bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9175 
   9176   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
   9177     - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
   9178       download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
   9179       already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
   9180 
   9181   o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
   9182     - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
   9183       them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
   9184       were the same, the default setting (0) for
   9185       CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
   9186       DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
   9187       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9188 
   9189   o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
   9190     - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
   9191       bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
   9192 
   9193   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
   9194     - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
   9195       descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
   9196       gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
   9197       authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
   9198 
   9199   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
   9200     - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
   9201       any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
   9202       connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
   9203       HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
   9204       all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9205 
   9206   o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
   9207     - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
   9208       is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
   9209       discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
   9210 
   9211   o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
   9212     - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
   9213       bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   9214 
   9215 
   9216 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
   9217   Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
   9218   compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
   9219   affecting directory caches.
   9220 
   9221   The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
   9222   improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
   9223   cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
   9224   measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
   9225   and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
   9226   layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
   9227   Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
   9228   bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
   9229 
   9230   There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
   9231   compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
   9232   services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
   9233   override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
   9234   changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
   9235   so it will recognize them.
   9236 
   9237   We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
   9238   will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
   9239   until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
   9240   support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
   9241   authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
   9242   with the latest stable release.)
   9243 
   9244   Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
   9245   since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
   9246 
   9247   o Major features (bootstrap):
   9248     - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
   9249       relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
   9250       progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
   9251       even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
   9252 
   9253   o Major features (new code layout):
   9254     - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
   9255       logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
   9256       of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
   9257       split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
   9258       "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
   9259       and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
   9260       more information. Closes ticket 26481.
   9261 
   9262       This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
   9263       refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
   9264       interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
   9265 
   9266   o Major features (onion services v3):
   9267     - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
   9268       level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
   9269       to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
   9270       control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
   9271       service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
   9272       onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
   9273       the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
   9274       27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
   9275     - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
   9276       Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
   9277       different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
   9278       previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
   9279       HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
   9280     - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
   9281       HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
   9282       circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
   9283       protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
   9284       circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
   9285 
   9286   o Major features (onion services, UI change):
   9287     - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
   9288       Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
   9289       now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
   9290       version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
   9291       version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
   9292 
   9293   o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
   9294     - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
   9295       OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
   9296       remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
   9297       performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
   9298       installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
   9299       flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
   9300 
   9301       If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
   9302       consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
   9303       "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
   9304       (if present), and restart Tor.
   9305 
   9306   o Major features (relay, UI change):
   9307     - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
   9308       option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
   9309       ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
   9310       Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
   9311       warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   9312     - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
   9313       8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
   9314 
   9315   o Major bugfixes (compilation):
   9316     - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
   9317       with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9318 
   9319   o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
   9320     - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
   9321       --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
   9322       requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
   9323       rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
   9324       Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   9325 
   9326   o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
   9327     - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
   9328       configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
   9329       address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
   9330       on 0.1.2.10-rc.
   9331 
   9332   o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
   9333     - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
   9334       that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
   9335       enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
   9336       Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9337 
   9338   o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
   9339     - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
   9340       ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
   9341       when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
   9342       port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9343 
   9344   o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
   9345     - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
   9346       introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
   9347       whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
   9348       intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
   9349       0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
   9350 
   9351   o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
   9352     - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
   9353       OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
   9354       running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
   9355       1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
   9356       support was added).
   9357 
   9358   o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
   9359     - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
   9360       queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
   9361       mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
   9362       for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
   9363       statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
   9364 
   9365   o Major bugfixes (relay):
   9366     - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
   9367       connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
   9368       us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
   9369       indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
   9370       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9371     - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
   9372       any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
   9373       serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
   9374       first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
   9375       clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
   9376       0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
   9377 
   9378   o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
   9379     - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
   9380       impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
   9381       Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9382 
   9383   o Minor features (admin tools):
   9384     - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
   9385       the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
   9386       issue 19506.
   9387 
   9388   o Minor features (build):
   9389     - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
   9390       to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
   9391       to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
   9392       code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
   9393 
   9394   o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
   9395     - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
   9396       verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
   9397       level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
   9398       refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
   9399 
   9400   o Minor features (code layout):
   9401     - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
   9402       invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
   9403       logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
   9404       failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
   9405       ticket 26427.
   9406 
   9407   o Minor features (compilation):
   9408     - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
   9409       avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
   9410     - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
   9411       select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
   9412       "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
   9413       default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
   9414       Alex Xu.
   9415 
   9416   o Minor features (config):
   9417     - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
   9418       ticket 26663.
   9419 
   9420   o Minor features (continuous integration):
   9421     - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
   9422       ticket 27751.
   9423     - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
   9424       integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
   9425     - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
   9426       Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
   9427       does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
   9428     - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
   9429       occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
   9430       ticket 28024.
   9431     - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
   9432       Implements ticket 27252.
   9433     - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
   9434       dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
   9435     - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
   9436       errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
   9437       they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
   9438     - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
   9439       duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
   9440       Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
   9441       use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
   9442 
   9443   o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
   9444     - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
   9445       artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
   9446       Implements 28459.
   9447     - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
   9448       Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
   9449 
   9450   o Minor features (controller):
   9451     - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
   9452       invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
   9453       vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
   9454       cells. Closes ticket 27678.
   9455     - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
   9456       closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
   9457       bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
   9458       either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
   9459       ticket 25573.
   9460     - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
   9461       all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
   9462     - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
   9463       Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
   9464 
   9465   o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
   9466     - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
   9467       fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
   9468       subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   9469 
   9470   o Minor features (development):
   9471     - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
   9472       on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
   9473 
   9474   o Minor features (directory authority):
   9475     - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
   9476       bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
   9477     - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
   9478       include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
   9479       ticket 3723.
   9480     - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
   9481       single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
   9482       ticket 25928.
   9483 
   9484   o Minor features (embedding API):
   9485     - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
   9486       a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
   9487       applications don't need to manage controller ports and
   9488       authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
   9489     - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
   9490       and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
   9491       ticket 26947.
   9492 
   9493   o Minor features (fallback directory list):
   9494     - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
   9495       0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
   9496       functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
   9497       removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
   9498 
   9499   o Minor features (geoip):
   9500     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
   9501       Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
   9502 
   9503   o Minor features (memory management):
   9504     - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
   9505       event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
   9506       ticket 8415.
   9507 
   9508   o Minor features (memory usage):
   9509     - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
   9510       encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
   9511       save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
   9512 
   9513   o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
   9514     - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
   9515       key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
   9516       detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
   9517       version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
   9518       Closes ticket 28973.
   9519 
   9520   o Minor features (OpenSSL):
   9521     - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
   9522       than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
   9523 
   9524   o Minor features (performance):
   9525     - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
   9526       startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
   9527       this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
   9528       it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
   9529       information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
   9530       on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
   9531       platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
   9532     - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
   9533       every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
   9534       low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
   9535 
   9536   o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
   9537     - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
   9538       making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
   9539       take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
   9540 
   9541   o Minor features (testing):
   9542     - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
   9543       chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
   9544 
   9545   o Minor features (tor-resolve):
   9546     - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
   9547       Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
   9548 
   9549   o Minor features (UI):
   9550     - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
   9551       to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
   9552       from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
   9553     - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
   9554       Closes ticket 26703.
   9555 
   9556   o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
   9557     - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
   9558       difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
   9559       would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
   9560       more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
   9561       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9562     - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
   9563       algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
   9564       bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9565     - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
   9566       running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
   9567       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9568 
   9569   o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
   9570     - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
   9571       the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
   9572       bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
   9573 
   9574   o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
   9575     - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
   9576       a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
   9577       0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
   9578     - Use time_t for all values in
   9579       predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
   9580       computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
   9581       bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   9582 
   9583   o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
   9584     - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
   9585       the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
   9586       Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
   9587       over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
   9588       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   9589 
   9590   o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
   9591     - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
   9592       loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
   9593       in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
   9594       lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
   9595       0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   9596 
   9597   o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
   9598     - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
   9599       misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
   9600       bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
   9601 
   9602   o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
   9603     - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
   9604       compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
   9605       on 0.0.6.
   9606 
   9607   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
   9608     - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
   9609       some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
   9610       use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
   9611 
   9612   o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
   9613     - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
   9614       (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
   9615       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9616 
   9617   o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
   9618     - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
   9619       after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
   9620       port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
   9621       27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
   9622 
   9623   o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
   9624     - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
   9625       open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
   9626       Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
   9627       able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
   9628       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9629 
   9630   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
   9631     - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
   9632       27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9633     - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
   9634       builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
   9635       a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
   9636       ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
   9637     - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
   9638       download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
   9639       already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
   9640     - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
   9641       mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
   9642       not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
   9643       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9644     - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
   9645       packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
   9646       bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9647 
   9648   o Minor bugfixes (controller):
   9649     - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
   9650       transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
   9651       request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
   9652       recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
   9653       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9654 
   9655   o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
   9656     - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
   9657       "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
   9658       used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
   9659       28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
   9660 
   9661   o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
   9662     - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
   9663       connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9664 
   9665   o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
   9666     - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
   9667       them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
   9668       were the same, the default setting (0) for
   9669       CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
   9670       DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
   9671       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9672 
   9673   o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
   9674     - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
   9675       HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
   9676       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9677 
   9678   o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
   9679     - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
   9680       on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
   9681       subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
   9682       15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   9683 
   9684   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
   9685     - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
   9686       OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
   9687       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
   9688 
   9689   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
   9690     - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
   9691       ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
   9692       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9693     - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
   9694       Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
   9695       this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
   9696       bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
   9697     - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
   9698       fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
   9699 
   9700   o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
   9701     - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
   9702       channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
   9703       that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
   9704       bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
   9705 
   9706   o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
   9707     - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
   9708       bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
   9709     - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
   9710       bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9711 
   9712   o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
   9713     - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
   9714       padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
   9715 
   9716   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
   9717     - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
   9718       have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
   9719       normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
   9720       on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
   9721 
   9722   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
   9723     - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
   9724       any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
   9725       connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
   9726       HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
   9727       all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9728     - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
   9729       uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
   9730       it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
   9731       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9732     - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
   9733       point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
   9734       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9735     - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
   9736       protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
   9737       present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
   9738       rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
   9739       bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9740     - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
   9741       descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
   9742       one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
   9743       Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9744     - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
   9745       permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
   9746       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9747     - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
   9748       close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
   9749       we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
   9750       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9751 
   9752   o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
   9753     - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
   9754       wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
   9755       close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
   9756       17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
   9757 
   9758   o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
   9759     - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
   9760       node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
   9761       allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
   9762 
   9763   o Minor bugfixes (protover):
   9764     - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
   9765       characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
   9766       on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
   9767 
   9768   o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
   9769     - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
   9770       on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
   9771     - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
   9772       some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
   9773       bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
   9774     - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
   9775       protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
   9776       repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
   9777       to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
   9778       27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
   9779     - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
   9780       27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9781 
   9782   o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
   9783     - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
   9784       than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
   9785       TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
   9786       Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
   9787 
   9788   o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
   9789     - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
   9790       is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
   9791       discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
   9792 
   9793   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
   9794     - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
   9795       entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
   9796       have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
   9797       at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
   9798       guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
   9799       Patch by Neel Chauhan.
   9800     - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
   9801       Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
   9802       Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
   9803 
   9804   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
   9805     - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
   9806       continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
   9807       stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
   9808     - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
   9809       bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
   9810     - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
   9811       the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
   9812       on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
   9813       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
   9814     - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
   9815       heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
   9816       within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
   9817     - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
   9818       set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
   9819     - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
   9820       nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
   9821       test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
   9822       the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
   9823       bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
   9824     - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
   9825       report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
   9826       bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
   9827     - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
   9828       the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
   9829 
   9830   o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
   9831     - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
   9832       2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
   9833       0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
   9834     - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
   9835       an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
   9836       confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
   9837       versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
   9838       by Keifer Bly.
   9839     - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
   9840       GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
   9841       version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
   9842       reported by Keifer Bly.
   9843 
   9844   o Code simplification and refactoring:
   9845     - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
   9846       analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
   9847       ticket 28881.
   9848     - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
   9849       multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
   9850       onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
   9851     - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
   9852       group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
   9853     - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
   9854       Closes ticket 27814.
   9855     - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
   9856       common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
   9857     - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
   9858       geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
   9859     - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
   9860       help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
   9861     - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
   9862       Closes ticket 27799.
   9863     - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
   9864       longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
   9865     - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
   9866       directory within the top-level src directory.
   9867     - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
   9868       header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
   9869       reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
   9870       structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
   9871     - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
   9872     - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
   9873       removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
   9874     - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
   9875       autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
   9876       format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
   9877       should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
   9878       Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
   9879     - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
   9880       select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
   9881       entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
   9882       into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
   9883       Closes ticket 21349.
   9884     - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
   9885       inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
   9886     - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
   9887       code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
   9888       calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
   9889     - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
   9890       rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
   9891       ticket 27630.
   9892     - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
   9893       separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
   9894       modules. Closes ticket 26526.
   9895 
   9896   o Documentation:
   9897     - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
   9898       extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
   9899     - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
   9900       integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
   9901     - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
   9902       CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
   9903     - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
   9904     - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
   9905       torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
   9906 
   9907   o Removed features:
   9908     - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
   9909       debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
   9910       instead. Closes ticket 26426.
   9911     - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
   9912       GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
   9913       Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
   9914     - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
   9915       Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
   9916       (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
   9917       possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
   9918       time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
   9919       Closes ticket 26367.
   9920 
   9921   o Testing:
   9922     - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
   9923       test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
   9924 
   9925   o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
   9926     - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
   9927       crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
   9928       it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
   9929       if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
   9930       will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
   9931       Closes ticket 19566.
   9932 
   9933   o Documentation (onion services):
   9934     - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
   9935       explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
   9936     - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
   9937       adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
   9938       sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
   9939     - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
   9940       onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
   9941       process. Closes ticket 28275.
   9942 
   9943 
   9944 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
   9945   Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
   9946   numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
   9947   was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
   9948   version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
   9949 
   9950   o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
   9951     - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
   9952       with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9953 
   9954   o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
   9955     - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
   9956       ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
   9957       when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
   9958       port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9959 
   9960   o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
   9961     - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
   9962       connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
   9963       us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
   9964       indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
   9965       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9966 
   9967   o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
   9968     - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
   9969       impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
   9970       Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
   9971 
   9972   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
   9973     - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
   9974       Implements ticket 27252.
   9975     - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
   9976       errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
   9977       they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
   9978     - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
   9979       duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
   9980       Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
   9981       use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
   9982 
   9983   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
   9984     - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
   9985       Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
   9986       does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
   9987 
   9988   o Minor features (geoip):
   9989     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
   9990       Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
   9991 
   9992   o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
   9993     - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
   9994       difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
   9995       would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
   9996       more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
   9997       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
   9998     - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
   9999       algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
  10000       bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
  10001     - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
  10002       running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
  10003       on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
  10004 
  10005   o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
  10006     - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
  10007       the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
  10008       on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  10009 
  10010   o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
  10011     - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
  10012       builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
  10013       a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
  10014       ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
  10015 
  10016   o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
  10017     - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
  10018       compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
  10019 
  10020   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
  10021     - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
  10022       27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
  10023 
  10024   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
  10025     - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
  10026       with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
  10027       27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10028 
  10029   o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
  10030     - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
  10031       connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
  10032 
  10033   o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
  10034     - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
  10035       HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
  10036       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10037 
  10038   o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
  10039     - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
  10040       padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  10041 
  10042   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
  10043     - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
  10044       permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
  10045       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10046 
  10047   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
  10048     - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
  10049       descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
  10050       one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
  10051       Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10052 
  10053   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
  10054     - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
  10055       protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
  10056       present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
  10057       rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
  10058       bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10059 
  10060   o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
  10061     - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
  10062       characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
  10063       on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  10064 
  10065   o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
  10066     - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
  10067       protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
  10068       repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
  10069       to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
  10070       27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
  10071     - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
  10072       27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  10073 
  10074   o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
  10075     - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
  10076       some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
  10077       bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
  10078 
  10079   o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
  10080     - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
  10081       protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
  10082       directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
  10083       recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
  10084 
  10085   o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
  10086     - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
  10087       a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  10088     - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
  10089       created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
  10090       bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  10091 
  10092   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
  10093     - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
  10094       nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
  10095       test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
  10096       the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
  10097       bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
  10098 
  10099   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
  10100     - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
  10101       the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
  10102       on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
  10103       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10104 
  10105   o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
  10106     - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
  10107       (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
  10108       (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
  10109       0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  10110 
  10111 
  10112 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
  10113   Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
  10114 
  10115   o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
  10116     - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
  10117       RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
  10118       ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
  10119 
  10120   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10121     - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
  10122       ticket 24629.
  10123     - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
  10124       dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
  10125     - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
  10126     - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
  10127 
  10128   o Minor features (geoip):
  10129     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
  10130       Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
  10131 
  10132   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10133     - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
  10134       tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
  10135       Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  10136 
  10137   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10138     - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
  10139       function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
  10140       0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
  10141       bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  10142     - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
  10143       supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
  10144       function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
  10145       on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
  10146 
  10147   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10148     - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
  10149       if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
  10150       pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  10151 
  10152   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10153     - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
  10154       the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
  10155       bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
  10156 
  10157   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10158     - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
  10159       before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
  10160       precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
  10161 
  10162   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
  10163     - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
  10164       show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
  10165     - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
  10166       argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
  10167 
  10168   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10169     - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
  10170       versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
  10171       on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
  10172 
  10173   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10174     - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
  10175       Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
  10176       filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
  10177       bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
  10178 
  10179   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
  10180     - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
  10181       rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
  10182       on 0.1.1.2-alpha.
  10183 
  10184   o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10185     - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
  10186       fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
  10187       Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  10188 
  10189   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10190     - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
  10191       distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  10192 
  10193   o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
  10194     - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
  10195       result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
  10196       on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  10197 
  10198   o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10199     - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
  10200       OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
  10201       behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
  10202       Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  10203 
  10204   o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10205     - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
  10206       27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  10207 
  10208 
  10209 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
  10210   Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
  10211 
  10212   o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
  10213     - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
  10214       RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
  10215       ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
  10216 
  10217   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10218     - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
  10219       ticket 24629.
  10220     - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
  10221       dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
  10222     - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
  10223     - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
  10224 
  10225   o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10226     - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
  10227       ticket 26952.
  10228 
  10229   o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10230     - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
  10231       ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
  10232       net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
  10233 
  10234   o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10235     - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
  10236       "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
  10237       hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
  10238 
  10239   o Minor features (geoip):
  10240     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
  10241       Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
  10242 
  10243   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10244     - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
  10245       tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
  10246       Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  10247     - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
  10248       -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
  10249       it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
  10250 
  10251   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10252     - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
  10253       function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
  10254       0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
  10255       bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  10256     - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
  10257       supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
  10258       function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
  10259       on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
  10260 
  10261   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10262     - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
  10263       if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
  10264       pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  10265 
  10266   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10267     - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
  10268       the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
  10269       bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
  10270 
  10271   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10272     - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
  10273     - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
  10274       before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
  10275       precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
  10276 
  10277   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
  10278     - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
  10279       show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
  10280     - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
  10281       argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
  10282 
  10283   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10284     - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
  10285       versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
  10286       on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
  10287 
  10288   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10289     - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
  10290       Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
  10291       filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
  10292       bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
  10293 
  10294   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10295     - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
  10296       authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
  10297       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  10298 
  10299   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10300     - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
  10301       if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
  10302       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10303 
  10304   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
  10305     - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
  10306       rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
  10307       on 0.1.1.2-alpha.
  10308 
  10309   o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10310     - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
  10311       on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
  10312     - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
  10313       test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
  10314     - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
  10315       $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
  10316 
  10317   o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10318     - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
  10319       fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
  10320       Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  10321 
  10322   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10323     - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
  10324       distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  10325 
  10326   o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
  10327     - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
  10328       (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
  10329       mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
  10330       confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10331     - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
  10332       result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
  10333       on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  10334 
  10335   o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
  10336     - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
  10337       internals.  Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
  10338       a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
  10339       bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  10340 
  10341   o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10342     - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
  10343       OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
  10344       behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
  10345       Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  10346 
  10347   o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10348     - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
  10349       27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  10350 
  10351 
  10352 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
  10353   Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
  10354 
  10355   o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10356     - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
  10357       header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
  10358       Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
  10359 
  10360   o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
  10361     - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
  10362       RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
  10363       ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
  10364 
  10365   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10366     - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
  10367     - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
  10368       ticket 24629.
  10369     - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
  10370       dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
  10371     - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
  10372     - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
  10373 
  10374   o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10375     - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
  10376       ticket 26952.
  10377 
  10378   o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10379     - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
  10380       ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
  10381       net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
  10382 
  10383   o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10384     - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
  10385       "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
  10386       hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
  10387 
  10388   o Minor features (geoip):
  10389     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
  10390       Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
  10391 
  10392   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10393     - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
  10394       tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
  10395       Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  10396     - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
  10397       -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
  10398       it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
  10399 
  10400   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10401     - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
  10402       function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
  10403       0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
  10404       bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  10405     - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
  10406       supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
  10407       function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
  10408       on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
  10409 
  10410   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10411     - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
  10412       if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
  10413       pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  10414 
  10415   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10416     - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
  10417       the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
  10418       bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
  10419 
  10420   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10421     - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
  10422     - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
  10423       before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
  10424       precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
  10425 
  10426   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
  10427     - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
  10428       show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
  10429     - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
  10430       argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
  10431 
  10432   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10433     - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
  10434       versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
  10435       on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
  10436 
  10437   o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10438     - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
  10439       did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
  10440       failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  10441 
  10442   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10443     - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
  10444       Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
  10445       filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
  10446       bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
  10447 
  10448   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10449     - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
  10450       authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
  10451       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  10452 
  10453   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10454     - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
  10455       if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
  10456       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10457 
  10458   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
  10459     - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
  10460       rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
  10461       on 0.1.1.2-alpha.
  10462 
  10463   o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10464     - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
  10465       that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
  10466       of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  10467 
  10468   o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10469     - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
  10470       define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
  10471       from "paulusASol".
  10472 
  10473   o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10474     - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
  10475       on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
  10476     - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
  10477       test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
  10478     - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
  10479       version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
  10480       "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
  10481     - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
  10482       it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
  10483       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  10484     - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
  10485       $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
  10486     - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
  10487       src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
  10488       between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
  10489 
  10490   o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10491     - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
  10492       fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
  10493       Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  10494 
  10495   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10496     - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
  10497       distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  10498 
  10499   o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
  10500     - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
  10501       (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
  10502       mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
  10503       confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10504     - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
  10505       result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
  10506       on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  10507 
  10508   o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10509     - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
  10510       OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
  10511       behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
  10512       Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  10513 
  10514   o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
  10515     - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
  10516       cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
  10517       doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
  10518       bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
  10519 
  10520   o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
  10521     - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
  10522       27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  10523 
  10524 
  10525 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
  10526   Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
  10527   compilation and portability fixes.
  10528 
  10529   The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
  10530   low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
  10531   general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
  10532   changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
  10533   measurement system.  We've also integrated more continuous-integration
  10534   systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
  10535   Tor's testing infrastructure.  Finally, we've continued to refine
  10536   our anti-denial-of-service code.
  10537 
  10538   Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
  10539   since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
  10540 
  10541   o New system requirements:
  10542     - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
  10543       mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
  10544       systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
  10545       complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
  10546 
  10547   o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
  10548     - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
  10549       is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
  10550       To disable the module, the configure option
  10551       --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
  10552       disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
  10553 
  10554   o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
  10555     - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
  10556       no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
  10557       make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
  10558       device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
  10559     - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
  10560       Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
  10561       regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
  10562       events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
  10563       is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
  10564       reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
  10565       25376 and 25762.
  10566     - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
  10567       bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
  10568       TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
  10569       the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
  10570       number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
  10571       idle. Closes ticket 25373.
  10572     - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
  10573       callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
  10574       this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
  10575       Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
  10576       once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
  10577       CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
  10578       connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
  10579       voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
  10580       SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
  10581       (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
  10582       operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
  10583       Tor's uptime (26009).
  10584 
  10585   o Minor features (accounting):
  10586     - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
  10587       at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
  10588       to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
  10589       timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
  10590 
  10591   o Minor features (bug workaround):
  10592     - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
  10593       header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
  10594       Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
  10595 
  10596   o Minor features (code quality):
  10597     - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
  10598       "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
  10599       Closes ticket 25024.
  10600 
  10601   o Minor features (compatibility):
  10602     - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
  10603       RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
  10604       ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
  10605     - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
  10606       the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
  10607       tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
  10608 
  10609   o Minor features (compilation):
  10610     - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
  10611       tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
  10612       Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  10613     - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
  10614       -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
  10615       it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
  10616     - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
  10617       recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
  10618       ticket 26372.
  10619 
  10620   o Minor features (compression, zstd):
  10621     - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
  10622       that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
  10623       prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
  10624       runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
  10625       Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
  10626 
  10627   o Minor features (configuration):
  10628     - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
  10629       "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
  10630       produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
  10631       these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
  10632       have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
  10633 
  10634   o Minor features (continuous integration):
  10635     - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
  10636       Implements ticket 27449.
  10637     - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
  10638       Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
  10639       ticket 27430.
  10640     - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
  10641     - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
  10642       ticket 24629.
  10643     - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
  10644       dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
  10645     - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
  10646       Implements ticket 27275.
  10647     - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
  10648     - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
  10649     - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
  10650       testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
  10651       25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
  10652 
  10653   o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
  10654     - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
  10655       ticket 26952.
  10656 
  10657   o Minor features (control port):
  10658     - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
  10659       and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
  10660       like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
  10661       Patch by Neel Chauhan.
  10662     - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
  10663       fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
  10664       fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
  10665       the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
  10666       cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
  10667       of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
  10668 
  10669   o Minor features (controller):
  10670     - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
  10671       ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
  10672       net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
  10673 
  10674   o Minor features (directory authorities):
  10675     - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
  10676       bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
  10677       ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
  10678     - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
  10679       "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
  10680       hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
  10681 
  10682   o Minor features (directory authority):
  10683     - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
  10684       to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
  10685       Closes ticket 23909.
  10686 
  10687   o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
  10688     - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
  10689       their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
  10690       to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
  10691 
  10692   o Minor features (entry guards):
  10693     - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
  10694       number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
  10695 
  10696   o Minor features (geoip):
  10697     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
  10698       Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
  10699 
  10700   o Minor features (performance):
  10701     - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
  10702       relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
  10703     - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
  10704       platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
  10705       ticket 24688.
  10706     - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
  10707       handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
  10708 
  10709   o Minor features (Rust, portability):
  10710     - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
  10711 
  10712   o Minor features (testing):
  10713     - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
  10714       Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
  10715       more deterministic.
  10716     - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
  10717       the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
  10718       unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
  10719     - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
  10720       function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
  10721       coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
  10722 
  10723   o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
  10724     - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
  10725       a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
  10726       than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
  10727       accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
  10728 
  10729   o Minor features (unit tests):
  10730     - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
  10731       incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
  10732       header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
  10733       on 0.2.2.1-alpha
  10734 
  10735   o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
  10736     - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
  10737       our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
  10738       documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
  10739       this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
  10740       bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
  10741 
  10742   o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
  10743     - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
  10744       subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
  10745       Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
  10746 
  10747   o Minor bugfixes (code style):
  10748     - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
  10749       Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  10750     - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
  10751       channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
  10752 
  10753   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  10754     - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
  10755       function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
  10756       0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
  10757       bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  10758     - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
  10759       supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
  10760       function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
  10761       on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
  10762     - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
  10763       code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
  10764       that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
  10765       26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  10766     - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
  10767       --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
  10768       bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  10769     - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
  10770       Closes ticket 26245.
  10771     - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
  10772       smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
  10773       26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  10774 
  10775   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
  10776     - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
  10777       if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
  10778       pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  10779 
  10780   o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
  10781     - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
  10782     - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
  10783       the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
  10784       bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
  10785 
  10786   o Minor bugfixes (control port):
  10787     - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
  10788       policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
  10789       transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
  10790       bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  10791     - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
  10792       Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
  10793       on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
  10794     - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
  10795       circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
  10796       counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
  10797       bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  10798 
  10799   o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
  10800     - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
  10801       has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
  10802       r54 (pre-0.0.1).
  10803 
  10804   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
  10805     - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
  10806       versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
  10807       on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
  10808 
  10809   o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
  10810     - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
  10811       consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  10812     - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
  10813       periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
  10814       consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
  10815       on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  10816 
  10817   o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
  10818     - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
  10819       Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
  10820       could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
  10821       client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
  10822       directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
  10823       warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  10824 
  10825   o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
  10826     - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
  10827       did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
  10828       failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  10829 
  10830   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  10831     - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
  10832       Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
  10833       filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
  10834       bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
  10835 
  10836   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  10837     - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
  10838       authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
  10839       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  10840 
  10841   o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
  10842     - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
  10843       rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
  10844       on 0.1.1.2-alpha.
  10845     - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
  10846       if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
  10847       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10848     - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
  10849       or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
  10850       consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
  10851       miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
  10852       bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10853 
  10854   o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  10855     - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
  10856       define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
  10857       from "paulusASol".
  10858     - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
  10859       that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
  10860       of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  10861     - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
  10862       getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
  10863       on 0.1.1.23.
  10864 
  10865   o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
  10866     - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
  10867       does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
  10868       Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
  10869 
  10870   o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
  10871     - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
  10872       create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
  10873       the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
  10874       consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
  10875       requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
  10876       here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
  10877 
  10878   o Minor bugfixes (rust):
  10879     - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
  10880       on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
  10881     - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
  10882       version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
  10883       "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
  10884     - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
  10885       it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
  10886       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  10887     - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
  10888       $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
  10889     - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
  10890       src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
  10891       between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
  10892 
  10893   o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
  10894     - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
  10895       clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
  10896       bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  10897 
  10898   o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
  10899     - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
  10900       version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
  10901       from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
  10902       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  10903 
  10904   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  10905     - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
  10906       distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  10907     - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
  10908       actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
  10909       probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
  10910       unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
  10911       Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  10912     - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
  10913       times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
  10914       on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10915     - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
  10916       that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
  10917       Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10918     - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
  10919       never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
  10920       Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
  10921       fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
  10922       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  10923     - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
  10924       with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
  10925       used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
  10926       failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
  10927       Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
  10928       Marcin Cieślak.
  10929     - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
  10930       deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
  10931       will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
  10932       on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  10933 
  10934   o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
  10935     - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
  10936       exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
  10937       caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
  10938       Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  10939 
  10940   o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
  10941     - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
  10942       (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
  10943       mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
  10944       confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  10945     - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
  10946       result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
  10947       on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  10948 
  10949   o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
  10950     - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
  10951       OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
  10952       behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
  10953       Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  10954 
  10955   o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
  10956     - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
  10957       cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
  10958       doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
  10959       bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
  10960 
  10961   o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
  10962     - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
  10963       first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
  10964       by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
  10965       paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
  10966       25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  10967 
  10968   o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
  10969     - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
  10970       27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  10971 
  10972   o Code simplification and refactoring:
  10973     - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
  10974       their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
  10975       bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  10976     - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
  10977       related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
  10978       were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
  10979       become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
  10980       Neel Chauhan.
  10981     - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
  10982       confusing we renamed some functions and
  10983       consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
  10984       router_should_check_reachability() and
  10985       router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
  10986       in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
  10987     - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
  10988       our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
  10989       more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
  10990       ticket 23750.
  10991     - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
  10992       to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
  10993       ticket 18105.
  10994     - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
  10995       as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
  10996       or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
  10997     - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
  10998       functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
  10999       string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
  11000       function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
  11001       Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
  11002     - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
  11003       happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
  11004       outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
  11005       activations. Closes ticket 25374.
  11006     - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
  11007       it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
  11008       prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
  11009       ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
  11010     - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
  11011       Closes ticket 25766.
  11012     - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
  11013       main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
  11014       functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
  11015     - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
  11016       coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
  11017       less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
  11018     - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
  11019       and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
  11020       and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
  11021       initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
  11022       security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
  11023     - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
  11024       renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
  11025       renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
  11026       by "valentecaio".
  11027     - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
  11028       implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
  11029     - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
  11030       libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
  11031       before. Closes ticket 26016.
  11032     - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
  11033       node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
  11034       node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
  11035       check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
  11036       Neel Chauhan.
  11037     - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
  11038       geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
  11039       accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
  11040       bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
  11041 
  11042   o Deprecated features:
  11043     - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
  11044       once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
  11045       have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
  11046       that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
  11047       key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
  11048       ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
  11049 
  11050   o Removed features:
  11051     - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
  11052       any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
  11053       authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
  11054       later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
  11055       24378 and proposal 290.
  11056     - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
  11057       removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
  11058       traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
  11059       frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
  11060       feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
  11061       when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
  11062       deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
  11063       impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
  11064       resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
  11065       operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
  11066       become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
  11067       their local router. Closes 25409.
  11068     - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
  11069       in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
  11070       were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
  11071       been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
  11072     - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
  11073       implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
  11074       code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
  11075       circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
  11076       but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
  11077       Closes ticket 25268.
  11078 
  11079 
  11080 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
  11081   Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
  11082   bridge relays should upgrade.
  11083 
  11084   o Directory authority changes:
  11085     - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  11086       authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
  11087       TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
  11088 
  11089 
  11090 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
  11091   Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
  11092   bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
  11093   other minor fixes.
  11094 
  11095   o Directory authority changes:
  11096     - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  11097       authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
  11098       TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
  11099 
  11100   o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
  11101     - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
  11102       Closes ticket 26343.
  11103 
  11104   o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11105     - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
  11106       would previously log a warning with the contents of an
  11107       uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
  11108       instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  11109 
  11110   o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11111     - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
  11112       bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
  11113 
  11114   o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
  11115     - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
  11116       seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
  11117       libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
  11118 
  11119   o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
  11120     - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
  11121       now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
  11122 
  11123   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11124     - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
  11125       results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
  11126       to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
  11127     - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
  11128       coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
  11129 
  11130   o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
  11131     - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
  11132       their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
  11133       Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
  11134 
  11135   o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11136     - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
  11137       recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
  11138       ticket 26372.
  11139 
  11140   o Minor features (geoip):
  11141     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
  11142       Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
  11143 
  11144   o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11145     - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
  11146       cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
  11147       close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
  11148       open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  11149 
  11150   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11151     - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
  11152       sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  11153 
  11154   o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11155     - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
  11156       strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
  11157       module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
  11158       26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  11159     - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
  11160       (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
  11161       Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
  11162       on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
  11163 
  11164   o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
  11165     - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
  11166       would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
  11167       password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
  11168       OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
  11169       would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
  11170 
  11171   o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
  11172     - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
  11173       their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
  11174       are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
  11175       be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
  11176 
  11177   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11178     - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
  11179       code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
  11180       that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
  11181       26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  11182 
  11183   o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11184     - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
  11185       but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
  11186       on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  11187 
  11188   o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
  11189     - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
  11190       protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  11191 
  11192   o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
  11193     - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
  11194       dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
  11195       Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
  11196 
  11197   o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11198     - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
  11199       SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  11200     - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
  11201       extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
  11202       allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
  11203       Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  11204 
  11205   o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
  11206     - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
  11207       relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
  11208       case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
  11209       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  11210 
  11211   o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11212     - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
  11213       Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  11214 
  11215   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
  11216     - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
  11217       versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  11218 
  11219   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
  11220     - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
  11221       onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
  11222       seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
  11223       on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
  11224 
  11225   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
  11226     - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
  11227       compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
  11228       xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
  11229 
  11230   o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11231     - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
  11232       bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
  11233 
  11234   o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
  11235     - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
  11236       Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
  11237 
  11238 
  11239 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
  11240   Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
  11241   bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
  11242   other minor fixes.
  11243 
  11244   o Directory authority changes:
  11245     - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  11246       authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
  11247       TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
  11248 
  11249   o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
  11250     - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
  11251       Closes ticket 26343.
  11252 
  11253   o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11254     - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
  11255       would previously log a warning with the contents of an
  11256       uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
  11257       instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  11258 
  11259   o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
  11260     - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
  11261       seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
  11262       libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
  11263 
  11264   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11265     - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
  11266       results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
  11267       to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
  11268     - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
  11269       coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
  11270 
  11271   o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11272     - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
  11273       recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
  11274       ticket 26372.
  11275 
  11276   o Minor features (geoip):
  11277     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
  11278       Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
  11279 
  11280   o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11281     - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
  11282       cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
  11283       close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
  11284       open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  11285 
  11286   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11287     - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
  11288       sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  11289 
  11290   o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11291     - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
  11292       (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
  11293       Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
  11294       on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
  11295 
  11296   o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
  11297     - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
  11298       would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
  11299       password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
  11300       OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
  11301       would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
  11302 
  11303   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11304     - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
  11305       code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
  11306       that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
  11307       26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  11308 
  11309   o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11310     - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
  11311       but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
  11312       on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  11313 
  11314   o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
  11315     - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
  11316       protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  11317 
  11318   o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
  11319     - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
  11320       dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
  11321       Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
  11322 
  11323   o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11324     - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
  11325       bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
  11326 
  11327   o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
  11328     - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
  11329       Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
  11330 
  11331 
  11332 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
  11333   Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
  11334   fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
  11335 
  11336   o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
  11337     - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
  11338       vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
  11339       memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
  11340 
  11341   o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
  11342     - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
  11343       to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
  11344       on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
  11345 
  11346   o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11347     - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
  11348       recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
  11349       ticket 26372.
  11350 
  11351   o Minor features (geoip):
  11352     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
  11353       Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
  11354 
  11355   o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
  11356     - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
  11357       their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
  11358       Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
  11359 
  11360   o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11361     - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
  11362       This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
  11363       the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
  11364       and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
  11365       on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  11366 
  11367   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11368     - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
  11369       code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
  11370       that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
  11371       26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  11372 
  11373   o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11374     - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
  11375       (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
  11376       bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
  11377 
  11378   o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11379     - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
  11380       bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
  11381 
  11382   o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
  11383     - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
  11384       relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
  11385       case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
  11386       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  11387 
  11388   o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11389     - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
  11390       module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
  11391       not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  11392 
  11393   o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
  11394     - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
  11395       strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
  11396       module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
  11397       26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  11398     - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
  11399       (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
  11400       Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
  11401       on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
  11402 
  11403 
  11404 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
  11405   Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
  11406   fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
  11407 
  11408   o Directory authority changes:
  11409     - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
  11410       Closes ticket 26343.
  11411 
  11412   o Minor features (geoip):
  11413     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
  11414       Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
  11415 
  11416   o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
  11417     - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
  11418       would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
  11419       password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
  11420       OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
  11421       would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
  11422 
  11423   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
  11424     - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
  11425       versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  11426 
  11427   o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
  11428     - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
  11429       TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
  11430       miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
  11431       Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
  11432 
  11433   o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
  11434     - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
  11435       protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  11436 
  11437   o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11438     - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
  11439       for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
  11440       because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
  11441       nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
  11442       wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
  11443 
  11444 
  11445 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
  11446   Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
  11447   backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
  11448 
  11449   The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
  11450   improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
  11451   within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
  11452   the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
  11453   when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
  11454   bugfixes, features, and improvements.
  11455 
  11456   Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
  11457   since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
  11458 
  11459   o New system requirements:
  11460     - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
  11461       libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
  11462 
  11463   o Major features (embedding):
  11464     - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
  11465       embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
  11466       Closes ticket 23684.
  11467     - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
  11468       Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
  11469       restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
  11470       however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
  11471       all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
  11472       security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
  11473 
  11474   o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
  11475     - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
  11476       consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
  11477       bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
  11478       ticket 23826.
  11479     - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
  11480       microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
  11481       they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
  11482       clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
  11483       clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
  11484       ticket 23828.
  11485     - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
  11486       set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
  11487       on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  11488 
  11489   o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
  11490     - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
  11491       services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
  11492       ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
  11493       CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
  11494       DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
  11495       ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
  11496 
  11497   o Major features (onion services):
  11498     - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
  11499       service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
  11500       pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
  11501       hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
  11502       with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
  11503       ticket 13837.
  11504     - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
  11505       include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
  11506       Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
  11507       in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
  11508       able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
  11509       point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
  11510 
  11511   o Major features (relay):
  11512     - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
  11513       operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
  11514       than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
  11515       thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
  11516       Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
  11517 
  11518   o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
  11519     - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
  11520       smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
  11521       try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
  11522       with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
  11523       cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
  11524       experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
  11525       Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
  11526 
  11527   o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11528     - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
  11529       would previously log a warning with the contents of an
  11530       uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
  11531       instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  11532 
  11533   o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
  11534     - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
  11535       authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
  11536       crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
  11537       0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
  11538 
  11539   o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11540     - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
  11541       if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
  11542       25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  11543 
  11544   o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
  11545     - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
  11546       flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
  11547       seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
  11548       activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
  11549       to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
  11550       messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
  11551       past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  11552 
  11553   o Major bugfixes (networking):
  11554     - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
  11555       when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
  11556       25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
  11557 
  11558   o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11559     - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
  11560       bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
  11561 
  11562   o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
  11563     - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
  11564       for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
  11565       0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
  11566       Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
  11567       the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
  11568       Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
  11569 
  11570   o Major bugfixes (relay):
  11571     - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
  11572       refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
  11573       that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
  11574       occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  11575 
  11576   o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11577     - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
  11578       controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
  11579       on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
  11580 
  11581   o Minor features (cleanup):
  11582     - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
  11583       when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
  11584 
  11585   o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11586     - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
  11587       Closes ticket 26006.
  11588 
  11589   o Minor features (config options):
  11590     - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
  11591       We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
  11592       more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
  11593       ticket 24782.
  11594 
  11595   o Minor features (continuous integration):
  11596     - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
  11597       now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
  11598 
  11599   o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11600     - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
  11601       results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
  11602       to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
  11603     - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
  11604       coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
  11605 
  11606   o Minor features (defensive programming):
  11607     - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
  11608       with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
  11609       pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
  11610       dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
  11611     - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
  11612       once. Part of ticket 24337.
  11613     - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
  11614       node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
  11615       24001, patch by "aruna1234".
  11616 
  11617   o Minor features (directory authority):
  11618     - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
  11619       pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
  11620 
  11621   o Minor features (embedding):
  11622     - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
  11623       created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
  11624       use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
  11625       without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
  11626       information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
  11627       control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
  11628     - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
  11629       return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
  11630       system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
  11631       but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
  11632       separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
  11633       conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
  11634       Closes ticket 23848.
  11635     - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
  11636       register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
  11637       __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
  11638 
  11639   o Minor features (fallback directory list):
  11640     - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
  11641       often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
  11642       allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
  11643       a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
  11644       (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
  11645     - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
  11646       relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
  11647       and 24695.
  11648 
  11649   o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
  11650     - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
  11651       easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
  11652       nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
  11653     - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
  11654       file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
  11655       helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
  11656       ticket 24725.
  11657     - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
  11658       allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
  11659       than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
  11660     - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
  11661       generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
  11662       No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
  11663       automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
  11664       fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
  11665     - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
  11666       consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
  11667     - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
  11668       fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
  11669       ticket 24726.
  11670     - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
  11671       entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
  11672       by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
  11673       ticket 24679.
  11674     - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
  11675       Implements ticket 24791.
  11676 
  11677   o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
  11678     - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
  11679       not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
  11680       other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
  11681       versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
  11682       authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
  11683 
  11684   o Minor features (geoip):
  11685     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
  11686       database. Closes ticket 26104.
  11687 
  11688   o Minor features (heartbeat):
  11689     - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
  11690       stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
  11691       ticket 24896.
  11692 
  11693   o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
  11694     - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
  11695       instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
  11696       heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
  11697       when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
  11698 
  11699   o Minor features (IPv6):
  11700     - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
  11701       were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
  11702       and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
  11703     - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
  11704       them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
  11705       ticket 23827.
  11706 
  11707   o Minor features (log messages):
  11708     - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
  11709       information about memory usage from the different compression
  11710       backends. Closes ticket 25372.
  11711     - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
  11712       old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
  11713     - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
  11714       threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
  11715 
  11716   o Minor features (logging):
  11717     - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
  11718       entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
  11719     - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
  11720       ticket 24362.
  11721 
  11722   o Minor features (performance):
  11723     - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
  11724       with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
  11725     - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
  11726       atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
  11727 
  11728   o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
  11729     - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
  11730       when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
  11731       computations. Implements ticket 24613.
  11732     - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
  11733       when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
  11734       Implements ticket 24374.
  11735 
  11736   o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
  11737     - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
  11738       implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
  11739       should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
  11740       performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
  11741 
  11742   o Minor features (performance, windows):
  11743     - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
  11744       TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
  11745       SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
  11746       from Vort.
  11747 
  11748   o Minor features (sandbox):
  11749     - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
  11750       seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
  11751       libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
  11752 
  11753   o Minor features (storage, configuration):
  11754     - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
  11755       the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
  11756       the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
  11757       KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
  11758 
  11759   o Minor features (testing):
  11760     - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
  11761       ticket 25071.
  11762 
  11763   o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
  11764     - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
  11765       a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
  11766       process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
  11767       ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
  11768       --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
  11769       environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
  11770       really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
  11771       future release. Implements ticket 24583.
  11772 
  11773   o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
  11774     - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
  11775       dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
  11776       24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
  11777     - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
  11778       errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
  11779       24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
  11780     - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
  11781       the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
  11782       on 0.3.1.7.
  11783 
  11784   o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
  11785     - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
  11786       dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
  11787       Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
  11788 
  11789   o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
  11790     - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
  11791       client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
  11792 
  11793   o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
  11794     - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
  11795       recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
  11796       relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
  11797       bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  11798 
  11799   o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11800     - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
  11801       but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
  11802       on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  11803 
  11804   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  11805     - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
  11806       compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
  11807       xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
  11808 
  11809   o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  11810     - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
  11811       been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
  11812       specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  11813     - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
  11814       circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
  11815       bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  11816 
  11817   o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  11818     - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
  11819       hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
  11820       24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  11821 
  11822   o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11823     - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
  11824       cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
  11825       close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
  11826       open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  11827 
  11828   o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
  11829     - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
  11830       set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
  11831       explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
  11832       on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  11833 
  11834   o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
  11835     - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
  11836       their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
  11837       are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
  11838       be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
  11839 
  11840   o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11841     - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
  11842       exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
  11843       ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
  11844       we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
  11845       on 0.3.2.6-alpha.
  11846 
  11847   o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
  11848     - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
  11849       timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
  11850       slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
  11851       resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
  11852 
  11853   o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
  11854     - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
  11855       don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
  11856       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  11857 
  11858   o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
  11859     - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
  11860       flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
  11861       bug 7267.
  11862     - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
  11863       hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  11864     - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
  11865       clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
  11866       not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
  11867       on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  11868     - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
  11869       case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
  11870     - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
  11871       Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  11872 
  11873   o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
  11874     - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
  11875       bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  11876     - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
  11877       router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
  11878       ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
  11879 
  11880   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  11881     - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
  11882       correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
  11883       Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
  11884 
  11885   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11886     - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
  11887       sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  11888 
  11889   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  11890     - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
  11891       LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
  11892       are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
  11893 
  11894   o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
  11895     - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
  11896       SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
  11897       option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
  11898       on 0.2.6.3.
  11899 
  11900   o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
  11901     - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
  11902       event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
  11903       the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
  11904       bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  11905     - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
  11906       on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  11907 
  11908   o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
  11909     - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
  11910       runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
  11911       0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
  11912 
  11913   o Minor bugfixes (networking):
  11914     - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
  11915       valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
  11916 
  11917   o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
  11918     - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
  11919       rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
  11920       time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
  11921       can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
  11922       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  11923 
  11924   o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11925     - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
  11926       SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  11927     - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
  11928       extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
  11929       allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
  11930       Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  11931 
  11932   o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
  11933     - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
  11934       long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
  11935       Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
  11936 
  11937   o Minor bugfixes (performance):
  11938     - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
  11939       the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
  11940       idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
  11941       concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
  11942       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  11943     - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
  11944       loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
  11945       summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
  11946       we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
  11947       a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
  11948       operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  11949 
  11950   o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
  11951     - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
  11952       is more accurate than applying the timeout in
  11953       circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
  11954       once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
  11955       current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  11956     - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
  11957       to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
  11958       calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
  11959       exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
  11960       from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
  11961       hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  11962 
  11963   o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  11964     - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
  11965       Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  11966 
  11967   o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
  11968     - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
  11969       would call the Rust implementation of
  11970       protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
  11971       returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
  11972       a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
  11973       code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
  11974       bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  11975 
  11976   o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
  11977     - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
  11978       source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
  11979       Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
  11980 
  11981   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  11982     - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
  11983       onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
  11984       seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
  11985       on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
  11986     - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
  11987       bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  11988 
  11989   o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
  11990     - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
  11991       that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
  11992       This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
  11993       when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
  11994       Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
  11995 
  11996   o Code simplification and refactoring:
  11997     - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
  11998       Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
  11999     - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
  12000       We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
  12001       ticket 23814.
  12002     - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
  12003       ticket 25108.
  12004     - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
  12005       and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
  12006       anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
  12007       ticket 25163.
  12008     - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
  12009       ticket 24363.
  12010     - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
  12011       node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
  12012       microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
  12013       "aruna1234" and teor.
  12014     - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
  12015       memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
  12016       relays). Closes ticket 24119.
  12017     - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
  12018       stops gracefully.
  12019     - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
  12020       general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
  12021     - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
  12022       avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
  12023     - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
  12024       by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
  12025       ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
  12026     - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
  12027       introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
  12028       rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
  12029       Neel Chauhan.
  12030     - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
  12031       debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
  12032 
  12033   o Documentation:
  12034     - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
  12035       ticket 23635.
  12036     - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
  12037       logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
  12038     - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
  12039       without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
  12040       on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
  12041     - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
  12042       traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
  12043     - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
  12044       Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
  12045 
  12046   o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
  12047     - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
  12048       used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
  12049     - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
  12050       code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
  12051       ticket 23709.
  12052     - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
  12053       this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
  12054       adding very little except for unit test.
  12055 
  12056   o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
  12057     - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
  12058       functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
  12059       that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
  12060 
  12061   o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
  12062     - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
  12063       const. Implements ticket 24489.
  12064 
  12065   o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
  12066     - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
  12067       ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
  12068 
  12069   o Documentation (man page):
  12070     - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
  12071       either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
  12072       on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
  12073 
  12074   o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
  12075     - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
  12076       listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
  12077       ticket 25248.
  12078 
  12079 
  12080 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
  12081   Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
  12082   security issues.
  12083 
  12084   It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
  12085   against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
  12086 
  12087   This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
  12088   denial-of-service attacks against relays.
  12089 
  12090   This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
  12091   earlier releases.
  12092 
  12093   All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
  12094   released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
  12095   the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
  12096 
  12097   Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
  12098   longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
  12099   after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
  12100   stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
  12101   support).
  12102 
  12103   o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12104     - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
  12105       directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
  12106       bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
  12107       CVE-2018-0490.
  12108 
  12109   o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12110     - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
  12111       start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
  12112       First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
  12113       connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
  12114       single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
  12115       second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
  12116       connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
  12117       (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
  12118       point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
  12119       manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
  12120       take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
  12121       configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
  12122 
  12123   o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
  12124     - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
  12125       with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
  12126 
  12127   o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
  12128     - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
  12129       onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
  12130       attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
  12131       circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
  12132       and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
  12133       override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  12134 
  12135   o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12136     - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
  12137       bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  12138 
  12139   o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
  12140     - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
  12141       connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
  12142       thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
  12143       relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
  12144       initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
  12145       relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  12146 
  12147   o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12148     - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
  12149       doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
  12150       our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
  12151 
  12152   o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  12153     - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
  12154       hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
  12155       attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
  12156 
  12157   o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12158     - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
  12159       Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
  12160       since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
  12161       ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
  12162       Closes ticket 24978.
  12163 
  12164   o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
  12165     - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
  12166       current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
  12167       bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
  12168       information. Closes ticket 24801.
  12169     - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
  12170       prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
  12171       follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
  12172       fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
  12173 
  12174   o Minor features (geoip):
  12175     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
  12176       Country database.
  12177 
  12178   o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12179     - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
  12180       not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
  12181       making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
  12182       Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
  12183 
  12184   o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12185     - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
  12186       relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
  12187       ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
  12188       Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
  12189 
  12190   o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
  12191     - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
  12192       reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
  12193       and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
  12194       not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
  12195       on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  12196 
  12197   o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
  12198     - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
  12199       circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
  12200       Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
  12201       than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
  12202       were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
  12203       0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
  12204       0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
  12205       primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
  12206     - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
  12207       to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
  12208       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  12209 
  12210   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
  12211     - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
  12212       TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
  12213 
  12214   o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
  12215     - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
  12216       with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
  12217       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  12218 
  12219   o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12220     - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
  12221       contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
  12222       and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
  12223       issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
  12224       directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
  12225       0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
  12226 
  12227   o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
  12228     - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
  12229       directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  12230     - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
  12231       only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
  12232       success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
  12233       but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
  12234       calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
  12235       nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
  12236       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  12237 
  12238   o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
  12239     - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
  12240       regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
  12241       its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
  12242       it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
  12243       23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  12244 
  12245   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12246     - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
  12247       it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
  12248       24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  12249 
  12250   o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
  12251     - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
  12252       and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
  12253       help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
  12254       free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
  12255       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  12256 
  12257   o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
  12258     - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
  12259       mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
  12260       trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
  12261       backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
  12262       circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  12263 
  12264   o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
  12265     - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
  12266       could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
  12267       Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
  12268       the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
  12269       weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
  12270       weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
  12271     - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
  12272       all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
  12273       nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  12274     - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
  12275       Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
  12276 
  12277   o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
  12278     - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
  12279       when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
  12280       Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  12281 
  12282   o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
  12283     - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
  12284       limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
  12285       bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  12286 
  12287   o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
  12288     - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
  12289       MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
  12290       to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
  12291       on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  12292 
  12293   o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
  12294     - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
  12295       of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
  12296       the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
  12297       of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
  12298 
  12299   o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12300     - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
  12301       0.2.9.4-alpha.
  12302     - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
  12303       bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  12304 
  12305   o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12306     - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
  12307       repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
  12308 
  12309 
  12310 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
  12311   Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
  12312   later Tor releases.
  12313 
  12314   It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
  12315   against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
  12316 
  12317   This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
  12318   denial-of-service attacks against relays.
  12319 
  12320   This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
  12321   earlier releases.
  12322 
  12323   All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
  12324   released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
  12325   the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
  12326 
  12327   o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12328     - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
  12329       directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
  12330       bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
  12331       CVE-2018-0490.
  12332 
  12333   o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
  12334     - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
  12335       start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
  12336       First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
  12337       connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
  12338       single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
  12339       second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
  12340       connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
  12341       (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
  12342       point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
  12343       manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
  12344       take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
  12345       configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
  12346 
  12347   o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
  12348     - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
  12349       circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
  12350       Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
  12351       than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
  12352       were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
  12353       0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
  12354       0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
  12355       primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
  12356 
  12357   o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
  12358     - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
  12359       onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
  12360       attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
  12361       circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
  12362       and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
  12363       override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  12364 
  12365   o Minor feature (relay statistics):
  12366     - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
  12367       hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
  12368       attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
  12369 
  12370   o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
  12371     - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
  12372       Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
  12373       since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
  12374       ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
  12375       Closes ticket 24978.
  12376 
  12377   o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
  12378     - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
  12379       doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
  12380       our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
  12381 
  12382   o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
  12383     - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
  12384       current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
  12385       bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
  12386       information. Closes ticket 24801.
  12387     - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
  12388       prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
  12389       follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
  12390       fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
  12391 
  12392   o Minor features (geoip):
  12393     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
  12394       Country database.
  12395 
  12396   o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  12397     - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
  12398       with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
  12399 
  12400   o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
  12401     - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
  12402       not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
  12403       making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
  12404       Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
  12405 
  12406   o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
  12407     - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
  12408       relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
  12409       ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
  12410       Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
  12411 
  12412   o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
  12413     - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
  12414       reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
  12415       and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
  12416       not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
  12417       on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  12418 
  12419   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  12420     - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
  12421       TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
  12422 
  12423   o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  12424     - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
  12425       with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
  12426       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  12427 
  12428   o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12429     - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
  12430       contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
  12431       and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
  12432       issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
  12433       directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
  12434       0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
  12435 
  12436   o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
  12437     - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
  12438       and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
  12439       help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
  12440       free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
  12441       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  12442 
  12443   o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
  12444     - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
  12445       mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
  12446       trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
  12447       backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
  12448       circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  12449 
  12450   o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
  12451     - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
  12452       limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
  12453       bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  12454 
  12455   o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
  12456     - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
  12457       could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
  12458       Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
  12459       the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
  12460       weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
  12461       weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
  12462     - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
  12463       all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
  12464       nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  12465     - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
  12466       Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
  12467 
  12468   o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
  12469     - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
  12470       MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
  12471       to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
  12472       on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  12473 
  12474   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  12475     - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
  12476       of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
  12477       the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
  12478       of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
  12479 
  12480   o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12481     - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
  12482       0.2.9.4-alpha.
  12483     - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
  12484       bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  12485 
  12486 
  12487 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
  12488   Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
  12489   backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
  12490   issues.
  12491 
  12492   It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
  12493   against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
  12494 
  12495   Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
  12496   upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
  12497   triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
  12498   such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
  12499   CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
  12500   affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
  12501   0.3.3.1-alpha.
  12502 
  12503   This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
  12504   denial-of-service attacks against relays.
  12505 
  12506   This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
  12507   earlier releases.
  12508 
  12509   Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
  12510   today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
  12511   also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
  12512   the DoS mitigations.)
  12513 
  12514   o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12515     - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
  12516       directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
  12517       bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
  12518       CVE-2018-0490.
  12519 
  12520   o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12521     - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
  12522       list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
  12523       attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  12524 
  12525   o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12526     - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
  12527       start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
  12528       First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
  12529       connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
  12530       single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
  12531       second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
  12532       connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
  12533       (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
  12534       point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
  12535       manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
  12536       take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
  12537       configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
  12538 
  12539   o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
  12540     - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
  12541       onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
  12542       attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
  12543       circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
  12544       and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
  12545       override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  12546     - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
  12547       attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
  12548       circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
  12549       window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  12550 
  12551   o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12552     - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
  12553       bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  12554 
  12555   o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
  12556     - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
  12557       connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
  12558       thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
  12559       relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
  12560       initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
  12561       relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  12562 
  12563   o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12564     - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
  12565       consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
  12566       network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  12567 
  12568   o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12569     - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
  12570       doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
  12571       our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
  12572 
  12573   o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12574     - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
  12575       Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
  12576       since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
  12577       ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
  12578       Closes ticket 24978.
  12579 
  12580   o Minor features (geoip):
  12581     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
  12582       Country database.
  12583 
  12584   o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12585     - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
  12586       also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
  12587       for ticket 24972.
  12588 
  12589   o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12590     - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
  12591       not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
  12592       making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
  12593       Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
  12594 
  12595   o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12596     - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
  12597       contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
  12598       and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
  12599       issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
  12600       directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
  12601       0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
  12602 
  12603   o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12604     - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
  12605       relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
  12606       ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
  12607       Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
  12608 
  12609   o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
  12610     - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
  12611       around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
  12612       Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  12613 
  12614   o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12615     - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
  12616       that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
  12617       can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
  12618       24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  12619 
  12620   o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12621     - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
  12622       it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
  12623       24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  12624 
  12625   o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
  12626     - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
  12627       when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
  12628       Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  12629 
  12630   o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
  12631     - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
  12632       limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
  12633       bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  12634 
  12635   o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12636     - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
  12637       0.2.9.4-alpha.
  12638     - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
  12639       bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  12640 
  12641   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
  12642     - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
  12643       25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
  12644 
  12645   o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
  12646     - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
  12647       version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
  12648       v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
  12649       bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  12650 
  12651   o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
  12652     - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
  12653       repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
  12654 
  12655   o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
  12656     - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
  12657       expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
  12658       ticket 24526.
  12659 
  12660 
  12661 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
  12662   Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
  12663 
  12664   The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
  12665   design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
  12666   our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
  12667   have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
  12668   relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
  12669   along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
  12670 
  12671   Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
  12672   series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
  12673   the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
  12674   you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
  12675   with the 0.2.9 series.
  12676 
  12677   Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
  12678   changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
  12679 
  12680   o Directory authority changes:
  12681     - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
  12682       Closes ticket 23910.
  12683     - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
  12684       Closes ticket 23592.
  12685     - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
  12686       IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
  12687       3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
  12688       52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
  12689     - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
  12690       ticket 24394.
  12691 
  12692   o Major features (next-generation onion services):
  12693     - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
  12694       clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
  12695       proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
  12696       experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
  12697       onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
  12698       system, including:
  12699 
  12700       a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
  12701       with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
  12702 
  12703       b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
  12704       directory servers.
  12705 
  12706       c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
  12707       targeted attacks.
  12708 
  12709       d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
  12710 
  12711       e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
  12712 
  12713       f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
  12714 
  12715       You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
  12716       they are 56 characters long, as in
  12717       "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
  12718 
  12719       In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
  12720       onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
  12721       current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
  12722       include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
  12723       guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
  12724       proposal 224.
  12725 
  12726       Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
  12727       future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
  12728       tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
  12729       the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
  12730       directive along with the regular onion service configuration
  12731       options. For more information, see our blog post at
  12732       "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
  12733 
  12734   o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
  12735     - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
  12736       deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
  12737       first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
  12738       and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
  12739       the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
  12740       full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
  12741       behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
  12742       support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
  12743       scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
  12744       the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
  12745       option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
  12746 
  12747       Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
  12748       John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
  12749       more information, see the design paper at
  12750       http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
  12751       followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
  12752       Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
  12753       "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
  12754 
  12755   o Major bugfixes (security, general):
  12756     - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
  12757       malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
  12758       OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
  12759       instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
  12760       packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
  12761       version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
  12762       Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
  12763 
  12764   o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
  12765     - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
  12766       directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
  12767       24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
  12768       and CVE-2017-8820.
  12769 
  12770   o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
  12771     - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
  12772       when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
  12773       points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
  12774       also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
  12775     - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
  12776       (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
  12777       encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
  12778       replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
  12779       the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
  12780       prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
  12781       0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
  12782       and CVE-2017-8819.
  12783 
  12784   o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
  12785     - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
  12786       through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
  12787       version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
  12788       of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
  12789       as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
  12790     - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
  12791       as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
  12792       issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
  12793 
  12794   o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
  12795     - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
  12796       circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
  12797       Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
  12798       than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
  12799       were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
  12800       0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
  12801       0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
  12802       primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
  12803     - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
  12804       to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
  12805       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  12806 
  12807   o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
  12808     - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
  12809       as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
  12810       isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
  12811       responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
  12812       circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
  12813       bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  12814 
  12815   o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
  12816     - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
  12817       making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
  12818       0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
  12819       identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
  12820       Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
  12821       analyze it.
  12822 
  12823   o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
  12824     - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
  12825       circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
  12826       Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  12827 
  12828   o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
  12829     - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
  12830       controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
  12831       wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
  12832 
  12833   o Minor features (bridge):
  12834     - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
  12835       add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
  12836       descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
  12837       address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
  12838       not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
  12839       provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
  12840       descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
  12841     - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
  12842       transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
  12843       USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
  12844       related to ticket 23080.
  12845 
  12846   o Minor features (bug detection):
  12847     - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
  12848       get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
  12849       subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
  12850 
  12851   o Minor features (build, compilation):
  12852     - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
  12853       we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
  12854       accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
  12855     - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
  12856       C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
  12857       data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
  12858       needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
  12859       Closes ticket 23643.
  12860 
  12861   o Minor features (client):
  12862     - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
  12863       HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
  12864       requests. Closes ticket 22407.
  12865     - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
  12866       selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
  12867     - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
  12868       multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
  12869       Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
  12870       overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
  12871       performance. Closes ticket 23220.
  12872     - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
  12873       Resolves ticket 23670.
  12874 
  12875   o Minor features (command line):
  12876     - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
  12877       the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
  12878       17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
  12879 
  12880   o Minor features (control port):
  12881     - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
  12882       respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
  12883       and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
  12884       Chandra Padmala.
  12885     - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
  12886       fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
  12887       Kevin Butler.
  12888     - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
  12889       whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
  12890       microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
  12891     - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
  12892       so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
  12893       Closes ticket 23237.
  12894     - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
  12895       events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
  12896 
  12897   o Minor features (development support):
  12898     - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
  12899       "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
  12900       should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
  12901       elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
  12902       https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
  12903       "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
  12904 
  12905   o Minor features (directory authority):
  12906     - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
  12907       policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
  12908       would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
  12909       these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
  12910 
  12911   o Minor features (ed25519):
  12912     - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
  12913       ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
  12914       ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
  12915 
  12916   o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
  12917     - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
  12918       receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
  12919 
  12920   o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
  12921     - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
  12922       current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
  12923       bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
  12924       information. Closes ticket 24801.
  12925     - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
  12926       prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
  12927       follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
  12928       fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
  12929 
  12930   o Minor features (geoip):
  12931     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
  12932       Country database.
  12933 
  12934   o Minor features (integration, hardening):
  12935     - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
  12936       programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
  12937       another program, regardless of the settings of
  12938       PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
  12939       ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
  12940       without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
  12941 
  12942   o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  12943     - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
  12944       with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
  12945 
  12946   o Minor features (logging):
  12947     - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
  12948       ticket 24500.
  12949     - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
  12950       resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
  12951       ticket 24097.
  12952     - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
  12953       after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
  12954     - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
  12955       package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
  12956       Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
  12957     - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
  12958       help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
  12959     - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
  12960       The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
  12961       part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
  12962       ticket 20488.
  12963     - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
  12964       their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
  12965 
  12966   o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
  12967     - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
  12968       the circuit identifier(s).
  12969     - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
  12970       and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
  12971 
  12972   o Minor features (portability):
  12973     - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
  12974       (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
  12975       ticket 24424.
  12976     - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
  12977       unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
  12978       assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
  12979       assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
  12980 
  12981   o Minor features (relay):
  12982     - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
  12983       circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
  12984       cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
  12985       if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
  12986     - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
  12987       set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
  12988       changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
  12989       results. Closes ticket 22731.
  12990 
  12991   o Minor features (relay statistics):
  12992     - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
  12993       hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
  12994       attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
  12995 
  12996   o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
  12997     - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
  12998       non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
  12999       directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
  13000       this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
  13001 
  13002   o Minor features (robustness):
  13003     - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
  13004       fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
  13005 
  13006   o Minor features (startup, safety):
  13007     - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
  13008       to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
  13009       ticket 20119.
  13010 
  13011   o Minor features (static analysis):
  13012     - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
  13013       longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
  13014       ticket 23054.
  13015 
  13016   o Minor features (testing):
  13017     - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
  13018       service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
  13019     - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
  13020       string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
  13021       ticket 22109.
  13022     - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
  13023       onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
  13024       chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
  13025     - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
  13026       service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
  13027 
  13028   o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
  13029     - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
  13030       reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
  13031       and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
  13032       not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
  13033       on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  13034 
  13035   o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
  13036     - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
  13037       direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
  13038       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  13039 
  13040   o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
  13041     - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
  13042       during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
  13043       retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
  13044       reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  13045     - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
  13046       descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
  13047       have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
  13048       bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  13049     - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
  13050       descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
  13051       all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
  13052       24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  13053 
  13054   o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
  13055     - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
  13056       its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
  13057       address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  13058 
  13059   o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
  13060     - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
  13061       32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
  13062       and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
  13063     - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
  13064       lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
  13065       Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
  13066       These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
  13067       with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  13068     - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
  13069       TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
  13070     - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
  13071       configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
  13072       -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
  13073       Found and patched by Alex Xu.
  13074     - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
  13075       Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  13076 
  13077   o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
  13078     - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
  13079       the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
  13080       Coverity as CID 1415728.
  13081 
  13082   o Minor bugfixes (client):
  13083     - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
  13084       values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
  13085       been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  13086 
  13087   o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
  13088     - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
  13089       SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
  13090       SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
  13091       known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
  13092       still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
  13093       those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
  13094       bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  13095 
  13096   o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  13097     - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
  13098       Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
  13099       all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
  13100       Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  13101     - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
  13102       function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
  13103       on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
  13104     - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
  13105       likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
  13106       behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
  13107       usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
  13108       by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
  13109       Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
  13110       Tor versions.
  13111 
  13112   o Minor bugfixes (compression):
  13113     - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
  13114       the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
  13115       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  13116 
  13117   o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
  13118     - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
  13119       would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
  13120       every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
  13121 
  13122   o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  13123     - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
  13124       with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
  13125       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  13126 
  13127   o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
  13128     - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
  13129       HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
  13130       Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  13131 
  13132   o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
  13133     - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
  13134       directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  13135     - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
  13136       only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
  13137       success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
  13138       but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
  13139       calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
  13140       nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
  13141       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  13142 
  13143   o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
  13144     - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
  13145       by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
  13146       Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
  13147       too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  13148 
  13149   o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
  13150     - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
  13151       codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
  13152       recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
  13153       directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
  13154       would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
  13155       on 0.0.8rc1.
  13156     - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
  13157       consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
  13158       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  13159 
  13160   o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
  13161     - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
  13162       scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  13163     - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
  13164       UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
  13165       NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  13166 
  13167   o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
  13168     - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
  13169       checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
  13170       crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  13171 
  13172   o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
  13173     - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
  13174       regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
  13175       its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
  13176       it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
  13177       23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  13178 
  13179   o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
  13180     - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
  13181       BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
  13182       the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
  13183       __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
  13184       octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
  13185       Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
  13186       and 0.2.2.28-beta.
  13187 
  13188   o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
  13189     - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
  13190       minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
  13191       bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  13192 
  13193   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  13194     - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
  13195       have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
  13196       everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
  13197       the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  13198     - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
  13199       SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
  13200       Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  13201     - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
  13202       they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
  13203       on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  13204     - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
  13205       directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
  13206       of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
  13207       on 0.1.1.8-alpha.
  13208     - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
  13209       actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
  13210       the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
  13211       on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  13212     - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
  13213       Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  13214     - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
  13215       messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
  13216       18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
  13217       Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
  13218 
  13219   o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
  13220     - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
  13221       cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
  13222       this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
  13223       circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
  13224       Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  13225 
  13226   o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
  13227     - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
  13228       early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  13229 
  13230   o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
  13231     - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
  13232       and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
  13233       help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
  13234       free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
  13235       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  13236 
  13237   o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
  13238     - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
  13239       mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
  13240       trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
  13241       backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
  13242       circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  13243 
  13244   o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
  13245     - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
  13246       waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
  13247       circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
  13248       constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  13249     - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
  13250       so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
  13251       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  13252     - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
  13253       only fetch the service descriptor once.
  13254     - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
  13255       error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
  13256       bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  13257     - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
  13258       from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
  13259       causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
  13260       23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
  13261 
  13262   o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
  13263     - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
  13264       could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
  13265       Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
  13266       the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
  13267       weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
  13268       weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
  13269     - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
  13270       all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
  13271       nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  13272     - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
  13273       Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
  13274 
  13275   o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  13276     - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
  13277       Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  13278     - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
  13279       MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
  13280       to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
  13281       on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  13282 
  13283   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  13284     - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
  13285       report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
  13286       leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
  13287     - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
  13288       relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
  13289       rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
  13290       bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  13291     - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
  13292       Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
  13293       "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
  13294       changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  13295 
  13296   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  13297     - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
  13298       by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
  13299     - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
  13300       "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
  13301       Closes ticket 24109.
  13302     - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
  13303       to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  13304     - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
  13305       tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
  13306       on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  13307     - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
  13308       time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
  13309       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  13310     - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
  13311       to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
  13312       under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
  13313       rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
  13314       0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
  13315     - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
  13316       function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
  13317       bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
  13318     - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
  13319       dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
  13320       fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  13321 
  13322   o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
  13323     - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
  13324       detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
  13325       skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  13326 
  13327   o Code simplification and refactoring:
  13328     - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
  13329       "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
  13330       ticket 22805.
  13331     - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
  13332       function from the general code to handle channel state
  13333       transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
  13334       size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
  13335       factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
  13336     - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
  13337       times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
  13338       19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
  13339     - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
  13340       variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
  13341       from "huyvq".
  13342     - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
  13343       routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
  13344       ticket 22215.
  13345     - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
  13346       and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
  13347       new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
  13348     - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
  13349       22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
  13350     - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
  13351       multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
  13352     - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
  13353       protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
  13354     - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
  13355       error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
  13356       allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
  13357 
  13358   o Deprecated features:
  13359     - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
  13360       now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
  13361       effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
  13362     - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
  13363       only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
  13364       directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
  13365       ticket 20575.
  13366 
  13367   o Documentation:
  13368     - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
  13369       scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
  13370       section. Closes ticket 24254.
  13371     - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
  13372       advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
  13373     - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
  13374       kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
  13375     - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
  13376       Closes ticket 18736.
  13377     - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
  13378       kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
  13379     - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
  13380       Closes ticket 15645.
  13381     - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
  13382       DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
  13383     - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
  13384       file. Closes ticket 21148.
  13385 
  13386   o Removed features:
  13387     - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
  13388       deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
  13389     - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
  13390       non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
  13391       Closes ticket 21031.
  13392     - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
  13393       nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
  13394 
  13395 
  13396 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
  13397   Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
  13398   0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
  13399   release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
  13400 
  13401   o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13402     - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
  13403       malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
  13404       OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
  13405       instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
  13406       packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
  13407       version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
  13408       Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
  13409     - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
  13410       directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
  13411       24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
  13412       and CVE-2017-8820.
  13413     - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
  13414       (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
  13415       encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
  13416       replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
  13417       the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
  13418       prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
  13419       0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
  13420       and CVE-2017-8819.
  13421 
  13422   o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13423     - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
  13424       when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
  13425       points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
  13426       also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
  13427 
  13428   o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13429     - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
  13430       through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
  13431       version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
  13432       of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
  13433       as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
  13434     - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
  13435       as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
  13436       issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
  13437 
  13438   o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
  13439     - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
  13440       making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
  13441       0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
  13442       identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
  13443       Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
  13444       analyze it.
  13445 
  13446   o Minor features (bridge):
  13447     - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
  13448       bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
  13449       publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
  13450       grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
  13451       or later.
  13452 
  13453   o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13454     - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
  13455       ticket 24394.
  13456 
  13457   o Minor features (geoip):
  13458     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  13459       Country database.
  13460 
  13461   o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
  13462     - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
  13463       relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
  13464       rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
  13465       bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  13466 
  13467   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
  13468     - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
  13469       Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  13470 
  13471   o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  13472     - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
  13473       cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
  13474       this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
  13475       circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
  13476       Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  13477 
  13478   o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
  13479     - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
  13480       so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
  13481       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  13482 
  13483   o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
  13484     - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
  13485       Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
  13486       "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
  13487       changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  13488 
  13489 
  13490 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
  13491   Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
  13492   later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
  13493   to another of the releases coming out today.
  13494 
  13495   Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
  13496   2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
  13497   the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
  13498 
  13499   o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13500     - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
  13501       malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
  13502       OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
  13503       instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
  13504       packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
  13505       version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
  13506       Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
  13507     - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
  13508       directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
  13509       24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
  13510       and CVE-2017-8820.
  13511     - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
  13512       (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
  13513       encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
  13514       replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
  13515       the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
  13516       prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
  13517       0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
  13518       and CVE-2017-8819.
  13519 
  13520   o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13521     - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
  13522       when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
  13523       points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
  13524       also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
  13525 
  13526   o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13527     - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
  13528       through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
  13529       version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
  13530       of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
  13531       as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
  13532     - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
  13533       as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
  13534       issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
  13535 
  13536   o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
  13537     - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
  13538       making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
  13539       0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
  13540       identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
  13541       Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
  13542       analyze it.
  13543 
  13544   o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  13545     - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
  13546       (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
  13547       since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
  13548       (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
  13549       affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
  13550 
  13551   o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
  13552     - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
  13553       bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
  13554       publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
  13555       grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
  13556       or later.
  13557 
  13558   o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13559     - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
  13560       ticket 24394.
  13561 
  13562   o Minor features (geoip):
  13563     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  13564       Country database.
  13565 
  13566   o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
  13567     - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
  13568       relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
  13569       rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
  13570       bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  13571 
  13572   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
  13573     - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
  13574       Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  13575 
  13576   o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  13577     - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
  13578       cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
  13579       this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
  13580       circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
  13581       Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  13582 
  13583   o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
  13584     - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
  13585       Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
  13586       "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
  13587       changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  13588 
  13589   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
  13590     - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
  13591       bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
  13592 
  13593 
  13594 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
  13595   Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
  13596   later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
  13597   to another of the releases coming out today.
  13598 
  13599   o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
  13600     - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
  13601       making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
  13602       0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
  13603       identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
  13604       Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
  13605       analyze it.
  13606 
  13607   o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13608     - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
  13609       malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
  13610       OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
  13611       instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
  13612       packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
  13613       version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
  13614       Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
  13615     - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
  13616       directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
  13617       24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
  13618       and CVE-2017-8820.
  13619     - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
  13620       (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
  13621       encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
  13622       replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
  13623       the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
  13624       prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
  13625       0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
  13626       and CVE-2017-8819.
  13627 
  13628   o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13629     - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
  13630       when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
  13631       points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
  13632       also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
  13633 
  13634   o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13635     - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
  13636       through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
  13637       version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
  13638       of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
  13639       as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
  13640 
  13641   o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
  13642     - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
  13643       bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
  13644       publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
  13645       grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
  13646       or later.
  13647 
  13648   o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13649     - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
  13650       ticket 24394.
  13651 
  13652   o Minor features (geoip):
  13653     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  13654       Country database.
  13655 
  13656   o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  13657     - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
  13658       (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
  13659       since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
  13660       (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
  13661       affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
  13662 
  13663   o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
  13664     - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
  13665       relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
  13666       rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
  13667       bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  13668 
  13669   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
  13670     - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
  13671       Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  13672 
  13673   o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  13674     - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
  13675       cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
  13676       this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
  13677       circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
  13678       Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  13679 
  13680   o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
  13681     - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
  13682       Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
  13683       "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
  13684       changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  13685 
  13686   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
  13687     - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
  13688       bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
  13689 
  13690 
  13691 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
  13692   Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
  13693   later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
  13694   to another of the releases coming out today.
  13695 
  13696   Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
  13697   2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
  13698   the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
  13699 
  13700   o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13701     - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
  13702       malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
  13703       OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
  13704       instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
  13705       packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
  13706       version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
  13707       Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
  13708     - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
  13709       (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
  13710       encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
  13711       replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
  13712       the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
  13713       prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
  13714       0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
  13715       and CVE-2017-8819.
  13716 
  13717   o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13718     - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
  13719       when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
  13720       points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
  13721       also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
  13722 
  13723   o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13724     - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
  13725       ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
  13726       our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
  13727       bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
  13728       and CVE-2017-8822.
  13729 
  13730   o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
  13731     - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
  13732       bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
  13733       publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
  13734       grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
  13735       or later.
  13736 
  13737   o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13738     - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
  13739       ticket 24394.
  13740 
  13741   o Minor features (geoip):
  13742     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  13743       Country database.
  13744 
  13745   o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
  13746     - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
  13747       bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
  13748 
  13749 
  13750 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
  13751   Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
  13752   later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
  13753   to another of the releases coming out today.
  13754 
  13755   Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
  13756   2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
  13757   the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
  13758 
  13759   o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13760     - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
  13761       malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
  13762       OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
  13763       instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
  13764       packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
  13765       version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
  13766       Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
  13767     - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
  13768       (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
  13769       encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
  13770       replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
  13771       the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
  13772       prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
  13773       0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
  13774       and CVE-2017-8819.
  13775 
  13776   o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
  13777     - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
  13778       through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
  13779       version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
  13780       of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
  13781       as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
  13782 
  13783   o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
  13784     - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
  13785       bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
  13786       publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
  13787       grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
  13788       or later.
  13789 
  13790   o Minor features (geoip):
  13791     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  13792       Country database.
  13793 
  13794 
  13795 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
  13796   Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
  13797   series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
  13798 
  13799   Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
  13800   2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
  13801   the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
  13802 
  13803   o Directory authority changes:
  13804     - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
  13805       Closes ticket 23910.
  13806     - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
  13807       Closes ticket 23592.
  13808 
  13809   o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  13810     - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
  13811       inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
  13812       handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
  13813       22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
  13814 
  13815   o Minor features (geoip):
  13816     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  13817       Country database.
  13818 
  13819   o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
  13820     - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
  13821       bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
  13822       still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
  13823       ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
  13824       behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
  13825       sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
  13826       network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
  13827       0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
  13828 
  13829   o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  13830     - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
  13831       configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
  13832       developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
  13833       better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
  13834       to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
  13835       Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
  13836       repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
  13837       your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
  13838 
  13839 
  13840 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
  13841   Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
  13842   series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
  13843   under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
  13844 
  13845   Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
  13846   2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
  13847   the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
  13848 
  13849   o Directory authority changes:
  13850     - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
  13851       Closes ticket 23910.
  13852     - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
  13853       Closes ticket 23592.
  13854 
  13855   o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  13856     - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
  13857       circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
  13858       Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  13859 
  13860   o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  13861     - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
  13862       IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
  13863       3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
  13864       52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
  13865 
  13866   o Minor features (geoip):
  13867     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  13868       Country database.
  13869 
  13870 
  13871 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
  13872   Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
  13873   series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
  13874   under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
  13875 
  13876   o Directory authority changes:
  13877     - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
  13878       Closes ticket 23910.
  13879     - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
  13880       Closes ticket 23592.
  13881 
  13882   o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  13883     - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
  13884       circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
  13885       Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  13886 
  13887   o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  13888     - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
  13889       IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
  13890       3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
  13891       52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
  13892 
  13893   o Minor features (geoip):
  13894     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  13895       Country database.
  13896 
  13897   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  13898     - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
  13899       a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
  13900       not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
  13901       tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
  13902       didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
  13903       behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
  13904       began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
  13905       on 0.2.1.19-alpha.
  13906 
  13907   o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
  13908     - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
  13909       Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  13910 
  13911   o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
  13912     - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
  13913       correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
  13914       the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
  13915       delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
  13916       failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  13917       Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
  13918 
  13919 
  13920 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
  13921   Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
  13922   series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
  13923   under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
  13924 
  13925   Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
  13926   2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
  13927   the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
  13928 
  13929   o Directory authority changes:
  13930     - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
  13931       Closes ticket 23910.
  13932     - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
  13933       Closes ticket 23592.
  13934 
  13935   o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  13936     - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
  13937       circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
  13938       Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  13939 
  13940   o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  13941     - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
  13942       IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
  13943       3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
  13944       52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
  13945 
  13946   o Minor features (geoip):
  13947     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  13948       Country database.
  13949 
  13950   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  13951     - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
  13952       a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
  13953       not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
  13954       tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
  13955       didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
  13956       behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
  13957       began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
  13958       on 0.2.1.19-alpha.
  13959 
  13960   o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  13961     - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
  13962       error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
  13963       bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  13964 
  13965   o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
  13966     - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
  13967       Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  13968 
  13969   o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
  13970     - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
  13971       correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
  13972       the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
  13973       delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
  13974       failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  13975       Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
  13976 
  13977 
  13978 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
  13979   Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
  13980   It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
  13981   that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
  13982   a new directory authority, Bastet.
  13983 
  13984   o Directory authority changes:
  13985     - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
  13986       Closes ticket 23910.
  13987     - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
  13988       Closes ticket 23592.
  13989 
  13990   o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  13991     - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
  13992       circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
  13993       Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  13994 
  13995   o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  13996     - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
  13997       IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
  13998       3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
  13999       52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
  14000 
  14001   o Minor features (geoip):
  14002     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  14003       Country database.
  14004 
  14005   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  14006     - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
  14007       32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
  14008       and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
  14009 
  14010   o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  14011     - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
  14012       the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
  14013       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  14014 
  14015   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
  14016     - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
  14017       send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
  14018 
  14019   o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  14020     - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
  14021       error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
  14022       bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  14023 
  14024   o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
  14025     - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
  14026       Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  14027 
  14028   o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
  14029     - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
  14030       time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
  14031       on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  14032 
  14033 
  14034 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
  14035   Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
  14036   Tor series.
  14037 
  14038   Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
  14039   security bug that affects hidden services running with the
  14040   SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
  14041   https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
  14042 
  14043   Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
  14044   2018.  We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
  14045   possible.  If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
  14046   0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
  14047 
  14048   o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14049     - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
  14050       inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
  14051       handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
  14052       22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
  14053 
  14054   o Minor features:
  14055     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  14056       Country database.
  14057 
  14058   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  14059     - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
  14060       in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
  14061       0.2.8.1-alpha.
  14062 
  14063   o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
  14064     - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
  14065       bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
  14066       still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
  14067       ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
  14068       behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
  14069       sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
  14070       network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
  14071       0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
  14072 
  14073   o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14074     - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
  14075       configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
  14076       developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
  14077       better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
  14078       to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
  14079       Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
  14080       repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
  14081       your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
  14082 
  14083 
  14084 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
  14085   Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
  14086   Tor series.
  14087 
  14088   Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
  14089   security bug that affects hidden services running with the
  14090   SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
  14091   https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
  14092 
  14093   o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
  14094     - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
  14095       side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
  14096       DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
  14097       Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
  14098       values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
  14099       hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
  14100 
  14101   o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
  14102     - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
  14103       linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
  14104       21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
  14105 
  14106   o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
  14107     - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
  14108       more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  14109 
  14110   o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  14111     - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
  14112       from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  14113       Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
  14114 
  14115   o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14116     - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
  14117       inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
  14118       handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
  14119       22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
  14120 
  14121   o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
  14122     - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
  14123       GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
  14124       Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
  14125 
  14126   o Minor features (geoip):
  14127     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  14128       Country database.
  14129 
  14130   o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  14131     - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
  14132       rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
  14133       Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
  14134 
  14135   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14136     - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
  14137       bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  14138     - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
  14139       on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  14140     - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
  14141       float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
  14142       isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  14143 
  14144   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
  14145     - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
  14146       with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  14147 
  14148   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  14149     - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
  14150       in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
  14151       0.2.8.1-alpha.
  14152 
  14153   o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
  14154     - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
  14155       Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  14156     - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
  14157       empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  14158 
  14159   o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14160     - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
  14161       default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
  14162       instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
  14163       doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
  14164       Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  14165 
  14166   o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
  14167     - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
  14168       bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
  14169       still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
  14170       ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
  14171       behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
  14172       sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
  14173       network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
  14174       0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
  14175 
  14176   o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14177     - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
  14178       always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
  14179       bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  14180 
  14181   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14182     - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
  14183       mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  14184 
  14185   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
  14186     - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
  14187       starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
  14188       permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
  14189       22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  14190 
  14191   o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
  14192     - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
  14193       receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
  14194       on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  14195 
  14196   o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  14197     - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
  14198       whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
  14199       parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
  14200       and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  14201 
  14202   o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14203     - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
  14204       configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
  14205       developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
  14206       better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
  14207       to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
  14208       Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
  14209       repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
  14210       your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
  14211 
  14212 
  14213 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
  14214   Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
  14215   series.
  14216 
  14217   Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
  14218   security bug that affects hidden services running with the
  14219   SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
  14220   https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
  14221 
  14222   o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
  14223     - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
  14224       GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
  14225       Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
  14226 
  14227   o Minor features:
  14228     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  14229       Country database.
  14230 
  14231   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
  14232     - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
  14233       with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  14234 
  14235   o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
  14236     - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
  14237       Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  14238     - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
  14239       body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  14240 
  14241   o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14242     - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
  14243       always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
  14244       bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  14245 
  14246   o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
  14247     - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
  14248       successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
  14249       a client.
  14250     - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
  14251       protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
  14252       and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
  14253       0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
  14254 
  14255 
  14256 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
  14257   Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
  14258 
  14259   With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
  14260   information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
  14261   also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
  14262   analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
  14263   (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
  14264   small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
  14265   the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
  14266 
  14267   This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
  14268   that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
  14269   disabled. For more information, see
  14270   https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
  14271 
  14272   Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
  14273   series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
  14274   the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
  14275   you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
  14276   with the 0.2.9 series.
  14277 
  14278   Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
  14279   changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
  14280 
  14281   o New dependencies:
  14282     - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
  14283       pkg-config tool at build time.
  14284 
  14285   o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
  14286     - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
  14287       hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
  14288       Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  14289       This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
  14290 
  14291   o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
  14292     - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
  14293       configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
  14294       developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
  14295       better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
  14296       to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
  14297       Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
  14298       repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
  14299       your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
  14300 
  14301   o Major features (directory protocol):
  14302     - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
  14303       version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
  14304       since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
  14305       now request these documents when available. When both client and
  14306       server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
  14307       to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
  14308       proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
  14309     - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
  14310       compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
  14311       performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
  14312       used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
  14313       times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
  14314       with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
  14315       proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
  14316     - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
  14317       consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
  14318       avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
  14319 
  14320   o Major features (experimental):
  14321     - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
  14322       the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
  14323       get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
  14324       beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
  14325       that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
  14326       packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
  14327       find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
  14328 
  14329   o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
  14330     - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
  14331       each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
  14332       parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
  14333       eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
  14334       network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
  14335       Tor users.
  14336 
  14337       Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
  14338       and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
  14339       still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
  14340       ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
  14341       ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
  14342       users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
  14343       Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
  14344     - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
  14345       counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
  14346       is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
  14347       multiples of 10000.
  14348 
  14349   o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
  14350     - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
  14351       handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
  14352       TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  14353     - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
  14354       BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
  14355       22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
  14356       on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  14357 
  14358   o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
  14359     - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
  14360       family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
  14361       selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
  14362       Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
  14363       006 and CVE-2017-0377.
  14364 
  14365   o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
  14366     - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
  14367       in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
  14368       connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
  14369       extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
  14370       on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
  14371       valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
  14372       the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
  14373       relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
  14374     - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
  14375       "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
  14376       connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
  14377       relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
  14378       Otherwise it is at info.
  14379 
  14380   o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
  14381     - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
  14382       unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
  14383       one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  14384     - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
  14385       can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
  14386       21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
  14387 
  14388   o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
  14389     - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
  14390       from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  14391       Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
  14392 
  14393   o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
  14394     - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
  14395       inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
  14396       handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
  14397       22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
  14398 
  14399   o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
  14400     - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
  14401       that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
  14402       connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
  14403       connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
  14404       used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
  14405       make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
  14406       on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  14407 
  14408   o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
  14409     - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
  14410       that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
  14411       whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
  14412       only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
  14413       wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
  14414       other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
  14415       bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  14416     - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
  14417       send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
  14418       used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
  14419       if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
  14420       before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
  14421       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  14422 
  14423   o Minor features (security, windows):
  14424     - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
  14425       (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
  14426       since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
  14427       (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
  14428       affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
  14429 
  14430   o Minor features (bridge authority):
  14431     - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
  14432       by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
  14433 
  14434   o Minor features (code style):
  14435     - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
  14436       GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
  14437       Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
  14438 
  14439   o Minor features (config options):
  14440     - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
  14441       directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
  14442       files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
  14443     - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
  14444       includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
  14445       overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
  14446     - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
  14447       will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
  14448 
  14449   o Minor features (controller):
  14450     - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
  14451       deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
  14452 
  14453   o Minor features (defaults):
  14454     - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
  14455       haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
  14456       ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
  14457       can. Closes ticket 21407.
  14458     - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
  14459       network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
  14460       lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
  14461       keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
  14462       consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
  14463       Closes ticket 21641.
  14464 
  14465   o Minor features (defensive programming):
  14466     - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
  14467       nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
  14468       for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
  14469       ticket 17857.
  14470 
  14471   o Minor features (diagnostic):
  14472     - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
  14473       trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
  14474       attempt for bug 23105.
  14475     - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
  14476       generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
  14477       think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
  14478       we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
  14479     - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
  14480       unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
  14481       Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
  14482 
  14483   o Minor features (directory authority):
  14484     - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
  14485       RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
  14486       Closes ticket 22348.
  14487 
  14488   o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
  14489     - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
  14490       operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
  14491       consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
  14492       operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
  14493       bug 22883.
  14494 
  14495   o Minor features (fallback directory list):
  14496     - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
  14497       on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
  14498     - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
  14499       December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
  14500       151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
  14501       2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
  14502 
  14503   o Minor features (geoip):
  14504     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  14505       Country database.
  14506 
  14507   o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
  14508     - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
  14509       introduction points than specified in
  14510       HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
  14511     - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
  14512       circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
  14513       21594; closes ticket 21622.
  14514     - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
  14515       HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
  14516       hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
  14517       14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
  14518 
  14519   o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  14520     - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
  14521       seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
  14522       diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
  14523       unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
  14524     - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
  14525       from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
  14526       order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
  14527       turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
  14528       compression. Closes ticket 22096.
  14529 
  14530   o Minor features (logging):
  14531     - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
  14532       (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
  14533       world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
  14534       change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
  14535       from toralf.
  14536 
  14537   o Minor features (performance):
  14538     - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
  14539       efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
  14540       ticket 21737.
  14541     - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
  14542       speed some controller functions.
  14543 
  14544   o Minor features (relay, configuration):
  14545     - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
  14546       for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
  14547       4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
  14548 
  14549   o Minor features (relay, performance):
  14550     - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
  14551       priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
  14552     - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
  14553       that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
  14554       higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
  14555       bug 22883.
  14556 
  14557   o Minor features (safety):
  14558     - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
  14559       NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
  14560       help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
  14561       ticket 21496.
  14562 
  14563   o Minor features (testing):
  14564     - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
  14565       ticket 22286.
  14566     - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
  14567       When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
  14568       redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
  14569       from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
  14570       bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
  14571       on. Closes ticket 21439.
  14572     - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
  14573       subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
  14574       grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
  14575       examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
  14576       events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
  14577       compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
  14578     - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
  14579       components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
  14580       range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
  14581       21507. Partially implements 21470.
  14582 
  14583   o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
  14584     - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
  14585       rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
  14586       Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
  14587 
  14588   o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  14589     - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
  14590       authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
  14591       extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
  14592       on 0.2.4.23.
  14593 
  14594   o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
  14595     - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
  14596       22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  14597     - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
  14598       support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  14599     - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
  14600       avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
  14601       isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
  14602       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  14603 
  14604   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  14605     - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
  14606       with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  14607 
  14608   o Minor bugfixes (compression):
  14609     - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
  14610       spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
  14611       trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
  14612       compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
  14613       22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  14614 
  14615   o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
  14616     - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
  14617       bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  14618 
  14619   o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
  14620     - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
  14621       unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
  14622       single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
  14623       consensus to control the default values for both this preference
  14624       and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
  14625       bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
  14626     - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
  14627       help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
  14628       a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
  14629       rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
  14630       updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
  14631       making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
  14632       is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
  14633 
  14634   o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  14635     - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
  14636       Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  14637     - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
  14638       body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  14639     - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
  14640       551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  14641     - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
  14642       fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
  14643       This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
  14644       ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
  14645       minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  14646 
  14647   o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  14648     - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
  14649       file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
  14650 
  14651   o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
  14652     - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
  14653       default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
  14654       instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
  14655       doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
  14656       Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  14657 
  14658   o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
  14659     - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
  14660       don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
  14661       safe. Closes ticket 22672.
  14662     - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
  14663       bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
  14664       still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
  14665       ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
  14666       behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
  14667       sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
  14668       network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
  14669       0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
  14670 
  14671   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
  14672     - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
  14673       a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
  14674       not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
  14675       tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
  14676       didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
  14677       behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
  14678       began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
  14679       on 0.2.1.19-alpha.
  14680     - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
  14681       of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
  14682       not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  14683     - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
  14684       initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
  14685       file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
  14686 
  14687   o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
  14688     - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
  14689       avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
  14690       Patch from "Vort".
  14691 
  14692   o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
  14693     - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
  14694       libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
  14695       expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
  14696       Karpov using PVS-Studio.
  14697 
  14698   o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
  14699     - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
  14700       explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
  14701     - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
  14702       allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
  14703       they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  14704     - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
  14705       bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  14706     - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
  14707       and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
  14708       selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  14709 
  14710   o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
  14711     - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
  14712       always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
  14713       bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  14714 
  14715   o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  14716     - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
  14717       open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
  14718       should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
  14719       Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
  14720     - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
  14721       cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
  14722       on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
  14723     - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
  14724       request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
  14725       Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  14726     - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
  14727       flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
  14728       21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  14729 
  14730   o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
  14731     - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
  14732       months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
  14733       Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
  14734       ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
  14735       was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
  14736       mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  14737 
  14738   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  14739     - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
  14740       mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  14741     - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
  14742       starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
  14743       permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
  14744       22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  14745 
  14746   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  14747     - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
  14748       compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
  14749       22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
  14750     - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
  14751       actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
  14752       22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
  14753     - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
  14754       severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
  14755       has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
  14756       22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  14757     - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
  14758       upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
  14759       on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  14760     - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
  14761       to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
  14762       where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
  14763       21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
  14764 
  14765   o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
  14766     - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
  14767       successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
  14768       a client.
  14769     - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
  14770       protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
  14771       and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
  14772       0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
  14773 
  14774   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  14775     - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
  14776       relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
  14777       related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  14778 
  14779   o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
  14780     - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
  14781       Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
  14782     - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
  14783       keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
  14784       memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  14785     - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
  14786       two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
  14787       23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
  14788 
  14789   o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
  14790     - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
  14791       status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
  14792       status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
  14793       lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
  14794       22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
  14795       0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
  14796       from "huyvq".
  14797 
  14798   o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
  14799     - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
  14800       memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
  14801       observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
  14802       detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
  14803       of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
  14804 
  14805   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  14806     - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
  14807       bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
  14808     - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
  14809       process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
  14810       OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  14811     - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
  14812       bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  14813     - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
  14814       Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
  14815       due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
  14816       bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
  14817     - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
  14818       Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  14819     - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
  14820       to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
  14821       on 0.0.9pre2.
  14822 
  14823   o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
  14824     - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
  14825       whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
  14826       parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
  14827       and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  14828 
  14829   o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
  14830     - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
  14831       correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
  14832       the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
  14833       delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
  14834       failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  14835       Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
  14836 
  14837   o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
  14838     - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
  14839       relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  14840 
  14841   o Code simplification and refactoring:
  14842     - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
  14843       into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
  14844       maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
  14845     - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
  14846       included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
  14847       examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
  14848     - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
  14849       extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
  14850       headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
  14851     - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
  14852       space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
  14853       ticket 17868.
  14854     - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
  14855       Resolves ticket 22213.
  14856     - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
  14857       serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
  14858       memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
  14859       a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
  14860       there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
  14861       types. Closes ticket 21651.
  14862     - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
  14863       the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
  14864 
  14865   o Documentation:
  14866     - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
  14867       ticket 22347.
  14868     - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
  14869       state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
  14870       ticket 16082.
  14871     - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
  14872       cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
  14873       approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
  14874       ticket 22347.
  14875     - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
  14876       ticket 6892.
  14877     - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
  14878       Closes ticket 21873.
  14879     - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
  14880       Closes ticket 21151.
  14881     - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
  14882       NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
  14883       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  14884     - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
  14885       in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  14886     - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
  14887       DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
  14888 
  14889   o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
  14890     - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
  14891       have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
  14892       AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
  14893       TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
  14894       in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
  14895       behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
  14896       default behavior is now unavailable.
  14897     - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
  14898       CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
  14899       0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
  14900       on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
  14901     - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
  14902       in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
  14903       (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
  14904 
  14905   o Removed features (tools):
  14906     - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
  14907       used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
  14908       versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
  14909       been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
  14910       required. Closes ticket 21842.
  14911 
  14912 
  14913 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
  14914    Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
  14915    from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
  14916    should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
  14917 
  14918   o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14919     - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
  14920       configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
  14921       developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
  14922       better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
  14923       to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
  14924       Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
  14925       repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
  14926       your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
  14927 
  14928   o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  14929     - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
  14930       from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  14931       Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
  14932 
  14933   o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14934     - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
  14935       inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
  14936       handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
  14937       22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
  14938 
  14939   o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14940     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  14941       Country database.
  14942 
  14943   o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
  14944     - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
  14945       rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
  14946       Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
  14947 
  14948   o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14949     - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
  14950       bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  14951     - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
  14952       support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  14953     - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
  14954       avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
  14955       isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
  14956       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  14957 
  14958   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  14959     - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
  14960       in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
  14961       0.2.8.1-alpha.
  14962 
  14963   o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14964     - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
  14965       default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
  14966       instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
  14967       doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
  14968       Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  14969 
  14970   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  14971     - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
  14972       of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
  14973       not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  14974 
  14975   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
  14976     - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
  14977       mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  14978 
  14979   o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
  14980     - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
  14981       Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  14982 
  14983 
  14984 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
  14985   Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
  14986   to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
  14987   relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
  14988   versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
  14989   0.3.1.4-alpha.
  14990 
  14991   This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
  14992   series.
  14993 
  14994   o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
  14995     - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
  14996       family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
  14997       selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
  14998       Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
  14999       006 and CVE-2017-0377.
  15000 
  15001   o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  15002     - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
  15003       can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
  15004       21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
  15005 
  15006   o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
  15007     - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
  15008       unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
  15009       one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  15010 
  15011   o Minor features (geoip):
  15012     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  15013       Country database.
  15014 
  15015   o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  15016     - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
  15017       whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
  15018       parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
  15019       and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  15020 
  15021   o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
  15022     - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
  15023       starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
  15024       permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
  15025       22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  15026 
  15027   o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
  15028     - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
  15029       bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
  15030       still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
  15031       ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
  15032       behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
  15033       sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
  15034       network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
  15035       0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
  15036 
  15037 
  15038 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
  15039   Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
  15040   remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
  15041   running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
  15042   other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
  15043 
  15044   Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
  15045   that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
  15046   bugfixes described below.
  15047 
  15048   o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
  15049     from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
  15050     - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
  15051       handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
  15052       TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  15053     - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
  15054       BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
  15055       22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
  15056       on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  15057 
  15058   o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
  15059     - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
  15060       that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
  15061       connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
  15062       connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
  15063       used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
  15064       make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
  15065       on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  15066 
  15067   o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
  15068     - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
  15069       that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
  15070       whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
  15071       only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
  15072       wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
  15073       other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
  15074       bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  15075     - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
  15076       send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
  15077       used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
  15078       if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
  15079       before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
  15080       on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  15081 
  15082   o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  15083     - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
  15084       did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
  15085       tor-0.3.0.1-alpha.
  15086 
  15087   o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
  15088     - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
  15089       December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
  15090       151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
  15091       2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
  15092 
  15093   o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
  15094     - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
  15095       bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  15096 
  15097   o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
  15098     - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
  15099       file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
  15100 
  15101   o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
  15102     - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
  15103       months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
  15104       Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
  15105       ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
  15106       was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
  15107       mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  15108 
  15109   o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
  15110     0.3.1.2-alpha):
  15111     - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
  15112       keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
  15113       memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  15114 
  15115 
  15116 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
  15117   Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
  15118   remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
  15119   running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
  15120   other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
  15121   are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
  15122 
  15123   Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
  15124   that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
  15125   bugfixes described below.
  15126 
  15127   o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
  15128     from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
  15129     - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
  15130       BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
  15131       22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
  15132       on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  15133 
  15134   o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
  15135     - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
  15136       that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
  15137       connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
  15138       connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
  15139       used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
  15140       make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
  15141       on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  15142 
  15143   o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
  15144     - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
  15145       December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
  15146       151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
  15147       2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
  15148 
  15149   o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
  15150     - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
  15151       they are listed as "published in the future".  This change will
  15152       eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
  15153       in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
  15154       resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
  15155       Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
  15156 
  15157   o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
  15158     - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
  15159       0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
  15160       suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
  15161       up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
  15162 
  15163   o Minor features (geoip):
  15164     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  15165       Country database.
  15166 
  15167   o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
  15168     - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
  15169       of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
  15170       refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  15171 
  15172   o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
  15173     - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
  15174       file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
  15175 
  15176   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
  15177     - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
  15178       sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
  15179       libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
  15180       syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
  15181       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  15182 
  15183   o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
  15184     from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
  15185     - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
  15186       keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
  15187       memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  15188 
  15189 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
  15190   Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
  15191   remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
  15192   running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
  15193   other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005.  (Versions before 0.3.0
  15194   are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
  15195 
  15196   o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
  15197     - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
  15198       BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
  15199       22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
  15200       on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  15201 
  15202   o Minor features (geoip):
  15203     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  15204       Country database.
  15205 
  15206   o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
  15207     - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
  15208       December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
  15209       151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
  15210       2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
  15211 
  15212   o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  15213     - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
  15214       file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
  15215 
  15216 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
  15217   Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
  15218   remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
  15219   running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
  15220   other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005.  (Versions before 0.3.0
  15221   are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
  15222 
  15223   o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
  15224     - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
  15225       BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
  15226       22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
  15227       on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  15228 
  15229   o Minor features (geoip):
  15230     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  15231       Country database.
  15232 
  15233   o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  15234     - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
  15235       file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
  15236 
  15237 
  15238 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
  15239   Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
  15240   remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
  15241   running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
  15242   other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005.  (Versions before 0.3.0
  15243   are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
  15244 
  15245   o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
  15246     - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
  15247       BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
  15248       22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
  15249       on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  15250 
  15251   o Minor features (geoip):
  15252     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  15253       Country database.
  15254 
  15255   o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  15256     - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
  15257       file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
  15258 
  15259 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
  15260   Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
  15261   remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
  15262   running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
  15263   other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005.  (Versions before 0.3.0
  15264   are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
  15265 
  15266   o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
  15267     - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
  15268       BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
  15269       22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
  15270       on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  15271 
  15272   o Minor features (geoip):
  15273     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  15274       Country database.
  15275 
  15276   o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  15277     - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
  15278       file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
  15279 
  15280 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
  15281   Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
  15282   remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
  15283   running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
  15284   other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005.  (Versions before 0.3.0
  15285   are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
  15286 
  15287   o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
  15288     - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
  15289       BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
  15290       22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
  15291       on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  15292 
  15293   o Minor features (geoip):
  15294     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  15295       Country database.
  15296 
  15297   o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  15298     - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
  15299       file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
  15300 
  15301 
  15302 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
  15303   Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
  15304   of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
  15305   to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
  15306   clients are not affected.
  15307 
  15308   o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
  15309     - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
  15310       could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
  15311       exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
  15312       should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
  15313       Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  15314 
  15315   o Minor features:
  15316     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  15317       Country database.
  15318 
  15319   o Minor features (future-proofing):
  15320     - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
  15321       if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
  15322       eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
  15323       in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
  15324       resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
  15325       Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
  15326 
  15327   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  15328     - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
  15329       sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
  15330       libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
  15331       syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
  15332       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  15333 
  15334 
  15335 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
  15336   Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
  15337 
  15338   With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
  15339   authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
  15340   RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
  15341   Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
  15342   the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
  15343   in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
  15344   capture attacks.
  15345 
  15346   This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
  15347   along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
  15348 
  15349   Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
  15350   release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
  15351   after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
  15352   longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
  15353   that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
  15354 
  15355   Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
  15356   since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
  15357 
  15358   o Major features (directory authority, security):
  15359     - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
  15360       will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
  15361       seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
  15362 
  15363   o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
  15364     - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
  15365       ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
  15366       sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
  15367       hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
  15368       ticket 19877.
  15369 
  15370   o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
  15371     - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
  15372       prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
  15373       don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
  15374       initial code by Alec Heifetz.
  15375     - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
  15376       can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
  15377       generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
  15378       ticket 17238.
  15379 
  15380   o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
  15381     - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
  15382       cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
  15383       parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
  15384       testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
  15385       might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
  15386       generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
  15387       15056; part of proposal 220.
  15388     - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
  15389       Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
  15390       an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
  15391       other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
  15392       of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
  15393     - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
  15394       one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
  15395       secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
  15396       Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
  15397       ticket 15055.
  15398 
  15399   o Major features (security):
  15400     - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
  15401       side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
  15402       DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
  15403       Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
  15404       values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
  15405       hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
  15406 
  15407   o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
  15408     - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
  15409       socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
  15410       could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
  15411       introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
  15412       eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
  15413       mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
  15414       warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
  15415       remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
  15416       negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
  15417       bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  15418 
  15419   o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
  15420     - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
  15421       linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
  15422       21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
  15423 
  15424   o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
  15425     - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
  15426       clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
  15427       too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
  15428       on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  15429 
  15430   o Major bugfixes (DNS):
  15431     - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
  15432       more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  15433 
  15434   o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
  15435     - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
  15436       any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
  15437       exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
  15438       addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
  15439       which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
  15440       21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  15441 
  15442   o Major bugfixes (parsing):
  15443     - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  15444       versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  15445       --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  15446       0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  15447       it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  15448       on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  15449     - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
  15450       message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
  15451       potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
  15452       relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
  15453       bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
  15454       which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
  15455       Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
  15456       using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
  15457 
  15458   o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
  15459     - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
  15460       caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
  15461       rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
  15462       Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  15463 
  15464   o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
  15465     - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
  15466       --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
  15467       like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
  15468       on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
  15469       into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
  15470       bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  15471 
  15472   o Minor feature (client):
  15473     - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
  15474       a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
  15475 
  15476   o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
  15477     - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
  15478       if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
  15479       20174. Patch by haxxpop.
  15480 
  15481   o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
  15482     - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
  15483       version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
  15484 
  15485   o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
  15486     - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
  15487       chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
  15488     - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
  15489       preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
  15490 
  15491   o Minor features (controller):
  15492     - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
  15493       shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
  15494     - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
  15495       rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
  15496       Ivan Markin.
  15497 
  15498   o Minor features (controller, configuration):
  15499     - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
  15500       and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
  15501       to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
  15502       change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
  15503       each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
  15504     - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
  15505       meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
  15506       to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
  15507       in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
  15508 
  15509   o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
  15510     - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
  15511       download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
  15512       bug 20593.
  15513 
  15514   o Minor features (directory authorities):
  15515     - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
  15516       malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
  15517       bug 21278.
  15518     - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
  15519       Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
  15520       Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  15521 
  15522   o Minor features (directory authority):
  15523     - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
  15524       default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
  15525       by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
  15526       releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
  15527       protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
  15528 
  15529   o Minor features (directory cache):
  15530     - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
  15531       have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
  15532       ticket 20511.
  15533 
  15534   o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
  15535     - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
  15536       subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
  15537       relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
  15538 
  15539   o Minor features (entry guards):
  15540     - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
  15541       break regression tests.
  15542     - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
  15543       sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
  15544 
  15545   o Minor features (fallback directories):
  15546     - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
  15547       are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
  15548     - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
  15549       weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
  15550     - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
  15551       fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
  15552     - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
  15553       Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
  15554       known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
  15555       a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
  15556       Closes ticket 20539.
  15557     - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
  15558       Closes ticket 20822.
  15559     - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
  15560       ticket 18828.
  15561     - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
  15562       7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
  15563       Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
  15564       18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
  15565       this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
  15566       in 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  15567     - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
  15568       decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
  15569       clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
  15570       authority. Part of ticket 18828.
  15571     - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
  15572       ticket 20881.
  15573 
  15574   o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
  15575     - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
  15576       2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
  15577       secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
  15578 
  15579   o Minor features (geoip):
  15580     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  15581       Country database.
  15582 
  15583   o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
  15584     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  15585       Country database.
  15586 
  15587   o Minor features (infrastructure):
  15588     - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
  15589       smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
  15590 
  15591   o Minor features (linting):
  15592     - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
  15593       prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
  15594 
  15595   o Minor features (logging):
  15596     - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
  15597       rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
  15598 
  15599   o Minor features (portability, compilation):
  15600     - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
  15601       instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
  15602       of ticket 21359.
  15603     - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
  15604       structures. Closes ticket 21359.
  15605 
  15606   o Minor features (relay):
  15607     - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
  15608       source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
  15609       OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
  15610       Written by Michael Sonntag.
  15611 
  15612   o Minor features (reliability, crash):
  15613     - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
  15614       think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
  15615       bug 21369.
  15616 
  15617   o Minor features (testing):
  15618     - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
  15619       chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
  15620       the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
  15621 
  15622   o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
  15623     - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
  15624       protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
  15625       breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
  15626       ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
  15627       bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
  15628     - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
  15629       of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
  15630       refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  15631 
  15632   o Minor bugfix (logging):
  15633     - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
  15634       Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
  15635       anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
  15636       who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
  15637       on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  15638 
  15639   o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
  15640     - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
  15641       19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
  15642       Hans Jerry Illikainen.
  15643 
  15644   o Minor bugfixes (build):
  15645     - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
  15646       prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
  15647       on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  15648 
  15649   o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
  15650     - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
  15651       time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
  15652 
  15653   o Minor bugfixes (client):
  15654     - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
  15655       attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
  15656       bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  15657     - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
  15658       disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
  15659       use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
  15660 
  15661   o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  15662     - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
  15663       comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
  15664 
  15665   o Minor bugfixes (config):
  15666     - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
  15667       LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
  15668       options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
  15669       bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  15670 
  15671   o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
  15672     - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
  15673       the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  15674     - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
  15675       "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
  15676       supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
  15677 
  15678   o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
  15679     - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
  15680       --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
  15681       daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
  15682       makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
  15683       heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
  15684       message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
  15685       on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  15686 
  15687   o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
  15688     - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
  15689       of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
  15690       the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
  15691       Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
  15692 
  15693   o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
  15694     - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
  15695       bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
  15696       5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  15697 
  15698   o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
  15699     - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
  15700       options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
  15701       regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
  15702       bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  15703 
  15704   o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
  15705     - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
  15706       when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
  15707       FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
  15708       Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  15709 
  15710   o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
  15711     - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
  15712       relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
  15713       connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  15714     - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
  15715       missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
  15716       local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
  15717       on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  15718 
  15719   o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
  15720     - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
  15721       rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
  15722       in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
  15723       6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  15724     - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
  15725       certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
  15726       whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
  15727       on all recent tor versions.
  15728 
  15729   o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
  15730     - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
  15731       be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
  15732 
  15733   o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
  15734     - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
  15735       time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  15736 
  15737   o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
  15738     - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
  15739       OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
  15740       prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
  15741       bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
  15742     - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
  15743       Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
  15744     - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
  15745       updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  15746 
  15747   o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
  15748     - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
  15749       circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
  15750       introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
  15751       points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  15752     - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
  15753       closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
  15754       Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  15755     - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
  15756       because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
  15757       value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
  15758       on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  15759 
  15760   o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  15761     - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
  15762       even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
  15763       Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
  15764     - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
  15765       failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
  15766       wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
  15767       21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
  15768     - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
  15769       start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
  15770       bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
  15771       and earlier.
  15772 
  15773   o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
  15774     - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
  15775       server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  15776     - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
  15777       consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
  15778       coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
  15779       bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
  15780       20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
  15781 
  15782   o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
  15783     - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
  15784       RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
  15785       on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  15786 
  15787   o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
  15788     - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
  15789       than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  15790 
  15791   o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  15792     - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
  15793       It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
  15794       variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
  15795       on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  15796 
  15797   o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
  15798     - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
  15799       CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
  15800       without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
  15801       on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  15802     - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
  15803       installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  15804 
  15805   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  15806     - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
  15807       receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
  15808       on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  15809     - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
  15810       initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
  15811       instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
  15812       Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
  15813 
  15814   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  15815     - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
  15816       test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
  15817     - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
  15818       its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  15819     - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
  15820       call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
  15821       bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  15822 
  15823   o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
  15824     - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
  15825       characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
  15826       which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  15827       Patch by "junglefowl".
  15828 
  15829   o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
  15830     - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
  15831       addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
  15832       bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
  15833       through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  15834 
  15835   o Minor bugfixes (util):
  15836     - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
  15837       the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
  15838       replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
  15839       Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
  15840 
  15841   o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
  15842     - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
  15843       it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
  15844       on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  15845 
  15846   o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
  15847     - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
  15848       compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
  15849       0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
  15850 
  15851   o Code simplification and refactoring:
  15852     - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
  15853       guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
  15854       Closes ticket 19858.
  15855     - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
  15856     - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
  15857       service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
  15858       directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
  15859     - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
  15860     - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
  15861       testability. Closes ticket 18873.
  15862     - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
  15863       separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
  15864     - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
  15865       switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
  15866     - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
  15867       is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
  15868     - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
  15869       objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
  15870       redundant with the similar structures used in the
  15871       channel abstraction.
  15872     - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
  15873       Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
  15874     - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
  15875       use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
  15876     - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
  15877       replaced with code automatically generated by the
  15878       "trunnel" utility.
  15879 
  15880   o Documentation (formatting):
  15881     - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
  15882       blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
  15883 
  15884   o Documentation (man page):
  15885     - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
  15886       HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
  15887 
  15888   o Documentation:
  15889     - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
  15890       comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
  15891       from pastly.
  15892     - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
  15893       is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
  15894       network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
  15895       ticket 17070.
  15896     - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
  15897       250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
  15898     - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
  15899       20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  15900     - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
  15901     - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
  15902       must already exist. Fixes 20486.
  15903     - Update the description of the directory server options in the
  15904       manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
  15905       DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
  15906 
  15907   o Removed features:
  15908     - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
  15909       limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
  15910       addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
  15911       ticket 20960.
  15912     - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
  15913       that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
  15914       proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
  15915 
  15916   o Testing:
  15917     - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
  15918     - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
  15919     - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
  15920       test functions.
  15921     - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
  15922       from "overcaffeinated".
  15923     - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
  15924       when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
  15925 
  15926 
  15927 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
  15928   Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
  15929   releases.  Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
  15930   this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
  15931   release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
  15932   option.
  15933 
  15934   Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
  15935   any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018.  If you need
  15936   a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
  15937 
  15938   o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
  15939     - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  15940       versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  15941       --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  15942       0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  15943       it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  15944       on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  15945 
  15946   o Minor features (geoip):
  15947     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  15948       Country database.
  15949 
  15950 
  15951 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
  15952   Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
  15953   releases.  Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
  15954   this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
  15955   release series.
  15956 
  15957   Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
  15958   any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017.  If you need
  15959   a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
  15960 
  15961   o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
  15962     - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
  15963 
  15964   o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
  15965     - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  15966       authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
  15967 
  15968   o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  15969     - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
  15970       it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
  15971       by "teor".
  15972 
  15973   o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
  15974     - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
  15975       byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
  15976       to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
  15977       to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
  15978       hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
  15979       their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
  15980       0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
  15981       2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
  15982 
  15983   o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  15984     - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
  15985       received a query with multiple address types, and the first
  15986       address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
  15987       Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  15988     - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
  15989       of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
  15990       least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
  15991       versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
  15992       most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
  15993       hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
  15994       though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
  15995       20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
  15996 
  15997   o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  15998     - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
  15999       a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
  16000       bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
  16001       Reported by Guido Vranken.
  16002 
  16003   o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  16004     - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
  16005       bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  16006 
  16007   o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  16008     - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
  16009       pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
  16010       should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
  16011       running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
  16012       if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
  16013       0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
  16014       Baishakhi Ray.
  16015 
  16016   o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
  16017     - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  16018       versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  16019       --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  16020       0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  16021       it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  16022       on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  16023 
  16024   o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  16025     - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
  16026       zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
  16027       bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
  16028       patch by "teor".
  16029 
  16030   o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  16031     - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
  16032       corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
  16033       assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
  16034 
  16035   o Minor features (geoip):
  16036     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  16037       Country database.
  16038 
  16039 
  16040 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
  16041   Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
  16042   releases.  Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
  16043   this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
  16044   release series.
  16045 
  16046   Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
  16047   any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017.  If you need
  16048   a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
  16049 
  16050   o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
  16051     - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
  16052 
  16053   o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
  16054     - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  16055       authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
  16056 
  16057   o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  16058     - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
  16059       it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
  16060       by "teor".
  16061 
  16062   o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
  16063     - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
  16064       of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
  16065       least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
  16066       versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
  16067       most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
  16068       hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
  16069       though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
  16070       20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
  16071 
  16072   o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
  16073     - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
  16074       byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
  16075       to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
  16076       to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
  16077       hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
  16078       their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
  16079       0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
  16080       2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
  16081 
  16082   o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  16083     - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
  16084       received a query with multiple address types, and the first
  16085       address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
  16086       Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  16087 
  16088   o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
  16089     - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
  16090       beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
  16091       Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
  16092       systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
  16093       on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  16094 
  16095   o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  16096     - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
  16097       a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
  16098       bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
  16099       Reported by Guido Vranken.
  16100 
  16101   o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  16102     - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
  16103       bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  16104 
  16105   o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
  16106     - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
  16107       guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
  16108       accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
  16109       flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
  16110       performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
  16111       by Mohsen Imani.
  16112 
  16113   o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  16114     - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
  16115       pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
  16116       should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
  16117       running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
  16118       if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
  16119       0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
  16120       Baishakhi Ray.
  16121 
  16122   o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
  16123     - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  16124       versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  16125       --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  16126       0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  16127       it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  16128       on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  16129 
  16130   o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  16131     - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
  16132       zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
  16133       bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
  16134       patch by "teor".
  16135 
  16136   o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  16137     - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
  16138       corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
  16139       assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
  16140 
  16141   o Minor features (geoip):
  16142     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  16143       Country database.
  16144 
  16145   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
  16146     - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
  16147       presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
  16148 
  16149 
  16150 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
  16151   Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
  16152   releases.  Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
  16153   this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
  16154   release series.
  16155 
  16156   Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
  16157   any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018.  If you need
  16158   a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
  16159 
  16160   o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
  16161     - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
  16162 
  16163   o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
  16164     - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  16165       authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
  16166 
  16167   o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  16168     - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
  16169       it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
  16170       by "teor".
  16171 
  16172   o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
  16173     - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
  16174       of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
  16175       least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
  16176       versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
  16177       most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
  16178       hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
  16179       though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
  16180       20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
  16181 
  16182   o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
  16183     - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
  16184       byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
  16185       to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
  16186       to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
  16187       hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
  16188       their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
  16189       0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
  16190       2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
  16191 
  16192   o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  16193     - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
  16194       received a query with multiple address types, and the first
  16195       address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
  16196       Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  16197 
  16198   o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
  16199     - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
  16200       beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
  16201       Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
  16202       systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
  16203       on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  16204 
  16205   o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  16206     - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
  16207       a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
  16208       bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
  16209       Reported by Guido Vranken.
  16210 
  16211   o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  16212     - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
  16213       bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  16214 
  16215   o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
  16216     - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
  16217       guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
  16218       accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
  16219       flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
  16220       performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
  16221       by Mohsen Imani.
  16222 
  16223   o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  16224     - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
  16225       pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
  16226       should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
  16227       running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
  16228       if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
  16229       0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
  16230       Baishakhi Ray.
  16231 
  16232   o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
  16233     - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  16234       versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  16235       --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  16236       0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  16237       it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  16238       on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  16239 
  16240   o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  16241     - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
  16242       zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
  16243       bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
  16244       patch by "teor".
  16245 
  16246   o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  16247     - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
  16248       corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
  16249       assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
  16250 
  16251   o Minor features (geoip):
  16252     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  16253       Country database.
  16254 
  16255   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
  16256     - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
  16257       presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
  16258 
  16259   o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
  16260     - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
  16261       A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
  16262       uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
  16263       its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
  16264       when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
  16265 
  16266   o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
  16267     - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
  16268       a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
  16269       on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  16270 
  16271 
  16272 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
  16273   Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
  16274   releases.  Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
  16275   this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
  16276   release series.
  16277 
  16278   Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
  16279   any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017.  If you need
  16280   a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
  16281 
  16282   o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
  16283     - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
  16284 
  16285   o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
  16286     - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  16287       authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
  16288 
  16289   o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  16290     - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
  16291       it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
  16292       by "teor".
  16293 
  16294   o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
  16295     - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
  16296       of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
  16297       least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
  16298       versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
  16299       most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
  16300       hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
  16301       though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
  16302       20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
  16303 
  16304   o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
  16305     - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
  16306       byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
  16307       to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
  16308       to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
  16309       hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
  16310       their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
  16311       0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
  16312       2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
  16313 
  16314   o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
  16315     - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
  16316       beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
  16317       Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
  16318       systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
  16319       on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  16320 
  16321   o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  16322     - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
  16323       a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
  16324       bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
  16325       Reported by Guido Vranken.
  16326 
  16327   o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  16328     - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
  16329       bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  16330 
  16331   o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
  16332     - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
  16333       guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
  16334       accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
  16335       flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
  16336       performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
  16337       by Mohsen Imani.
  16338 
  16339   o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  16340     - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
  16341       pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
  16342       should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
  16343       running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
  16344       if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
  16345       0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
  16346       Baishakhi Ray.
  16347 
  16348   o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
  16349     - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  16350       versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  16351       --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  16352       0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  16353       it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  16354       on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  16355 
  16356   o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  16357     - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
  16358       zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
  16359       bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
  16360       patch by "teor".
  16361 
  16362   o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  16363     - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
  16364       corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
  16365       assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
  16366 
  16367   o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
  16368     - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
  16369       introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
  16370       same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
  16371 
  16372   o Minor features (geoip):
  16373     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  16374       Country database.
  16375 
  16376   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
  16377     - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
  16378       presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
  16379 
  16380   o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
  16381     - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
  16382       a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
  16383       on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  16384 
  16385 
  16386 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
  16387   Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release.  It also
  16388   includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
  16389   LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
  16390 
  16391   The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
  16392   series.  We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
  16393   least January of 2020.
  16394 
  16395   o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
  16396     - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
  16397       clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
  16398       too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
  16399       on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  16400 
  16401   o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
  16402     - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
  16403       any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
  16404       exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
  16405       addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
  16406       which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
  16407       21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  16408 
  16409   o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
  16410     - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  16411       versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  16412       --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  16413       0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  16414       it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  16415       on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  16416 
  16417   o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
  16418     - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
  16419       malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
  16420       bug 21278.
  16421     - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
  16422       Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
  16423       Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  16424 
  16425   o Minor features (geoip):
  16426     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  16427       Country database.
  16428 
  16429   o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
  16430     - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
  16431       instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
  16432       of ticket 21359.
  16433     - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
  16434       structures. Closes ticket 21359.
  16435 
  16436   o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
  16437     - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
  16438       comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
  16439 
  16440   o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
  16441     - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
  16442       characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
  16443       which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  16444       Patch by "junglefowl".
  16445 
  16446 
  16447 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
  16448   Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
  16449   cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
  16450   the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
  16451   versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
  16452   version should upgrade.
  16453 
  16454   This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
  16455   bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
  16456 
  16457   o Major bugfixes (security):
  16458     - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
  16459       --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
  16460       like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
  16461       it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
  16462       into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
  16463       bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  16464 
  16465   o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
  16466     - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
  16467       socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
  16468       could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
  16469       introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
  16470       eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
  16471       mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
  16472       warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
  16473       remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
  16474       negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
  16475       bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  16476 
  16477   o Minor features (geoip):
  16478     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  16479       Country database.
  16480 
  16481   o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  16482     - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
  16483       CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
  16484       without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
  16485       on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  16486     - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
  16487       installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  16488 
  16489 
  16490 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
  16491   Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
  16492   below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
  16493   hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
  16494   become available for their systems.
  16495 
  16496   It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
  16497   from 0.2.9.
  16498 
  16499   Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
  16500   backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
  16501 
  16502   o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
  16503     - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
  16504       byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
  16505       to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
  16506       to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
  16507       hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
  16508       their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
  16509       0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
  16510       2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
  16511 
  16512   o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
  16513     - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
  16514       introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
  16515       fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
  16516       2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
  16517 
  16518   o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
  16519     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  16520       Country database.
  16521 
  16522 
  16523 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
  16524   Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
  16525 
  16526   The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
  16527   that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
  16528   randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
  16529   hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
  16530   optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
  16531   tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
  16532   downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
  16533   improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
  16534 
  16535   And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
  16536 
  16537   This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
  16538   21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
  16539   hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
  16540   become available for their systems.
  16541 
  16542   Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11.  For a list of
  16543   changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
  16544 
  16545   o New system requirements:
  16546     - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
  16547       later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
  16548       OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
  16549     - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
  16550       versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
  16551       platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
  16552       DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
  16553     - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
  16554       efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
  16555       zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
  16556       released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
  16557 
  16558   o Deprecated features:
  16559     - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
  16560       deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
  16561       version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
  16562       idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
  16563       are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
  16564       UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
  16565     - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
  16566       be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
  16567       AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
  16568       AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
  16569       CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
  16570       CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
  16571       ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
  16572       UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
  16573     - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
  16574       corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
  16575       may someday be removed. The affected options are:
  16576       ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
  16577       NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
  16578       and TransListenAddress.
  16579 
  16580   o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
  16581     - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
  16582       byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
  16583       to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
  16584       to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
  16585       hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
  16586       their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
  16587       0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
  16588       2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
  16589 
  16590   o Major features (build, hardening):
  16591     - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
  16592       it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
  16593       and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
  16594       code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
  16595       instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
  16596     - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
  16597       clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
  16598       Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
  16599       able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
  16600 
  16601   o Major features (circuit building, security):
  16602     - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
  16603       descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
  16604       cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
  16605       ticket 19163.
  16606     - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
  16607       rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
  16608 
  16609   o Major features (compilation):
  16610     - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
  16611       building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
  16612       GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
  16613       errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
  16614       ticket 19044.
  16615     - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
  16616       turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
  16617       this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
  16618 
  16619   o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
  16620     - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
  16621       protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
  16622       authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
  16623       future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
  16624       HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
  16625       the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
  16626       of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
  16627 
  16628   o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
  16629     - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
  16630       for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
  16631       retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
  16632       prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
  16633       or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
  16634       download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
  16635 
  16636   o Major features (resource management):
  16637     - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
  16638       preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
  16639       off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
  16640       yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
  16641       "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
  16642       you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
  16643 
  16644   o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
  16645     - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
  16646       HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
  16647       every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
  16648       Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
  16649       connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
  16650       circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
  16651       remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
  16652       hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
  16653       network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
  16654       proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
  16655 
  16656   o Major features (subprotocol versions):
  16657     - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
  16658       "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
  16659       versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
  16660       subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
  16661       _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
  16662       This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
  16663       to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
  16664       particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
  16665       part of proposal 264.
  16666 
  16667   o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
  16668     - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
  16669       point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
  16670       epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
  16671 
  16672   o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
  16673     - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
  16674       already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
  16675       bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  16676     - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
  16677       download, stop waiting for certificates.
  16678     - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
  16679       started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
  16680       failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
  16681       on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  16682     - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
  16683       exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
  16684       networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
  16685 
  16686   o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
  16687     - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
  16688       bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
  16689       by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
  16690       these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
  16691       ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
  16692       0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
  16693 
  16694   o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  16695     - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
  16696       FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
  16697       disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
  16698       entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
  16699     - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
  16700       their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
  16701       an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
  16702       could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
  16703       20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
  16704 
  16705   o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
  16706     - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
  16707       local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
  16708       will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
  16709       log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
  16710       is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  16711 
  16712   o Minor features (port flags):
  16713     - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
  16714       requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
  16715       and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
  16716       NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
  16717       18693; patch by "teor".
  16718 
  16719   o Minor features (build, hardening):
  16720     - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
  16721       clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
  16722       keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
  16723     - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
  16724       hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
  16725       time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
  16726       expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
  16727       Closes ticket 18895.
  16728 
  16729   o Minor features (client, directory):
  16730     - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
  16731       Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
  16732       have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
  16733       proposal 272.
  16734 
  16735   o Minor features (code safety):
  16736     - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
  16737       allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
  16738       patch from "U+039b".
  16739 
  16740   o Minor features (compilation, portability):
  16741     - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
  16742       ticket 20241.
  16743 
  16744   o Minor features (config):
  16745     - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
  16746       Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
  16747 
  16748   o Minor features (controller):
  16749     - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
  16750       hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
  16751       command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
  16752     - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
  16753       status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
  16754     - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
  16755       download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
  16756       examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
  16757 
  16758   o Minor features (development tools, etags):
  16759     - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
  16760       "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
  16761       ticket 16869.
  16762 
  16763   o Minor features (directory authority):
  16764     - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
  16765       "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
  16766       ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
  16767     - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
  16768       they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
  16769       simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
  16770       in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
  16771       Implements ticket 18624.
  16772     - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
  16773       disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
  16774       votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
  16775       ticket 19036.
  16776 
  16777   o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
  16778     - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
  16779       introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
  16780       fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
  16781       2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
  16782 
  16783   o Minor features (hidden service):
  16784     - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
  16785       cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
  16786       now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
  16787       ticket 18998.
  16788 
  16789   o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
  16790     - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
  16791       efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
  16792       timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
  16793       analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
  16794       project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
  16795       Closes ticket 18365.
  16796     - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
  16797       available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
  16798       look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
  16799       clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
  16800 
  16801   o Minor features (logging):
  16802     - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
  16803       use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
  16804       needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
  16805     - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
  16806       invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
  16807     - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
  16808       in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
  16809       limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
  16810       MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
  16811       setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
  16812 
  16813   o Minor features (performance):
  16814     - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
  16815       "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
  16816       consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
  16817       first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
  16818       from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
  16819       Closes ticket 18815.
  16820 
  16821   o Minor features (relay, usability):
  16822     - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
  16823       encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
  16824       won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
  16825       learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
  16826       ticket 18760.
  16827 
  16828   o Minor features (security, TLS):
  16829     - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
  16830       (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
  16831       that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
  16832       OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
  16833 
  16834   o Minor features (testing):
  16835     - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
  16836       tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
  16837       behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
  16838       from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
  16839     - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
  16840       network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
  16841       Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
  16842     - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
  16843       we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
  16844       Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
  16845       ticket 16792.
  16846     - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
  16847       handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
  16848     - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
  16849       prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
  16850       (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
  16851       binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
  16852       messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
  16853       ticket 19999.
  16854     - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
  16855       Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
  16856       help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
  16857       only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
  16858       there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
  16859       This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
  16860     - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
  16861       assertion as a test failure.
  16862     - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
  16863 
  16864   o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
  16865     - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
  16866       tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
  16867       requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
  16868       relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
  16869     - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
  16870       "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
  16871       with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
  16872       Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
  16873 
  16874   o Minor features (Tor2web):
  16875     - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
  16876       inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
  16877       0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
  16878 
  16879   o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
  16880     - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
  16881       ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
  16882       quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
  16883       domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
  16884 
  16885   o Minor features (user interface):
  16886     - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
  16887       that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
  16888       was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
  16889       command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
  16890       ticket 19820.
  16891 
  16892   o Minor features (virtual addresses):
  16893     - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
  16894       prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
  16895       allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
  16896       on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  16897 
  16898   o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
  16899     - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
  16900       LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
  16901       the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
  16902       because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
  16903       0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
  16904 
  16905   o Minor bugfixes (build):
  16906     - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
  16907       now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
  16908       bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  16909 
  16910   o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
  16911     - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
  16912       more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
  16913       time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
  16914       Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
  16915 
  16916   o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
  16917     - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
  16918       avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
  16919       space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
  16920       bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
  16921 
  16922   o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
  16923     - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
  16924       certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
  16925       certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
  16926       Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  16927 
  16928   o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
  16929     - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
  16930       Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  16931 
  16932   o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
  16933     - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
  16934       is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  16935 
  16936   o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
  16937     - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
  16938       the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
  16939       on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  16940 
  16941   o Minor bugfixes (code style):
  16942     - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
  16943       tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
  16944 
  16945   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  16946     - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
  16947       evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
  16948       on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  16949     - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
  16950       (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
  16951       detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  16952     - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
  16953       libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
  16954       19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
  16955     - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
  16956       require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
  16957 
  16958   o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
  16959     - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
  16960       handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
  16961       0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
  16962 
  16963   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
  16964     - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
  16965       of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
  16966       Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  16967     - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
  16968       the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
  16969       avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
  16970       key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  16971     - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
  16972       private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
  16973       on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  16974     - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
  16975       the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
  16976       order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
  16977       length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  16978 
  16979   o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
  16980     - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
  16981       to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
  16982       19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
  16983       by nherring.
  16984 
  16985   o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
  16986     - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
  16987       That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
  16988       anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
  16989       on 0.2.3.10-alpha.
  16990     - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
  16991       parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
  16992       on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
  16993 
  16994   o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  16995     - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
  16996       build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
  16997       connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
  16998       on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  16999     - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
  17000       IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
  17001       on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  17002     - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
  17003       error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
  17004       0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
  17005     - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
  17006       even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
  17007       on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  17008     - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
  17009       directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
  17010       hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  17011 
  17012   o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
  17013     - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
  17014       Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
  17015 
  17016   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  17017     - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
  17018       calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
  17019       ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
  17020       "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
  17021       systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  17022 
  17023   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  17024     - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
  17025       pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
  17026       bug 19926.
  17027     - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
  17028       Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
  17029     - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
  17030       username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
  17031     - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
  17032       if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
  17033       Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
  17034 
  17035   o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
  17036     - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
  17037       and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  17038     - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
  17039       rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  17040     - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
  17041       SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  17042     - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
  17043       existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
  17044       destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
  17045     - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
  17046       from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
  17047       0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  17048     - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
  17049       truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
  17050       on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  17051 
  17052   o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
  17053     - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
  17054       NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
  17055       options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
  17056       behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
  17057       0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
  17058 
  17059   o Minor bugfixes (options):
  17060     - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
  17061       reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
  17062       by teor.
  17063     - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
  17064       authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
  17065       commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
  17066       Patch by teor.
  17067 
  17068   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  17069     - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
  17070       Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  17071     - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
  17072       explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
  17073       16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  17074 
  17075   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  17076     - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
  17077       the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
  17078       "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
  17079       patch from "cypherpunks".
  17080     - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
  17081       bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
  17082     - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
  17083       cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  17084     - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
  17085       disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
  17086       test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
  17087       generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
  17088       on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  17089     - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
  17090       correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
  17091       on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  17092     - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
  17093       unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
  17094       Neel Chauhan.
  17095     - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
  17096       removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
  17097       platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  17098     - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
  17099       debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
  17100       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  17101 
  17102   o Minor bugfixes (time):
  17103     - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
  17104       bugfix on all released tor versions.
  17105     - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
  17106       we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
  17107       could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
  17108       bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  17109 
  17110   o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
  17111     - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
  17112       are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
  17113       19678. Patch by teor.
  17114 
  17115   o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
  17116     - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
  17117       rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
  17118       in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
  17119       rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
  17120       on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
  17121     - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
  17122       Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  17123 
  17124   o Code simplification and refactoring:
  17125     - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
  17126       ticket 18889.
  17127     - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
  17128       Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
  17129     - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
  17130       separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
  17131 
  17132   o Documentation:
  17133     - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
  17134       previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
  17135     - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
  17136       VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
  17137     - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
  17138       corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
  17139     - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
  17140       ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
  17141     - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
  17142       tickets 19287 and 19290.
  17143     - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
  17144       19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  17145     - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
  17146       by clients when the directory authorities don't set
  17147       min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  17148       Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
  17149     - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
  17150       Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
  17151       a manpage!).
  17152     - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
  17153       tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
  17154       file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
  17155       descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
  17156 
  17157   o Removed code:
  17158     - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
  17159       Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
  17160 
  17161   o Removed features:
  17162     - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
  17163       "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
  17164       via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
  17165       0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
  17166     - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
  17167       TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
  17168       from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
  17169 
  17170   o Testing:
  17171     - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
  17172       previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
  17173       command-line options to enable them.
  17174     - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
  17175       bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
  17176 
  17177 
  17178 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
  17179   Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
  17180   could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
  17181   OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
  17182   with 0.2.8.10.
  17183 
  17184   o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  17185     - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
  17186       to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
  17187       a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
  17188       workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
  17189       monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
  17190       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  17191 
  17192   o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
  17193     - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
  17194       architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
  17195 
  17196 
  17197 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
  17198   Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
  17199   unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
  17200   a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
  17201 
  17202   o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
  17203     - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
  17204       circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
  17205       potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
  17206       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  17207 
  17208   o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
  17209     - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
  17210       when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
  17211       starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
  17212       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  17213 
  17214   o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
  17215     - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
  17216       successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
  17217       ticket 20235.
  17218 
  17219   o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
  17220     - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
  17221       20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  17222 
  17223   o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
  17224     - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
  17225       keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
  17226 
  17227   o Minor features (geoip):
  17228     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  17229       Country database.
  17230 
  17231 
  17232 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
  17233   Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
  17234   of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
  17235   hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
  17236   this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
  17237   versions of Tor.
  17238 
  17239   o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
  17240     - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
  17241       of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
  17242       least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
  17243       versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
  17244       most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
  17245       hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
  17246       though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
  17247       20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
  17248 
  17249   o Minor features (geoip):
  17250     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  17251       Country database.
  17252 
  17253 
  17254 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
  17255   Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
  17256   0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
  17257   who select public relays as their bridges.
  17258 
  17259   o Major bugfixes (crash):
  17260     - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
  17261       configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
  17262       in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
  17263       more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
  17264       Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  17265 
  17266   o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
  17267     - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
  17268       tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
  17269       of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
  17270       0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
  17271       this one.
  17272 
  17273   o Minor feature (fallback directories):
  17274     - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
  17275       list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
  17276 
  17277   o Minor features (geoip):
  17278     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  17279       Country database.
  17280 
  17281 
  17282 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
  17283   Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
  17284   option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
  17285   who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
  17286   encouraged to upgrade.
  17287 
  17288   o Directory authority changes:
  17289     - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  17290       authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
  17291 
  17292   o Major bugfixes (client, security):
  17293     - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
  17294       in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
  17295       every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
  17296       for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
  17297       19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  17298 
  17299   o Minor features (geoip):
  17300     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  17301       Country database.
  17302 
  17303   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  17304     - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
  17305       warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
  17306       on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  17307 
  17308   o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
  17309     - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
  17310       directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
  17311       and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
  17312 
  17313 
  17314 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
  17315 
  17316   Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
  17317 
  17318   The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
  17319   completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
  17320   keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
  17321   improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
  17322   improve the coverage of Tor's test suite.  For a full list of
  17323   changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
  17324 
  17325   Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
  17326 
  17327   o New system requirements:
  17328     - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
  17329       type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
  17330       this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
  17331       ticket 18184.
  17332     - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
  17333       implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
  17334       1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
  17335       longer runs with, these versions.
  17336     - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
  17337       later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
  17338       building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
  17339       distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
  17340       upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
  17341 
  17342   o Directory authority changes:
  17343     - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
  17344       it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
  17345       by teor.
  17346     - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
  17347 
  17348   o Major features (directory system):
  17349     - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
  17350       opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
  17351       bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
  17352       directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
  17353       Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
  17354       gsathya, and karsten.
  17355     - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
  17356       (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
  17357       relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
  17358       directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
  17359       disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
  17360       ticket 12538.
  17361     - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
  17362       first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
  17363       reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
  17364       or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
  17365       should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
  17366       4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
  17367       mikeperry and teor.
  17368 
  17369   o Major features (security, Linux):
  17370     - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
  17371       can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
  17372       Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
  17373       ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
  17374       new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
  17375 
  17376   o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
  17377     - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
  17378       linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
  17379       begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
  17380       connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
  17381     - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
  17382       have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
  17383       for 18809.
  17384     - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
  17385       rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
  17386       ticket 18809.
  17387 
  17388   o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
  17389     - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
  17390       bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  17391 
  17392   o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
  17393     - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
  17394       Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
  17395       some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
  17396       codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
  17397       on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  17398     - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
  17399       include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
  17400       thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
  17401       Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  17402     - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
  17403       entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
  17404       authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
  17405       router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
  17406       keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
  17407       18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  17408 
  17409   o Major bugfixes (key management):
  17410     - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
  17411       pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
  17412       should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
  17413       running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
  17414       if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
  17415       0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
  17416       Baishakhi Ray.
  17417 
  17418   o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
  17419     - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
  17420       received a query with multiple address types, and the first
  17421       address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
  17422       Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  17423 
  17424   o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
  17425     - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
  17426       is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
  17427       cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
  17428       needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
  17429       bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
  17430     - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
  17431       use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
  17432       sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  17433 
  17434   o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
  17435     - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
  17436       a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
  17437       bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
  17438       Reported by Guido Vranken.
  17439 
  17440   o Major bugfixes (testing):
  17441     - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
  17442       IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  17443 
  17444   o Major bugfixes (user interface):
  17445     - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
  17446       by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
  17447       Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  17448 
  17449   o Minor features (accounting):
  17450     - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
  17451       only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
  17452       limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
  17453       Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
  17454 
  17455   o Minor features (bug-resistance):
  17456     - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
  17457       corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
  17458       assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
  17459     - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
  17460       level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
  17461       terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
  17462       with Flawfinder.
  17463 
  17464   o Minor features (build):
  17465     - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
  17466       as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
  17467       Steven Chamberlain.
  17468     - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
  17469       force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
  17470       patch from "cypherpunks".
  17471     - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
  17472       branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
  17473       tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
  17474       numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
  17475       17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
  17476     - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
  17477       output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  17478       Patch from intrigeri.
  17479 
  17480   o Minor features (clients):
  17481     - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
  17482       encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
  17483       ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
  17484 
  17485   o Minor features (controller):
  17486     - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
  17487       controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
  17488       ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
  17489       exit policies.
  17490     - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
  17491       tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
  17492     - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
  17493       service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
  17494       descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
  17495 
  17496   o Minor features (crypto):
  17497     - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
  17498     - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
  17499       George Tankersley.
  17500     - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
  17501       based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
  17502       Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
  17503     - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
  17504       p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
  17505       ticket 18221.
  17506     - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
  17507       we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
  17508       the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
  17509       up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
  17510 
  17511   o Minor features (directory downloads):
  17512     - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
  17513       directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
  17514       fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
  17515     - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
  17516       busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
  17517       for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
  17518       17864; patch by teor.
  17519 
  17520   o Minor features (geoip):
  17521     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  17522       Country database.
  17523 
  17524   o Minor features (hidden service directory):
  17525     - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
  17526       to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
  17527       check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
  17528       "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
  17529 
  17530   o Minor features (IPv6):
  17531     - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
  17532       to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
  17533     - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
  17534       avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
  17535     - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
  17536     - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
  17537       FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
  17538       authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
  17539       directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
  17540       from Nick Mathewson and teor.
  17541     - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
  17542       directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
  17543       ticket 6027.
  17544     - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
  17545     - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
  17546       17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
  17547     - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
  17548       "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
  17549       "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
  17550     - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
  17551       almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
  17552     - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
  17553       17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
  17554 
  17555   o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  17556     - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
  17557       Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
  17558       but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
  17559       while fixing 18548.
  17560 
  17561   o Minor features (logging):
  17562     - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
  17563       identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
  17564       be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
  17565       it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
  17566       ticket 17194.
  17567 
  17568   o Minor features (portability):
  17569     - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
  17570       patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
  17571 
  17572   o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
  17573     - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
  17574       subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
  17575       efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
  17576       types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
  17577       ticket 17950.
  17578     - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
  17579       fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
  17580       API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
  17581       find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
  17582       Resolves ticket 17951.
  17583 
  17584   o Minor features (replay cache):
  17585     - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
  17586       feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
  17587 
  17588   o Minor features (robustness):
  17589     - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
  17590       Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
  17591       frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
  17592 
  17593   o Minor features (security, clock):
  17594     - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
  17595       state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
  17596       consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
  17597       teor. Implements ticket 17188.
  17598 
  17599   o Minor features (security, exit policies):
  17600     - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
  17601       default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
  17602       addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
  17603       addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
  17604       0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
  17605 
  17606   o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
  17607     - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
  17608       zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
  17609       bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
  17610       patch by teor.
  17611     - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
  17612       a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
  17613       Implements ticket 17026.
  17614     - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
  17615       Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
  17616       Implements feature 17986.
  17617     - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
  17618       OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
  17619       from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
  17620 
  17621   o Minor features (security, RNG):
  17622     - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
  17623       positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
  17624       internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
  17625     - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
  17626       seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
  17627       of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
  17628       stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
  17629       entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
  17630     - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
  17631       generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
  17632       ticket 13696.
  17633 
  17634   o Minor features (security, win32):
  17635     - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
  17636       attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
  17637       by teor.
  17638 
  17639   o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
  17640     - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
  17641       Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
  17642       directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
  17643       operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
  17644       However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
  17645       socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
  17646       Patch by weasel.
  17647 
  17648   o Minor features (unix file permissions):
  17649     - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
  17650       needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
  17651       CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
  17652       Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
  17653     - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
  17654       filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
  17655       root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
  17656       need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
  17657       CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
  17658       Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
  17659     - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
  17660       1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
  17661       Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
  17662 
  17663   o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
  17664     - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
  17665       logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
  17666       from "unixninja92".
  17667 
  17668   o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
  17669     - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
  17670       shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
  17671       on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  17672 
  17673   o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
  17674     - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
  17675       certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
  17676 
  17677   o Minor bugfixes (build):
  17678     - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
  17679       exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
  17680       0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  17681     - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
  17682       testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
  17683       on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  17684     - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
  17685       signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
  17686       and 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  17687     - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
  17688       explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
  17689       0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
  17690     - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
  17691       treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
  17692       on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  17693     - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
  17694       lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  17695     - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
  17696       it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
  17697       17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  17698     - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
  17699       on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  17700     - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
  17701       that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
  17702       16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
  17703     - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
  17704       build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  17705     - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
  17706       on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
  17707       17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  17708     - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
  17709       Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  17710     - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
  17711       on 0.0.2pre8.
  17712     - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
  17713       presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
  17714       on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  17715 
  17716   o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
  17717     - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
  17718       bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
  17719       successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
  17720       16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  17721 
  17722   o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  17723     - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
  17724       cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
  17725       queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
  17726       best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
  17727       that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  17728     - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
  17729       according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
  17730       on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
  17731     - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
  17732       bugfix on 0.0.6.
  17733     - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
  17734       avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
  17735       by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
  17736       on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  17737     - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
  17738       have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
  17739       bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  17740 
  17741   o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
  17742     - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
  17743       ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  17744 
  17745   o Minor bugfixes (containers):
  17746     - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
  17747       1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
  17748       the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  17749 
  17750   o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
  17751     - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
  17752       control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
  17753       consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
  17754       bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  17755 
  17756   o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
  17757     - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
  17758       17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
  17759 
  17760   o Minor bugfixes (directories):
  17761     - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
  17762       and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
  17763       us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
  17764       Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
  17765       Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  17766     - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
  17767       wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
  17768       on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
  17769 
  17770   o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
  17771     - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
  17772       we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
  17773       "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
  17774       bug 19191.
  17775 
  17776   o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
  17777     - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
  17778       change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
  17779       configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
  17780       0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
  17781 
  17782   o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
  17783     - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
  17784       rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
  17785       0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
  17786     - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
  17787       server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
  17788       which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
  17789       0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
  17790 
  17791   o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
  17792     - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
  17793       requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
  17794       requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
  17795       directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
  17796       because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
  17797       all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
  17798       The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
  17799       pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
  17800       on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  17801 
  17802   o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
  17803     - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
  17804       both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
  17805       UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  17806 
  17807   o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
  17808     - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
  17809       publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
  17810 
  17811   o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
  17812     - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
  17813       Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  17814 
  17815   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  17816     - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
  17817       sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
  17818       some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
  17819       18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
  17820     - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
  17821       so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
  17822       Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  17823     - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
  17824       syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
  17825       Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  17826     - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
  17827       enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
  17828       start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  17829     - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
  17830       seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  17831     - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
  17832       enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
  17833       0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
  17834 
  17835   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  17836     - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
  17837       instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
  17838       with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
  17839       need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
  17840       der Woerdt.
  17841     - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
  17842       addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  17843     - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
  17844       Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
  17845     - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
  17846       consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
  17847       18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  17848     - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
  17849       set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
  17850       bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  17851     - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
  17852       it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
  17853       on 0.1.1.16-rc.
  17854 
  17855   o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
  17856     - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
  17857       in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
  17858       0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
  17859       by teor.
  17860     - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
  17861       18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  17862     - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
  17863       on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  17864 
  17865   o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
  17866     - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
  17867       to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
  17868       Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
  17869 
  17870   o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
  17871     - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
  17872       heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
  17873       memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
  17874       memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
  17875       Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
  17876       Guido Vranken.
  17877 
  17878   o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
  17879     - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
  17880       part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
  17881       Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
  17882 
  17883   o Minor bugfixes (relays):
  17884     - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
  17885       before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
  17886       descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
  17887       longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
  17888       on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
  17889     - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
  17890       reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
  17891       fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  17892 
  17893   o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
  17894     - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
  17895       ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
  17896       then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
  17897       17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
  17898 
  17899   o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
  17900     - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
  17901       addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
  17902       8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
  17903 
  17904   o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
  17905     - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
  17906       functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
  17907       Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  17908     - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
  17909       zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
  17910       conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
  17911       cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
  17912       on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  17913     - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
  17914       request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
  17915 
  17916   o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
  17917     - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
  17918       Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
  17919       by karsten.
  17920 
  17921   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  17922     - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
  17923       tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
  17924     - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
  17925       on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  17926     - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
  17927       TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
  17928       bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  17929     - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
  17930       localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
  17931       bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
  17932     - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
  17933       with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
  17934       string against a constant, compare it to the output of
  17935       format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
  17936       18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  17937     - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
  17938       enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
  17939       to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
  17940       unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
  17941       Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  17942 
  17943   o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
  17944     - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
  17945       field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
  17946       18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  17947     - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
  17948       on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
  17949       0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
  17950 
  17951   o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
  17952     - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
  17953       passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
  17954       17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
  17955 
  17956   o Code simplification and refactoring:
  17957     - Clean up a little duplicated code in
  17958       crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
  17959       from "pfrankw".
  17960     - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
  17961       from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
  17962       attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
  17963       avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
  17964       ticket 17590.
  17965     - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
  17966       into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
  17967       freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
  17968       currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
  17969     - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
  17970       policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
  17971       ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
  17972     - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
  17973       which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
  17974       17744. Patch from zerosion.
  17975     - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
  17976       use them. Closes ticket 17926.
  17977     - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
  17978       inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
  17979       the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
  17980     - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
  17981       actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
  17982     - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
  17983       instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
  17984       launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
  17985       simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
  17986       launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
  17987       ticket 17589.
  17988 
  17989   o Documentation:
  17990     - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
  17991       line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
  17992     - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
  17993       Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
  17994       Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
  17995     - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
  17996       manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
  17997     - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
  17998     - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
  17999     - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
  18000     - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
  18001       whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
  18002       issue 17392.
  18003     - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
  18004       MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
  18005 
  18006   o Removed features:
  18007     - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
  18008       versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
  18009       the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
  18010       Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
  18011       patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
  18012     - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
  18013       Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
  18014       and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
  18015 
  18016   o Testing:
  18017     - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
  18018       returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
  18019       (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
  18020     - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
  18021       batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
  18022     - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
  18023       portion of ticket 16831.
  18024     - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
  18025       the unit tests.
  18026     - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
  18027       17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
  18028     - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
  18029       util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
  18030       17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
  18031       Ola Bini.
  18032     - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
  18033       solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
  18034     - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
  18035       Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
  18036 
  18037 
  18038 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
  18039   Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
  18040   well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
  18041 
  18042   o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
  18043     - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
  18044       guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
  18045       accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
  18046       flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
  18047       performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
  18048       by Mohsen Imani.
  18049 
  18050   o Minor features (geoip):
  18051     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  18052       Country database.
  18053 
  18054   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  18055     - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
  18056       This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
  18057       17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
  18058     - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
  18059       presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
  18060 
  18061   o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  18062     - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
  18063       correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
  18064       16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
  18065     - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
  18066       rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
  18067       issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
  18068       16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  18069     - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
  18070       bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  18071 
  18072 
  18073 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
  18074   The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
  18075   and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
  18076   tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
  18077   and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
  18078   exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
  18079   understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
  18080   and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
  18081   Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
  18082   on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
  18083   inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
  18084   humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
  18085   another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
  18086   efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
  18087   that would make him proud.
  18088 
  18089   Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
  18090 
  18091   The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
  18092   improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
  18093   hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
  18094   hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
  18095   improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
  18096   more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
  18097   of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
  18098 
  18099   o New system requirements:
  18100     - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
  18101       before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
  18102       ticket 15248.
  18103     - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
  18104       for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
  18105       available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
  18106       negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
  18107       P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
  18108       P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
  18109     - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
  18110       on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
  18111       later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
  18112       more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
  18113       OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
  18114       cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
  18115       clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
  18116 
  18117   o Major features (controller):
  18118     - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
  18119       and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
  18120       ticket 6411.
  18121     - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
  18122       commands to get information about hidden services created via the
  18123       controller. Part of ticket 6411.
  18124     - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
  18125       descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
  18126     - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
  18127       ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
  18128 
  18129   o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
  18130     - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
  18131       feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
  18132       key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
  18133       key). Closes ticket 13642.
  18134     - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
  18135       elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
  18136       that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
  18137       signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
  18138       These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
  18139       Implements part of ticket 12498.
  18140     - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
  18141       RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
  18142     - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
  18143       used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
  18144       vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
  18145     - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
  18146       part of ticket 12498.
  18147     - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
  18148       passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
  18149       of ticket 16769.
  18150     - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
  18151       or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
  18152       combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
  18153       Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
  18154     - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
  18155       signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
  18156     - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
  18157       messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
  18158       failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
  18159       so many of these!
  18160 
  18161   o Major features (ECC performance):
  18162     - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
  18163       using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
  18164       ticket 16533.
  18165     - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
  18166       generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
  18167       available. Implements ticket 16535.
  18168     - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
  18169       public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
  18170       Implements ticket 16467.
  18171     - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
  18172       optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
  18173       public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
  18174       ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
  18175 
  18176   o Major features (Hidden services):
  18177     - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
  18178       use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
  18179       attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
  18180       services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
  18181       single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
  18182       remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
  18183       See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
  18184     - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
  18185       specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
  18186       is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
  18187       service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
  18188       visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
  18189       ticket 4862.
  18190     - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
  18191       introduction points, which used to change the number of
  18192       introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
  18193       connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
  18194 
  18195   o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
  18196     - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
  18197       keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
  18198       allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
  18199       of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
  18200       RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
  18201 
  18202   o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
  18203     - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
  18204       isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
  18205       was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
  18206       connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
  18207       0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
  18208 
  18209   o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
  18210     - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
  18211       client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
  18212       14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
  18213       regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
  18214       we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
  18215       some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
  18216       of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
  18217       on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  18218 
  18219   o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  18220     - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
  18221       flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
  18222       can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
  18223       on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  18224     - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
  18225       extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
  18226       Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
  18227       changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
  18228       the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
  18229       reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
  18230       on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  18231 
  18232   o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
  18233     - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
  18234       17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  18235 
  18236   o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
  18237     - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
  18238       tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
  18239       limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
  18240       file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
  18241       error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
  18242 
  18243   o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
  18244     - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
  18245       beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
  18246       Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
  18247       systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
  18248       on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  18249 
  18250   o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
  18251     - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
  18252       of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
  18253       bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
  18254       by "cypherpunks_backup".
  18255     - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
  18256       connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
  18257       service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
  18258       on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  18259 
  18260   o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
  18261     - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
  18262       SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
  18263       socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
  18264       ticket 15220.
  18265     - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
  18266       allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
  18267       using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
  18268       fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  18269     - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
  18270       character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
  18271       the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
  18272       ticket 16430.
  18273 
  18274   o Minor features (client-side privacy):
  18275     - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
  18276       lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
  18277       authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
  18278       applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
  18279       own. Implements feature 15482.
  18280     - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
  18281       SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
  18282 
  18283   o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
  18284     - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
  18285       happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
  18286       hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
  18287       fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
  18288 
  18289   o Minor features (command-line interface):
  18290     - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
  18291       Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  18292     - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
  18293       as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
  18294 
  18295   o Minor features (compilation):
  18296     - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
  18297       unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
  18298     - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
  18299       failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
  18300       condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
  18301 
  18302   o Minor features (control protocol):
  18303     - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
  18304       the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
  18305 
  18306   o Minor features (controller):
  18307     - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
  18308       output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
  18309       present. Implements ticket 14840.
  18310     - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
  18311       retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
  18312       Closes ticket 14845.
  18313     - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
  18314       descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
  18315       demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
  18316 
  18317   o Minor features (directory authorities):
  18318     - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
  18319       and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
  18320       "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
  18321       running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
  18322       Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
  18323 
  18324   o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
  18325     - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
  18326       For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
  18327       HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
  18328       attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
  18329       require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
  18330       uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
  18331 
  18332   o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
  18333     - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
  18334       introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
  18335       same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
  18336 
  18337   o Minor features (geoip):
  18338     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  18339       Country database.
  18340 
  18341   o Minor features (hidden services):
  18342     - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
  18343       "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
  18344       limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
  18345       optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
  18346       of ticket 16052.
  18347     - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
  18348       to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
  18349       were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
  18350       ticket 16389.
  18351     - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
  18352       is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
  18353       drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
  18354       service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
  18355     - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
  18356       option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
  18357       track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
  18358       the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
  18359       ticket 15254.
  18360     - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
  18361       when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
  18362       cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
  18363       making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
  18364       clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
  18365       Closes ticket 15745.
  18366 
  18367   o Minor features (logging):
  18368     - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
  18369       tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
  18370       ticket 15026.
  18371 
  18372   o Minor features (pluggable transports):
  18373     - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
  18374       attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
  18375       pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
  18376       ticket 15471.
  18377     - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
  18378       stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
  18379       terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
  18380       can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
  18381       Resolves ticket 15435.
  18382 
  18383   o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
  18384     - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
  18385       message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
  18386       16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  18387     - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
  18388       produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
  18389       both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
  18390       of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  18391     - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
  18392       message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
  18393       IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
  18394     - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
  18395       where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
  18396       behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
  18397       reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
  18398       including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
  18399       Related to ticket 16069.
  18400 
  18401   o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
  18402     - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
  18403       write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
  18404       on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  18405     - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
  18406       stderr, not stdout.
  18407     - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
  18408       an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
  18409       and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
  18410       on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  18411 
  18412   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  18413     - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
  18414       bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
  18415     - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
  18416       vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
  18417 
  18418   o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
  18419     - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
  18420       installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
  18421       0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
  18422 
  18423   o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
  18424     - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
  18425       AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
  18426       are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
  18427       currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
  18428       has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
  18429       consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
  18430       90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  18431 
  18432   o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  18433     - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
  18434       missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
  18435       bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  18436 
  18437   o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  18438     - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
  18439       handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
  18440       on 0.1.1.16-rc.
  18441     - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
  18442       because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
  18443       unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
  18444       and 0.2.0.10.
  18445     - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
  18446       while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
  18447       17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
  18448       incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  18449 
  18450   o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
  18451     - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
  18452       A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
  18453       uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
  18454       its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
  18455       when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
  18456 
  18457   o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
  18458     - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
  18459       a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
  18460       on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  18461     - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
  18462       service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  18463 
  18464   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  18465     - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
  18466       defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  18467     - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
  18468       sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  18469     - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
  18470       HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
  18471       bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
  18472 
  18473   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
  18474     - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
  18475       these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
  18476       on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
  18477 
  18478   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
  18479     - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
  18480       code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
  18481       Peter Palfrader.
  18482     - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
  18483       renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
  18484       syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
  18485       Peter Palfrader.
  18486 
  18487   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  18488     - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
  18489       parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
  18490       15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
  18491       recent enough Clang.
  18492 
  18493   o Minor bugfixes (network):
  18494     - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
  18495       lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
  18496       unsuitable for public communications.
  18497 
  18498   o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
  18499     - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
  18500       limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
  18501       16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
  18502 
  18503   o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  18504     - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
  18505       backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  18506     - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
  18507       standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
  18508       of Tor ever.
  18509     - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
  18510       of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
  18511 
  18512   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  18513     - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
  18514       shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
  18515       behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
  18516       or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
  18517       on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  18518     - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
  18519       the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
  18520       from "cypherpunks".
  18521     - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
  18522       predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
  18523       on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  18524 
  18525   o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
  18526     - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
  18527       IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
  18528       addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
  18529       Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
  18530 
  18531   o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
  18532     - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
  18533       not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
  18534       being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
  18535       when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
  18536       Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
  18537 
  18538   o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
  18539     - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
  18540       These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
  18541       helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
  18542 
  18543   o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
  18544     - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
  18545       determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
  18546       previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
  18547       ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
  18548       where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
  18549       not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
  18550       issue discovered by CJ Ess.
  18551 
  18552   o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
  18553     - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
  18554       16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
  18555 
  18556   o Code simplification and refactoring:
  18557     - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
  18558       downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
  18559       immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
  18560       further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
  18561     - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
  18562       to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
  18563     - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
  18564       crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
  18565     - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
  18566       function. Closes ticket 16763.
  18567     - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
  18568       separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
  18569       ticket 14710.
  18570     - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
  18571       report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
  18572       involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
  18573     - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
  18574       haven't supported that in ages.
  18575     - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
  18576     - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
  18577       appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
  18578       suite of other microdesc functions.
  18579     - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
  18580       directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
  18581     - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
  18582       testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
  18583       "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
  18584       due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
  18585     - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
  18586       signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
  18587       simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
  18588     - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
  18589       control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
  18590     - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
  18591       put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
  18592       these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
  18593       change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
  18594       functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
  18595       ticket 16695.
  18596     - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
  18597       that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
  18598       they are broken.
  18599 
  18600   o Documentation:
  18601     - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
  18602     - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
  18603       the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
  18604       issue 15550.
  18605     - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
  18606       Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  18607     - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
  18608       torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
  18609       of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
  18610       files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
  18611       compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
  18612       ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
  18613     - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
  18614       to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
  18615       on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  18616     - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
  18617       ticket 17364.
  18618     - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
  18619       than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
  18620     - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
  18621       Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
  18622       and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
  18623     - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
  18624       policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
  18625     - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
  18626       TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
  18627       required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
  18628       way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
  18629       DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
  18630       particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
  18631       on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  18632     - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
  18633       the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
  18634 
  18635   o Removed code:
  18636     - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
  18637       and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
  18638       has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
  18639       be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
  18640     - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
  18641       Closes ticket 14922.
  18642     - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
  18643       connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
  18644       0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
  18645       their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
  18646       and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
  18647       in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
  18648     - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
  18649       distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
  18650       https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
  18651       used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
  18652       confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
  18653       Closes ticket 13338.
  18654 
  18655   o Removed features:
  18656     - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
  18657       fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
  18658       secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
  18659     - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
  18660       store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
  18661     - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
  18662       authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
  18663     - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
  18664       complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
  18665       multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
  18666       including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
  18667     - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
  18668       that didn't know about microdescriptors.
  18669     - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
  18670       super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
  18671 
  18672   o Testing:
  18673     - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
  18674       Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
  18675       by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
  18676     - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
  18677       produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
  18678       other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
  18679       our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
  18680     - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
  18681       tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
  18682     - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
  18683       by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
  18684       by "teor".
  18685     - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
  18686       undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
  18687       detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
  18688       Closes ticket 15817.
  18689     - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
  18690       tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
  18691       to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
  18692       test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
  18693       (chutney). Patches by "teor".
  18694     - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
  18695       network before we begin.
  18696     - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
  18697       chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
  18698     - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
  18699       test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
  18700       and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
  18701       and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
  18702       ticket 16189.
  18703     - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
  18704     - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
  18705       extensive tests.
  18706     - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
  18707       default as a part of "make check".
  18708     - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
  18709       functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
  18710     - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
  18711       send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
  18712       change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
  18713       work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
  18714     - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
  18715       (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
  18716     - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
  18717       stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
  18718     - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
  18719       memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
  18720     - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
  18721       files. Closes ticket 15180.
  18722     - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
  18723       time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
  18724       of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
  18725       bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
  18726     - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
  18727     - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
  18728       automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
  18729     - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
  18730       We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
  18731       them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
  18732       This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
  18733       configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
  18734     - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
  18735       explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
  18736       "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
  18737     - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
  18738       bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
  18739       by "joelanders".
  18740     - Set the severity correctly when testing
  18741       get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
  18742       get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
  18743       instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
  18744       0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
  18745 
  18746 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
  18747   Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
  18748   service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
  18749   fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
  18750   Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
  18751   of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
  18752 
  18753   o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
  18754     - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
  18755       client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
  18756       14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
  18757       regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
  18758       we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
  18759       some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
  18760       of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
  18761       on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  18762 
  18763   o Major bugfixes (stability):
  18764     - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
  18765       of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
  18766       bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
  18767       by "cypherpunks_backup".
  18768     - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
  18769       connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
  18770       service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
  18771       on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  18772 
  18773   o Minor features (geoip):
  18774     - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  18775     - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  18776 
  18777   o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
  18778     - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
  18779       A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
  18780       uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
  18781       its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
  18782       when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
  18783 
  18784   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  18785     - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
  18786       these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
  18787       on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
  18788 
  18789 
  18790 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
  18791   Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
  18792   requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
  18793   bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
  18794   should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
  18795 
  18796   o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
  18797     - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
  18798       isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
  18799       being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
  18800       was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
  18801       by "jojelino".
  18802 
  18803   o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
  18804     - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
  18805       For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
  18806       HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
  18807       attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
  18808       takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
  18809       hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
  18810 
  18811   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  18812     - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
  18813       installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
  18814       0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
  18815 
  18816   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  18817     - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
  18818       secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
  18819       bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
  18820     - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
  18821       code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
  18822       Peter Palfrader.
  18823 
  18824   o Minor bugfixes (tests):
  18825     - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
  18826       16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
  18827 
  18828 
  18829 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
  18830   Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
  18831   fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
  18832   authorities should upgrade.
  18833 
  18834   o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
  18835     - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
  18836       flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
  18837       can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
  18838       on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  18839 
  18840   o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
  18841     - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
  18842       a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
  18843       on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  18844 
  18845   o Minor features (geoip):
  18846     - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  18847     - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  18848       Country database.
  18849 
  18850 
  18851 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
  18852   Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
  18853   attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
  18854   services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
  18855   should upgrade whenever packages become available.
  18856 
  18857   This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
  18858   services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
  18859 
  18860   o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
  18861     - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
  18862       assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
  18863       bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
  18864     - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
  18865       failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
  18866       bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
  18867 
  18868   o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
  18869     - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
  18870       arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
  18871       attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
  18872       Resolves ticket 15515.
  18873     - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
  18874       when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
  18875       cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
  18876       ticket 11447.
  18877 
  18878 
  18879 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
  18880   Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
  18881   could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
  18882   visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
  18883   possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
  18884 
  18885   This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
  18886   services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
  18887 
  18888   o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
  18889     - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
  18890       assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
  18891       bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
  18892     - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
  18893       failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
  18894       bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
  18895 
  18896   o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
  18897     - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
  18898       arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
  18899       attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
  18900       Resolves ticket 15515.
  18901 
  18902 
  18903 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
  18904   Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
  18905   could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
  18906   visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
  18907   possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
  18908 
  18909   This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
  18910   services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
  18911 
  18912   o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
  18913     - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
  18914       assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
  18915       bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
  18916     - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
  18917       failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
  18918       bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
  18919 
  18920   o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
  18921     - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
  18922       arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
  18923       attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
  18924       Resolves ticket 15515.
  18925 
  18926 
  18927 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
  18928   Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
  18929 
  18930   It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
  18931   improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
  18932   sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
  18933   improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
  18934   higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
  18935   improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
  18936   should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
  18937   bugs should be addressed.
  18938 
  18939   o New compiler and system requirements:
  18940     - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
  18941       language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
  18942       whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
  18943       designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
  18944 
  18945       We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
  18946       number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
  18947       bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
  18948     - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
  18949       began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
  18950       threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
  18951       threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
  18952       holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
  18953       support. Resolves ticket 12439.
  18954 
  18955   o Deprecated versions and removed support:
  18956     - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
  18957       advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
  18958     - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
  18959       running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
  18960       option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
  18961       running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
  18962 
  18963   o Directory authority changes:
  18964     - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
  18965       closes ticket 14487.
  18966     - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
  18967     - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
  18968       ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
  18969 
  18970   o Major features (bridges):
  18971     - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
  18972       transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
  18973       environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
  18974       ticket 8402.
  18975 
  18976   o Major features (changed defaults):
  18977     - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
  18978       relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
  18979       the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
  18980       the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
  18981       can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
  18982       stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
  18983 
  18984   o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
  18985     - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
  18986       service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
  18987       initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
  18988       ticket 13211.
  18989 
  18990   o Major features (directory system):
  18991     - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
  18992       matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
  18993       Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
  18994       trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
  18995     - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
  18996       server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
  18997       same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
  18998       especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
  18999     - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
  19000       connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
  19001       Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
  19002     - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
  19003       versions for different software packages. This allows packages
  19004       that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
  19005       notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
  19006       227. Closes ticket 10395.
  19007 
  19008   o Major features (guards):
  19009     - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
  19010       guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
  19011       guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
  19012       a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
  19013       months or greater.  Closes ticket 9321.
  19014 
  19015   o Major features (hidden services):
  19016     - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
  19017       circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
  19018       Closes ticket 13667.
  19019     - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
  19020       gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
  19021       hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
  19022       an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
  19023       that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
  19024       a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
  19025       publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
  19026       the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
  19027       that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
  19028       proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
  19029       feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
  19030 
  19031   o Major features (performance):
  19032     - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
  19033       kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
  19034       sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
  19035       didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
  19036       work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
  19037       overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
  19038       where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
  19039       Implements ticket 9682.
  19040 
  19041   o Major features (relay):
  19042     - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
  19043       to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
  19044       20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
  19045     - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
  19046       to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
  19047       each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
  19048       sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
  19049       among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
  19050 
  19051       This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
  19052       high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
  19053       transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
  19054       circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
  19055       (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
  19056       should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
  19057       the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
  19058       ticket 9262.
  19059 
  19060   o Major features (sample torrc):
  19061     - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
  19062       similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
  19063       possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
  19064       intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
  19065       Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
  19066       generally useful "sample torrc".
  19067 
  19068   o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
  19069     - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
  19070       applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
  19071       AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
  19072       ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
  19073       this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
  19074       ticket 12585.
  19075     - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
  19076       The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
  19077       Implements ticket 11485.
  19078 
  19079   o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
  19080     - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
  19081       have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
  19082       inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
  19083       manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
  19084       0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
  19085       Izquierdo Riera.
  19086 
  19087   o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
  19088     - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
  19089       OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
  19090       in OSX 10.9.
  19091 
  19092   o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
  19093     - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
  19094       currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  19095 
  19096   o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
  19097     - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
  19098       directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
  19099       the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
  19100       microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
  19101 
  19102   o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
  19103     - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
  19104       Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
  19105       diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
  19106 
  19107   o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
  19108     - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
  19109       "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
  19110       on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  19111 
  19112   o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  19113     - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
  19114       with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
  19115       Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
  19116       point would make the other introduction points get marked as
  19117       having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
  19118 
  19119   o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  19120     - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
  19121       crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
  19122       0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
  19123 
  19124   o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
  19125     - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
  19126       recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
  19127       to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
  19128       passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
  19129       circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
  19130       0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
  19131 
  19132   o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
  19133     - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
  19134       launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
  19135       that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
  19136       authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
  19137       15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  19138 
  19139   o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
  19140     - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
  19141       failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
  19142       buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
  19143       0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  19144     - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
  19145       very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
  19146       it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  19147 
  19148   o Minor features (build):
  19149     - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
  19150       looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
  19151       Resolves ticket 13037.
  19152 
  19153   o Minor features (client):
  19154     - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
  19155       receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
  19156       without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
  19157       Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
  19158 
  19159   o Minor features (client):
  19160     - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
  19161       is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
  19162       Resolves ticket 13315.
  19163 
  19164   o Minor features (controller):
  19165     - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
  19166       write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
  19167       feature 9503.
  19168     - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
  19169       events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
  19170       ticket 8405.
  19171     - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
  19172       alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
  19173       SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
  19174     - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
  19175       bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
  19176       get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
  19177     - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
  19178       information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
  19179       noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
  19180 
  19181   o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
  19182     - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
  19183       descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
  19184       memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
  19185       service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
  19186       memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
  19187       fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
  19188     - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
  19189       MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
  19190       for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
  19191 
  19192   o Minor features (directory authorities):
  19193     - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
  19194       Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
  19195     - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
  19196       argument more than once.
  19197     - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
  19198       votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
  19199       method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
  19200       likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
  19201       doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
  19202       method. Implements part of proposal 215.
  19203 
  19204   o Minor features (geoip):
  19205     - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  19206     - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  19207       Country database.
  19208 
  19209   o Minor features (guard nodes):
  19210     - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
  19211       minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
  19212       AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
  19213 
  19214   o Minor features (heartbeat):
  19215     - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
  19216       version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
  19217       know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
  19218       protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
  19219 
  19220   o Minor features (hidden service):
  19221     - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
  19222       minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
  19223       hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
  19224     - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
  19225       services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
  19226       0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
  19227       unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
  19228       RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
  19229     - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
  19230       circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
  19231       hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
  19232       Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
  19233     - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
  19234       controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
  19235       feature 13212.
  19236     - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
  19237       directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
  19238       from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
  19239 
  19240   o Minor features (interface):
  19241     - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
  19242       from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
  19243       the file system. Implements feature 13865.
  19244 
  19245   o Minor features (logging):
  19246     - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
  19247       Resolves ticket 6852.
  19248     - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
  19249       reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
  19250       around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
  19251       ticket 13762.
  19252     - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
  19253       INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
  19254     - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
  19255       the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
  19256       Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
  19257     - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
  19258       we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
  19259       messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
  19260       logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
  19261     - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
  19262       appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
  19263     - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
  19264       ticket 14950.
  19265 
  19266   o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
  19267     - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
  19268       that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
  19269       obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
  19270 
  19271   o Minor features (relay):
  19272     - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
  19273       getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
  19274       address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
  19275       Patch from "ra".
  19276     - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
  19277       AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
  19278       traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
  19279       Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
  19280     - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
  19281       congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
  19282       document. Implements feature 10427.
  19283 
  19284   o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
  19285     - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
  19286       crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
  19287       have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
  19288 
  19289   o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
  19290     - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
  19291       temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
  19292     - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
  19293       buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
  19294       buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
  19295 
  19296   o Minor features (stability):
  19297     - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
  19298       corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
  19299       ticket 11737.
  19300 
  19301   o Minor features (systemd):
  19302     - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
  19303       support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
  19304     - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
  19305       startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
  19306     - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
  19307       of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
  19308 
  19309   o Minor features (testing networks):
  19310     - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
  19311       the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
  19312       policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
  19313       effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
  19314       give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
  19315       ticket 13161.
  19316     - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
  19317       and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
  19318       MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
  19319       keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
  19320       HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
  19321       time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
  19322       by "teor".
  19323     - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
  19324       TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
  19325       HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
  19326       connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
  19327       Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
  19328 
  19329   o Minor features (tor2web mode):
  19330     - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
  19331       clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
  19332       used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
  19333       Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
  19334 
  19335   o Minor features (transparent proxy):
  19336     - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
  19337       and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
  19338     - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
  19339       support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
  19340       Izquierdo Riera.
  19341 
  19342   o Minor features (validation):
  19343     - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
  19344       parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
  19345       Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
  19346     - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
  19347       localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
  19348       This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
  19349       even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
  19350       written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
  19351     - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
  19352       both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
  19353       our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
  19354       on 0.0.2pre14.
  19355 
  19356   o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
  19357     - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
  19358       recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
  19359       bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  19360 
  19361   o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
  19362     - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
  19363       plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
  19364       bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  19365 
  19366   o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
  19367     - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
  19368       Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
  19369       from "teor".
  19370     - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
  19371       avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
  19372       under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
  19373       on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  19374     - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
  19375       13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  19376     - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
  19377       or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
  19378       visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
  19379     - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
  19380       with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
  19381 
  19382   o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
  19383     - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
  19384       with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
  19385       certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  19386     - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
  19387       for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
  19388       certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
  19389       time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
  19390       bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
  19391 
  19392   o Minor bugfixes (client):
  19393     - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
  19394       BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
  19395       13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
  19396     - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
  19397       the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  19398     - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
  19399       responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
  19400       connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
  19401 
  19402   o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
  19403     - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
  19404       no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
  19405       0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  19406     - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
  19407       14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  19408     - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
  19409       "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
  19410       on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  19411     - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
  19412       an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
  19413       must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
  19414       on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  19415 
  19416   o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
  19417     - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
  19418       problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
  19419       bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
  19420       bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
  19421 
  19422   o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
  19423     - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
  19424       DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
  19425       expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
  19426     - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
  19427       reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
  19428       side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
  19429       bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  19430 
  19431   o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
  19432     - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
  19433       flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
  19434       Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
  19435       literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  19436 
  19437   o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
  19438     - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
  19439       computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
  19440       erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
  19441       have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
  19442       on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  19443     - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
  19444       even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
  19445       13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  19446 
  19447   o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
  19448     - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
  19449       because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
  19450       Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
  19451       as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
  19452       on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  19453     - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
  19454       that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
  19455       9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
  19456 
  19457   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  19458     - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
  19459       on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  19460     - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
  19461       including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
  19462       char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
  19463       parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
  19464       on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  19465     - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
  19466       middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
  19467       on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
  19468     - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
  19469       be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
  19470       tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
  19471       14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
  19472     - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
  19473       Addresses ticket 14188.
  19474     - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
  19475       has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
  19476       Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
  19477     - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
  19478       is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
  19479       in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
  19480     - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
  19481       again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  19482     - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
  19483       when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
  19484       --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
  19485       ticket 13228.
  19486 
  19487   o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  19488     - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
  19489       when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
  19490       we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
  19491     - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
  19492       14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  19493 
  19494   o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  19495     - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
  19496       "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
  19497       would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
  19498       bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
  19499 
  19500   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
  19501     - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
  19502       they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
  19503       been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
  19504       bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
  19505     - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
  19506       unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
  19507       13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  19508     - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
  19509       control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  19510     - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
  19511       issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
  19512       Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  19513     - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
  19514       extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
  19515       from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  19516 
  19517   o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
  19518     - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
  19519       documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
  19520       Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  19521     - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
  19522       Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
  19523       flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
  19524       looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
  19525       on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  19526 
  19527   o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
  19528     - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
  19529       keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
  19530       on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
  19531     - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
  19532       is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
  19533     - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
  19534     - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
  19535       state, and key files.
  19536     - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
  19537       relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
  19538       on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  19539 
  19540   o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  19541     - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
  19542       points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
  19543       that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
  19544       circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  19545     - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
  19546       was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
  19547       replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  19548     - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
  19549       circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
  19550     - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
  19551       at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
  19552       broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
  19553     - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
  19554       for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
  19555       whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
  19556       a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
  19557       directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
  19558       by "special".
  19559 
  19560   o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  19561     - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
  19562       sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
  19563       by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
  19564     - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
  19565       enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
  19566     - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
  19567       Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
  19568       sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
  19569       bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  19570 
  19571   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  19572     - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
  19573       domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  19574     - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
  19575       Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
  19576       with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
  19577       on 0.0.6rc3.
  19578     - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
  19579       correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  19580 
  19581   o Minor bugfixes (networking):
  19582     - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
  19583       than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
  19584       failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
  19585       bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  19586 
  19587   o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
  19588     - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
  19589       descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
  19590     - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
  19591       case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
  19592       13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  19593 
  19594   o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  19595     - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
  19596       will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
  19597       example Mac OS X.
  19598     - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
  19599       compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
  19600       bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
  19601 
  19602   o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
  19603     - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
  19604       a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
  19605       some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
  19606       uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
  19607       versions of Tor.
  19608     - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
  19609       just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
  19610       to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
  19611       ticket 14041.
  19612 
  19613   o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  19614     - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
  19615       entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
  19616     - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
  19617       new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
  19618       on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
  19619 
  19620   o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
  19621     - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
  19622       write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
  19623       or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
  19624       on 0.1.0.2-rc.
  19625 
  19626   o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
  19627     - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
  19628       Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
  19629       der Woerdt.
  19630 
  19631   o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
  19632     - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
  19633       from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  19634 
  19635   o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
  19636     - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
  19637       part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
  19638     - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
  19639       process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
  19640       Tomasz Torcz.
  19641 
  19642   o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
  19643     - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
  19644       testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  19645     - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
  19646       AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
  19647       fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  19648 
  19649   o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
  19650     - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
  19651       the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
  19652       network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
  19653       been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
  19654       network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
  19655       by "teor".
  19656     - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
  19657       header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
  19658       promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
  19659       in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
  19660       and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  19661     - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
  19662       reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
  19663       all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
  19664       scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
  19665       bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
  19666       0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
  19667     - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
  19668       thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
  19669       wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
  19670       circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
  19671     - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
  19672       TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
  19673       ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
  19674       testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
  19675       on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  19676     - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
  19677       available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
  19678       build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
  19679       contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
  19680        spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
  19681       internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
  19682       circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
  19683       0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  19684     - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
  19685       TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
  19686       Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
  19687       Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
  19688       by "teor".
  19689     - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
  19690       networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
  19691       exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
  19692       networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
  19693       bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  19694 
  19695   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  19696     - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
  19697       15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
  19698     - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
  19699       SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
  19700       it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  19701     - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
  19702       directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
  19703       bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
  19704 
  19705   o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
  19706     - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
  19707       unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
  19708 
  19709   o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
  19710     - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
  19711       TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
  19712       on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  19713 
  19714   o Minor bugfixes (windows):
  19715     - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
  19716       acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
  19717       occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
  19718       on 0.0.2pre26.
  19719 
  19720   o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
  19721     - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
  19722       empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
  19723 
  19724   o Code simplification and refactoring:
  19725     - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
  19726       elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
  19727       ticket 12202.
  19728     - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
  19729       Resolves ticket 12205.
  19730     - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
  19731       then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
  19732       integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
  19733     - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
  19734       own SIZE_T_MAX.
  19735     - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
  19736       functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
  19737       in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
  19738       like 13163.
  19739     - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
  19740       tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
  19741       bug 13284.
  19742     - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
  19743       represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
  19744       booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
  19745     - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
  19746       or_options_t structure.
  19747     - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
  19748       a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
  19749       port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
  19750       to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
  19751       the past. Closes ticket 8546.
  19752     - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
  19753       multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
  19754       subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
  19755       issue 12376.
  19756     - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
  19757       only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
  19758       ticket 14202.
  19759     - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
  19760       directory server.
  19761     - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
  19762       easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
  19763     - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
  19764       with a function instead.
  19765     - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
  19766       apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
  19767       Closes ticket 13172.
  19768     - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
  19769       ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
  19770     - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
  19771       state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
  19772       checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
  19773     - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
  19774       ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
  19775       confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
  19776     - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
  19777       constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
  19778     - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
  19779       implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
  19780       type trivially.
  19781 
  19782   o Documentation:
  19783     - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
  19784       TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
  19785       message to point to this file when running out of sockets
  19786       operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
  19787       ticket 9708.
  19788     - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
  19789       for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
  19790     - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
  19791       options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
  19792     - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
  19793       look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
  19794     - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
  19795       Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
  19796     - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
  19797       manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
  19798     - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
  19799       good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
  19800       all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
  19801       relays. Closes ticket 13381.
  19802     - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
  19803       it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
  19804       working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
  19805       guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
  19806 
  19807   o Distribution (systemd):
  19808     - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
  19809       /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
  19810       only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
  19811     - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
  19812       can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
  19813       ticket 12939.
  19814     - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
  19815       service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
  19816 
  19817   o Downgraded warnings:
  19818     - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
  19819       ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
  19820 
  19821   o Removed code:
  19822     - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
  19823       Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
  19824       in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
  19825       by "cypherpunks".
  19826 
  19827   o Removed features (directory authorities):
  19828     - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
  19829       affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
  19830       rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
  19831       0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
  19832     - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
  19833       the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
  19834     - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
  19835       The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
  19836     - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
  19837       flag anymore.
  19838     - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
  19839       methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
  19840       obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
  19841       served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
  19842       ticket 10163.
  19843 
  19844   o Removed features:
  19845     - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
  19846       longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
  19847     - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
  19848       were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
  19849       no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
  19850       ticket 14848.
  19851     - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
  19852       been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
  19853     - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
  19854       Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
  19855       weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
  19856       happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
  19857       consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
  19858       either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
  19859       algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
  19860       ticket 13126.
  19861     - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
  19862       clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
  19863       ntor handshake.
  19864     - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
  19865       used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
  19866       obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
  19867     - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
  19868       anymore, and ignore it.
  19869 
  19870   o Removed platform support:
  19871     - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
  19872       as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
  19873       Closes ticket 11446.
  19874 
  19875   o Testing (test-network.sh):
  19876     - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
  19877       support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
  19878       bug 13161.
  19879     - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
  19880       bug 13331.
  19881     - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
  19882       delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
  19883       Partially implements ticket 13161.
  19884 
  19885   o Testing:
  19886     - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
  19887       that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
  19888     - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
  19889       (existing behavior).
  19890     - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
  19891       data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
  19892     - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
  19893       Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
  19894       Closes ticket 14107.
  19895     - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
  19896       Patch from Gisle Vanem.
  19897     - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
  19898       binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
  19899       ticket 13243.
  19900     - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
  19901       functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
  19902     - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
  19903     - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
  19904       test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
  19905       bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
  19906       Closes 13678.
  19907     - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
  19908       by 'rl1987'.
  19909     - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
  19910       easily be tested; write some tests for it.
  19911     - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
  19912       bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
  19913     - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
  19914     - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
  19915       parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
  19916       tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
  19917     - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
  19918       coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
  19919       lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
  19920     - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
  19921       unit tests.
  19922     - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
  19923       instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
  19924       with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
  19925 
  19926 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
  19927   Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
  19928 
  19929   It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
  19930   couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
  19931   It also updates the list of directory authorities.
  19932 
  19933   o Directory authority changes:
  19934     - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
  19935     - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
  19936       ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
  19937     - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
  19938       closes ticket 14487.
  19939 
  19940   o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
  19941     - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
  19942       OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
  19943       in OSX 10.9.
  19944 
  19945   o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
  19946     - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
  19947       failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
  19948       buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
  19949       0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
  19950     - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
  19951       very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
  19952       it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  19953 
  19954   o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
  19955     - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
  19956       Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
  19957       diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
  19958 
  19959   o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  19960     - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
  19961       crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
  19962       0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
  19963 
  19964   o Minor features (controller):
  19965     - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
  19966       bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
  19967       get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
  19968 
  19969   o Minor features (geoip):
  19970     - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  19971     - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  19972       Country database.
  19973 
  19974   o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
  19975     - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
  19976       no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
  19977       0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  19978     - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
  19979       14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  19980 
  19981   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  19982     - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
  19983       has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
  19984       Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
  19985 
  19986   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
  19987     - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
  19988       they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
  19989       been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
  19990       bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
  19991     - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
  19992       issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
  19993       Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  19994 
  19995   o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
  19996     - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
  19997       from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  19998 
  19999   o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
  20000     - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
  20001       a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
  20002       some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
  20003       uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
  20004       versions of Tor.
  20005 
  20006 
  20007 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
  20008   Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities.  It
  20009   also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
  20010   and beyond.
  20011 
  20012   o Directory authority changes:
  20013     - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
  20014     - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
  20015       ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
  20016     - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
  20017       closes ticket 14487.
  20018 
  20019   o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
  20020     - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
  20021       Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
  20022       diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
  20023 
  20024   o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
  20025     - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
  20026       failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
  20027       buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
  20028       0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
  20029     - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
  20030       very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
  20031       it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  20032 
  20033   o Minor features (geoip):
  20034     - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  20035     - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  20036       Country database.
  20037 
  20038 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
  20039   Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
  20040 
  20041   It adds several new security features, including improved
  20042   denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
  20043   options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
  20044   (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
  20045   resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
  20046   should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
  20047   OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
  20048   system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
  20049   of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
  20050   transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
  20051   and features mentioned below.
  20052 
  20053   This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
  20054   have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
  20055 
  20056   o Major features (security):
  20057     - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
  20058       directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
  20059     - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
  20060       create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
  20061       1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
  20062     - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
  20063       process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
  20064     - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
  20065       today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
  20066       for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
  20067 
  20068   o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
  20069     - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
  20070       close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
  20071       streams attached to each circuit.
  20072 
  20073       This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
  20074       0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
  20075       better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
  20076       MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
  20077       to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
  20078     - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
  20079       SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
  20080       feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
  20081       client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
  20082       number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
  20083       thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
  20084       table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
  20085       and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
  20086       ticket 4900.
  20087     - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
  20088       pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
  20089       the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
  20090       setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
  20091 
  20092   o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
  20093     - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
  20094       proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
  20095     - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
  20096       even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
  20097       statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
  20098       and 5040.
  20099     - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
  20100       bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
  20101       pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
  20102       hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
  20103     - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
  20104       Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
  20105       Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
  20106       to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
  20107       bug 9859.
  20108 
  20109   o Major features (controller):
  20110     - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
  20111       and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
  20112       CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
  20113       The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
  20114       goal of being able to better track performance and load during
  20115       full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
  20116 
  20117   o Major features (relay performance):
  20118     - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
  20119       circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
  20120       functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
  20121       some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
  20122     - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
  20123       nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
  20124       over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
  20125       had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
  20126       circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
  20127       a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
  20128 
  20129   o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
  20130     - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
  20131       which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
  20132       Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
  20133       attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
  20134       file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
  20135       for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
  20136       filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
  20137       platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
  20138       Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
  20139 
  20140   o Major features (testing networks):
  20141     - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
  20142       retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
  20143       and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
  20144     - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
  20145       Implements ticket 8530.
  20146 
  20147   o Major features (other):
  20148     - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
  20149       platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
  20150       Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
  20151       when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
  20152       are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
  20153       reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
  20154 
  20155   o Deprecated versions:
  20156     - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
  20157       attention for some while.
  20158 
  20159   o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
  20160     - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
  20161       identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
  20162 
  20163       This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
  20164       where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
  20165       microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
  20166       consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
  20167       use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
  20168       selectively disable some client use of target relays by
  20169       constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
  20170       same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
  20171       list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
  20172       attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
  20173       router's identity is not forgeable.
  20174 
  20175   o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
  20176     - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
  20177       1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
  20178       bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
  20179 
  20180   o Major bugfixes (client):
  20181     - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
  20182       construction operations are disabled (because the network is
  20183       disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
  20184       Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
  20185       were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
  20186       0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
  20187       became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
  20188       to build circuits".
  20189 
  20190   o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
  20191     - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
  20192       to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
  20193       process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
  20194       on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  20195 
  20196   o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
  20197     - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
  20198       buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
  20199       This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
  20200       many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
  20201       delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
  20202       bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  20203 
  20204   o Major bugfixes (relay):
  20205     - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
  20206       fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  20207       Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
  20208     - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
  20209       proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
  20210       channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
  20211       handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  20212     - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
  20213       descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
  20214       incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
  20215       circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
  20216     - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
  20217       forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
  20218       cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
  20219       circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
  20220       bugfix on every version of Tor.
  20221 
  20222   o Minor features (security):
  20223     - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
  20224       hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
  20225       memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
  20226       are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
  20227       11477.
  20228     - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
  20229       network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
  20230       weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
  20231       current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
  20232       This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
  20233       down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
  20234       performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
  20235 
  20236   o Minor features (security, memory management):
  20237     - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
  20238       disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
  20239       --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
  20240       disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
  20241       on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
  20242       exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
  20243 
  20244   o Minor features (bridge client):
  20245     - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
  20246       bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
  20247       configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
  20248 
  20249   o Minor features (bridge):
  20250     - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
  20251       cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
  20252 
  20253   o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
  20254     - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
  20255       fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
  20256       notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
  20257       information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
  20258       Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
  20259     - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
  20260       using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
  20261       Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
  20262     - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
  20263       the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
  20264     - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
  20265       flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
  20266       doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
  20267       Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
  20268 
  20269   o Minor features (build):
  20270     - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
  20271       support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
  20272       Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
  20273     - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
  20274       and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
  20275       tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
  20276       nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
  20277     - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
  20278       but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
  20279       libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
  20280     - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
  20281     - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
  20282       them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
  20283     - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
  20284       configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
  20285       Arlo Breault.
  20286 
  20287   o Minor features (client):
  20288     - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
  20289       after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
  20290       will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
  20291       for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
  20292 
  20293   o Minor features (config options and command line):
  20294     - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
  20295       run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
  20296       Implements ticket 10060.
  20297     - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
  20298       See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
  20299       details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
  20300 
  20301   o Minor features (config options):
  20302     - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
  20303       their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
  20304     - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
  20305       configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
  20306       option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
  20307     - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
  20308       unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
  20309       "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
  20310     - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
  20311       that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
  20312       consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
  20313     - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
  20314       bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
  20315       pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
  20316     - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
  20317       bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
  20318       you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
  20319       Patch by CharlieB.
  20320 
  20321   o Minor features (controller):
  20322     - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
  20323       GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
  20324       "rl1987".
  20325     - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
  20326       usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
  20327       real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
  20328     - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
  20329       related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
  20330     - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
  20331       guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
  20332       too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
  20333       patch from "ra".
  20334     - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
  20335       notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
  20336       transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
  20337 
  20338   o Minor features (diagnostic):
  20339     - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
  20340       hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
  20341       help diagnose bug 7164.
  20342     - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
  20343       that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
  20344       a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
  20345     - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
  20346       Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
  20347       bug 11233.
  20348     - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
  20349       handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
  20350     - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
  20351       where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
  20352     - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
  20353       try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
  20354       circuits sometimes do not get closed.
  20355     - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
  20356       intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
  20357       warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
  20358       might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
  20359       still referenced by a live node_t object.
  20360     - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
  20361       time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
  20362       message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
  20363 
  20364   o Minor features (geoip):
  20365     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
  20366       Country database.
  20367 
  20368   o Minor features (interface):
  20369     - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
  20370       DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
  20371       AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
  20372       ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
  20373 
  20374   o Minor features (kernel API usage):
  20375     - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
  20376       sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
  20377 
  20378   o Minor features (log messages):
  20379     - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
  20380       useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
  20381       but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
  20382       log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
  20383     - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
  20384       Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
  20385     - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
  20386       more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
  20387 
  20388   o Minor features (log verbosity):
  20389     - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
  20390       out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
  20391       Resolves ticket 5286.
  20392     - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
  20393       about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
  20394       whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
  20395       at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
  20396     - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
  20397       ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
  20398 
  20399   o Minor features (performance):
  20400     - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
  20401       of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
  20402       make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
  20403       handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
  20404       Closes ticket 8109.
  20405 
  20406   o Minor features (relay):
  20407     - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
  20408       new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
  20409       IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
  20410 
  20411   o Minor features (testing):
  20412     - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
  20413       the unit test scripts.
  20414     - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
  20415       the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
  20416       specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
  20417       their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
  20418 
  20419   o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
  20420     - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
  20421       FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
  20422       10267; patch from "yurivict".
  20423     - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
  20424       transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
  20425       pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
  20426       port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
  20427       pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
  20428       divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
  20429 
  20430   o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
  20431     - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
  20432       cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
  20433       not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  20434 
  20435   o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
  20436     - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
  20437       server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
  20438       disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
  20439     - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
  20440       pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
  20441       the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
  20442       use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
  20443       but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
  20444       bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
  20445 
  20446   o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
  20447     - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
  20448       it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
  20449       from Guilhem.
  20450     - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
  20451       exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
  20452       0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
  20453     - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
  20454       install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  20455 
  20456   o Minor bugfixes (client):
  20457     - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
  20458       when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
  20459       set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
  20460       time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  20461     - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
  20462       because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
  20463       descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
  20464       was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  20465     - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
  20466       our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
  20467       the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
  20468       0.2.1.2-alpha.
  20469     - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
  20470       Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
  20471       controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
  20472       was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
  20473       clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
  20474       a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
  20475     - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
  20476       transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
  20477       log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  20478     - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
  20479       generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
  20480       applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  20481 
  20482   o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
  20483     - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
  20484       answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
  20485       deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
  20486       0.2.4.7-alpha.
  20487     - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
  20488       with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
  20489       isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
  20490       hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
  20491       from "epoch".
  20492 
  20493   o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
  20494     - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
  20495       connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
  20496       messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  20497     - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
  20498       DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
  20499       0.2.3.9-alpha.
  20500 
  20501   o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
  20502     - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
  20503       check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
  20504       connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
  20505       connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
  20506       0.2.4.4-alpha.
  20507     - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
  20508       connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
  20509       out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
  20510       0.2.4.4-alpha.
  20511 
  20512   o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  20513     - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
  20514       disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
  20515     - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
  20516       comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
  20517       check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
  20518       0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
  20519     - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
  20520       actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
  20521       bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
  20522 
  20523   o Minor bugfixes (command line):
  20524     - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
  20525       command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
  20526       inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
  20527       names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
  20528       0.0.9pre5.
  20529     - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
  20530       9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  20531 
  20532   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  20533     - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
  20534       LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
  20535       0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
  20536     - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
  20537       turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
  20538       bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
  20539     - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
  20540       routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
  20541       Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  20542     - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
  20543       analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
  20544       easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
  20545       ticket 13036.
  20546     - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
  20547       TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
  20548       on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
  20549     - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
  20550       treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
  20551       bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
  20552     - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
  20553       implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
  20554       arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
  20555       0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
  20556     - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
  20557       bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
  20558     - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
  20559       on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  20560     - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
  20561       patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
  20562       implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
  20563 
  20564   o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
  20565     - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
  20566       way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
  20567       file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
  20568       write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
  20569       option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
  20570 
  20571   o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
  20572     - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
  20573       headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
  20574       bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
  20575     - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
  20576       make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
  20577       all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
  20578       send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
  20579       finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
  20580       11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
  20581 
  20582   o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
  20583     - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
  20584       times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  20585 
  20586   o Minor bugfixes (interface):
  20587     - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
  20588       single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
  20589       would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
  20590       bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
  20591 
  20592   o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
  20593     - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
  20594       as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
  20595       Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  20596     - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
  20597       in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
  20598       be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
  20599       bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
  20600     - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
  20601       microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
  20602       to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
  20603       (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
  20604       "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
  20605       bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
  20606 
  20607   o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  20608     - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
  20609       to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
  20610       about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
  20611       bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
  20612     - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
  20613       cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
  20614     - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
  20615       their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
  20616       on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  20617     - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
  20618       recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
  20619       bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
  20620     - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
  20621       them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
  20622     - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
  20623       successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
  20624       fixes bug 10616.
  20625     - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
  20626       from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
  20627 
  20628   o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
  20629     - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
  20630       memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
  20631       it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
  20632       from Arlo Breault.
  20633     - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
  20634       platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
  20635       microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
  20636       Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  20637     - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
  20638       tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
  20639       pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
  20640       pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
  20641       exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
  20642       0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
  20643     - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
  20644       fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
  20645       11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
  20646     - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
  20647       check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
  20648       do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
  20649       going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
  20650       versions.
  20651     - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
  20652       Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
  20653       positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
  20654       cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
  20655       some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
  20656       logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
  20657       correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
  20658       from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
  20659       many tor versions.
  20660 
  20661   o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
  20662     - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
  20663       directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
  20664       hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
  20665       set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
  20666       servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
  20667       we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  20668       Reported by "mr-4".
  20669     - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
  20670       that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
  20671       bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
  20672       some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  20673 
  20674   o Minor bugfixes (performance):
  20675     - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
  20676       the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
  20677       build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
  20678       whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
  20679       running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
  20680       whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
  20681       forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
  20682       Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  20683     - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
  20684       removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
  20685       12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
  20686 
  20687   o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
  20688     - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
  20689       binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
  20690       0.2.2.1-alpha.
  20691     - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
  20692       sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
  20693       early. Fixes bug 10081.
  20694 
  20695   o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
  20696     - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
  20697       transport-using configuration when we already have cached
  20698       descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
  20699       on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  20700 
  20701   o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
  20702     - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
  20703       the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
  20704       10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
  20705       "rl1987".
  20706 
  20707   o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
  20708     - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
  20709       zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
  20710       otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
  20711       on 0.0.8pre1.
  20712     - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
  20713       against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
  20714       a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  20715 
  20716   o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
  20717     - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
  20718       don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
  20719       it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
  20720       versions. Found by "skruffy".
  20721     - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
  20722       error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
  20723       bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
  20724       by "cypherpunks".
  20725 
  20726   o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
  20727     - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
  20728       relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
  20729     - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
  20730       DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
  20731       non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
  20732       bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
  20733     - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
  20734       to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  20735     - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
  20736       relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
  20737 
  20738   o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  20739     - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
  20740       over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
  20741       by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
  20742       11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
  20743 
  20744   o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
  20745     - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
  20746       (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
  20747       string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
  20748       on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
  20749 
  20750   o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
  20751     - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
  20752       11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
  20753     - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
  20754       exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
  20755       own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
  20756       should never have affected anyone in practice.
  20757 
  20758   o Code simplification and refactoring:
  20759     - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
  20760       in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
  20761       have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
  20762       much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
  20763     - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
  20764       bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
  20765     - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
  20766       of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
  20767       4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
  20768     - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
  20769       buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
  20770       i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
  20771     - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
  20772       structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
  20773     - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
  20774       8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
  20775     - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
  20776       and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
  20777     - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
  20778       Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
  20779     - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
  20780     - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
  20781       shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
  20782       from Arlo Breault.
  20783     - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
  20784       hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
  20785       embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
  20786       tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
  20787       0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
  20788     - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
  20789     - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
  20790       Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
  20791     - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
  20792       confuse Doxygen.
  20793     - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
  20794       string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
  20795 
  20796   o Documentation:
  20797     - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
  20798       several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
  20799       Matt Pagan.
  20800     - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
  20801       ticket 12878.
  20802     - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
  20803       find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
  20804     - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
  20805       names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
  20806       directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
  20807       V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
  20808       ticket 11634.
  20809     - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
  20810       for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
  20811       not "status".)
  20812     - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
  20813       directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
  20814       caches don't get confused.
  20815     - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
  20816       11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  20817     - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
  20818     - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
  20819       "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
  20820       "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
  20821     - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
  20822       Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
  20823       nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
  20824     - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
  20825       take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
  20826     - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
  20827       to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
  20828       unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
  20829       bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  20830     - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
  20831       the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
  20832       bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  20833 
  20834   o Package cleanup:
  20835     - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
  20836       an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
  20837       Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
  20838       seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
  20839       ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
  20840 
  20841   o Removed code and features:
  20842     - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
  20843       a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
  20844       0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
  20845       any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
  20846     - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
  20847       since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
  20848       ticket 10758.
  20849     - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
  20850       options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
  20851       service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
  20852       authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
  20853       downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
  20854       part of a fix for bug 10841.
  20855     - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
  20856       and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
  20857     - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
  20858       exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
  20859       0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
  20860       brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
  20861       hidden services.
  20862     - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
  20863       Resolves ticket 11070.
  20864     - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
  20865       descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
  20866       the rest of bug 10841.
  20867     - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
  20868       file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
  20869       incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
  20870       a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
  20871 
  20872   o Test infrastructure:
  20873     - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
  20874       exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
  20875       more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
  20876       optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
  20877       radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
  20878     - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
  20879       the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
  20880       unit-testing are now static in production builds.
  20881     - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
  20882       tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
  20883       coverage support.
  20884     - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
  20885     - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
  20886       that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
  20887       now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
  20888     - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
  20889       tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
  20890     - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
  20891       tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
  20892       lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
  20893       stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
  20894       invoking the other functions it calls.
  20895 
  20896   o Testing:
  20897     - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
  20898       Patch from Dana Koch.
  20899     - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
  20900       the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
  20901     - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
  20902     - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
  20903 
  20904   o Distribution (systemd):
  20905     - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
  20906       Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
  20907       others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
  20908       Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
  20909     - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
  20910       file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
  20911     - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
  20912       current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
  20913       expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
  20914       torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
  20915       on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
  20916       /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
  20917       "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
  20918       ticket 12731.
  20919 
  20920 
  20921 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
  20922   Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
  20923   (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
  20924   bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
  20925   (which does affect Tor).
  20926 
  20927   o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
  20928     - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
  20929       today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
  20930       for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
  20931 
  20932   o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
  20933     - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
  20934       1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
  20935       13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
  20936 
  20937 
  20938 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
  20939   Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
  20940   connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
  20941   the directory authorities.
  20942 
  20943   o Major bugfixes:
  20944     - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
  20945       point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
  20946       the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
  20947       they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
  20948       the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
  20949       point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
  20950       the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
  20951       services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
  20952       that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
  20953       on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
  20954       some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
  20955       bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  20956 
  20957   o Directory authority changes:
  20958     - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
  20959 
  20960   o Minor features (geoip):
  20961     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
  20962       Country database.
  20963 
  20964 
  20965 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
  20966   Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
  20967   guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
  20968   Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
  20969 
  20970   o Major features:
  20971     - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
  20972       decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
  20973       of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
  20974       where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
  20975       connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
  20976       load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
  20977     - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
  20978       NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
  20979       guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
  20980       parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
  20981 
  20982   o Major bugfixes:
  20983     - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
  20984       implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
  20985       implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
  20986       a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
  20987       appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
  20988       Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
  20989       implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
  20990       bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
  20991       Adam Langley.
  20992 
  20993   o Minor bugfixes:
  20994     - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
  20995       cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
  20996       due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
  20997       the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
  20998       the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
  20999     - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
  21000       via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
  21001       microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
  21002       bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  21003     - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
  21004       module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
  21005       used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
  21006       0.2.4.8-alpha.  Found by "starlight".
  21007 
  21008   o Minor features:
  21009     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
  21010       Country database.
  21011 
  21012 
  21013 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
  21014   Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
  21015   alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
  21016   keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
  21017   choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
  21018   a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
  21019   of RAM, and several others.
  21020 
  21021   o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  21022     - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
  21023       vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
  21024       don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
  21025       doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
  21026 
  21027   o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
  21028     - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
  21029       fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
  21030       exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
  21031       on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  21032 
  21033   o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  21034     - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
  21035       uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
  21036       acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
  21037       some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
  21038       typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
  21039       'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  21040     - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
  21041       which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
  21042       11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
  21043       list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
  21044       Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
  21045       CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
  21046       AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
  21047     - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
  21048       Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
  21049       ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
  21050       advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
  21051       Resolves ticket 11438.
  21052 
  21053   o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
  21054     - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
  21055       trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
  21056       otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
  21057       it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
  21058       bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  21059 
  21060   o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  21061     - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
  21062       cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  21063 
  21064   o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  21065     - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
  21066       Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  21067 
  21068   o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  21069     - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
  21070       launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
  21071       bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  21072 
  21073   o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  21074     - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
  21075       relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
  21076 
  21077   o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  21078     - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
  21079       Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
  21080 
  21081   o Minor bugfixes:
  21082     - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
  21083       referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
  21084       for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
  21085       earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
  21086       from bug 7164.
  21087 
  21088   o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  21089     - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
  21090       warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
  21091       there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
  21092 
  21093   o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  21094     - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
  21095       leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
  21096       users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
  21097 
  21098   o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  21099     - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
  21100       looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
  21101       0.2.3.18-rc.
  21102 
  21103 
  21104 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
  21105   Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
  21106   find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
  21107   and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
  21108 
  21109   o Major features (client security):
  21110     - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
  21111       at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
  21112       handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
  21113       a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
  21114       breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
  21115       theory. Implements ticket 9777.
  21116 
  21117   o Major bugfixes:
  21118     - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
  21119       END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
  21120       since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
  21121       part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  21122 
  21123   o Code simplification and refactoring:
  21124     - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
  21125       CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
  21126       field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
  21127       in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
  21128 
  21129   o Minor features:
  21130     - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
  21131       that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
  21132       Florent Daigniere.
  21133     - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
  21134       define static functions only some of which will get used later in
  21135       the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
  21136       unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
  21137     - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
  21138       GeoLite2 Country database.
  21139 
  21140   o Minor bugfixes:
  21141     - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
  21142       on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
  21143       bugfix on every released Tor.
  21144     - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
  21145       exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
  21146       can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
  21147       of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  21148     - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
  21149       manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
  21150       Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
  21151     - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
  21152       not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
  21153       bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  21154     - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
  21155       Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
  21156       ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  21157     - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
  21158       heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
  21159 
  21160   o Documentation fixes:
  21161     - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
  21162       flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
  21163 
  21164 
  21165 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
  21166   Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
  21167   who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
  21168   torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
  21169   and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
  21170   first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
  21171   keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
  21172 
  21173   This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
  21174   many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
  21175 
  21176   o Major bugfixes:
  21177     - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
  21178       HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
  21179       the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
  21180       ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
  21181       cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
  21182       entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
  21183       sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
  21184       OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
  21185       and "rl1987".
  21186     - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
  21187       address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  21188     - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
  21189       This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
  21190       streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
  21191       be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
  21192 
  21193   o Minor bugfixes:
  21194     - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
  21195       cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  21196     - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
  21197       freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
  21198       0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
  21199 
  21200 
  21201 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
  21202   The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
  21203   (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
  21204   Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
  21205   transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
  21206   design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
  21207   martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
  21208   and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
  21209 
  21210   Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
  21211   a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
  21212   better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
  21213   creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
  21214   risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
  21215   transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
  21216   gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
  21217   directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
  21218   ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
  21219   caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
  21220   reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
  21221   abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
  21222   and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
  21223   transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
  21224   circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
  21225   security, and privacy fixes.
  21226 
  21227   o Major features (new circuit handshake):
  21228     - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
  21229       Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
  21230       circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
  21231       (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
  21232       used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
  21233       uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
  21234       function, making it significantly more secure than the older
  21235       handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
  21236       pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
  21237       can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
  21238 
  21239       The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
  21240       with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
  21241       old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
  21242 
  21243       Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
  21244 
  21245   o Major features (better link encryption):
  21246     - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
  21247       and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
  21248       TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
  21249       previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
  21250       public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
  21251       the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
  21252       TLSECGroup option.
  21253 
  21254       This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
  21255       and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
  21256       with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
  21257       "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
  21258 
  21259       Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
  21260 
  21261     - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
  21262       Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
  21263       1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
  21264       renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
  21265       them to solve bug 6033.)
  21266 
  21267   o Major features (relay performance):
  21268     - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
  21269       create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
  21270       the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
  21271       process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
  21272       take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
  21273       of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
  21274       configure MaxOnionsPending again.
  21275     - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
  21276       with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
  21277       requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
  21278       0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
  21279       "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
  21280       Implements ticket 9574.
  21281 
  21282   o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
  21283     - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
  21284       a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
  21285       consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
  21286       are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
  21287       but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
  21288       longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
  21289       connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
  21290       directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
  21291       directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
  21292       "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
  21293       enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
  21294     - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
  21295       95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
  21296       should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
  21297       network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
  21298 
  21299   o Major features (use of guards):
  21300     - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
  21301       use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
  21302       can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
  21303       works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
  21304       about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
  21305       should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
  21306       from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
  21307       Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
  21308     - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
  21309       "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
  21310       2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
  21311       load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
  21312       via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
  21313       parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  21314 
  21315   o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
  21316     - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
  21317       bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
  21318       bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
  21319       ticket 3589.
  21320     - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
  21321       proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
  21322       ticket 4567.
  21323 
  21324   o Major features (geoip database):
  21325     - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
  21326       which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
  21327       script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
  21328       file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
  21329       entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
  21330       fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
  21331       Fixes bug 6266.
  21332     - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
  21333       is GeoIPv6File.
  21334     - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  21335 
  21336   o Major features (IPv6):
  21337     - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
  21338       IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
  21339       to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
  21340     - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
  21341       OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
  21342     - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
  21343       connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
  21344       exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
  21345       address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
  21346       addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
  21347       exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
  21348       and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
  21349       revised in proposal 208.
  21350     - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
  21351       them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
  21352     - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
  21353 
  21354   o Major features (directory authorities):
  21355     - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
  21356       advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
  21357       ticket 8273.
  21358     - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
  21359       than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
  21360       unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
  21361       flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
  21362     - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
  21363       where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
  21364       insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
  21365     - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
  21366       serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
  21367       old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
  21368       any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
  21369 
  21370   o Major features (build and portability):
  21371     - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
  21372       Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
  21373       Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
  21374       process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
  21375       building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
  21376       fixes by Jim Meyering.
  21377     - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
  21378       default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
  21379       behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
  21380     - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
  21381       resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
  21382       7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
  21383 
  21384   o Security features:
  21385     - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
  21386       weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
  21387       part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
  21388       than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
  21389       choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
  21390     - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
  21391       by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
  21392       clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
  21393       and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
  21394       ticket 6888.
  21395 
  21396   o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
  21397     - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
  21398       MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
  21399       queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
  21400       us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
  21401       memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
  21402       drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
  21403       Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
  21404       merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
  21405     - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
  21406       ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
  21407       which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
  21408       to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
  21409       denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
  21410       of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
  21411     - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
  21412       network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
  21413       consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  21414 
  21415   o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
  21416     - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
  21417       the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
  21418       allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
  21419       eugenis.
  21420     - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
  21421       find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
  21422       missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
  21423       on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  21424     - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
  21425       drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
  21426       9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  21427     - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
  21428       ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
  21429       enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
  21430     - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
  21431       when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
  21432       rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
  21433       0.2.3.1-alpha.
  21434     - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
  21435       option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  21436 
  21437   o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
  21438     - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
  21439       that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
  21440       actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
  21441       bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
  21442     - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
  21443       to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
  21444       infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
  21445       relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
  21446       last time we raised it).
  21447     - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
  21448       our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
  21449       handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
  21450 
  21451   o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
  21452     - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
  21453       continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
  21454       is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
  21455       backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
  21456     - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
  21457       which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
  21458       rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  21459     - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
  21460       we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
  21461       consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
  21462       Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
  21463       address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  21464 
  21465   o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
  21466     - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
  21467       IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
  21468       username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
  21469       had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
  21470       never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
  21471       username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
  21472       this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
  21473       bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  21474     - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
  21475       authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
  21476       turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
  21477       0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
  21478 
  21479   o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
  21480     - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
  21481       where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
  21482       initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
  21483       uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
  21484       in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
  21485     - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
  21486       or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
  21487       Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
  21488 
  21489   o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
  21490     - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
  21491       the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
  21492       level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
  21493       {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
  21494       cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
  21495       exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
  21496       {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
  21497       cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
  21498       potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
  21499       doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
  21500       for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
  21501       problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
  21502       circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
  21503       on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
  21504       little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
  21505       too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
  21506       ticket 7570.
  21507 
  21508   o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
  21509     - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
  21510       points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
  21511       bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  21512 
  21513   o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
  21514     - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
  21515       the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
  21516       next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
  21517       0.2.3.14-alpha.
  21518     - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
  21519       meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
  21520       different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
  21521       a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
  21522       wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
  21523       resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
  21524       0.2.0.8-alpha.
  21525 
  21526   o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
  21527     - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
  21528       previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
  21529       successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
  21530       testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
  21531       it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
  21532       an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  21533 
  21534   o Major bugfixes (control interface):
  21535     - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
  21536       LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
  21537       Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  21538 
  21539   o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
  21540     - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
  21541       time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
  21542       were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
  21543       bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
  21544     - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
  21545       nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
  21546       Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
  21547       bug 8146.
  21548     - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
  21549       to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
  21550       Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
  21551       bug 8147.
  21552     - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
  21553       when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
  21554       bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  21555 
  21556   o Internal abstraction features:
  21557     - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
  21558       or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
  21559       transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
  21560       cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
  21561       handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
  21562       it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
  21563       at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
  21564     - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
  21565       existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
  21566       code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
  21567       channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
  21568       Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
  21569     - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
  21570       a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
  21571       circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
  21572       easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
  21573       is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
  21574 
  21575   o New build requirements:
  21576     - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
  21577       strongly recommended.
  21578     - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
  21579       Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
  21580       from a source distribution.)
  21581 
  21582   o Minor features (protocol):
  21583     - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
  21584       or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
  21585       ticket 5124.
  21586     - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
  21587       spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
  21588       we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
  21589       Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
  21590       0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
  21591     - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
  21592       format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
  21593       and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
  21594       closes ticket 7199.
  21595     - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
  21596       Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
  21597 
  21598   o Minor features (security):
  21599     - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
  21600       rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
  21601       crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
  21602       These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
  21603       attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
  21604     - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
  21605       Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
  21606       bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
  21607       by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
  21608 
  21609   o Minor features (control protocol):
  21610     - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
  21611       ticket 3842.
  21612     - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
  21613       Implements ticket 4971.
  21614     - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
  21615       controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
  21616       md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
  21617     - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
  21618       to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
  21619       ticket 8596.
  21620     - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
  21621       microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
  21622 
  21623   o Minor features (path selection):
  21624     - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
  21625       instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
  21626       of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
  21627       keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
  21628       stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
  21629       taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
  21630       new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
  21631     - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
  21632       and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
  21633       countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
  21634       new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
  21635       excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
  21636       with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
  21637       gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
  21638 
  21639   o Minor features (hidden services):
  21640     - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
  21641       In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
  21642       upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
  21643       undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
  21644       if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
  21645     - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
  21646       address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
  21647       possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
  21648       http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
  21649       hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
  21650     - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
  21651       a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
  21652       stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
  21653 
  21654   o Minor features (clients):
  21655     - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
  21656       microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
  21657       descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
  21658       (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
  21659       back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
  21660       them). Resolves ticket 4994.
  21661     - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
  21662       TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
  21663       the ORPort and the DirPort.
  21664 
  21665   o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
  21666     - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
  21667       not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
  21668       to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
  21669       network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
  21670     - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
  21671       10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
  21672       if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
  21673       the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
  21674     - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
  21675       a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
  21676       good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
  21677     - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
  21678       Implements part of proposal 222.
  21679 
  21680   o Minor features (bridges):
  21681     - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
  21682       address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
  21683       bugs 1913 and 1992.
  21684     - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
  21685       bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
  21686       extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
  21687       "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
  21688       implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
  21689     - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
  21690       operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
  21691       listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
  21692     - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
  21693       use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
  21694       related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
  21695 
  21696   o Minor features (relays):
  21697     - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
  21698       accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
  21699 
  21700   o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
  21701     - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
  21702       prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
  21703       them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
  21704       addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
  21705       or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
  21706     - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
  21707       annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
  21708       connect to the wrong addresses.
  21709     - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
  21710       AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
  21711       aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
  21712       if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
  21713       addresses anyway.
  21714 
  21715   o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
  21716     - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
  21717       authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
  21718       do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
  21719     - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
  21720       cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
  21721 
  21722   o Minor features (directory authorities):
  21723     - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
  21724       Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
  21725       These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
  21726       ticket 6789.
  21727     - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
  21728       never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
  21729       bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
  21730       when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
  21731       should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
  21732       improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
  21733       ticket 8145.
  21734     - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
  21735       the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
  21736       Implements ticket 8151.
  21737     - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
  21738       in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
  21739       measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
  21740       bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
  21741 
  21742   o Minor features (path bias detection):
  21743     - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
  21744       use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
  21745       success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
  21746       determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
  21747       fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
  21748     - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
  21749       two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
  21750       options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
  21751       The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
  21752     - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
  21753       which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
  21754       PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
  21755     - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
  21756       in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
  21757     - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
  21758       PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
  21759     - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
  21760       built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
  21761       Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
  21762       destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
  21763       can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
  21764     - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
  21765       point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
  21766     - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
  21767       *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
  21768       makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
  21769       detection capability loss.
  21770 
  21771   o Minor features (build):
  21772     - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
  21773       dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
  21774     - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
  21775       "yayooo".
  21776     - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
  21777       separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
  21778       Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
  21779 
  21780   o Build improvements (autotools):
  21781     - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
  21782       are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
  21783       hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
  21784       some will remain.
  21785     - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
  21786       is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
  21787     - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
  21788       when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
  21789       Fixes bug 6673.
  21790     - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
  21791       memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
  21792       platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
  21793       they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
  21794       currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
  21795       than to perform erroneously.
  21796     - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
  21797       asciidoc source.
  21798     - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
  21799       the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
  21800       approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
  21801 
  21802   o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
  21803     - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
  21804       one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
  21805       hard-to-track-down errors.
  21806     - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
  21807       UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
  21808       vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
  21809       attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
  21810       place). Resolves ticket 6889.
  21811     - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
  21812       previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
  21813       hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  21814     - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
  21815       It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
  21816       to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
  21817 
  21818   o Minor features (log messages, notices):
  21819     - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
  21820       decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
  21821       explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
  21822       Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
  21823       its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
  21824       /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
  21825     - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
  21826       and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
  21827       operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
  21828 
  21829   o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
  21830     - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
  21831       the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
  21832     - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
  21833       cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
  21834       SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
  21835     - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
  21836       overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
  21837       high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
  21838       Diagnostic for bug 7707.
  21839     - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
  21840       Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
  21841     - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
  21842       track bug 7799.
  21843     - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
  21844       transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
  21845     - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
  21846       microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
  21847       or at least make it more diagnosable.
  21848     - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
  21849       from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
  21850     - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
  21851       outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
  21852 
  21853   o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
  21854     - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
  21855       versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
  21856       part of ticket 6736.
  21857     - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
  21858       useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
  21859       Resolves ticket 6758.
  21860     - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
  21861       bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
  21862       problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
  21863       ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  21864     - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
  21865       reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
  21866       directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
  21867       ticket 6760.
  21868     - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
  21869       These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
  21870       with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
  21871       opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  21872 
  21873   o Minor features (testing):
  21874     - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
  21875       entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
  21876       bug 8638.
  21877     - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
  21878       (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
  21879     - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
  21880 
  21881   o Renamed options:
  21882     - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
  21883       current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
  21884 
  21885   o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
  21886     - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
  21887       circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
  21888     - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
  21889       its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
  21890       ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
  21891       in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
  21892       pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
  21893       on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
  21894     - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
  21895       VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
  21896       'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
  21897       only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
  21898       0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
  21899     - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
  21900       consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
  21901       bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
  21902 
  21903   o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
  21904     - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
  21905       setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
  21906       practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
  21907       values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
  21908       'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
  21909     - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
  21910       replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
  21911       our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
  21912       bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
  21913     - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
  21914       include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
  21915       0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
  21916     - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
  21917       rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
  21918       microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
  21919       microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
  21920       Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  21921     - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
  21922       caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
  21923       less common.
  21924 
  21925   o Minor fixes (config options):
  21926     - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
  21927       ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
  21928       or we just won't work.)
  21929     - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
  21930       but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
  21931       bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
  21932     - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
  21933       to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
  21934       Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
  21935     - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
  21936       so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  21937     - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
  21938       CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
  21939       user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
  21940       bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  21941     - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
  21942     - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
  21943       since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
  21944       bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  21945     - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
  21946       ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
  21947       maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
  21948 
  21949   o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
  21950     - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
  21951       "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
  21952       on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
  21953     - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
  21954       code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
  21955       an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
  21956       Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
  21957 
  21958   o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
  21959     - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
  21960       reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
  21961       status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
  21962       as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
  21963       7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
  21964     - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
  21965       second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
  21966       abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
  21967       The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
  21968       to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  21969     - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
  21970       first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
  21971       we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
  21972       1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
  21973       many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
  21974       0.2.2.20-alpha.
  21975 
  21976   o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
  21977     - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
  21978       buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
  21979       additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
  21980       counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
  21981       Should help resolve bug 8235.
  21982     - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
  21983       them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
  21984       some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
  21985       less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
  21986     - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
  21987       don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
  21988       actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
  21989       warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
  21990     - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
  21991       page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
  21992       bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
  21993 
  21994   o Minor bugfixes (relays):
  21995     - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
  21996       think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
  21997       answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
  21998       and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
  21999     - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
  22000       do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
  22001       bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
  22002 
  22003   o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
  22004     - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
  22005       server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
  22006       connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
  22007 
  22008   o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
  22009     - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
  22010       that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
  22011       requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
  22012       extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
  22013 
  22014   o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
  22015     - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
  22016       close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
  22017       Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  22018     - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
  22019       bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  22020 
  22021   o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
  22022     - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
  22023       or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
  22024     - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
  22025       on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
  22026     - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
  22027       Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
  22028     - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
  22029       memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
  22030 
  22031   o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  22032     - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
  22033       link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
  22034       only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
  22035       pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  22036     - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
  22037       shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
  22038       bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
  22039     - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
  22040       close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
  22041       use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
  22042       Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
  22043       is CID 743383.
  22044     - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
  22045       Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
  22046       this is CID 718634.
  22047     - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
  22048       formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
  22049       This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
  22050       sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
  22051       Pedro Ribeiro.
  22052     - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
  22053       enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
  22054 
  22055   o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
  22056     - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
  22057       doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
  22058       underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
  22059       for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
  22060     - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
  22061       with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
  22062       incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  22063     - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
  22064       bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
  22065     - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
  22066       Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  22067     - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
  22068       cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
  22069       bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  22070     - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
  22071       which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
  22072       0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
  22073 
  22074   o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
  22075     - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
  22076       finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
  22077       connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
  22078       bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  22079     - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
  22080       of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
  22081     - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
  22082       severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
  22083       is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
  22084     - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
  22085       which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
  22086       were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
  22087       0.2.3.3-alpha.
  22088 
  22089   o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
  22090     - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
  22091       "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
  22092     - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
  22093       quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
  22094       on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  22095     - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
  22096       bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  22097     - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
  22098       hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
  22099       decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
  22100       bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  22101     - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
  22102       nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
  22103       "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
  22104       on 0.2.3.21-rc.
  22105 
  22106   o Minor bugfixes (build):
  22107     - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
  22108       run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
  22109       Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  22110 
  22111   o Documentation fixes:
  22112     - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
  22113       supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
  22114     - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
  22115     - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
  22116       ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
  22117       ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
  22118     - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
  22119       0.2.3.14-alpha.
  22120     - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
  22121       of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
  22122       units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
  22123     - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
  22124       names match. Fixes bug 7768.
  22125     - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
  22126       message is logged at notice, not at info.
  22127     - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
  22128       for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
  22129     - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
  22130       the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
  22131     - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
  22132       log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
  22133 
  22134   o Removed features:
  22135     - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
  22136       in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
  22137       Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
  22138       ticket 5823.
  22139     - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
  22140       before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
  22141       the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
  22142     - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
  22143       need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
  22144       compatibility code.
  22145 
  22146   o Removed files:
  22147     - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
  22148       recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
  22149       ticket 8290.
  22150     - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
  22151       to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
  22152 
  22153   o Code simplification:
  22154     - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
  22155       objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
  22156       build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
  22157     - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
  22158       ticket 5285.
  22159     - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
  22160       with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
  22161       ticket 7599.
  22162     - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
  22163       need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
  22164       need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
  22165       systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
  22166       present the same extensions.)
  22167     - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
  22168       Niels Provos).
  22169     - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
  22170       the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
  22171       of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
  22172       we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
  22173       CID 448.
  22174     - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
  22175       tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
  22176       _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
  22177       our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
  22178 
  22179   o Refactoring:
  22180     - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
  22181       rate-limit" case.
  22182     - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
  22183       and the different handshakes it supports.
  22184     - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
  22185       out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
  22186     - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
  22187     - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
  22188       to its own file.
  22189     - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
  22190       previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
  22191     - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
  22192       hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
  22193     - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
  22194       into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
  22195       testable, and a little less fragile too.
  22196     - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
  22197     - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
  22198       Implements ticket 5529.
  22199     - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
  22200       rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
  22201       and test. Resolves bug 6177.
  22202 
  22203   o Removed code:
  22204     - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
  22205       OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
  22206       cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
  22207       was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
  22208       of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
  22209       pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  22210     - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
  22211       documents. Fixes bug 6887.
  22212     - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
  22213       cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
  22214       recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
  22215       any encoding is overkill.
  22216     - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
  22217       for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  22218     - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
  22219       We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
  22220       memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
  22221       implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
  22222       are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
  22223       more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
  22224       little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
  22225 
  22226 
  22227 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
  22228   The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
  22229   Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
  22230   Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
  22231   programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
  22232   freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
  22233   anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
  22234   software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
  22235 
  22236   Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
  22237   significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
  22238   enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
  22239   enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
  22240   resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
  22241   pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
  22242   support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
  22243   to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
  22244   refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
  22245   to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
  22246   stability, security, and privacy fixes.
  22247 
  22248   Major features (v3 directory protocol):
  22249     - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
  22250       to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
  22251       summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
  22252       rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
  22253       to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
  22254       connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
  22255     - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
  22256       as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
  22257       describes microdescriptors.
  22258 
  22259   o Major features (build hardening):
  22260     - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
  22261 
  22262   o Major features (relay scaling):
  22263     - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
  22264       instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
  22265       vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
  22266       much faster than other AES implementations.
  22267     - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
  22268       implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
  22269       (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
  22270       Resolves ticket 4526.
  22271     - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
  22272       operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
  22273       ticket 4442.
  22274     - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
  22275       old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
  22276       relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
  22277       that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
  22278 
  22279   o Major features (blocking resistance):
  22280     - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
  22281       ticket 4744.
  22282     - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
  22283       ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
  22284       versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
  22285       and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
  22286       future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
  22287       is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
  22288       old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
  22289       disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
  22290       not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
  22291     - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
  22292       each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
  22293       than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
  22294       future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
  22295     - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
  22296       Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
  22297     - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
  22298       fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
  22299       in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
  22300       diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
  22301 
  22302   o Major features (pluggable transports):
  22303     - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
  22304       "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
  22305       easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
  22306       Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
  22307 
  22308   o Major features (DoS resistance):
  22309     - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
  22310       part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
  22311       refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
  22312       cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
  22313       attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
  22314     - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
  22315       could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
  22316       than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
  22317       or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
  22318       entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
  22319       from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
  22320 
  22321   o Major features (hidden services):
  22322     - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
  22323       will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
  22324       remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
  22325       part of bug 3825.
  22326     - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
  22327       services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
  22328       measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
  22329       what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
  22330       compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
  22331       cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
  22332 
  22333   o Major features (IPv6):
  22334     - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
  22335       still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
  22336       other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
  22337       user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
  22338       IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
  22339 
  22340   o Major features (directory authorities):
  22341     - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
  22342       least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
  22343       vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
  22344       consensus. Implements proposal 178.
  22345     - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
  22346       flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
  22347       up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
  22348       "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
  22349       used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
  22350       a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
  22351 
  22352   o Major features (performance):
  22353     - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
  22354       Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
  22355       stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
  22356       change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
  22357       and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
  22358       stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
  22359       side of Proposal 174.
  22360     - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
  22361       "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
  22362       the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
  22363       connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
  22364       This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
  22365       disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
  22366       torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
  22367     - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
  22368       more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
  22369       performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
  22370       bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
  22371       Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
  22372       Florian Tschorsch.
  22373     - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
  22374       server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
  22375       bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
  22376       little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
  22377       skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
  22378       ticket 3196.
  22379 
  22380   o Major features (relays):
  22381     - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
  22382       frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
  22383       version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
  22384       old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
  22385       to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
  22386       though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
  22387       descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
  22388 
  22389   o Major features (stream isolation):
  22390     - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
  22391       applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
  22392       attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
  22393       linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
  22394       to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
  22395       SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
  22396       SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
  22397       SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
  22398       degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
  22399     - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
  22400       SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
  22401       multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
  22402       The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
  22403       mix it with the new *Port syntax.
  22404 
  22405   o Major features (bufferevents):
  22406     - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
  22407       backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
  22408       have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
  22409       --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
  22410       source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
  22411       let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
  22412       zero-copy transports where available.
  22413     - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
  22414       kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
  22415       "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
  22416       no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
  22417       you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
  22418       long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
  22419 
  22420   o Major features (path selection):
  22421     - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
  22422       addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
  22423       options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
  22424       to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
  22425       issue here.
  22426 
  22427   o Major features (port forwarding):
  22428     - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
  22429       that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
  22430       need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
  22431       and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
  22432       "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
  22433       it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
  22434 
  22435   o Major features (logging):
  22436     - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
  22437       describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
  22438       operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
  22439       server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
  22440     - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
  22441       option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
  22442       Implements enhancement 1668.
  22443 
  22444   o Major features (other):
  22445     - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
  22446       connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
  22447       Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
  22448       to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
  22449       to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
  22450       option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
  22451     - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
  22452       addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
  22453       binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
  22454       approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
  22455       software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
  22456       whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
  22457       SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
  22458       system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
  22459     - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
  22460       before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
  22461       options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
  22462       The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
  22463       differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
  22464       reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
  22465 
  22466   o New directory authorities:
  22467     - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
  22468       authority. Closes ticket 5749.
  22469 
  22470   o Security/privacy fixes:
  22471     - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
  22472       when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
  22473       bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  22474     - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
  22475       this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
  22476       network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
  22477       6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  22478     - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
  22479       handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
  22480     - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
  22481       system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
  22482       its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
  22483       (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
  22484       can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
  22485       preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
  22486     - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
  22487       our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
  22488       perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
  22489       could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
  22490       was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
  22491       against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
  22492     - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
  22493       that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
  22494       the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
  22495       was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
  22496       memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
  22497       hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
  22498       by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
  22499       is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
  22500       a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
  22501       Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
  22502 
  22503   o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
  22504     - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
  22505       occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
  22506       requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
  22507     - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
  22508       could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
  22509       authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
  22510       information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  22511     - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
  22512       during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
  22513       it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
  22514       init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
  22515     - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
  22516       version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
  22517       on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
  22518 
  22519   o Major bugfixes (clients):
  22520     - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
  22521       stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
  22522       hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
  22523       which introduced predicted ports.
  22524     - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
  22525       long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
  22526       did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
  22527       indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
  22528     - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
  22529       always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
  22530       circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  22531       This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
  22532       but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
  22533 
  22534   o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
  22535     - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
  22536       double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
  22537       authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
  22538       votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
  22539       but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
  22540       on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  22541     - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
  22542       presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
  22543       would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
  22544       value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
  22545       rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
  22546     - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
  22547       directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
  22548       them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
  22549       0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
  22550       documents entirely.
  22551 
  22552   o Major bugfixes (relays):
  22553     - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
  22554       result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
  22555       pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
  22556       before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
  22557     - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
  22558       tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
  22559       estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
  22560       interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
  22561       on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
  22562       immensely in tracking this bug down.
  22563     - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
  22564       in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
  22565       bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
  22566     - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
  22567       connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
  22568       running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
  22569       bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
  22570 
  22571   o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
  22572     - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
  22573       OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
  22574       Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
  22575       "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
  22576       cells were introduced.
  22577     - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
  22578       configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
  22579       all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
  22580       directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
  22581 
  22582   o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  22583     - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
  22584       a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
  22585       descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
  22586       immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
  22587       service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
  22588       fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
  22589       during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
  22590     - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
  22591       They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
  22592       of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
  22593       replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
  22594       service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
  22595       the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
  22596       field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
  22597     - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
  22598       unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
  22599       to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
  22600       descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
  22601       Fixes part of bug 3825.
  22602 
  22603   o Changes to default torrc file:
  22604     - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
  22605       port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
  22606       in practice.
  22607     - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
  22608       torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
  22609     - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
  22610       Fixes bug 5621.
  22611     - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
  22612       the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
  22613       PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
  22614 
  22615   o Minor features (directory authorities):
  22616     - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
  22617       change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
  22618       uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
  22619     - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
  22620       older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
  22621       make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
  22622       issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
  22623       but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
  22624     - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
  22625       set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
  22626     - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
  22627       FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
  22628       for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
  22629       experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
  22630       The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
  22631       ticket 3946.
  22632 
  22633   o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
  22634     - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
  22635       serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
  22636       self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
  22637     - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
  22638       This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
  22639       connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
  22640       directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
  22641       sure. Closes bug 5139.
  22642     - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
  22643       descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
  22644       it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
  22645       fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
  22646       25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
  22647 
  22648   o Minor features (IPv6):
  22649     - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
  22650       IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
  22651       messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
  22652       connection. Implements ticket 5537.
  22653     - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
  22654       directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
  22655 
  22656   o Minor features (hidden services):
  22657     - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
  22658       Required by fix for bug 3460.
  22659     - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
  22660       public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
  22661       replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
  22662       INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
  22663       avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
  22664     - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
  22665       trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
  22666       HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
  22667       descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
  22668 
  22669   o Minor features (relays):
  22670     - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
  22671       in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
  22672       make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
  22673     - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
  22674       extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
  22675     - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
  22676       include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
  22677       keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
  22678     - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
  22679       bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
  22680     - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
  22681       ticket 1883.
  22682 
  22683   o Minor features (new config options):
  22684     - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
  22685       each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
  22686       SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
  22687       who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
  22688       bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
  22689     - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
  22690       to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
  22691       Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
  22692     - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
  22693       127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
  22694       There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
  22695       behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
  22696 
  22697   o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
  22698     - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
  22699       as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
  22700       Implements issue 933.
  22701     - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
  22702       limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
  22703       low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
  22704       used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
  22705     - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
  22706       implements ticket 3439.
  22707     - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
  22708       enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
  22709       the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
  22710     - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
  22711       many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
  22712     - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
  22713       consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
  22714       that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
  22715 
  22716   o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
  22717     - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
  22718       options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
  22719       torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
  22720       would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
  22721       options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
  22722       allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
  22723       ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
  22724       appending to the list.
  22725     - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
  22726       options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
  22727     - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
  22728       line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
  22729       with a "/".
  22730 
  22731   o Minor features (controller, new events):
  22732     - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
  22733       path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
  22734       circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
  22735     - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
  22736       and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
  22737       events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
  22738       of ticket 2411.
  22739     - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
  22740       control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
  22741       circuit-status' control-port command.
  22742     - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
  22743       of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
  22744       user. Implements ticket 1692.
  22745     - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
  22746       controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
  22747       issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
  22748 
  22749   o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
  22750     - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
  22751       via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
  22752       can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
  22753       it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
  22754     - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
  22755       from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
  22756     - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
  22757       the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
  22758 
  22759   o Minor features (controller, other):
  22760     - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
  22761       circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
  22762       part of ticket 3457.
  22763     - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
  22764       control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
  22765       file. Resolves bug 1101.
  22766     - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
  22767       give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
  22768 
  22769   o Minor features (log messages):
  22770     - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
  22771       bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
  22772       non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
  22773       please let us know about it.
  22774     - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
  22775       EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
  22776     - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
  22777       startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
  22778       Resolves ticket 2474.
  22779     - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
  22780       error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
  22781 
  22782   o Minor features (other):
  22783     - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
  22784       don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
  22785       turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
  22786       4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
  22787       2.0.15-stable.
  22788     - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
  22789       control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
  22790       that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
  22791       run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
  22792     - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
  22793       handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
  22794       don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
  22795       bug 1666.
  22796     - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
  22797       cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
  22798       microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
  22799       structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
  22800     - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
  22801 
  22802   o Minor bugfixes (code security):
  22803     - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
  22804       for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
  22805       empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
  22806       since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
  22807       but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
  22808       robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
  22809     - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
  22810       some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  22811     - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
  22812       overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
  22813       provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
  22814       Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
  22815     - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
  22816       the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
  22817       where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
  22818       ticket 6514.
  22819 
  22820   o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
  22821     - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
  22822       utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
  22823       ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
  22824       happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
  22825       message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
  22826       command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
  22827     - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
  22828       tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
  22829       by Anders Sundman.
  22830     - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
  22831       bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
  22832     - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
  22833       pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
  22834     - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
  22835       the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
  22836       bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  22837     - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
  22838       invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
  22839       for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
  22840 
  22841   o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  22842     - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
  22843       file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  22844     - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
  22845       that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
  22846       NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
  22847       Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
  22848     - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
  22849       nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
  22850       0.1.2.1-alpha.
  22851     - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
  22852       a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
  22853       bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
  22854     - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
  22855       connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
  22856       errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
  22857       0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
  22858     - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
  22859       bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
  22860 
  22861   o Minor bugfixes (clients):
  22862     - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
  22863       timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
  22864       and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
  22865       clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
  22866       the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
  22867       bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
  22868       30 seconds.
  22869     - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
  22870       already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
  22871       hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
  22872       0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
  22873 
  22874   o Minor bugfixes (relays):
  22875     - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
  22876       unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
  22877       resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  22878     - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
  22879       create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
  22880       with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
  22881       than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
  22882       more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
  22883     - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
  22884       they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
  22885       and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
  22886       0.2.2.11-alpha.
  22887 
  22888   o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
  22889     - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
  22890       extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  22891     - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
  22892       consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
  22893       microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
  22894       0.2.2.6-alpha.
  22895     - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
  22896       before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
  22897       consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  22898     - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
  22899       and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
  22900       could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
  22901       bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
  22902     - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
  22903       of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
  22904       to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
  22905       0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
  22906     - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
  22907       DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
  22908       make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
  22909       descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
  22910 
  22911   o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
  22912     - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
  22913       using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
  22914       client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
  22915       but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
  22916       side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
  22917       bugfix on 0.0.6.
  22918     - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
  22919       rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
  22920       Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
  22921       numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
  22922       bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
  22923     - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
  22924       finished connecting to their destination when they reach
  22925       the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
  22926       introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
  22927       from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
  22928       been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
  22929       after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
  22930       another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
  22931       be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
  22932       option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  22933 
  22934   o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
  22935     - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
  22936       reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
  22937       be disabled using the new
  22938       CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
  22939       remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  22940     - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
  22941       for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
  22942       launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
  22943       had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
  22944       bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
  22945 
  22946   o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
  22947     - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
  22948       do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
  22949       bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  22950     - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
  22951       behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
  22952       the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
  22953       0.2.0.10-alpha.
  22954     - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
  22955       We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
  22956       address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
  22957       .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
  22958       bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  22959     - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
  22960       don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
  22961       timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
  22962       0.2.2.14-alpha.
  22963     - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
  22964       it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
  22965       to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
  22966       certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  22967     - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
  22968       bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
  22969       requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
  22970       of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
  22971 
  22972   o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  22973     - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
  22974       from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
  22975       they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
  22976       command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
  22977     - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
  22978       identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
  22979       made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
  22980       0.2.1.1-alpha.
  22981     - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
  22982       option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
  22983       a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
  22984       usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
  22985       on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
  22986     - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
  22987       directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
  22988       by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
  22989       0.2.2.26-beta.
  22990     - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
  22991       a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
  22992 
  22993   o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
  22994     - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
  22995       blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
  22996       bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
  22997       case for flushing marked connections.
  22998     - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
  22999       reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
  23000       lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
  23001       Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
  23002     - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
  23003       server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  23004     - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
  23005       during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
  23006       continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
  23007       Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  23008 
  23009   o Minor bugfixes (other):
  23010     - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
  23011       resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
  23012       try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
  23013       started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
  23014     - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
  23015       connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
  23016       completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
  23017       connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
  23018     - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
  23019       the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
  23020       0.1.2.1-alpha.
  23021     - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
  23022       bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
  23023     - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
  23024       continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
  23025       bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  23026 
  23027   o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
  23028     - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
  23029       severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
  23030       anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
  23031       from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  23032     - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
  23033       more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
  23034       returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
  23035     - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
  23036       options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
  23037       CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
  23038     - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
  23039       circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
  23040       PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
  23041       additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
  23042       many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
  23043 
  23044   o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
  23045     - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
  23046       from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
  23047       bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
  23048     - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
  23049       that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
  23050       4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  23051     - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
  23052       an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  23053     - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
  23054       email address. Fixes bug 3448.
  23055     - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
  23056       successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
  23057     - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
  23058     - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
  23059       HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
  23060       Implements ticket 3264.
  23061     - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
  23062       ticket 2444.
  23063     - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
  23064       a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
  23065       often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
  23066       are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
  23067       reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
  23068       client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
  23069 
  23070   o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
  23071     - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
  23072       Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
  23073     - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
  23074       unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
  23075       bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
  23076     - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
  23077       them from the other auths.
  23078     - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
  23079       upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
  23080       sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
  23081       to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  23082     - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
  23083       link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
  23084       address. Resolves ticket 6490.
  23085     - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
  23086       Fixes bug 4574.
  23087 
  23088   o Testing:
  23089     - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
  23090       This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
  23091       running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
  23092       identifiers.
  23093     - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
  23094       the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
  23095     - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
  23096       option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
  23097       as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
  23098     - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
  23099     - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
  23100     - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
  23101       Anders Sundman.
  23102     - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
  23103       ./src/test/bench binary.
  23104     - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
  23105       gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
  23106     - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
  23107       This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
  23108       one of them fails.
  23109 
  23110   o Build improvements:
  23111     - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
  23112       binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
  23113       statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
  23114     - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
  23115       reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
  23116     - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
  23117       of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
  23118       fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
  23119     - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
  23120       are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
  23121       if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
  23122     - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
  23123       automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
  23124       modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
  23125     - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
  23126       we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
  23127     - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
  23128       on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
  23129     - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
  23130       statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
  23131       Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
  23132       2702.
  23133     - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
  23134 
  23135   o Build requirements:
  23136     - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
  23137       2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
  23138       SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
  23139       work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
  23140       Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
  23141       introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
  23142     - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
  23143       Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
  23144       This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
  23145       people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
  23146       the Makefile.am files should be fine.
  23147     - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
  23148       AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
  23149 
  23150   o Build fixes (compile/link):
  23151     - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
  23152       Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
  23153       Tor 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  23154     - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
  23155       erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
  23156     - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
  23157       that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
  23158       will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
  23159     - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
  23160       Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  23161     - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
  23162       Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
  23163 
  23164   o Build fixes (other):
  23165     - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
  23166       (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
  23167       'MS_WINDOWS'.)
  23168     - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
  23169       as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
  23170       src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
  23171       bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  23172     - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
  23173       libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
  23174       against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
  23175       4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
  23176       Pedersen.
  23177     - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
  23178       the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
  23179       named 'op()'.
  23180 
  23181   o Packaging (RPM) changes:
  23182     - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
  23183       on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
  23184       conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
  23185       user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
  23186       patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
  23187     - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
  23188       is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
  23189 
  23190   o Code refactoring (safety):
  23191     - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
  23192       10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
  23193       led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
  23194       SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
  23195     - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
  23196       about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
  23197     - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
  23198       code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
  23199       should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
  23200       a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
  23201     - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
  23202     - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
  23203 
  23204   o Code refactoring (consolidate):
  23205     - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
  23206       Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
  23207       "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
  23208       and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
  23209       microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
  23210       without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
  23211       Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
  23212       interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
  23213       of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
  23214     - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
  23215       Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
  23216     - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
  23217     - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
  23218       own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
  23219       Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
  23220     - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
  23221       initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
  23222 
  23223   o Code refactoring (separate):
  23224     - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
  23225       connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
  23226     - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
  23227       connection type.
  23228     - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
  23229       we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
  23230       we want.
  23231 
  23232   o Code refactoring (name changes):
  23233     - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
  23234       structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
  23235       object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
  23236       functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
  23237       they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
  23238       types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
  23239       "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
  23240       type_env_t.
  23241     - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
  23242       "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
  23243       "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
  23244       should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
  23245     - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
  23246       we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
  23247     - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
  23248       invalid value, rather than just -1.
  23249     - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
  23250       can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
  23251       0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
  23252 
  23253   o Code refactoring (other):
  23254     - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
  23255       violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
  23256       bug 5645.
  23257     - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
  23258       previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
  23259       functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
  23260       evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
  23261       changes suggested in ticket 4421.
  23262     - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
  23263       INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
  23264       Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
  23265       service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
  23266     - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
  23267       no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
  23268       our library structure used to force them to link it.
  23269 
  23270   o Removed features and files:
  23271     - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
  23272       it would be a bad idea to start.
  23273     - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
  23274       supported).
  23275     - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
  23276       Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
  23277     - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
  23278       we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
  23279       is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
  23280     - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
  23281       used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
  23282       are no longer in use as relays.
  23283     - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
  23284       tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
  23285       Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
  23286       5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
  23287     - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
  23288       it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
  23289       bug 5622.
  23290 
  23291   o Documentation:
  23292     - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
  23293       the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
  23294     - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
  23295       Fixes bug 6387.
  23296     - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
  23297       overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
  23298       bug 4748.
  23299     - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
  23300       files. Resolves ticket 6732.
  23301     - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
  23302 
  23303   o Documentation fixes:
  23304     - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
  23305       options. Addresses ticket 3964.
  23306     - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
  23307     - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
  23308       fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
  23309       therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
  23310     - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
  23311     - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
  23312 
  23313 
  23314 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
  23315   Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
  23316   assertions.
  23317 
  23318   o Security fixes:
  23319     - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
  23320       by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
  23321       Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  23322     - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
  23323       address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
  23324       assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
  23325       allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
  23326       on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
  23327 
  23328 
  23329 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
  23330   Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
  23331   attack that could in theory leak path information.
  23332 
  23333   o Security fixes:
  23334     - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
  23335       document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
  23336       lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  23337     - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
  23338       choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
  23339       stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
  23340       had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
  23341       a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
  23342       timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
  23343       they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
  23344       a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
  23345       be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
  23346       other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
  23347       not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
  23348 
  23349 
  23350 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
  23351   Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
  23352   bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
  23353   currently).
  23354 
  23355   o Major bugfixes:
  23356     - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
  23357       1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
  23358       the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
  23359       1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
  23360     - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
  23361       any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
  23362       Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  23363     - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
  23364       descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
  23365       for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
  23366       ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  23367 
  23368   o Minor bugfixes:
  23369     - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
  23370       Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
  23371 
  23372   o Minor features:
  23373     - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
  23374       to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
  23375 
  23376 
  23377 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
  23378   Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
  23379   authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
  23380   and fixes several crash bugs.
  23381 
  23382   Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
  23383   known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
  23384   you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
  23385   those packages and upgrade anyway.
  23386 
  23387   o Directory authority changes:
  23388     - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
  23389     - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
  23390       it to turtles.
  23391 
  23392   o Security fixes:
  23393     - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
  23394       than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
  23395       versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
  23396       padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
  23397       information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
  23398       does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
  23399       could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
  23400       they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
  23401       upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
  23402       or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
  23403       to make sure that the bug can't happen.
  23404     - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
  23405       if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
  23406       5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
  23407       and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
  23408     - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
  23409       descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
  23410       flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
  23411       all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
  23412       the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
  23413     - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
  23414       authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
  23415       running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
  23416       process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
  23417       it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
  23418       authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
  23419       this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
  23420 
  23421   o Major bugfixes:
  23422     - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
  23423       service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  23424     - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
  23425       cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
  23426       0.2.1.6-alpha.
  23427     - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
  23428       spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
  23429       on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  23430     - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
  23431       on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
  23432       function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
  23433       currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
  23434       bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
  23435     - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
  23436       creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
  23437       bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
  23438 
  23439   o Minor bugfixes:
  23440     - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
  23441       Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
  23442     - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
  23443       as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
  23444       underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
  23445       functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
  23446       underlying integer type, these functions would return those
  23447       values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
  23448       Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
  23449     - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
  23450       by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
  23451       socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
  23452       we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
  23453       no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
  23454       learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
  23455       on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
  23456     - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
  23457       Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
  23458       incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
  23459       Esteban Manchado Velázques.
  23460     - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
  23461       design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
  23462       comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
  23463       to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
  23464       bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
  23465     - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
  23466       configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
  23467       to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
  23468       control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
  23469       independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
  23470       noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
  23471       by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
  23472       bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  23473     - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
  23474       configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  23475     - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
  23476       3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
  23477       CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
  23478     - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
  23479       Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  23480     - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
  23481       command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  23482     - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
  23483       existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
  23484       server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
  23485       1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
  23486 
  23487   o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
  23488     - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
  23489       Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
  23490     - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
  23491       really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
  23492     - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
  23493       directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
  23494     - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
  23495       to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
  23496       is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
  23497       bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  23498     - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
  23499       controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
  23500     - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
  23501       circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
  23502 
  23503   o Minor features:
  23504     - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
  23505       0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
  23506       inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
  23507       the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
  23508       issue 4788.
  23509     - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  23510 
  23511   - Feature removal:
  23512     - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
  23513       it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
  23514       protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
  23515       didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
  23516       versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
  23517       the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
  23518       remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
  23519 
  23520 
  23521 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
  23522   Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
  23523   buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
  23524 
  23525   The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
  23526   in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
  23527   misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
  23528   attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
  23529   attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
  23530   Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
  23531   instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
  23532   (which Tor does not do by default).
  23533 
  23534   Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
  23535   presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
  23536   this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
  23537   This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
  23538   thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
  23539 
  23540   Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
  23541   crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
  23542   would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
  23543   AV software.
  23544 
  23545   With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
  23546   formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
  23547   nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
  23548   0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
  23549   obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
  23550 
  23551   The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
  23552   longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
  23553 
  23554   o Major bugfixes:
  23555     - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
  23556       data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
  23557       already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
  23558       bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
  23559     - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
  23560       that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
  23561       some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
  23562       bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
  23563       2.0.15-stable.
  23564     - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
  23565       don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
  23566       reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
  23567       cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
  23568       which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
  23569       close based on processing a cell on it.
  23570     - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
  23571       allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
  23572       point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
  23573       bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  23574     - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
  23575       descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
  23576       4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  23577     - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
  23578       file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
  23579       we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
  23580     - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
  23581       wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
  23582       statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
  23583       useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
  23584       bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
  23585 
  23586   o Minor bugfixes:
  23587     - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
  23588       detection for future instances of bug 4457.
  23589     - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
  23590       function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
  23591       busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
  23592     - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
  23593       Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
  23594       Mansour Moufid.
  23595     - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
  23596       --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
  23597       0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
  23598     - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
  23599       immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
  23600       or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  23601     - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
  23602       received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
  23603       by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  23604     - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
  23605       bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
  23606     - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
  23607       occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
  23608       in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  23609     - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
  23610       Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
  23611     - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
  23612       unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
  23613       buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  23614       Reported by "troll_un".
  23615     - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
  23616       tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  23617       Reported by "troll_un".
  23618     - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
  23619       Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
  23620     - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
  23621       4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
  23622 
  23623   o Minor features:
  23624     - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
  23625       AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
  23626       Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
  23627       that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
  23628       the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
  23629       Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
  23630     - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
  23631       include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
  23632       Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
  23633       was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
  23634     - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  23635 
  23636   o Packaging changes:
  23637     - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
  23638       by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
  23639 
  23640 
  23641 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
  23642   Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
  23643   oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
  23644   others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
  23645   using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
  23646 
  23647   The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
  23648   early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
  23649 
  23650   o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
  23651     - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
  23652       allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
  23653       point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
  23654       bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  23655     - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
  23656       data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
  23657       already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
  23658       bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
  23659 
  23660   o Minor features:
  23661     - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  23662 
  23663 
  23664 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
  23665   Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
  23666   can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
  23667 
  23668   The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
  23669   when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
  23670   the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
  23671   identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
  23672   is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
  23673   attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
  23674   of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
  23675   discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
  23676   4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
  23677   for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
  23678   release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
  23679   the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
  23680   "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
  23681 
  23682   Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
  23683   certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
  23684   remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
  23685   currently connected to them.
  23686 
  23687   This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
  23688   to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
  23689   remain; see for example proposal 188.
  23690 
  23691   o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
  23692     - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
  23693       outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
  23694       use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
  23695       its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
  23696       or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
  23697       Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
  23698     - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
  23699       no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
  23700       circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
  23701       CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
  23702     - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
  23703       that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
  23704       to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
  23705       protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
  23706       the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
  23707       "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
  23708       to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
  23709       guard relays.
  23710 
  23711   o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
  23712     - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
  23713       connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
  23714       directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
  23715       avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
  23716     - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
  23717       way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
  23718       enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
  23719       when bridges were introduced.
  23720     - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
  23721       that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
  23722       connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
  23723       enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  23724       Found by "frosty_un".
  23725 
  23726   o Major bugfixes:
  23727     - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
  23728       is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
  23729       by "Tey'".
  23730     - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
  23731       hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
  23732       launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
  23733       which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
  23734       actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
  23735       new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
  23736       found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
  23737 
  23738   o Minor bugfixes:
  23739     - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
  23740       that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
  23741       from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
  23742     - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
  23743       circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
  23744       intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
  23745       is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
  23746       circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
  23747     - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
  23748       Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
  23749       bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
  23750     - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
  23751       failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
  23752       if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
  23753       Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
  23754     - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
  23755       IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
  23756       0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
  23757 
  23758   o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
  23759     - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
  23760       man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
  23761       bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  23762     - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
  23763       a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
  23764       version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
  23765       ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
  23766     - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
  23767       "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
  23768       intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
  23769       bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
  23770 
  23771   o Minor features:
  23772     - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
  23773       extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
  23774       Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
  23775     - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  23776 
  23777 
  23778 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
  23779   Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
  23780   oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
  23781   others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
  23782   using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
  23783 
  23784   o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
  23785     - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
  23786       with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
  23787       compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
  23788       adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
  23789       sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
  23790       implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
  23791     - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
  23792       addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
  23793       somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  23794 
  23795   o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
  23796     - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
  23797       outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
  23798       use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
  23799       its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
  23800       or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
  23801       Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
  23802     - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
  23803       no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
  23804       circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
  23805       CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
  23806     - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
  23807       that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
  23808       connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
  23809       enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  23810       Found by "frosty_un".
  23811     - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
  23812       the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
  23813       hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
  23814       wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
  23815       a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
  23816       with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
  23817     - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
  23818       all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
  23819       SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  23820     - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
  23821       requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
  23822       descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
  23823       Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  23824     - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
  23825       NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
  23826       circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
  23827       long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
  23828       Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
  23829       0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
  23830 
  23831   o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
  23832     - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
  23833       from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
  23834       triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
  23835       routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
  23836       bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
  23837       like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
  23838       REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
  23839       fixes bug 1172.
  23840     - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
  23841       enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
  23842     - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
  23843       anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
  23844     - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
  23845       None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
  23846       this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
  23847     - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
  23848       with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
  23849       0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
  23850     - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
  23851       the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
  23852       John Brooks.
  23853     - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
  23854       heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  23855     - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
  23856       give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  23857     - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
  23858       exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  23859     - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
  23860       example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
  23861       and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
  23862       on 0.0.9pre6.
  23863     - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
  23864       Fixes bug 3208.
  23865     - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
  23866       passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
  23867       smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
  23868       CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  23869     - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
  23870       about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
  23871       could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
  23872       Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
  23873 
  23874   o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
  23875     - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
  23876       rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
  23877     - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
  23878       micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
  23879 
  23880   o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
  23881     - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
  23882       better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
  23883     - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
  23884     - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  23885 
  23886 
  23887 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
  23888   Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
  23889   TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
  23890   reachable from Iran again.
  23891 
  23892   o Major bugfixes:
  23893     - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
  23894       TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
  23895       3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  23896 
  23897   o Minor features (security):
  23898     - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
  23899       INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
  23900       the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
  23901       by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
  23902       rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
  23903       alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
  23904       that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
  23905       on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
  23906       but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
  23907       this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
  23908 
  23909   o Minor features:
  23910     - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
  23911       better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
  23912     - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
  23913       a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
  23914       Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
  23915     - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
  23916       authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
  23917       consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
  23918     - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  23919 
  23920   o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
  23921     - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
  23922       CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
  23923       is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
  23924       when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
  23925       raised by bug 3898.
  23926     - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
  23927       service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
  23928       INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
  23929       log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
  23930       fixes part of bug 2442.
  23931     - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
  23932       level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
  23933       to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
  23934       of bug 2442.
  23935     - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
  23936       HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
  23937       message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
  23938       given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
  23939       was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  23940 
  23941   o Build fixes:
  23942     - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
  23943       apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
  23944     - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
  23945       BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
  23946     - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
  23947       Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
  23948 
  23949 
  23950 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
  23951   The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
  23952   Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
  23953   a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
  23954   and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
  23955   to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
  23956   could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
  23957   I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
  23958   world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
  23959   initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
  23960 
  23961   Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
  23962   ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
  23963   client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
  23964   for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
  23965   one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
  23966   better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
  23967   many many other features and bugfixes.
  23968 
  23969   o Major features (client performance):
  23970     - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
  23971       that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
  23972       low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
  23973       feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
  23974       this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
  23975       option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
  23976       Alexander.
  23977     - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
  23978       clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
  23979       and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
  23980       more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
  23981       in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
  23982       thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
  23983       the first implementation of this feature.
  23984 
  23985   o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
  23986     - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
  23987       over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
  23988       Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
  23989       bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
  23990       discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
  23991       circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
  23992       points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
  23993     - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
  23994       parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
  23995       experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
  23996     - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
  23997       or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
  23998       also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
  23999       AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
  24000       file. Implements ticket 1296.
  24001 
  24002   o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
  24003     - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
  24004       listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
  24005       useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
  24006       near past. Resolves issue 2850.
  24007     - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
  24008       state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
  24009       so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
  24010       restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
  24011       estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
  24012     - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
  24013       should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
  24014       improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
  24015       decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
  24016       they first get the Guard flag.
  24017     - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
  24018       ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
  24019       if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
  24020       treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
  24021       calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
  24022       change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
  24023     - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
  24024       hardware crypto acceleration engines.
  24025 
  24026   o Major features (relays control their load better):
  24027     - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
  24028       relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
  24029       a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
  24030       parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
  24031       relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
  24032       based on a variant of proposal 163.
  24033     - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
  24034       limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
  24035       but never per-conn write limits.
  24036     - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
  24037       rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
  24038       controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
  24039       experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
  24040 
  24041   o Major features (controllers):
  24042     - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
  24043       have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
  24044       can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
  24045       contributions to the network.
  24046     - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
  24047       TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
  24048       that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
  24049 
  24050   o Major features (directory authorities):
  24051     - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
  24052       parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
  24053       Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
  24054       multiple flavors".
  24055     - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
  24056       of router information that clients can use in place of regular
  24057       server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
  24058       to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
  24059       network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
  24060       download consensus + microdescriptors".
  24061     - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
  24062       algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
  24063       are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
  24064       hash algorithm in the future.
  24065     - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
  24066       part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
  24067       network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
  24068 
  24069   o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
  24070     - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
  24071       ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
  24072       options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
  24073       counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
  24074       0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
  24075       through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
  24076       surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
  24077         . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
  24078           a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
  24079         . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
  24080           first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
  24081           connections to directory servers.
  24082         . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
  24083         . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
  24084           StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
  24085           ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
  24086           StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
  24087           whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
  24088           perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
  24089           hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
  24090           information, or fetch directory information.
  24091       Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
  24092     - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
  24093       change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
  24094       circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
  24095       config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
  24096       the change.
  24097     - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
  24098       StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
  24099       entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
  24100       after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
  24101       those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
  24102       all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
  24103     - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
  24104       fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
  24105       the network changes.
  24106     - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
  24107       ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
  24108       bug 1094.
  24109     - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
  24110       a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
  24111     - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
  24112       StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
  24113       Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
  24114       unless you really want your Tor to break.
  24115     - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
  24116     - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
  24117     - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
  24118     - When StrictNodes is 1:
  24119        . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
  24120          and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
  24121          can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
  24122        . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
  24123          reachability self-tests.
  24124        . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
  24125          even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
  24126        . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
  24127     - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
  24128       introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
  24129       0.1.0.1-rc.
  24130     - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
  24131       if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  24132     - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
  24133 
  24134   o Major features (misc):
  24135     - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
  24136       to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
  24137     - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
  24138       value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
  24139       new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
  24140       actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
  24141       ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
  24142       group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
  24143       system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
  24144       part of ticket 3076.
  24145     - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
  24146       a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
  24147       configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
  24148 
  24149   o Code security improvements:
  24150     - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
  24151       with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
  24152       compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
  24153       adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
  24154       sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
  24155       implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
  24156     - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
  24157       Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
  24158       attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
  24159     - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
  24160       to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
  24161       that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
  24162       -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
  24163       with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
  24164       supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
  24165       related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
  24166     - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
  24167       to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
  24168       not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
  24169     - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
  24170       nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
  24171     - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
  24172       current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
  24173       platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
  24174       this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
  24175       memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
  24176       if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
  24177       to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
  24178 
  24179   o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  24180     - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
  24181       NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
  24182       2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
  24183     - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
  24184       from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
  24185       or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
  24186     - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
  24187       with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
  24188       0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
  24189     - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
  24190       example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
  24191       and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
  24192       on 0.0.9pre6.
  24193     - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
  24194       but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
  24195       is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
  24196       on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  24197     - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
  24198       Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
  24199 
  24200   o Major bugfixes (stability):
  24201     - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
  24202       addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
  24203       somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  24204     - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
  24205       heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  24206     - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
  24207       assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
  24208     - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
  24209       in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
  24210     - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
  24211       on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
  24212       Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
  24213     - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
  24214       configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
  24215       command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
  24216     - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
  24217 
  24218   o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
  24219     - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
  24220       use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
  24221       on 0.1.1.8-alpha.
  24222     - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
  24223       nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
  24224       Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
  24225       "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
  24226       behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
  24227       useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
  24228       introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
  24229     - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
  24230       outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
  24231       same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
  24232       Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
  24233     - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
  24234       contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
  24235       identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
  24236       0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
  24237     - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
  24238       requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
  24239       descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
  24240       Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  24241 
  24242   o Privacy fixes (clients):
  24243     - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
  24244       the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
  24245       hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
  24246       wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
  24247       a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
  24248       with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
  24249     - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
  24250       can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
  24251       on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
  24252       on 0.0.9rc5.
  24253     - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
  24254       IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
  24255       a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
  24256       ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
  24257       in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
  24258       proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
  24259       "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
  24260     - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
  24261       for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
  24262       is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
  24263 
  24264   o Privacy fixes (newnym):
  24265     - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
  24266       all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
  24267       SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  24268     - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
  24269       DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
  24270       NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  24271     - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
  24272       NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
  24273       circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
  24274       long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
  24275       Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
  24276       0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
  24277 
  24278   o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
  24279     - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
  24280       time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
  24281       Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
  24282     - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
  24283       the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
  24284       daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
  24285       interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
  24286       50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
  24287       in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  24288 
  24289   o Major bugfixes (bridges):
  24290     - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
  24291       on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
  24292     - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
  24293       and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
  24294       one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
  24295       from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
  24296       closes bug 1138.
  24297     - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
  24298       address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
  24299       address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
  24300       should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
  24301       any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
  24302       0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
  24303     - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
  24304       configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
  24305       to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
  24306       to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
  24307       a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
  24308       dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
  24309     - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
  24310       seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
  24311       0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
  24312 
  24313   o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
  24314     - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
  24315       not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
  24316       a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
  24317       we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
  24318       other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
  24319       vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
  24320       on 0.2.1.23.
  24321     - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
  24322       that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
  24323       with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
  24324       1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
  24325     - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
  24326       nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
  24327       with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
  24328       consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
  24329 
  24330   o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
  24331     - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
  24332       to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
  24333       been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
  24334       oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
  24335       the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
  24336       given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
  24337       originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
  24338       first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
  24339       the longest-lived bug prize.
  24340     - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
  24341       circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
  24342       destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
  24343       introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
  24344     - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
  24345       reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
  24346       circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
  24347       some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
  24348       sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
  24349       on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
  24350       "yetonetime".
  24351     - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
  24352       even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
  24353       This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
  24354       blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
  24355       We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
  24356       getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
  24357       fixes bug 1298.
  24358 
  24359   o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  24360     - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
  24361       based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
  24362       circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
  24363       it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
  24364       entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
  24365     - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
  24366       extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
  24367       listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
  24368       have, retry with an introduction point from the current
  24369       descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
  24370       1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  24371     - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
  24372       uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
  24373       to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
  24374       its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
  24375       set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
  24376       a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
  24377       fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
  24378     - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
  24379       DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
  24380       fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
  24381       hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
  24382       to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
  24383       about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
  24384       0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
  24385 
  24386   o Major bugfixes (misc):
  24387     - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
  24388       destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
  24389       Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  24390     - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
  24391       SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
  24392     - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
  24393       message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
  24394       0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
  24395 
  24396   o Minor features (relays):
  24397     - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
  24398       to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
  24399     - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
  24400       much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
  24401       Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
  24402       used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
  24403       AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
  24404       expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
  24405       soft hibernation.
  24406     - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
  24407       so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
  24408       Resolves ticket 3252.
  24409     - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
  24410       accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
  24411       bug 2181.
  24412     - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
  24413       relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
  24414     - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
  24415       Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
  24416       clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
  24417 
  24418   o Minor features (network statistics):
  24419     - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
  24420       about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
  24421       "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
  24422       improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
  24423       2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
  24424       values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
  24425       requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
  24426       measure download times.
  24427     - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
  24428       number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
  24429       24 hours.
  24430     - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
  24431       cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
  24432     - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
  24433       rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
  24434       hours.
  24435     - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
  24436       "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
  24437       their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
  24438 
  24439   o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
  24440     - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
  24441       instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
  24442       Implements ticket 2432.
  24443     - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
  24444       Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
  24445       file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
  24446       estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
  24447     - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
  24448       requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
  24449       Implements enhancement 1790.
  24450     - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
  24451       exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
  24452       task 2196.
  24453     - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
  24454       retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
  24455       2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
  24456     - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
  24457       when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
  24458       there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
  24459       and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
  24460       bug 932.
  24461     - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  24462 
  24463   o Minor features (clients):
  24464     - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
  24465       one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
  24466       circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
  24467       near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
  24468       timeout values.
  24469     - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
  24470       our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
  24471       a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
  24472     - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
  24473       even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
  24474       circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
  24475       not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
  24476       be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
  24477       a stable release.
  24478     - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
  24479       circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
  24480       we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
  24481       knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
  24482     - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
  24483       include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
  24484       SSL handshake issues.
  24485 
  24486   o Minor features (directory authorities):
  24487     - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
  24488       a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
  24489     - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
  24490       Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
  24491       known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
  24492       circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
  24493     - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
  24494       older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
  24495       current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
  24496     - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
  24497       as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
  24498       the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
  24499       in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
  24500       up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
  24501     - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
  24502       relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
  24503       the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
  24504       authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
  24505       hour of their uptime.
  24506     - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
  24507       networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
  24508     - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
  24509       clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
  24510 
  24511   o Minor features (hidden services):
  24512     - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
  24513       parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
  24514       we would retry after 15 seconds.)
  24515     - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
  24516       Required by fix for bug 3000.
  24517     - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
  24518       by fix for bug 3000.
  24519     - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
  24520       requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
  24521       DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
  24522     - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
  24523       state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
  24524 
  24525   o Minor features (controller interface):
  24526     - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
  24527       a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
  24528       given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
  24529       "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
  24530       chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
  24531     - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
  24532       "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
  24533     - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
  24534       event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
  24535       over our stored history.
  24536     - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
  24537       a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
  24538       a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
  24539       algorithms.
  24540     - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
  24541       to the circuit build timeout.
  24542     - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
  24543       contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
  24544       so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
  24545 
  24546   o Minor features (controller protocol):
  24547     - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
  24548       it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
  24549       group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
  24550       ticket 2972.
  24551     - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
  24552       world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
  24553       is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
  24554       enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
  24555       directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
  24556     - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
  24557       not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
  24558       Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
  24559     - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
  24560       arguments we do not recognize.
  24561 
  24562   o Minor features (more useful logging):
  24563     - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
  24564       instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
  24565       more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
  24566       to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
  24567     - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
  24568       what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
  24569       Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
  24570     - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
  24571       documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
  24572     - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
  24573       warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
  24574     - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
  24575     - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
  24576       got suppressed since the last warning.
  24577     - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
  24578       2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
  24579       easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
  24580       as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
  24581     - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
  24582       of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
  24583       that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
  24584 
  24585   o Minor features (log domains):
  24586     - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
  24587       different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
  24588       but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
  24589       bug 2215.
  24590     - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
  24591       Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
  24592       "[~A,~B]".
  24593     - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
  24594       messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
  24595       to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
  24596       of guessing.
  24597     - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
  24598       during the TLS handshake.
  24599 
  24600   o Minor features (build process):
  24601     - Make compilation with clang possible when using
  24602       "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
  24603       hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
  24604       ticket 2696.
  24605     - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
  24606       build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
  24607     - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
  24608       Resolves bug 2314.
  24609     - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
  24610       "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
  24611       linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
  24612     - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
  24613       the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
  24614     - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
  24615       system headers.
  24616     - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
  24617       source files Tor was built with.
  24618     - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
  24619       change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
  24620       produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
  24621       be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
  24622       "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
  24623       speeds up the build considerably.
  24624 
  24625   o Minor features (options / torrc):
  24626     - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
  24627       file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
  24628       the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
  24629     - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
  24630       to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
  24631       HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
  24632     - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
  24633       do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
  24634       config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
  24635       both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
  24636       consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
  24637       0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
  24638     - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
  24639       occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
  24640       the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
  24641       than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
  24642       and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
  24643     - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
  24644       timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
  24645       a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
  24646       slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
  24647     - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
  24648       generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
  24649       you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
  24650       client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
  24651     - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
  24652       fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
  24653       AccountingMax.
  24654     - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
  24655       ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
  24656       the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
  24657       Resolves bug 1929.
  24658 
  24659   o Minor features (unit tests):
  24660     - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
  24661       can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
  24662       code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
  24663       subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
  24664     - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
  24665     - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
  24666       by coverity.
  24667     - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
  24668       Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
  24669       by Gisle Vanem.
  24670 
  24671   o Minor features (misc):
  24672     - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
  24673     - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
  24674       and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
  24675       reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
  24676       get through.
  24677     - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
  24678       want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
  24679       a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
  24680       setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
  24681       as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
  24682       set this option.
  24683     - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
  24684       coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
  24685       open() without checking it.
  24686     - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
  24687       used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
  24688     - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
  24689       not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
  24690 
  24691   o Minor bugfixes (relays):
  24692     - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
  24693       as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
  24694       continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
  24695       partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
  24696       going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
  24697       really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
  24698       Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
  24699     - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
  24700       descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
  24701       descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
  24702       exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
  24703       consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
  24704     - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
  24705       a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
  24706       our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
  24707       successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
  24708       relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
  24709     - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
  24710       based on the time during which we were active and not in
  24711       soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
  24712       also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
  24713       was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
  24714       by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
  24715       accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  24716     - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
  24717       someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
  24718       fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
  24719       on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
  24720     - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
  24721       notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
  24722       functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
  24723       on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
  24724 
  24725   o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
  24726     - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
  24727       that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
  24728       put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
  24729       only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
  24730       bug 3200.
  24731     - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
  24732       re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
  24733       bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  24734     - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
  24735       didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
  24736       that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
  24737       descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
  24738       than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
  24739       0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
  24740     - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
  24741       bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
  24742       hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
  24743       Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
  24744 
  24745   o Minor bugfixes (clients):
  24746     - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
  24747       for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
  24748       that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
  24749       other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
  24750       it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
  24751       had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
  24752       should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
  24753       released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
  24754     - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
  24755       stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
  24756       we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
  24757     - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
  24758       happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
  24759       we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
  24760       for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
  24761       two-hop circuits are actually created.
  24762     - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
  24763       our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
  24764     - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
  24765       behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
  24766 
  24767   o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
  24768     - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
  24769       relays that have failed several reachability tests became
  24770       unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
  24771       Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
  24772     - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
  24773       when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
  24774       or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
  24775       incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
  24776       bug 1035.
  24777     - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
  24778       if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
  24779       change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
  24780       consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
  24781       current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
  24782       signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
  24783     - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
  24784       it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
  24785       more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
  24786       0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
  24787     - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
  24788       whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
  24789       online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
  24790       Fixes bug 1023.
  24791 
  24792   o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  24793     - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
  24794       warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
  24795       in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
  24796       info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  24797     - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
  24798       service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
  24799       helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
  24800       have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
  24801       and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
  24802       we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
  24803       0.2.0.10-alpha.
  24804     - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
  24805       the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
  24806       John Brooks.
  24807     - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
  24808       service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
  24809       DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
  24810       eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
  24811       DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  24812     - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
  24813       HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
  24814       operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
  24815 
  24816   o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
  24817     - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
  24818       we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
  24819       bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  24820     - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
  24821       resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
  24822       discovered by katmagic.
  24823     - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
  24824       output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
  24825       on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
  24826     - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
  24827       2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
  24828     - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
  24829       from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
  24830       triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
  24831       routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
  24832       bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
  24833       like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
  24834       REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
  24835       fixes bug 1172.
  24836     - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
  24837       hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
  24838       0.1.0.1-rc.
  24839     - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
  24840       for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
  24841       0.1.1.19-rc.
  24842     - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
  24843       any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
  24844       on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  24845     - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
  24846       argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
  24847       the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
  24848       boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
  24849     - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
  24850       would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
  24851       ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
  24852     - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
  24853       descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
  24854       for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
  24855     - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
  24856     - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
  24857       controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
  24858       same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
  24859       proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
  24860 
  24861   o Minor bugfixes (config options):
  24862     - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
  24863       Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
  24864       Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
  24865     - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
  24866       include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
  24867       Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
  24868     - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
  24869       Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
  24870 
  24871   o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
  24872     - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
  24873       as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
  24874       on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  24875     - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
  24876       get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
  24877       Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
  24878       feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
  24879 
  24880   o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
  24881     - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
  24882       about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
  24883       could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
  24884       Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
  24885     - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
  24886       certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
  24887 
  24888   o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
  24889     - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
  24890       bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
  24891       through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  24892     - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
  24893       have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
  24894       on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  24895     - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
  24896       than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
  24897       on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
  24898     - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
  24899       Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
  24900       it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
  24901       even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
  24902       OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  24903     - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
  24904       for close.
  24905     - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
  24906       must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
  24907       "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  24908     - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
  24909       conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  24910     - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
  24911       client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
  24912       reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
  24913     - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
  24914       control-spec.txt said they were.
  24915 
  24916   o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
  24917     - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
  24918       bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
  24919       0.2.0.1-alpha.
  24920     - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
  24921       Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  24922     - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
  24923       Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
  24924       TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
  24925       bug 1994.
  24926     - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
  24927       log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
  24928       0.1.0.1-rc.
  24929     - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
  24930       to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
  24931       violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
  24932       it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
  24933     - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
  24934       cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
  24935       warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
  24936 
  24937   o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
  24938     - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
  24939     - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
  24940       give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  24941     - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
  24942       ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
  24943       but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
  24944     - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
  24945       bug 1848.
  24946 
  24947   o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  24948     - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
  24949       mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
  24950       'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
  24951       that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
  24952       hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
  24953       utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
  24954       we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
  24955       assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
  24956       the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
  24957       the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
  24958       would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  24959     - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
  24960       started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
  24961     - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
  24962       Fixes bug 3270.
  24963     - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
  24964       some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
  24965       where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
  24966     - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
  24967       correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
  24968       bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  24969     - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
  24970       enabled.
  24971     - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
  24972       Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
  24973       "piebeer".
  24974 
  24975   o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  24976     - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
  24977       passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
  24978       smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
  24979       CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  24980     - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
  24981       expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
  24982       it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
  24983       CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
  24984       (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
  24985       string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
  24986       fixes part of bug 3407.
  24987     - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
  24988       expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
  24989       might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
  24990       0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
  24991     - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
  24992       Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
  24993       negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
  24994       Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
  24995     - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
  24996       consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
  24997       clang's analyzer.
  24998     - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
  24999       warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
  25000       0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
  25001     - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
  25002       where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
  25003       for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
  25004       incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
  25005       values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  25006     - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
  25007       connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
  25008       look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
  25009       Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  25010     - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
  25011       counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
  25012       in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
  25013     - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
  25014       transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
  25015       bug 2279.
  25016     - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
  25017       found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
  25018       Tor release, in svn commit r110.
  25019     - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
  25020       triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
  25021       granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
  25022       Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  25023     - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
  25024       base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
  25025       comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
  25026       but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
  25027     - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
  25028       "memcpyfail".
  25029     - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
  25030       on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
  25031     - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
  25032       descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
  25033     - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
  25034 
  25035   o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
  25036     - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
  25037       with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
  25038       internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
  25039       by bug 1055.
  25040     - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
  25041       an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
  25042       if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
  25043     - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
  25044       when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
  25045       manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
  25046     - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
  25047       function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
  25048       structures and defines in or.h for now.
  25049     - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
  25050       coverity.
  25051     - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
  25052     - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
  25053       None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
  25054       this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
  25055     - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
  25056       to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
  25057       help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
  25058     - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
  25059       allocation error.
  25060     - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
  25061       handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
  25062       right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
  25063 
  25064   o Minor bugfixes (misc):
  25065     - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
  25066       a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
  25067       on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
  25068     - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
  25069       once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
  25070       once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
  25071     - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
  25072       Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
  25073       local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
  25074       refuse to listen.
  25075     - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
  25076       too.
  25077     - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
  25078       actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
  25079       on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
  25080     - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
  25081       Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
  25082     - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
  25083       'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
  25084       and explain our warning about tsocks better.
  25085     - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
  25086       compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
  25087 
  25088   o Documentation changes:
  25089     - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
  25090     - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
  25091       Fixes bug 2705.
  25092     - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
  25093     - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
  25094       to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
  25095       what should go in a patch.
  25096     - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
  25097       tor-resolve.
  25098     - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
  25099       AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
  25100       website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
  25101       projects directory in svn.
  25102 
  25103   o Deprecated and removed features (config):
  25104     - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
  25105       and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
  25106     - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
  25107       service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
  25108       hidden service usage.
  25109     - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
  25110       as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
  25111     - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
  25112       unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
  25113       haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
  25114       bug 3022.
  25115 
  25116   o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
  25117     - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
  25118       or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
  25119     - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
  25120       always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
  25121       controllers.
  25122 
  25123   o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
  25124     - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
  25125       do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
  25126       service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
  25127       when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
  25128     - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
  25129       anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
  25130     - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
  25131       It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
  25132       and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
  25133     - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
  25134       them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
  25135       via application-level web tricks.
  25136     - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
  25137       RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
  25138       as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
  25139       active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
  25140     - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
  25141       that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
  25142       send a body too). Since only server versions before
  25143       0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
  25144       keep the workaround in place.
  25145     - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
  25146       handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
  25147       an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
  25148       places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
  25149       still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
  25150       want to do it differently.
  25151     - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
  25152       reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
  25153       tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
  25154 
  25155 
  25156 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
  25157   Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
  25158   change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
  25159   and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
  25160   We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
  25161   buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
  25162 
  25163   o Major bugfixes:
  25164     - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
  25165       we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
  25166       Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
  25167       that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
  25168       the rest of bug 1074.
  25169     - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
  25170       remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  25171       Found by "piebeer".
  25172     - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
  25173       Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
  25174       potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
  25175       0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
  25176     - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
  25177       hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
  25178       publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  25179 
  25180   o Minor features:
  25181     - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
  25182       Apache's mod_ssl.
  25183     - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  25184 
  25185   o Minor bugfixes:
  25186     - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
  25187       directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
  25188       Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
  25189     - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
  25190       acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
  25191       getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
  25192       path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
  25193       its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
  25194       OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
  25195       if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
  25196       running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  25197 
  25198   o Packaging changes:
  25199     - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
  25200       in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
  25201       git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
  25202     - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
  25203       generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
  25204       between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
  25205 
  25206 
  25207 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
  25208   Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
  25209   fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
  25210   code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
  25211   most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
  25212 
  25213   o Major bugfixes (security):
  25214     - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
  25215       corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
  25216       attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
  25217       0.1.2.10-rc.
  25218     - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
  25219       zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
  25220       high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
  25221     - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
  25222       bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
  25223       "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
  25224       to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
  25225       permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
  25226 
  25227   o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  25228     - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
  25229       This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
  25230       if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
  25231       Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
  25232       Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
  25233     - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
  25234       underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
  25235     - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
  25236       cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
  25237       memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
  25238       on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
  25239     - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
  25240       malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
  25241       Found by doorss.
  25242 
  25243   o Minor bugfixes (other):
  25244     - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
  25245       requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
  25246       bug reported by doorss.
  25247     - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
  25248       has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
  25249       be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  25250     - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
  25251       addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
  25252       on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  25253     - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
  25254       no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
  25255       0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
  25256     - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
  25257       address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
  25258 
  25259   o Minor features:
  25260     - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  25261     - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
  25262 
  25263   o Build changes:
  25264     - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
  25265       added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
  25266       Automake 1.7 or later.
  25267     - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
  25268       because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
  25269       release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
  25270       among really fast exit relays on Linux.
  25271 
  25272 
  25273 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
  25274   Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
  25275   exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
  25276   for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
  25277   we ship.
  25278 
  25279   o Major bugfixes:
  25280     - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
  25281       of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
  25282       hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
  25283       upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
  25284 
  25285   o Directory authority changes:
  25286     - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
  25287 
  25288   o Minor features:
  25289     - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  25290 
  25291 
  25292 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
  25293   Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
  25294   Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
  25295   also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
  25296   directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
  25297 
  25298   o Major bugfixes:
  25299     - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
  25300       No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
  25301       but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
  25302       it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
  25303       bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  25304     - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
  25305       freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
  25306       try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
  25307       of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
  25308       fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  25309     - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
  25310       we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
  25311       where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
  25312       be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
  25313     - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
  25314       router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
  25315       we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
  25316       anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
  25317     - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
  25318       bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
  25319       connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
  25320       hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
  25321       0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
  25322 
  25323   o Major features:
  25324     - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
  25325       than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
  25326       count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
  25327       have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
  25328 
  25329   o New directory authorities:
  25330     - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
  25331       authority.
  25332 
  25333   o Minor bugfixes:
  25334     - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
  25335       bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
  25336       network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
  25337       0.2.0.8-alpha.
  25338     - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
  25339       0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
  25340     - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
  25341       seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
  25342       IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
  25343       were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
  25344       for analysis help.
  25345     - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
  25346       warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
  25347       pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
  25348 
  25349   o Minor features:
  25350     - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
  25351       and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
  25352       stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
  25353       Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
  25354       it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
  25355     - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
  25356       Patch from mingw-san.
  25357 
  25358   o Removed files:
  25359     - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
  25360       The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
  25361       https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
  25362     - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
  25363       changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
  25364       0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
  25365 
  25366 
  25367 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
  25368   Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
  25369   problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
  25370   DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
  25371   because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
  25372 
  25373   This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
  25374   that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
  25375 
  25376   o Major bugfixes:
  25377     - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
  25378       now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
  25379       for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
  25380       TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
  25381       unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
  25382       up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
  25383       and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
  25384       their directory fetches over TLS).
  25385     - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
  25386       that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
  25387       backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
  25388       behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
  25389     - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
  25390       directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
  25391       Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
  25392       to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
  25393 
  25394   o Minor bugfixes:
  25395     - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
  25396       mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
  25397       every other relay.
  25398 
  25399   o Testsuite fixes:
  25400     - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
  25401       worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  25402     - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
  25403       certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
  25404       window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
  25405       occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
  25406       compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  25407 
  25408 
  25409 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
  25410   Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
  25411   prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
  25412   several minor potential security bugs.
  25413 
  25414   o Major bugfixes:
  25415     - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
  25416       to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
  25417       in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
  25418       0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
  25419     - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
  25420       the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
  25421       patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
  25422 
  25423   o Minor bugfixes:
  25424     - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
  25425       descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
  25426       bug 1255.
  25427     - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
  25428       0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
  25429     - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
  25430       Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
  25431 
  25432 
  25433 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
  25434   Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
  25435   for sure!
  25436 
  25437   o Minor bugfixes:
  25438     - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
  25439       of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
  25440       customized patches to run/build.
  25441 
  25442 
  25443 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
  25444   Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
  25445   again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
  25446   authority.
  25447 
  25448   o Major bugfixes (performance):
  25449     - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
  25450       which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
  25451       meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
  25452       probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
  25453       select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
  25454       automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
  25455       bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
  25456 
  25457   o Major bugfixes:
  25458     - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
  25459       use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
  25460       version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
  25461       Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
  25462       libraries in a security patch.
  25463     - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
  25464       that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
  25465       a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
  25466       requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
  25467       by aakova.
  25468 
  25469   o Minor bugfixes:
  25470     - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
  25471       Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
  25472 
  25473   o Minor features:
  25474     - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
  25475       rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
  25476       throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
  25477       in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
  25478       over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
  25479 
  25480 
  25481 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
  25482   Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
  25483   authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
  25484   if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
  25485   rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
  25486 
  25487   o Directory authority changes:
  25488     - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
  25489       and gabelmoo.
  25490 
  25491   o Major bugfixes:
  25492     - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
  25493       directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
  25494       bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  25495 
  25496 
  25497 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
  25498   Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
  25499   library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
  25500   renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
  25501   upgrade if you're an exit relay.
  25502 
  25503   o Major bugfixes:
  25504     - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
  25505       handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
  25506       are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
  25507       0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
  25508     - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
  25509       circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
  25510       happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
  25511 
  25512   o Minor bugfixes:
  25513     - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
  25514       documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
  25515       have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  25516       Spotted and fixed by xmux.
  25517     - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
  25518       trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
  25519       Scan.
  25520     - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
  25521       trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
  25522 
  25523 
  25524 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
  25525   Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
  25526   services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
  25527   fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
  25528 
  25529   The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
  25530   and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
  25531 
  25532   The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
  25533   Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
  25534   you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
  25535   in the Vidalia Settings window.
  25536 
  25537   o Major bugfixes:
  25538     - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
  25539       by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
  25540       by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
  25541       patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
  25542       before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
  25543       oldest-bug prize.
  25544     - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
  25545       contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
  25546       0.2.0.3-alpha.
  25547     - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
  25548       as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
  25549       for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
  25550 
  25551   o Major features:
  25552     - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
  25553       and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
  25554       default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
  25555 
  25556   o New directory authorities:
  25557     - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
  25558       authority.
  25559     - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
  25560 
  25561   o Minor bugfixes:
  25562     - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
  25563     - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
  25564       0.2.1.14-rc.
  25565     - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
  25566       we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
  25567       Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  25568     - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
  25569       systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
  25570       refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
  25571       Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  25572     - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
  25573       we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
  25574       a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
  25575       it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
  25576       on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
  25577     - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
  25578       REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
  25579       circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
  25580       controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
  25581       overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
  25582       by SwissTorExit.
  25583     - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
  25584       excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
  25585       the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
  25586       0.2.1.6-alpha.
  25587     - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
  25588       stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
  25589       freed.
  25590 
  25591   o Minor features:
  25592     - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
  25593       command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
  25594       whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
  25595       least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
  25596       getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
  25597 
  25598 
  25599 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
  25600   Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
  25601   services.
  25602 
  25603   o Major bugfixes:
  25604     - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
  25605       Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
  25606       part of patch provided by "optimist".
  25607 
  25608   o Minor features:
  25609     - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
  25610       the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
  25611       it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
  25612       and confuse fewer users.
  25613 
  25614   o Minor bugfixes:
  25615     - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
  25616       their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
  25617       changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
  25618       fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
  25619     - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
  25620       so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
  25621       fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
  25622 
  25623 
  25624 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
  25625   Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
  25626   adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
  25627   optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
  25628   variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
  25629   other features and bug fixes.
  25630 
  25631   o Major features (clients):
  25632     - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
  25633       so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
  25634       information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
  25635       if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
  25636       proposal 137.
  25637     - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
  25638       ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
  25639       especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
  25640       a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
  25641     - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
  25642       information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
  25643       in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
  25644       relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
  25645       bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
  25646       active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
  25647 
  25648   o Major features (relays):
  25649     - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
  25650       over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
  25651       of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
  25652       disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
  25653       data. Found by Jacob.
  25654     - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
  25655       it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
  25656       disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
  25657       a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
  25658 
  25659   o Major features (hidden services):
  25660     - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
  25661       are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
  25662       so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
  25663       to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
  25664       to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
  25665       certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
  25666       and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
  25667     - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
  25668       i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
  25669       the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
  25670       lookups more reliable.
  25671 
  25672   o Major features (path selection):
  25673     - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
  25674       by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
  25675       ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
  25676       refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
  25677       you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
  25678 
  25679   o Major features (misc):
  25680     - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
  25681       This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
  25682       138.
  25683     - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
  25684       previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
  25685       proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
  25686     - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
  25687       IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
  25688       elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
  25689       addresses.
  25690     - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
  25691       of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
  25692       closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
  25693       we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
  25694       know about.
  25695     - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
  25696       behavior.
  25697 
  25698   o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
  25699     - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
  25700       circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
  25701       connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
  25702       identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
  25703     - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
  25704       along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
  25705       cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
  25706       certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
  25707       commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
  25708     - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
  25709       cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
  25710       stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
  25711       called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
  25712       bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
  25713       at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
  25714       we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
  25715     - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
  25716       one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
  25717       all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
  25718       Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  25719     - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
  25720       from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
  25721     - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
  25722       of a circuit. Patch from lark.
  25723     - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
  25724       ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
  25725     - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
  25726       weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
  25727     - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
  25728       Implements proposal 148.
  25729 
  25730   o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  25731     - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
  25732       manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
  25733     - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
  25734       timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
  25735       been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
  25736       bug 929.
  25737     - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
  25738       64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
  25739       aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
  25740     - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
  25741       a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
  25742       probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  25743     - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
  25744       at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  25745     - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
  25746       for bug 811.
  25747     - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
  25748       a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
  25749     - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
  25750       when running as a server with a controller listening for log
  25751       messages.
  25752     - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
  25753       SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
  25754       and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
  25755     - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
  25756       memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
  25757       one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
  25758     - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
  25759       corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
  25760       Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  25761 
  25762   o Major bugfixes (clients):
  25763     - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
  25764       five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
  25765       starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
  25766       in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
  25767     - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
  25768       older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
  25769       new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
  25770       faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
  25771       0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
  25772     - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
  25773       cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
  25774       consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
  25775       bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
  25776       end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
  25777       speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
  25778       consensus.
  25779 
  25780   o Major bugfixes (relays):
  25781     - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
  25782       part of a day if they changed their local config but the
  25783       authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
  25784       different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
  25785       if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
  25786       patch by Sebastian.
  25787     - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
  25788       with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
  25789       is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
  25790     - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
  25791       internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
  25792       ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
  25793       that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
  25794       up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
  25795       "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
  25796       wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
  25797       on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
  25798 
  25799   o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  25800     - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
  25801       originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
  25802       and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
  25803       have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
  25804       available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
  25805 
  25806   o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
  25807     - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
  25808       impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
  25809     - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
  25810       stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
  25811       this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
  25812       on a typical directory cache.
  25813     - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
  25814       descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
  25815       router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
  25816       and may reduce fragmentation.
  25817 
  25818   o New/changed config options:
  25819     - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
  25820       identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
  25821       Suggested by Lucky Green.
  25822     - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
  25823       rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
  25824       misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
  25825       locked down these days.
  25826     - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
  25827       after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
  25828     - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
  25829       that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
  25830       allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
  25831     - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
  25832       disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
  25833       output to messages of warning and error severity.
  25834     - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
  25835       DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
  25836       directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
  25837       total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
  25838       directory requests we should expect to see.
  25839     - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
  25840       Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
  25841     - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
  25842       domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
  25843       or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
  25844       higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
  25845     - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
  25846 
  25847   o Minor features (relays):
  25848     - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
  25849       to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
  25850       update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
  25851       to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
  25852       suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
  25853       faster on average.
  25854     - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
  25855       about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
  25856       further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
  25857     - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
  25858     - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
  25859       single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
  25860       single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
  25861       from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
  25862     - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
  25863       to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
  25864       to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
  25865       which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
  25866       patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
  25867 
  25868   o Minor features (directory authorities):
  25869     - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
  25870       to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
  25871       authorities. Fixes bug 366.
  25872     - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
  25873       a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
  25874       serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
  25875       pairs. Implements proposal 157.
  25876     - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
  25877       immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
  25878       save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
  25879       Sebastian Hahn.
  25880     - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
  25881       help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
  25882     - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
  25883       fingerprints with or without space.
  25884 
  25885   o Minor features (directory mirrors):
  25886     - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
  25887       Tor that new directory information has arrived.
  25888     - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
  25889       allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
  25890       The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
  25891       it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
  25892       new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
  25893       0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
  25894 
  25895   o Minor features (bridges):
  25896     - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
  25897       This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
  25898       understand.
  25899     - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
  25900       to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
  25901       request.
  25902 
  25903   o Minor features (hidden services):
  25904     - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
  25905       new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
  25906     - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
  25907       after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
  25908     - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
  25909       than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
  25910       descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
  25911       faster after restart.
  25912     - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
  25913       serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
  25914 
  25915   o Minor features (build and packaging):
  25916     - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
  25917       option is set.
  25918     - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
  25919       is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
  25920       897 and others.
  25921     - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
  25922       the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
  25923       LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
  25924       entirely. Patch from coderman.
  25925     - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
  25926       are built without support for deprecated functions.
  25927     - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
  25928       messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
  25929       system to do it for us.
  25930     - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
  25931       disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
  25932       We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
  25933       help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
  25934     - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
  25935       path. Patch from Michael Gold.
  25936     - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
  25937       likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
  25938       the letter of C99's alias rules.
  25939     - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
  25940       logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
  25941       "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
  25942     - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
  25943       with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
  25944       with log.h on Android.
  25945     - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
  25946       and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
  25947       GCC 4.3.
  25948     - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
  25949       simultaneously running with the same datadir.
  25950     - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
  25951     - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
  25952 
  25953   o Minor features (controllers):
  25954     - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
  25955       controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
  25956       circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
  25957       for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
  25958     - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
  25959       lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
  25960       can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
  25961     - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
  25962       of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
  25963       like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
  25964       a difference.
  25965     - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
  25966       controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
  25967     - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
  25968       been fetched and validated.
  25969     - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
  25970       controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
  25971       Fixes bug 856.
  25972     - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
  25973       Fixes bug 858.
  25974     - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
  25975       port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
  25976     - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
  25977       controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
  25978       partway through and wants to catch up.
  25979     - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
  25980 
  25981   o Minor features (tools):
  25982     - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
  25983       if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
  25984     - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
  25985       people find host:port too confusing.
  25986     - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
  25987       when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
  25988 
  25989   o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
  25990     - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
  25991       recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  25992     - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
  25993       improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
  25994       leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
  25995     - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
  25996       want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
  25997     - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
  25998       Spotted by rovv.
  25999     - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
  26000       to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
  26001     - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
  26002       most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
  26003     - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
  26004       buffers.
  26005     - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
  26006       patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
  26007       patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
  26008       before too long.
  26009     - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
  26010       and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  26011     - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
  26012       actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
  26013     - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
  26014       have already been marked for close.
  26015     - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
  26016       memory performance during directory parsing.
  26017 
  26018   o Minor bugfixes (clients):
  26019     - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
  26020       run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
  26021       it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
  26022       done that for a long time.
  26023     - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
  26024       "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
  26025       stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
  26026       be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
  26027       158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
  26028     - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
  26029       service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
  26030     - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
  26031       document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  26032     - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
  26033       do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
  26034       over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
  26035       on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
  26036     - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
  26037       certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
  26038     - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
  26039       not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
  26040     - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
  26041       because of a pending download.
  26042     - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
  26043       and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
  26044       $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
  26045       there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
  26046       bug 820, reported by seeess.
  26047 
  26048   o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
  26049     - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
  26050       unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
  26051       bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
  26052       warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
  26053     - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
  26054       non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
  26055     - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
  26056       client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
  26057 
  26058   o Minor bugfixes (relays):
  26059     - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
  26060       Windows.
  26061     - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
  26062       Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
  26063       anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  26064     - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
  26065       freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
  26066     - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
  26067       of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
  26068       of 0. Suggested by lark.
  26069     - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
  26070       it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
  26071       the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
  26072     - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
  26073       enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
  26074       0.0.9pre6.
  26075     - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
  26076       than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
  26077       canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
  26078       Spotted by rovv.
  26079     - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
  26080       as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
  26081       bugfix on bug 891.
  26082     - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
  26083       Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
  26084       one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
  26085       the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
  26086       Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
  26087     - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
  26088       rest, and don't automatically fail.
  26089     - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
  26090       reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
  26091       we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
  26092       circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
  26093       connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
  26094       circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  26095 
  26096   o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
  26097     - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
  26098       The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
  26099       other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
  26100       bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
  26101     - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
  26102       requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
  26103       bug 959.
  26104     - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
  26105       headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  26106 
  26107   o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  26108     - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
  26109       fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
  26110       Workaround for bug 1024.
  26111     - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
  26112       published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
  26113       service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
  26114       that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
  26115     - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
  26116       retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
  26117     - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
  26118       service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
  26119       on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  26120 
  26121   o Minor bugfixes (tools):
  26122     - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
  26123       DNS requests.
  26124 
  26125   o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
  26126     - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
  26127       stream never finished making its connection, it would live
  26128       forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
  26129       seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
  26130     - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
  26131       "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
  26132       bug 807.
  26133     - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
  26134       replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
  26135       before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
  26136       pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
  26137       warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
  26138       AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
  26139       by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
  26140     - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
  26141       controller.
  26142 
  26143   o Deprecated and removed features:
  26144     - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
  26145       the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
  26146       turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
  26147       maintain.
  26148     - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
  26149       0.2.0.3-alpha.
  26150     - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
  26151       has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
  26152     - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
  26153     - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
  26154       running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
  26155       anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
  26156     - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
  26157       a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
  26158     - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
  26159       HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
  26160       and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
  26161       0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
  26162     - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
  26163       versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
  26164       Tor network.
  26165 
  26166   o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  26167     - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
  26168       static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
  26169     - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
  26170       is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
  26171       belongs.
  26172     - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
  26173       only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
  26174       it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
  26175     - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
  26176       for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
  26177     - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
  26178     - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
  26179       exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
  26180       actual mistakes we're making here.
  26181     - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
  26182       with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
  26183     - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
  26184       structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
  26185     - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
  26186       improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
  26187     - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
  26188       be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
  26189       servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
  26190     - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
  26191       and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
  26192       only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
  26193     - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
  26194       or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
  26195       slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
  26196 
  26197 
  26198 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
  26199   o Security fix:
  26200     - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
  26201       Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
  26202     - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
  26203       controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
  26204       address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
  26205 
  26206   o Major bugfixes:
  26207     - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
  26208       IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
  26209       them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
  26210       never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
  26211       just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
  26212       don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
  26213       all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
  26214     - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
  26215       that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
  26216       occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
  26217 
  26218   o Minor bugfixes:
  26219     - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
  26220       memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
  26221       0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
  26222     - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
  26223       was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
  26224       because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
  26225       descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
  26226       the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
  26227 
  26228 
  26229 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
  26230   Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
  26231   upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
  26232   directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
  26233   (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
  26234 
  26235   This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
  26236   have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
  26237   upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
  26238   stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
  26239 
  26240   o Security fixes:
  26241     - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
  26242       circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  26243     - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
  26244       a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
  26245     - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
  26246       input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
  26247     - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
  26248       Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
  26249 
  26250   o Minor bugfixes:
  26251     - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
  26252       Patch from Matthias Drochner.
  26253     - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
  26254       bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
  26255 
  26256 
  26257 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
  26258   Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
  26259   useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
  26260   that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
  26261 
  26262   This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
  26263   Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
  26264   about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
  26265 
  26266   o Security fixes:
  26267     - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
  26268       some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
  26269 
  26270   o Major bugfixes:
  26271     - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
  26272       "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
  26273       would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
  26274       the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
  26275       closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
  26276       reported by "wood".
  26277     - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
  26278       connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
  26279       combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
  26280       the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
  26281       identify a connection.
  26282     - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
  26283       descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
  26284       after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
  26285       descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
  26286       get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
  26287       18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
  26288       already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  26289     - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
  26290       to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
  26291       sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
  26292       0.2.0.13-alpha.
  26293     - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
  26294       discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
  26295       useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
  26296       it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
  26297       are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
  26298       we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
  26299       key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
  26300 
  26301   o Minor bugfixes:
  26302     - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
  26303       could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
  26304       on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  26305     - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
  26306     - Compile without warnings on solaris.
  26307     - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
  26308       Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
  26309     - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
  26310       certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
  26311       Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  26312     - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
  26313       CID 349.
  26314     - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
  26315       automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
  26316       dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
  26317       *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
  26318     - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
  26319       the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
  26320     - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
  26321       no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
  26322       supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
  26323     - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
  26324       that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
  26325       Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
  26326     - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
  26327       seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
  26328       configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
  26329     - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
  26330       user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
  26331       0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
  26332     - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
  26333       the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
  26334       Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
  26335     - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
  26336       and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
  26337       0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
  26338     - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
  26339       nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
  26340       840. Patch from rovv.
  26341     - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
  26342       prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
  26343       intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
  26344       from rovv.
  26345     - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
  26346       do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
  26347       Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
  26348     - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
  26349       using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
  26350       client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
  26351       bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
  26352 
  26353   o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  26354     - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
  26355       0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
  26356 
  26357   o Minor features:
  26358     - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
  26359       differently than the case where there is an error handling the
  26360       detached set.
  26361     - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
  26362       descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
  26363       triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
  26364     - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
  26365       case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
  26366       not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
  26367       ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
  26368       of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
  26369       "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
  26370       for more info.
  26371     - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
  26372       poisoning.
  26373     - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
  26374       compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
  26375       both.
  26376 
  26377 
  26378 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
  26379   Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
  26380   packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
  26381   a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
  26382   services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
  26383   variety of other issues.
  26384 
  26385   o Security fixes:
  26386     - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
  26387       supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
  26388       is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
  26389       user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
  26390       detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
  26391       in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
  26392       and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
  26393     - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
  26394       consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
  26395       exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
  26396       the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
  26397       an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
  26398 
  26399   o Major bugfixes:
  26400     - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
  26401       at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  26402 
  26403   o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  26404     - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
  26405       we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
  26406       descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
  26407       might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
  26408       failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
  26409       still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  26410     - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
  26411       rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
  26412       requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
  26413       downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
  26414       rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
  26415       downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
  26416       descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
  26417       descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
  26418       on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  26419 
  26420   o Minor bugfixes:
  26421     - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
  26422     - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
  26423       correctly. Found by Riastradh.
  26424     - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
  26425       bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
  26426       0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
  26427     - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
  26428       and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
  26429       port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
  26430       the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
  26431       on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
  26432     - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
  26433       having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
  26434       outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
  26435       we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
  26436       Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
  26437     - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
  26438       list. It has been gone for many months.
  26439     - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
  26440       sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
  26441     - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
  26442       0.1.2.8-beta.
  26443 
  26444   o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  26445     - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
  26446       0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
  26447 
  26448 
  26449 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
  26450   Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
  26451   a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
  26452   gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
  26453 
  26454   o Major bugfixes:
  26455     - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
  26456       with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
  26457       is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
  26458     - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
  26459       a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
  26460       sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
  26461       by rovv.
  26462     - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
  26463       one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
  26464       current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
  26465       pointed out by rovv.
  26466 
  26467   o Minor bugfixes:
  26468     - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
  26469       794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  26470     - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
  26471       when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  26472     - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
  26473       Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
  26474     - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
  26475       option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
  26476       option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
  26477       Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  26478     - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
  26479       option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
  26480       /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
  26481       Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  26482     - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
  26483       or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
  26484       on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
  26485       on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
  26486     - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
  26487       getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
  26488       0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
  26489 
  26490 
  26491 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
  26492   This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
  26493   distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
  26494   network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
  26495   rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
  26496   become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
  26497   includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
  26498 
  26499   o New v3 directory design:
  26500     - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
  26501       about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
  26502       network status document rather than each publishing their own
  26503       opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
  26504       document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
  26505       authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
  26506       the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
  26507       for details.
  26508     - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
  26509       in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
  26510       ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
  26511       dannenberg (run by CCC).
  26512     - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
  26513       long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
  26514       generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
  26515       to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
  26516       "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
  26517     - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
  26518       v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
  26519       Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
  26520     - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
  26521       less often, now that v3 is recommended.
  26522 
  26523   o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
  26524     - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
  26525       124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
  26526       be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
  26527       to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
  26528       attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
  26529       OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
  26530       to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
  26531     - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
  26532       so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
  26533       plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
  26534       certain censored countries by default again.
  26535     - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
  26536       Tor's x509 certificates.
  26537 
  26538   o Implement bridge relays:
  26539     - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
  26540       listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
  26541       list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
  26542       known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
  26543       See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
  26544     - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
  26545       bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
  26546       to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
  26547       and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
  26548       rather than "v2,v3".
  26549     - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
  26550       relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
  26551       bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
  26552       can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
  26553       mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
  26554       bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
  26555       all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
  26556     - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
  26557       for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
  26558       stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
  26559       so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
  26560 
  26561   o Implement bridge directory authorities:
  26562     - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
  26563       they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
  26564       a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
  26565       including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
  26566       yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
  26567     - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
  26568     - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
  26569       bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
  26570       responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
  26571     - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
  26572       bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
  26573       controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
  26574       to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
  26575       bridges are functioning.
  26576     - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
  26577       but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
  26578       they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
  26579     - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
  26580       the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
  26581     - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
  26582       the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
  26583       known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
  26584       knows that password. Unset by default.
  26585     - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
  26586       report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
  26587       privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
  26588       able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
  26589       certain countries start trying to block bridges.
  26590     - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
  26591       reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
  26592       to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
  26593       the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
  26594       and bridges@torproject.org.
  26595 
  26596   o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
  26597     - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
  26598       dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
  26599       for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
  26600       anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
  26601       The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
  26602     - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
  26603       resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
  26604       generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
  26605       allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
  26606       default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
  26607       patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
  26608     - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
  26609       address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
  26610       longer a completely silly thing to do.
  26611 
  26612   o Major features (relay usability):
  26613     - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
  26614       a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
  26615       relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
  26616       OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
  26617       proposal 111 for details.
  26618     - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
  26619       User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
  26620       under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
  26621       before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
  26622       pick these ports.)
  26623     - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
  26624       SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
  26625       on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
  26626 
  26627   o Major features (directory authorities):
  26628     - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
  26629       mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
  26630       whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
  26631       whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
  26632       "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
  26633       stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
  26634     - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
  26635       to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
  26636       how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
  26637       nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
  26638     - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
  26639       to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
  26640       median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
  26641       proposal 108.
  26642     - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
  26643       routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
  26644       extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
  26645       60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
  26646       extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
  26647       authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
  26648       info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
  26649       caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
  26650       download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
  26651     - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
  26652       a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
  26653       "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
  26654       same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
  26655       disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
  26656     - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
  26657       cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
  26658       if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
  26659       annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
  26660       each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
  26661       general, controller, or bridge.
  26662 
  26663   o Major features (other):
  26664     - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
  26665       Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
  26666       vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
  26667       109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
  26668       by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
  26669     - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
  26670       hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
  26671       function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
  26672       on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
  26673       fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
  26674     - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
  26675       "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
  26676       connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
  26677       connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
  26678       fetching.
  26679 
  26680   o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
  26681     - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
  26682       used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
  26683       Sebastian Hahn.
  26684     - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
  26685       with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
  26686     - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
  26687       use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
  26688       list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
  26689       kind of the revenge of bug 222.
  26690     - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
  26691       directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
  26692     - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
  26693       don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
  26694       unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
  26695 
  26696   o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
  26697     - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
  26698       Dan Kaminsky.
  26699     - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
  26700       a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
  26701     - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
  26702       as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
  26703 
  26704   o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
  26705     - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
  26706       a private address space. Patch from lodger.
  26707     - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
  26708       relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
  26709       bug 516.
  26710     - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
  26711       address maps to an internal address space.
  26712     - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
  26713     - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
  26714       at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
  26715       Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
  26716       complements proposal 107.
  26717     - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
  26718       Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
  26719       Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
  26720     - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
  26721       a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
  26722       reported by taranis and lodger.
  26723     - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
  26724       using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
  26725       pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
  26726     - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
  26727       put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
  26728       clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
  26729       anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
  26730       the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
  26731       set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
  26732       or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
  26733     - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
  26734       enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
  26735       guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
  26736       bug 448.
  26737     - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
  26738       being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
  26739 
  26740   o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
  26741     - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
  26742       can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
  26743       avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
  26744       enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
  26745     - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
  26746       listeners. Reported by mwenge.
  26747 
  26748   o Major bugfixes (other):
  26749     - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
  26750       would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
  26751       24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
  26752       by nwf.
  26753     - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
  26754       to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
  26755       saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
  26756       pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
  26757       each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
  26758       automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
  26759       only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
  26760     - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
  26761       mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
  26762       IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
  26763     - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
  26764       huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
  26765       clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
  26766     - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
  26767       and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
  26768       circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
  26769       so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
  26770       more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
  26771       scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
  26772 
  26773   o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
  26774     - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
  26775       write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
  26776       newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
  26777       make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
  26778       and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
  26779       eat all of our bandwidth.
  26780     - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
  26781       look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
  26782       at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
  26783       Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
  26784       order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
  26785     - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
  26786       Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
  26787       bug 688, reported by mfr.
  26788     - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
  26789     - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
  26790       rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
  26791       bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
  26792 
  26793   o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
  26794     - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
  26795       preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
  26796     - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
  26797       to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
  26798       the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
  26799     - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
  26800       failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
  26801     - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
  26802       MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
  26803       rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
  26804       they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
  26805 
  26806   o Performance improvements (memory):
  26807     - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
  26808       replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
  26809       Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
  26810       ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
  26811     - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
  26812       used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
  26813       of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
  26814       also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
  26815       memory fragmentation.
  26816     - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
  26817       Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
  26818       client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
  26819       queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
  26820       will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
  26821       of traffic.
  26822     - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
  26823       of them were actually distinct.
  26824     - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
  26825       RAM overhead used.
  26826     - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
  26827       for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
  26828       4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
  26829     - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
  26830       of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
  26831     - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
  26832       empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
  26833       performance-intensive.
  26834     - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
  26835     - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
  26836       efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
  26837     - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
  26838       against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
  26839       include paths.
  26840 
  26841   o Performance improvements (socket management):
  26842     - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
  26843       active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
  26844       our allocated connection limit.
  26845     - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
  26846       anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
  26847       Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
  26848       in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
  26849       client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
  26850       workaround.
  26851     - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
  26852       cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
  26853 
  26854   o Performance improvements (CPU use):
  26855     - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
  26856       is interested in a given message.
  26857     - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
  26858       speed startup, especially on directory caches.
  26859     - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
  26860       the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
  26861       implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
  26862       OpenSSL.
  26863     - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
  26864       instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
  26865       advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
  26866       voodoo.
  26867     - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
  26868       counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
  26869       network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
  26870       they are the same).
  26871     - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
  26872       needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
  26873     - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
  26874       on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
  26875       between processes.
  26876 
  26877   o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
  26878     - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
  26879       already have enough directory information to build circuits.
  26880     - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
  26881       authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
  26882       no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
  26883       working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
  26884       versions anyway.
  26885     - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
  26886       relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
  26887       decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
  26888     - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
  26889       estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
  26890       handle more, do another bandwidth test.
  26891     - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
  26892       directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
  26893       documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
  26894       since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
  26895     - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
  26896       on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
  26897       You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
  26898       config option.
  26899 
  26900   o Changed config option behavior (features):
  26901     - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
  26902       helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
  26903       file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
  26904     - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
  26905       Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
  26906       ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
  26907       this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
  26908     - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
  26909       have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
  26910     - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
  26911       PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
  26912     - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
  26913       accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
  26914       and are reaching it.
  26915     - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
  26916       CookieAuthentication at the same time.
  26917     - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
  26918       stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
  26919 
  26920   o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
  26921     - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
  26922       generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
  26923       based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
  26924     - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
  26925       AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
  26926     - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
  26927     - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
  26928       set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
  26929       and ioerror.
  26930     - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
  26931       BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
  26932       they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
  26933     - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
  26934       minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
  26935     - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
  26936     - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
  26937       lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
  26938       in Oct 2004.)
  26939     - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
  26940       now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
  26941 
  26942   o New config options:
  26943     - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
  26944       AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
  26945       of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
  26946       running a test network on a single host.
  26947     - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
  26948       AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
  26949       user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
  26950       rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
  26951     - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
  26952       authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
  26953       networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
  26954       the approved-routers file.
  26955     - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
  26956       authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
  26957       v2 directory information.
  26958 
  26959   o Minor features (other):
  26960     - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
  26961       to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
  26962       on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
  26963     - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
  26964       accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
  26965       negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
  26966       proposal 110.
  26967     - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
  26968       to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
  26969       we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
  26970       a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
  26971       bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
  26972     - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
  26973       an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
  26974       fix for bug 535.
  26975     - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
  26976       than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
  26977       when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
  26978       routers anyway.
  26979     - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
  26980       in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
  26981       and don't expire the descriptor until then.
  26982     - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
  26983       of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
  26984       from localhost.
  26985     - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
  26986       we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
  26987       if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
  26988       back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
  26989     - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
  26990       none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
  26991     - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
  26992       from croup.)
  26993     - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
  26994       can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
  26995       logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
  26996     - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
  26997       port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
  26998       of the target ports chosen at random.  Partially fixes bug 393 by
  26999       adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
  27000     - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
  27001       contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
  27002       meet stdio.
  27003 
  27004   o Minor bugfixes (other):
  27005     - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
  27006       errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
  27007       unhandled errors.
  27008     - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
  27009       address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
  27010       network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
  27011     - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
  27012       example, when answering a directory request), reset the
  27013       time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
  27014       on the socket.
  27015     - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
  27016       bandwidthburst values.
  27017     - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
  27018       using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
  27019       down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
  27020       to mark all our entry points down.
  27021     - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
  27022       it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
  27023       supposed to tolerate these servers now.
  27024     - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
  27025       a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
  27026       address.
  27027     - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
  27028       more often than they are allowed to appear.
  27029     - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
  27030     - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
  27031       cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
  27032     - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
  27033     - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
  27034       O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
  27035       bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
  27036 
  27037   o Controller features:
  27038     - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
  27039       that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
  27040     - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
  27041     - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
  27042       ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
  27043       something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
  27044       addresses.
  27045     - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
  27046       multiple controller passwords.
  27047     - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
  27048       hard time generating real Internet newlines.
  27049     - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
  27050       "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
  27051       Robert Hogan.
  27052     - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
  27053       GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
  27054     - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
  27055       cookie authentication file, and config option
  27056       CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
  27057     - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
  27058       match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
  27059     - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
  27060       from Robert Hogan.
  27061     - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
  27062       Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
  27063     - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
  27064       controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
  27065       support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
  27066     - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
  27067       with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
  27068       Patch from Tup.
  27069     - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
  27070       use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
  27071       preemptively.
  27072     - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
  27073       so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
  27074     - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
  27075     - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
  27076       whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
  27077       are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
  27078     - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
  27079       the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
  27080     - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
  27081       Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
  27082     - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
  27083       as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
  27084       report the value as a "minimum skew."
  27085 
  27086   o Controller bugfixes:
  27087     - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
  27088       "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
  27089     - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
  27090       processes can't run us out of memory.
  27091     - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
  27092       so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
  27093     - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
  27094       correctly.
  27095     - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
  27096       running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
  27097       it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
  27098       "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
  27099     - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
  27100       signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
  27101       0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
  27102       the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
  27103       isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
  27104     - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
  27105       compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
  27106       field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
  27107     - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
  27108     - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
  27109       server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
  27110       by daejees.
  27111     - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
  27112       caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
  27113       by daejees.
  27114     - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
  27115       circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
  27116       to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
  27117     - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
  27118       WARN-severity events.
  27119 
  27120   o Portability / building / compiling:
  27121     - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
  27122       warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
  27123     - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
  27124       To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
  27125     - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
  27126       the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
  27127     - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
  27128       build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
  27129     - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
  27130     - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
  27131     - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
  27132     - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
  27133       know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
  27134       warning.
  27135     - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
  27136       string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
  27137       some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
  27138       the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
  27139       Use this version consistently in log messages.
  27140     - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
  27141     - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
  27142       partial results on small file reads.
  27143     - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
  27144     - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
  27145       a directory. Fix from lodger.
  27146     - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
  27147       many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
  27148     - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
  27149       on mingw.
  27150     - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
  27151       invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
  27152       to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
  27153       logging for the unit tests.
  27154     - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
  27155       non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
  27156       programs.
  27157     - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
  27158       some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
  27159       Fixes bug 707.
  27160     - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
  27161       Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
  27162     - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
  27163       require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h.  Patch
  27164       from coderman.
  27165 
  27166   o Logging improvements:
  27167     - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
  27168       logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
  27169     - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
  27170     - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
  27171     - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
  27172       make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
  27173     - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
  27174       errors.
  27175     - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
  27176       as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
  27177       Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
  27178       the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
  27179     - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
  27180     - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
  27181       it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
  27182     - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
  27183       consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
  27184     - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
  27185       hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
  27186     - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
  27187       Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  27188     - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
  27189       about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
  27190     - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
  27191       Good in combination with --hash-password.
  27192     - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
  27193       ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
  27194       yet.
  27195     - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
  27196       wrote, and give a more useful log message.  Fixes bug 533.
  27197     - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
  27198     - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
  27199       free-lists.
  27200     - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
  27201     - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
  27202       message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
  27203       OpenBSD or Windows or what.
  27204     - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
  27205       buffer type.
  27206     - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
  27207       logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
  27208     - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
  27209       try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
  27210       makes the log messages nicer.
  27211      - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
  27212       "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
  27213 
  27214   o Contributed scripts and tools:
  27215     - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
  27216       the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
  27217       Perry.
  27218     - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
  27219       Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
  27220       adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
  27221     - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
  27222       server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
  27223       a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
  27224       explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
  27225       connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
  27226     - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
  27227       operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
  27228 
  27229   o Newly deprecated features:
  27230     - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
  27231       GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
  27232       protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
  27233     - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
  27234 
  27235   o Removed features:
  27236     - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
  27237       corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
  27238       feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
  27239     - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
  27240       since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
  27241       eventdns code.
  27242     - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
  27243     - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
  27244       bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
  27245       0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
  27246       if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
  27247       downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
  27248     - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
  27249       it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
  27250       2004.
  27251     - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
  27252       from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
  27253       assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
  27254       send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
  27255     - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
  27256       and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
  27257       more easily.
  27258     - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
  27259       and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
  27260       and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
  27261     - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
  27262       them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
  27263       patch from Karsten Loesing.
  27264     - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
  27265       We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
  27266       to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
  27267     - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
  27268       that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
  27269       arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
  27270       code), this assumption no longer holds.
  27271     - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
  27272       obsolete.
  27273 
  27274 
  27275 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
  27276   Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
  27277   exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
  27278   exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
  27279 
  27280   o Security fixes:
  27281     - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
  27282       relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
  27283       ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
  27284       many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
  27285       on network address.
  27286 
  27287   o Major bugfixes:
  27288     - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
  27289       buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
  27290     - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
  27291       on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
  27292     - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
  27293       service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
  27294     - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
  27295       requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
  27296       crashing or mis-answering these requests.
  27297     - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
  27298       not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
  27299       purpose. Fixes bug 539.
  27300 
  27301   o Minor bugfixes:
  27302     - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
  27303       rebuild our server descriptor.
  27304     - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
  27305       networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
  27306       unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
  27307     - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
  27308       in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
  27309       nonstandard integer types.
  27310     - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
  27311       --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
  27312     - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
  27313       directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
  27314       that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
  27315       by lodger.
  27316     - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
  27317       responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
  27318       that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
  27319       when they receive them.
  27320     - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
  27321       This includes some 64-bit systems.
  27322     - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
  27323       the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
  27324       from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
  27325     - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
  27326     - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
  27327       router_get_by_hexdigest().
  27328     - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
  27329       port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
  27330       happened.
  27331 
  27332 
  27333 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
  27334   Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
  27335   hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
  27336   bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
  27337   lists for a few hours each day.
  27338 
  27339   o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  27340     - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
  27341       happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
  27342       connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
  27343       "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
  27344       Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
  27345     - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
  27346       rend_process_relay_cell().
  27347 
  27348   o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  27349     - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
  27350       hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
  27351       they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
  27352     - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
  27353       connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
  27354       digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
  27355       changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
  27356 
  27357   o Major bugfixes (other):
  27358     - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
  27359       HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
  27360       dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
  27361     - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
  27362       as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
  27363       circuit cannibalization).
  27364     - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
  27365       the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
  27366       Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
  27367       that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
  27368       clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
  27369       consensus. Fixes bug 529.
  27370 
  27371   o Minor bugfixes:
  27372     - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
  27373       --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
  27374       bug 499.
  27375     - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
  27376       router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
  27377       absent. Resolves bug 467.
  27378     - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
  27379       a way to trigger this remotely.)
  27380     - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
  27381       OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
  27382       were reporting the dir port.)
  27383     - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
  27384       command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
  27385     - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
  27386       the future. Fixes bug 434.
  27387     - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
  27388       in the future.
  27389     - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
  27390       onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
  27391       the onion key from getting rotated.
  27392     - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
  27393       this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
  27394     - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
  27395       cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
  27396       is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
  27397     - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
  27398       option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
  27399 
  27400 
  27401 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
  27402   Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
  27403   X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
  27404   ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
  27405   security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
  27406   should upgrade.
  27407 
  27408   In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
  27409   path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
  27410   have upgraded.
  27411 
  27412   o Major bugfixes (security):
  27413     - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
  27414       deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
  27415       become more of a headache than it's worth.
  27416 
  27417   o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
  27418     - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
  27419       proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
  27420       from Mike Perry.
  27421     - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
  27422       will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
  27423     - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
  27424       guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
  27425       three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
  27426       by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
  27427 
  27428   o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
  27429     - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
  27430       they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
  27431       some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
  27432       circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
  27433 
  27434   o Minor features (controller):
  27435     - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
  27436       is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
  27437       a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
  27438       protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
  27439 
  27440   o Minor bugfixes (performance):
  27441     - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
  27442       greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
  27443     - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
  27444       the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
  27445       its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
  27446       two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
  27447       powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
  27448 
  27449   o Minor bugfixes (misc):
  27450     - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
  27451       use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
  27452       Based on patch from Mike Perry.
  27453     - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
  27454       weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
  27455       would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
  27456       if we ran off the end of the list.
  27457     - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
  27458       cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
  27459       where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
  27460     - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
  27461       every time we change any piece of our config.
  27462     - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
  27463       encourage people using them to stop.
  27464     - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
  27465       from tup.
  27466     - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
  27467       servers to choose a circuit.
  27468     - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
  27469       unparseable piece of it.
  27470 
  27471 
  27472 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
  27473   Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
  27474   remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
  27475   configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
  27476   in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
  27477   TorK, etc. Or worse.
  27478 
  27479   o Major security fixes:
  27480     - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
  27481       do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
  27482 
  27483 
  27484 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
  27485   Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
  27486   problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
  27487   bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
  27488 
  27489   o Major bugfixes (compilation):
  27490     - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
  27491 
  27492   o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  27493     - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
  27494       an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
  27495     - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
  27496       routerlist while inserting a new router.
  27497     - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
  27498       don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
  27499       from croup.)
  27500     - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
  27501       orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
  27502       definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
  27503 
  27504   o Major bugfixes (security):
  27505     - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
  27506       found by croup.
  27507     - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
  27508       the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
  27509       and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
  27510     - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
  27511       bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
  27512       cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
  27513     - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
  27514       never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
  27515       guard list unless we need to.
  27516 
  27517   o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
  27518     - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
  27519       don't get overused as guards.
  27520 
  27521   o Minor bugfixes (directory):
  27522     - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
  27523       version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
  27524     - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
  27525       once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
  27526 
  27527   o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  27528     - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
  27529       connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
  27530       Resolves bug 444.
  27531 
  27532   o Minor bugfixes (misc):
  27533     - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
  27534       cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
  27535     - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
  27536       bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
  27537       unlikely. Patch from lodger.
  27538     - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
  27539     - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
  27540 
  27541 
  27542 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
  27543   Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
  27544   change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
  27545   and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
  27546 
  27547   o Directory authority changes:
  27548     - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
  27549       IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
  27550       or use hidden services.
  27551 
  27552   o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  27553     - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
  27554       as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
  27555       but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
  27556       behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
  27557     - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
  27558       to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
  27559     - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
  27560     - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
  27561       by lodger.)
  27562 
  27563   o Major bugfixes (security):
  27564     - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
  27565       that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
  27566       that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
  27567 
  27568   o Major bugfixes (resource management):
  27569     - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
  27570       networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
  27571       every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
  27572     - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
  27573       don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
  27574       not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
  27575     - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
  27576       lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
  27577       think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
  27578 
  27579   o Minor bugfixes:
  27580     - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
  27581       purpose=controller.
  27582     - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
  27583       we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
  27584       network-statuses.
  27585     - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
  27586       having a hard time downloading.
  27587     - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
  27588       partial results on small file reads.
  27589     - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
  27590       routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
  27591       the gaps in the store get very large.
  27592 
  27593   o Minor features:
  27594     - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
  27595       authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
  27596       documents.
  27597     - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
  27598       OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
  27599 
  27600 
  27601 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
  27602   This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
  27603   selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
  27604   address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
  27605   well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
  27606   other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
  27607 
  27608   Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
  27609   of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
  27610   free speech on the Internet.
  27611 
  27612   o Major features, client performance:
  27613     - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
  27614       let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
  27615       succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
  27616       choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
  27617     - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
  27618       middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
  27619       is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
  27620     - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
  27621       application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
  27622       10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
  27623       that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
  27624     - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
  27625       to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
  27626       make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
  27627       unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
  27628 
  27629   o Major features, client functionality:
  27630     - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
  27631       server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
  27632       plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
  27633       config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
  27634       you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
  27635     - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
  27636       bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
  27637       mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
  27638       can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
  27639       through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
  27640     - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
  27641       5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
  27642       SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
  27643 
  27644   o Major features, servers:
  27645     - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
  27646       with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
  27647       asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
  27648       would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
  27649       authenticated, so use with care.
  27650     - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
  27651       and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
  27652       masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
  27653       lots of memory.
  27654     - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
  27655       checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
  27656       that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
  27657       to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
  27658       in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
  27659       easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
  27660 
  27661   o Improvements on DNS support:
  27662     - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
  27663       from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
  27664       concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
  27665       multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
  27666     - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
  27667       records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
  27668       IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
  27669       now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
  27670     - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
  27671       DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
  27672       redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
  27673       DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
  27674       RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
  27675       lets you turn it off.
  27676     - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
  27677       wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
  27678       their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
  27679     - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
  27680       requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
  27681       useful to the network.
  27682     - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
  27683       useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
  27684     - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
  27685       lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
  27686     - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
  27687       our tests for DNS hijacking.
  27688 
  27689   o Improvements on reachability testing:
  27690     - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
  27691       established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
  27692       so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
  27693       bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
  27694     - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
  27695       so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
  27696     - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
  27697       if their identity keys are as expected.
  27698     - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
  27699       chews through many circuits before giving up.
  27700     - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
  27701       to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
  27702     - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
  27703       to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
  27704       we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
  27705       other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
  27706     - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
  27707       authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
  27708       long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
  27709       connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
  27710       more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
  27711       0.1.1.x is obsolete.
  27712 
  27713   o Improvements on rate limiting:
  27714     - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
  27715       capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
  27716       than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
  27717     - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
  27718       would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
  27719       to send them.
  27720     - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
  27721       they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
  27722       more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
  27723     - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
  27724     - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
  27725       connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
  27726     - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
  27727       writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
  27728       trying to flush.
  27729     - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
  27730       a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
  27731 
  27732   o Major features, NT services:
  27733     - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
  27734       command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
  27735       "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
  27736       existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
  27737       will look for its configuration file in the service user's
  27738       %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
  27739       directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
  27740       directory.)
  27741     - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
  27742       directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
  27743       the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
  27744       from Matt Edman.
  27745     - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
  27746       get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
  27747       exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
  27748       command line.
  27749     - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
  27750       stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
  27751 
  27752   o Directory authority improvements:
  27753     - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
  27754       bandwidth cutoffs.
  27755     - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
  27756     - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
  27757       too much load to the exit nodes.
  27758     - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
  27759       about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
  27760       clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
  27761       The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
  27762       protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
  27763     - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
  27764       clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
  27765       having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
  27766       moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
  27767     - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
  27768       can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
  27769       broken. Not used yet.
  27770     - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
  27771       approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
  27772       authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
  27773       of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
  27774       that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
  27775     - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
  27776       non-versioning dirservers.
  27777     - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
  27778       without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
  27779       restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
  27780       per day.
  27781     - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
  27782       a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
  27783       authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
  27784       clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
  27785 
  27786   o Directory mirrors and clients:
  27787     - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
  27788       directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
  27789     - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
  27790       dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
  27791       gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
  27792     - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
  27793       longer count the failure against the total number of failures
  27794       allowed for the object we're trying to download.
  27795     - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
  27796       discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
  27797       recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
  27798       the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
  27799       routers for even longer.
  27800     - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
  27801       headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
  27802       caching HTTP proxies.
  27803     - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
  27804       haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
  27805       causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
  27806       you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
  27807 
  27808   o Major fixes, crashes:
  27809     - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
  27810       one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
  27811     - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
  27812       out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
  27813       bug 390.)
  27814     - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
  27815       cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
  27816     - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
  27817       stream is detached.
  27818     - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
  27819       uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
  27820     - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
  27821       service circuits (reported by mwenge).
  27822     - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
  27823       and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
  27824     - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
  27825       handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
  27826       on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
  27827     - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
  27828 
  27829   o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
  27830     - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
  27831       /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
  27832       "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
  27833       want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
  27834     - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
  27835       1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
  27836     - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
  27837       keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
  27838       we never stay up for a week ourselves.
  27839     - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
  27840       in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
  27841       could return an unnamed server instead.
  27842     - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
  27843       many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
  27844       a more attractive target for compromise.)
  27845     - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
  27846       able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
  27847       only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
  27848     - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
  27849       Stefan Nordhausen.
  27850     - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
  27851       connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
  27852 
  27853   o Major fixes, other:
  27854     - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
  27855       uptime in the descriptor.
  27856     - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
  27857       up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
  27858     - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
  27859       indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
  27860       discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
  27861     - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
  27862       move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
  27863       Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
  27864       the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
  27865     - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
  27866       if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
  27867       our DirPort now, etc.
  27868     - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
  27869       its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
  27870       back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
  27871 
  27872   o New config options or behaviors:
  27873     - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
  27874       in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
  27875       EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
  27876     - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
  27877       ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
  27878       are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
  27879     - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
  27880     - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
  27881       the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
  27882       for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
  27883     - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
  27884       disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
  27885       a timely fashion.
  27886     - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
  27887       the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
  27888     - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
  27889     - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
  27890       accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
  27891       options files.
  27892     - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
  27893       NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
  27894     - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
  27895       avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
  27896       AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
  27897       is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
  27898     - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
  27899       and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
  27900       setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
  27901     - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
  27902       0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
  27903       SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
  27904       to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
  27905     - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
  27906     - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
  27907       suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
  27908     - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
  27909       choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
  27910     - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
  27911       directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
  27912       if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
  27913       the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
  27914     - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
  27915       for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
  27916       as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
  27917       authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
  27918       to continue being hidden service authorities too.
  27919     - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
  27920     - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
  27921       ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
  27922       an address.
  27923     - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
  27924       descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
  27925       your ORPort is set.
  27926 
  27927   o Docs:
  27928     - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
  27929       new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
  27930       versions too.
  27931     - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
  27932       addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
  27933     - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
  27934       and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
  27935 
  27936   o Packaging, porting, and contrib
  27937     - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
  27938       whether the config options are bad or good.
  27939     - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
  27940       to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
  27941     - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
  27942       take arguments rather than require direct editing.
  27943     - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
  27944       result more than once.
  27945     - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
  27946     - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
  27947       esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
  27948     - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
  27949       values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
  27950     - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
  27951     - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
  27952       Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
  27953       before we check for libevent.
  27954     - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
  27955     - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
  27956       or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
  27957       it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
  27958       win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
  27959       recommendation system saner.)
  27960     - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
  27961       define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
  27962     - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
  27963       now universal binaries.
  27964     - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
  27965     - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
  27966       for sure!)
  27967     - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
  27968       and many others).
  27969     - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
  27970     - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
  27971       ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
  27972       then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
  27973     - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
  27974       bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
  27975 
  27976   o Minor features, controller:
  27977     - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
  27978       control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
  27979       the next development series, so it's good to give people some
  27980       advance warning.
  27981     - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
  27982       use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
  27983     - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
  27984       impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
  27985       mwenge; closes bug 394.)
  27986     - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
  27987       address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
  27988       directive.
  27989     - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
  27990       make them generated in every case where we get a successful
  27991       connected or resolved cell.
  27992     - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
  27993       available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
  27994     - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
  27995       can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
  27996     - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
  27997     - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
  27998     - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
  27999       actual keys.
  28000     - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
  28001     - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
  28002       entry guard status as it changes.
  28003     - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
  28004       immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
  28005       successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
  28006       watching for STREAM events.
  28007     - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
  28008       field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
  28009       event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
  28010       a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
  28011       Mike Perry)
  28012     - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
  28013       controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
  28014     - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
  28015       working much like those for circuit events.
  28016     - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
  28017       about the current status of a router.
  28018     - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
  28019       a router's status has changed.
  28020     - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
  28021       can tell which events and features are supported.
  28022     - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
  28023       client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
  28024     - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
  28025       identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
  28026     - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
  28027       of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
  28028       for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
  28029       and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
  28030       for more information.
  28031     - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
  28032       best guess to the user.
  28033     - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
  28034       descriptor has changed.
  28035     - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
  28036     - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
  28037       don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
  28038 
  28039   o Minor bugfixes, controller:
  28040     - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
  28041       event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
  28042     - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
  28043       to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
  28044     - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
  28045       implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
  28046       ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
  28047     - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
  28048       clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
  28049       that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
  28050       3 of bug 367.)
  28051     - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
  28052       protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
  28053       "INTERNAL".
  28054     - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
  28055       we finally get the IP from an exit node.
  28056     - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
  28057       long.
  28058     - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
  28059       flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
  28060       the controller from learning about current events.
  28061     - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
  28062       reported by Mike Perry.
  28063     - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
  28064       when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
  28065     - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
  28066       controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
  28067     - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
  28068       about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
  28069       long nicknames where appropriate.
  28070     - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
  28071       make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
  28072       not requested.
  28073     - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
  28074       SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
  28075     - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
  28076       the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
  28077     - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
  28078 
  28079   o Minor features, code performance:
  28080     - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
  28081       algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
  28082     - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
  28083       time.
  28084     - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
  28085       some profiles, but not others.)
  28086     - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
  28087       arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
  28088       (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
  28089     - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
  28090       operations, for profiling.
  28091     - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
  28092       malloc(0) returns a pointer.
  28093     - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
  28094       split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
  28095       These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
  28096       also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
  28097     - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
  28098       This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
  28099 
  28100   o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
  28101     - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
  28102     - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
  28103       no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
  28104       in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
  28105       we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
  28106     - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
  28107       even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
  28108       family lists conveniently.
  28109 
  28110   o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
  28111     - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
  28112       recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
  28113     - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
  28114       DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
  28115     - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
  28116       For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
  28117       its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
  28118     - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
  28119       such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
  28120     - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
  28121       when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
  28122     - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
  28123       as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
  28124       of it), is not therefore "up".
  28125 
  28126   o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
  28127     - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
  28128       what version a router is running.
  28129     - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
  28130       "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
  28131       secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
  28132     - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
  28133       preceded by "opt".
  28134     - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
  28135       to have the wrong circ_id_type.
  28136     - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
  28137       actually mattered since 0.0.9.
  28138     - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
  28139       changed.
  28140 
  28141   o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
  28142     - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
  28143       whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
  28144       bug 373.)
  28145     - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
  28146       time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
  28147       time it is now.
  28148     - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
  28149       throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
  28150       handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
  28151       goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
  28152     - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
  28153       handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
  28154       days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
  28155     - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
  28156       "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
  28157     - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
  28158       unstable ones.
  28159     - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
  28160       'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
  28161       authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
  28162       but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
  28163     - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
  28164       2GB/s total advertised capacity.
  28165     - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
  28166     - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
  28167       get one we don't recognize.
  28168 
  28169 
  28170 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
  28171   o Security bugfixes:
  28172     - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
  28173       servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
  28174     - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
  28175     - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
  28176       is set.
  28177 
  28178   o Minor bugfixes:
  28179     - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
  28180       AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
  28181       unlisted router (reported by seeess).
  28182 
  28183 
  28184 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
  28185   o Major bugfixes:
  28186     - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
  28187       an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
  28188       answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
  28189     - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
  28190       hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
  28191       its circuits on demand.
  28192     - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
  28193       require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
  28194       we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
  28195       connections more stable on average.
  28196     - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
  28197       tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
  28198       servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
  28199 
  28200   o Security bugfixes:
  28201     - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
  28202       cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
  28203 
  28204   o Minor bugfixes:
  28205     - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
  28206       the first time.
  28207     - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
  28208       certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
  28209       handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
  28210     - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
  28211     - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
  28212       don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
  28213     - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
  28214       Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
  28215 
  28216 
  28217 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
  28218   o Major bugfixes:
  28219     - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
  28220       directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
  28221     - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
  28222       whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
  28223       do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
  28224       This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
  28225     - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
  28226       it can't resolve its hostname.
  28227     - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
  28228       and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
  28229       Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
  28230 
  28231   o Minor bugfixes:
  28232     - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
  28233     - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
  28234       "extendcircuit" request.
  28235     - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
  28236       response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
  28237     - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
  28238       more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
  28239       voodoo.
  28240     - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
  28241       uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
  28242       only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
  28243       tolower().
  28244     - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
  28245       methods: these are known to be buggy.
  28246     - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
  28247       documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
  28248       we don't recognize.
  28249 
  28250 
  28251 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
  28252   o Major bugfixes:
  28253     - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
  28254       due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
  28255       bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
  28256     - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
  28257     - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
  28258       then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
  28259       circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
  28260       changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
  28261       test reachability, so you won't publish.
  28262 
  28263   o Minor bugfixes:
  28264     - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
  28265       and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
  28266     - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
  28267       a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
  28268       a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
  28269       later than now.
  28270     - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
  28271       own server descriptor yet.
  28272 
  28273 
  28274 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
  28275   o Major bugfixes:
  28276     - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
  28277       reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
  28278       servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
  28279       make sure to test via one of these.
  28280     - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
  28281       descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
  28282     - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
  28283       descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
  28284       servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
  28285   o Minor bugfixes:
  28286     - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
  28287       "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
  28288     - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
  28289 
  28290 
  28291 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
  28292   o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
  28293     - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
  28294     - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
  28295       directory authority.
  28296     - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
  28297       while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
  28298       exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
  28299     - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
  28300 
  28301   o Other fixes:
  28302     - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
  28303     - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
  28304       first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
  28305       right after that.
  28306     - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
  28307       and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
  28308       again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
  28309       current guards when picking a new guard.
  28310     - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
  28311       is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
  28312       when we had more than one pending.
  28313     - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
  28314       Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
  28315       a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
  28316     - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
  28317     - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
  28318     - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
  28319       mapaddress. It's none of our business.
  28320     - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
  28321       middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
  28322       debug the reachability problems better.
  28323 
  28324   o Log / documentation fixes:
  28325     - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
  28326       log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
  28327       about protocol violations by others.
  28328     - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
  28329     - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
  28330       about what happened to our old torrc.
  28331 
  28332 
  28333 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
  28334   o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
  28335     - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
  28336       logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
  28337     - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
  28338       and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
  28339       Palfrader).
  28340     - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
  28341       a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
  28342       "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
  28343     - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
  28344       out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
  28345     - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
  28346       your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
  28347       HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
  28348       The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
  28349     - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
  28350       to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
  28351       on malicious huge inputs.
  28352 
  28353   o Security fixes, major:
  28354     - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
  28355       non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
  28356       sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
  28357       misreading their logs.
  28358     - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
  28359       nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
  28360       when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
  28361       become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
  28362       dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
  28363       config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
  28364       want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
  28365       Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
  28366     - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
  28367       destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
  28368       which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
  28369       that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
  28370       authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
  28371       use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
  28372       if you can.
  28373     - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
  28374       . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
  28375       . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
  28376         firewall options forbid.
  28377       . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
  28378         firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
  28379         can only proxy to certain destinations.
  28380     - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
  28381     - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
  28382       out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
  28383       through privoxy.
  28384     - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
  28385       keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
  28386       each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
  28387       periodically, so it's not so bad.)
  28388     - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
  28389       node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
  28390       already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
  28391     - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
  28392       are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
  28393       to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
  28394       preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
  28395     - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
  28396       was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
  28397 
  28398   o Security fixes, minor:
  28399     - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
  28400       Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
  28401       easily.
  28402     - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
  28403       mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
  28404       is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
  28405     - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
  28406       if we've not heard of a server.
  28407     - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
  28408       OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
  28409       startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
  28410     - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
  28411       the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
  28412       humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
  28413     - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
  28414       don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
  28415     - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
  28416       circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
  28417       introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
  28418       useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
  28419       aids some statistical attacks.
  28420     - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
  28421       It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
  28422       have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
  28423       exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
  28424     - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
  28425     - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
  28426       service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
  28427       back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
  28428       that anyway.
  28429 
  28430   o Packaging improvements:
  28431     - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
  28432       search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
  28433     - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
  28434       there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
  28435     - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
  28436     - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
  28437       "-Wall -g -O2".
  28438     - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
  28439       run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
  28440     - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
  28441       the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
  28442     - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
  28443       Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
  28444       target arch.
  28445     - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
  28446       if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
  28447     - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
  28448       connections.
  28449     - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
  28450       tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
  28451     - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
  28452       They are useless now.
  28453     - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
  28454       easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
  28455       is reachable by you.
  28456     - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
  28457       Thoenen.
  28458 
  28459   o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
  28460     - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
  28461     - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
  28462       digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
  28463     - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
  28464       download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
  28465       fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
  28466     - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
  28467     - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
  28468       download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
  28469       download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
  28470       and isolating attacks better.
  28471     - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
  28472       hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
  28473     - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
  28474       haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
  28475       tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
  28476       minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
  28477     - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
  28478       not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
  28479       go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
  28480       to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
  28481     - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
  28482       are known.
  28483     - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
  28484       can answer v2 directory requests too.
  28485     - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
  28486       docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
  28487     - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
  28488       mirrors still cache and serve it).
  28489     - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
  28490       before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
  28491     - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
  28492       for clients and for servers.
  28493     - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
  28494     - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
  28495       without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
  28496     - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
  28497       support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
  28498       to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
  28499     - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
  28500       reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
  28501     - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
  28502     - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
  28503       authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
  28504 
  28505   o Other directory improvements:
  28506     - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
  28507       fifth authoritative directory servers.
  28508     - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
  28509       a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
  28510       when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
  28511       to hang up on them.
  28512     - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
  28513       of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
  28514       be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
  28515       it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
  28516     - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
  28517       entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
  28518       every 20 minutes.
  28519     - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
  28520       the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
  28521       attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
  28522       to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
  28523       connections more reliable.
  28524     - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
  28525       like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
  28526       top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
  28527     - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
  28528       from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
  28529       we fail to connect).
  28530     - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
  28531 
  28532   o Controller protocol improvements:
  28533     - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
  28534       than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
  28535       in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
  28536       applications without caring how our protocol works.
  28537     - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
  28538       entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
  28539     - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
  28540       many bytes we've used in this time period.
  28541     - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
  28542       AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
  28543       a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
  28544       entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
  28545     - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
  28546       expose guard nodes, config options/names.
  28547     - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
  28548     - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
  28549       stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
  28550       don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
  28551       or "signal reload".
  28552     - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
  28553       we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
  28554       option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
  28555     - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
  28556       controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
  28557       a router in its role as directory authority.
  28558     - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
  28559       latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
  28560     - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
  28561       it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
  28562       .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
  28563       that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
  28564     - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
  28565       the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
  28566       changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
  28567       worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
  28568     - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
  28569       for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
  28570       controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
  28571       a new circuit.  Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
  28572       let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
  28573     - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
  28574       directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
  28575       dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
  28576       is enabled.
  28577     - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
  28578       that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
  28579       "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
  28580     - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
  28581       message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
  28582       just tell them to go read their logs.
  28583 
  28584   o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
  28585     - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
  28586       chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
  28587       a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
  28588       try to be a bit more fair.
  28589     - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
  28590       The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
  28591       and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
  28592       and we're using a default DirPort.
  28593     - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
  28594       CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
  28595       CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
  28596       build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
  28597     - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
  28598       services faster on the service end.
  28599     - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
  28600       remove them.
  28601     - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
  28602       warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
  28603     - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
  28604       server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
  28605       line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
  28606     - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
  28607       of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
  28608       bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
  28609       abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
  28610       in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
  28611     - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
  28612       truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
  28613       descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
  28614       purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
  28615     - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
  28616       125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
  28617       translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
  28618     - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
  28619       of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
  28620     - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
  28621       Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
  28622     - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
  28623       might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
  28624     - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
  28625       It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
  28626 
  28627   o Other bugfixes and improvements:
  28628     - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
  28629       remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
  28630       lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
  28631       so we can be backward-compatible.
  28632     - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
  28633       resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
  28634       if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
  28635       themselves as localhost can guess their address.
  28636     - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
  28637       it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
  28638       This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
  28639       initial descriptor forever.
  28640     - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
  28641       hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
  28642       the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
  28643       the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
  28644       rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
  28645     - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
  28646       reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
  28647       has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
  28648       servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
  28649       high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
  28650       suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
  28651     - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
  28652       circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
  28653     - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
  28654       connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
  28655       space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
  28656       feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
  28657       been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
  28658     - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
  28659       socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
  28660       leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
  28661     - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
  28662     - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
  28663       closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
  28664       ports that have changed.
  28665     - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
  28666       requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
  28667     - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
  28668       broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
  28669       connections once a week.
  28670     - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
  28671       would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
  28672       servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
  28673     - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
  28674       string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
  28675     - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
  28676       get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
  28677     - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
  28678       We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
  28679       able to discover them.
  28680     - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
  28681       want to make it an NT service.
  28682     - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
  28683       running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
  28684     - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
  28685     - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
  28686       memory leaks better.
  28687     - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
  28688       use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
  28689     - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
  28690       statistics are now uint64_t's.
  28691     - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
  28692       log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
  28693       Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
  28694     - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
  28695       our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
  28696     - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
  28697       so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
  28698       default ulimit -n is 1024.
  28699     - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
  28700       and its existence is confusing some users.
  28701 
  28702   o Config option fixes:
  28703     - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
  28704       to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
  28705       addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
  28706     - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
  28707     - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
  28708       that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
  28709       for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
  28710     - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
  28711       since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
  28712       or port.
  28713     - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
  28714       we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
  28715       This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
  28716       November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
  28717     - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
  28718       torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
  28719       it would silently ignore the 6668.
  28720     - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
  28721       e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
  28722       silently resetting it to its default.
  28723     - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
  28724     - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
  28725       will be more likely to learn that it exists.
  28726     - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
  28727     - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
  28728       config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
  28729       that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
  28730     - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
  28731       only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
  28732     - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
  28733     - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
  28734     - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
  28735       Address config option.
  28736     - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
  28737       reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
  28738 
  28739   o Config option features:
  28740     - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
  28741       do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
  28742       already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
  28743     - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
  28744       dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
  28745       makes sense.
  28746     - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
  28747       and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
  28748       info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
  28749       PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
  28750     - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
  28751       option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
  28752       Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
  28753     - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
  28754       accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
  28755       smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
  28756       in at least some cases.)
  28757     - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
  28758       as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
  28759       revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
  28760     - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
  28761       with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
  28762       by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
  28763       nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
  28764       currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
  28765       even if we know they're jerks.
  28766     - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
  28767       applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
  28768       socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
  28769       with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
  28770     - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
  28771       you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
  28772       every single internal or nonroutable network space.
  28773     - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
  28774       because older Tors do not understand it.
  28775     - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
  28776       moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
  28777     - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
  28778       get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
  28779       around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
  28780     - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
  28781       for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
  28782       to know about even the non-running descriptors.
  28783     - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
  28784       unattached before we fail it?
  28785     - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
  28786       at least this many seconds ago.
  28787     - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
  28788       at least this many seconds ago.
  28789     - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
  28790       using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
  28791 
  28792   o Improved and clearer log messages:
  28793     - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
  28794       them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
  28795       lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
  28796       by default.
  28797     - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
  28798       of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
  28799       log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
  28800     - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
  28801       have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
  28802     - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
  28803       move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
  28804     - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
  28805       temporarily unreachable.
  28806     - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
  28807       Windows-style errno back.
  28808     - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
  28809     - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
  28810       culling them.
  28811     - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
  28812     - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
  28813       even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
  28814       exactly for this case.
  28815     - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
  28816       warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
  28817       don't warn twice about the same name.
  28818     - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
  28819       unreachability.
  28820     - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
  28821       it was self-testing that told us so.
  28822     - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
  28823       as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
  28824     - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
  28825       the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
  28826     - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
  28827       will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
  28828     - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
  28829       log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
  28830     - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
  28831       circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
  28832     - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
  28833       established a circuit.
  28834     - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
  28835     - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
  28836       lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
  28837       and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
  28838       since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
  28839     - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
  28840       rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
  28841     - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
  28842       "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
  28843     - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
  28844       line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
  28845     - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
  28846       descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
  28847       a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
  28848     - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
  28849       a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
  28850     - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
  28851       server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
  28852       we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
  28853     - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
  28854       as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
  28855       testing for reachability.
  28856     - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
  28857       more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
  28858       to the torrc.
  28859     - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
  28860 
  28861 
  28862 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
  28863   o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  28864     - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
  28865       sometimes they would trigger an assert.
  28866 
  28867   o Other important bugfixes:
  28868     - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
  28869       artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
  28870       connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
  28871       connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
  28872 
  28873   o Backported features:
  28874     - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
  28875       and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
  28876       small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
  28877       without getting overloaded.
  28878     - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
  28879       once more. This will become important once servers start sending
  28880       503's whenever they feel busy.
  28881     - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
  28882       Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
  28883       directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
  28884     - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
  28885       from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
  28886 
  28887 
  28888 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
  28889   o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  28890     - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
  28891       corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
  28892       the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
  28893     - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
  28894       too -- so detect and avoid this.
  28895     - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
  28896       giving an error).
  28897     - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
  28898     - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
  28899       stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
  28900     - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
  28901       don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
  28902     - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
  28903       connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
  28904     - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
  28905       rendezvous circuits.
  28906     - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
  28907 
  28908   o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  28909     - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
  28910       messages so the operator knows what to expect.
  28911     - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
  28912       advertising it because of hibernation.
  28913     - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
  28914     - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
  28915     - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
  28916       that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
  28917       that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
  28918     - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
  28919       us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
  28920     - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
  28921       the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
  28922     - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
  28923     - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
  28924       exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
  28925       policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
  28926       as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
  28927       reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
  28928 
  28929 
  28930 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
  28931   o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  28932     - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
  28933     - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
  28934       try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
  28935     - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
  28936       only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
  28937     - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
  28938       be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
  28939     - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
  28940       so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
  28941     - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
  28942     - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
  28943       most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
  28944     - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
  28945 
  28946 
  28947 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
  28948   o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  28949       - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
  28950         (CVE-2005-2643).
  28951       - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
  28952         controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
  28953 
  28954 
  28955 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
  28956   o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  28957     - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
  28958     - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
  28959       it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
  28960     - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
  28961       pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
  28962       in the start menu.
  28963     - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
  28964       new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
  28965       not-broken.
  28966 
  28967 
  28968 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
  28969   o New directory servers:
  28970       - tor26 has changed IP address.
  28971 
  28972   o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  28973     - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
  28974     - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
  28975       pthreads libraries.
  28976     - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
  28977       claims its dirport is 0.
  28978     - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
  28979       getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
  28980       Edman for the fix.
  28981 
  28982 
  28983 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
  28984   o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  28985     - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
  28986       exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
  28987     - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
  28988       confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
  28989     - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
  28990     - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
  28991 
  28992 
  28993 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
  28994   o Fixes on Win32:
  28995     - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
  28996       patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
  28997     - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
  28998       servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
  28999     - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
  29000       right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
  29001       means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
  29002       has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
  29003     - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
  29004       file.
  29005     - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
  29006       Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
  29007 
  29008   o Assert / crash bugs:
  29009     - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
  29010       maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
  29011       arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
  29012       (CVE-2005-2050).
  29013     - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  29014       Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
  29015       TLS errors better in other situations too.
  29016     - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
  29017       pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
  29018 
  29019   o Resource leaks:
  29020     - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
  29021       forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
  29022       duplicate ram over time.
  29023       - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
  29024         reentry and threadsafeness.
  29025       - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
  29026         netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
  29027         resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
  29028         threading issues.
  29029     - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
  29030       leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
  29031     - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
  29032       point at your Tor server.
  29033     - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
  29034       Adam Langley.)
  29035     - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
  29036     - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
  29037       we're leaking.
  29038 
  29039   o Protocol correctness:
  29040     - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
  29041       the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
  29042       cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
  29043     - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
  29044       if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
  29045       to abandon partially built circuits.
  29046     - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
  29047       fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
  29048       right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
  29049       fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
  29050       descriptors we just dropped.
  29051     - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
  29052     - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
  29053       and to take errno into account where possible.
  29054     - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
  29055       'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
  29056     - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
  29057       things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
  29058 
  29059   o Robustness improvements:
  29060     - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
  29061       - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
  29062         nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
  29063         appropriate nodes.
  29064       - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
  29065         not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
  29066       - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
  29067         that will want high uptime circuits.
  29068       - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
  29069         hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
  29070       - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
  29071         clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
  29072       - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
  29073     - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
  29074       regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
  29075       circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
  29076       and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
  29077     - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
  29078       we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
  29079       make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
  29080       make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
  29081       circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
  29082     - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
  29083       help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
  29084       for google.com" problem.
  29085     - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
  29086       launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
  29087     - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
  29088       these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
  29089       provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
  29090       clients yet.
  29091 
  29092   o Reachability testing.
  29093     - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
  29094       DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
  29095       descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
  29096       DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
  29097     - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
  29098       high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
  29099     - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
  29100     - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
  29101       they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
  29102       already connected to them.
  29103     - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
  29104       or later.
  29105 
  29106   o Dirserver fixes:
  29107     - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
  29108       but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
  29109       nickname+key are allowed.
  29110     - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
  29111       and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
  29112       descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
  29113       about all other descriptors for that address:port.
  29114     - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
  29115       Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
  29116       he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
  29117       have quite wrong clocks).
  29118     - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
  29119       addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
  29120       IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
  29121       their descriptors are being rejected.
  29122 
  29123   o Efficiency improvements:
  29124     - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
  29125       and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
  29126       - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
  29127         kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
  29128       - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
  29129         CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
  29130       - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
  29131         after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
  29132         if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
  29133         assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
  29134         error message.
  29135     - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
  29136       reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
  29137       it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
  29138     - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
  29139       to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
  29140     - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
  29141       OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
  29142       OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
  29143       of CPU time plus memory.
  29144     - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
  29145       directory every time you regenerate it.
  29146     - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
  29147       it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
  29148     - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
  29149       since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
  29150     - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
  29151       dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
  29152       lowercase when you first see them.
  29153 
  29154   o Hidden services:
  29155     - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
  29156       hidden services better.
  29157     - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
  29158       circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
  29159       when we try to launch one.
  29160     - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
  29161       after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
  29162       attempts to build a circuit.
  29163     - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
  29164       be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
  29165     - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
  29166       normal web requests.
  29167 
  29168   o Controller:
  29169     - More Tor controller support. See
  29170       http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
  29171       including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
  29172       redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
  29173       closestream; closecircuit; etc.
  29174     - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
  29175       to make it easier to write controllers.
  29176     - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
  29177       be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
  29178       Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
  29179       log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
  29180       new log event types.
  29181 
  29182   o New config options/defaults:
  29183     - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
  29184       the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
  29185     - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
  29186       rejecting most low-numbered ports.
  29187     - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
  29188       exit policy.
  29189     - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
  29190       config option.
  29191     - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
  29192       based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
  29193     - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
  29194       the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
  29195       willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
  29196       capacity too.)
  29197     - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
  29198       a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
  29199       allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
  29200     - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
  29201     - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
  29202       testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
  29203       publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
  29204     - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
  29205       addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
  29206       required exit node for certain sites.
  29207     - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
  29208       for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
  29209       your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
  29210     - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
  29211       which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
  29212       ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
  29213       how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
  29214     - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
  29215       a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
  29216       servers).
  29217     - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
  29218       on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
  29219     - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
  29220       Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
  29221       private-IP addresses.
  29222     - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
  29223       smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
  29224     - Some people were putting "Address  " in their torrc, and they had
  29225       a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
  29226     - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
  29227       LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
  29228     - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
  29229       is valid without actually launching Tor.
  29230 
  29231   o Logging improvements:
  29232     - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
  29233       contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
  29234     - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
  29235       per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
  29236       yell so much.
  29237     - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
  29238       than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
  29239       dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
  29240     - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
  29241     - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
  29242     - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
  29243       ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
  29244     - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
  29245       that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
  29246       wrong.
  29247     - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
  29248       it was.
  29249     - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
  29250       already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
  29251     - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
  29252     - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
  29253     - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
  29254       pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
  29255 
  29256   o New contrib scripts:
  29257     - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
  29258       script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
  29259       addresses/ports.
  29260     - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
  29261       work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
  29262       fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
  29263       have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
  29264     - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
  29265       that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
  29266       via addresses like
  29267       "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
  29268     - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
  29269       Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
  29270     - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
  29271       on FreeBSD)
  29272 
  29273   o Misc bugfixes:
  29274     - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
  29275       not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
  29276       run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
  29277       to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
  29278     - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
  29279       a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
  29280     - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
  29281       the socks reject.
  29282     - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
  29283       something more reasonable when first installing.
  29284     - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
  29285       It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
  29286     - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
  29287       circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
  29288       get the nodes.
  29289     - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
  29290       artificially capped at 500kB.
  29291     - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
  29292       addresses.
  29293     - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
  29294     - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
  29295       they could use instead.
  29296     - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
  29297     - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
  29298       installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
  29299       the user asks you to.
  29300 
  29301   o Misc features:
  29302     - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
  29303       rather than just rejecting it.
  29304     - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
  29305       has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
  29306     - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
  29307       potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
  29308       rather than just "success" or "failure".
  29309     - A more sane version numbering system. See
  29310       http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
  29311     - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
  29312       recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
  29313       same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
  29314       series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
  29315       A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
  29316       the same series.
  29317     - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
  29318       servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
  29319     - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
  29320       contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
  29321       they're malformed.
  29322     - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
  29323       actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
  29324       for now.
  29325     - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
  29326       cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
  29327       to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
  29328     - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
  29329       come later.
  29330     - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
  29331       whether the server is hibernating.
  29332 
  29333 
  29334 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
  29335   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
  29336     - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
  29337       maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
  29338       arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
  29339       (CVE-2005-2050).
  29340 
  29341 
  29342 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
  29343   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  29344     - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  29345       Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
  29346       backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
  29347 
  29348 
  29349 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
  29350   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  29351     - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
  29352       cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
  29353       thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
  29354       established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
  29355       busy for more than 100 seconds.
  29356 
  29357 
  29358 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
  29359   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  29360     - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
  29361     - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
  29362       a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
  29363       extending to unknown routers. Oops.
  29364     - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
  29365       creating actual system users.
  29366     - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
  29367       a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
  29368       in 0.1.0.x).
  29369 
  29370 
  29371 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
  29372   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
  29373     - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
  29374       reason (8) could trigger an assert.  Prevent bug from recurring.
  29375     - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
  29376     - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
  29377       blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
  29378       checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
  29379       sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
  29380     - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
  29381       inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
  29382     - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
  29383     - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
  29384       you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
  29385       other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
  29386 
  29387   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
  29388     - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
  29389     - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
  29390       speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
  29391     - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
  29392       into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
  29393       resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
  29394       because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
  29395       yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
  29396     - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
  29397       existing torrc files.
  29398     - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
  29399 
  29400 
  29401 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
  29402   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  29403     - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
  29404     - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
  29405     - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
  29406       support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
  29407     - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
  29408       the win32 SYSTEM account.
  29409     - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
  29410     - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
  29411       file descriptors available.
  29412     - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
  29413     - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
  29414       seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
  29415 
  29416 
  29417 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
  29418   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  29419     - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
  29420       a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
  29421       freak out.
  29422     - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
  29423       of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
  29424     - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
  29425     - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
  29426       file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
  29427       logs, etc.
  29428     - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
  29429       ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
  29430     - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
  29431     - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
  29432     - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
  29433     - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
  29434       not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
  29435       have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
  29436       cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
  29437     - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
  29438       800kB/s of capacity.
  29439     - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
  29440 
  29441 
  29442 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
  29443   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  29444     - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
  29445       need as much processor time.
  29446     - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
  29447       run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
  29448       optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
  29449       application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
  29450       human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
  29451     - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
  29452       long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
  29453       shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
  29454     - Enable Mac startup script by default.
  29455     - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
  29456     - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
  29457       controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
  29458       resetting.
  29459     - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
  29460       the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
  29461     - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
  29462       will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
  29463     - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
  29464       now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
  29465       itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
  29466 
  29467 
  29468 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
  29469   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
  29470     - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
  29471       to a file.
  29472     - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
  29473       style address, then we'd crash.
  29474     - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
  29475       a dirserver is broken.
  29476     - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
  29477       may work better.
  29478     - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
  29479       where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
  29480       doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
  29481 
  29482   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
  29483     - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
  29484       name out of the warning/assert messages.
  29485     - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
  29486     - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
  29487       license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
  29488       take any away.
  29489     - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
  29490       immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
  29491     - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
  29492       DataDirectory.
  29493     - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
  29494 
  29495   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
  29496     - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
  29497     - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
  29498       confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
  29499       values at once couldn't work.
  29500     - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
  29501       if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
  29502       being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
  29503     - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
  29504       strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
  29505       they can handle any number of routers.
  29506     - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
  29507     - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
  29508     - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
  29509       nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
  29510     - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
  29511     - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
  29512       writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
  29513     - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
  29514       now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
  29515 
  29516 
  29517 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
  29518   o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  29519     - Make hibernation actually work.
  29520     - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
  29521     - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
  29522       don't use the stream status code.
  29523 
  29524 
  29525 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
  29526   o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
  29527     - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
  29528       write() call will fail and we handle it there.
  29529     - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  29530       crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
  29531     - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
  29532       but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
  29533     - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
  29534     - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
  29535       the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
  29536     - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
  29537       bit platforms.
  29538 
  29539   o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
  29540     - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
  29541       win32 socket errors better.
  29542     - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
  29543     - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
  29544     - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
  29545     - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  29546       happier.
  29547     - Make unit tests work on win32.
  29548 
  29549   o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
  29550     - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
  29551       we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
  29552       it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
  29553       right after sending the begin cell.
  29554     - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
  29555       of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
  29556       exit nodes too. Oops.
  29557     - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
  29558       back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
  29559       the user would get no response.
  29560     - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
  29561       we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
  29562     - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
  29563       forever.
  29564     - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  29565       more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  29566       circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  29567       connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  29568       a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
  29569 
  29570   o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
  29571     - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
  29572       With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
  29573       we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
  29574       socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
  29575       eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
  29576       bytes sitting in the inbuf.
  29577     - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
  29578       half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
  29579       because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
  29580       as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
  29581 
  29582   o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
  29583     - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
  29584     - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
  29585     - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
  29586     - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
  29587     - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
  29588       and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
  29589     - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
  29590     - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
  29591       so we don't see those messages days later.
  29592     - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
  29593       INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
  29594       bug).
  29595     - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
  29596       Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
  29597       they ran out of file descriptors.
  29598     - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
  29599       that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
  29600       with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
  29601       don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
  29602       recent enough.
  29603     - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
  29604     - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
  29605     - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
  29606       the ones we find in directories.)
  29607     - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  29608       empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  29609       if you don't want it open.
  29610     - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  29611       there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  29612       which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
  29613     - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
  29614       or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
  29615       connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
  29616 
  29617   o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
  29618     - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
  29619       overflow behavior.
  29620     - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
  29621       hey.)
  29622     - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
  29623     - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
  29624 
  29625   o Features (circuits and streams):
  29626     - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
  29627       used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
  29628       or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
  29629       80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
  29630     - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
  29631     - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
  29632       the user knows which one it's talking about.
  29633     - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
  29634       just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
  29635       unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
  29636     - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
  29637       address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
  29638       from Geoff Goodell.
  29639     - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
  29640       pick it anyway.
  29641     - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
  29642       once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
  29643       to fill the last cell completely.
  29644     - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
  29645     - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
  29646 
  29647   o Features (bandwidth):
  29648     - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
  29649       set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
  29650       allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
  29651       bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
  29652       of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
  29653       the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
  29654       "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
  29655       your billing cycle starts on.
  29656     - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
  29657       hibernation properties by
  29658       AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
  29659       AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
  29660         Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
  29661     - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
  29662       kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
  29663 
  29664   o Features (directories):
  29665     - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
  29666       nickname to its identity key.
  29667     - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  29668       of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
  29669     - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  29670       lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
  29671     - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  29672       appropriate.
  29673     - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
  29674       running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
  29675       running-routers.z
  29676     - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
  29677       will be able to get a directory.
  29678     - Http proxy support
  29679       - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
  29680       - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
  29681         be routed through this host.
  29682       - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
  29683         This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
  29684       - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
  29685         with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
  29686     - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  29687       10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
  29688 
  29689   o Features (packages and install):
  29690     - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
  29691     - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
  29692     - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
  29693     - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
  29694     - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
  29695     - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
  29696     - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
  29697       ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
  29698     - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
  29699     - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
  29700       is broken.
  29701 
  29702   o Features (ui controller):
  29703     - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
  29704       client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
  29705       notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
  29706       bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
  29707       Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
  29708     - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
  29709       with the control port.
  29710     - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
  29711       use in authenticating to the control interface.
  29712     - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
  29713       configuration to torrc.
  29714     - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
  29715     - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
  29716       But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
  29717 
  29718   o Features (config and command-line):
  29719     - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
  29720       not on the command line.
  29721     - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  29722       options.
  29723     - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
  29724     - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
  29725       - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
  29726       - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
  29727       - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
  29728       - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
  29729     - New log format in config:
  29730       "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
  29731       "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
  29732     - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
  29733       from their dirserver.
  29734     - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
  29735       and then exit.
  29736     - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
  29737     - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
  29738       specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
  29739       with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
  29740     - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
  29741       specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
  29742     - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
  29743       server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
  29744     - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
  29745       out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
  29746     - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
  29747       - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
  29748         parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
  29749       - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
  29750       - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
  29751         repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
  29752         default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
  29753       - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
  29754     - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  29755       than once per minute.
  29756 
  29757   o Features (other):
  29758     - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
  29759       get back to normal.)
  29760     - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
  29761     - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
  29762     - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
  29763       log more informatively.
  29764     - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
  29765       servers and clients to have any clock skew.
  29766     - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
  29767       from each other, to hinder linkability.
  29768     - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
  29769       them act more like real nodes.
  29770     - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
  29771     - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
  29772       1024) file descriptors.
  29773     - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
  29774 
  29775 
  29776 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
  29777   o Bugfixes:
  29778     - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
  29779       clients/servers with an open dirport.
  29780     - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  29781       our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
  29782     - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  29783     - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  29784       intermittent connections.
  29785     - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
  29786     - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
  29787       reattaches.
  29788     - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
  29789       in reporting stats locally.
  29790     - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
  29791       immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
  29792     - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
  29793 
  29794 
  29795 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
  29796   o Bugfixes:
  29797     - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
  29798       itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
  29799     - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
  29800       everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
  29801     - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
  29802       you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
  29803     - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
  29804       list to decide who's running.
  29805     - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
  29806       end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
  29807     - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
  29808     - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
  29809       hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
  29810     - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
  29811       function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
  29812       for pointing out this bug.)
  29813     - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
  29814       directory.
  29815     - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
  29816       don't put it into the client dns cache.
  29817     - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
  29818       address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
  29819       reject *:* until we get our next directory.
  29820 
  29821   o Protocol changes:
  29822     - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
  29823       intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
  29824       extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
  29825       hadn't heard of before.
  29826 
  29827   o Features:
  29828     - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
  29829       without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
  29830       - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
  29831         by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
  29832       - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
  29833         list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
  29834       - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
  29835         nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
  29836       - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
  29837         routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
  29838         Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
  29839       - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
  29840         low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
  29841       - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
  29842     - Directory caching.
  29843       - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
  29844       - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
  29845         directory they've pulled down.
  29846       - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
  29847       - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
  29848         DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
  29849       - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
  29850         authdirservers, to stay better synced.
  29851       - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
  29852         if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
  29853         by hash-of-key).
  29854       - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
  29855         This isn't used yet.
  29856       - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
  29857         running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
  29858         clients don't use this yet.)
  29859     - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
  29860     - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
  29861     - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
  29862       options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
  29863       detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
  29864     - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
  29865       ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
  29866       which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
  29867     - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
  29868       should tolerate down dirservers better now.
  29869     - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
  29870       - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
  29871         connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
  29872       - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
  29873         and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
  29874         clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
  29875     - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
  29876       connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
  29877     - File and name management:
  29878       - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
  29879       - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
  29880         as datadir.
  29881       - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
  29882       - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
  29883       - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
  29884       - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
  29885         to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
  29886     - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
  29887       it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
  29888       to use.
  29889     - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
  29890       rather than an is-in-the-list check.
  29891     - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
  29892       locally.
  29893       - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
  29894       - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
  29895         interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
  29896     - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
  29897     - Write tor version at the top of each log file
  29898     - New docs in the tarball:
  29899       - tor-doc.html.
  29900       - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
  29901     - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
  29902       are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
  29903     - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
  29904       know you might want to get it verified.
  29905     - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
  29906       kazaa, gnutella ports.
  29907     - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
  29908     - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
  29909     - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
  29910       snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
  29911     - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
  29912       has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
  29913     - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
  29914       "GET /".
  29915     - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
  29916       an exitnode.
  29917     - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
  29918       we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
  29919       or exit nodes.
  29920     - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
  29921       IP address for outgoing connect()s.
  29922     - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
  29923 
  29924 
  29925 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
  29926   o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
  29927     ask them to resolve the host "".
  29928 
  29929 
  29930 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
  29931   o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
  29932     eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
  29933 
  29934 
  29935 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
  29936   o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
  29937     since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
  29938 
  29939 
  29940 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
  29941   o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
  29942     - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
  29943       to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
  29944       them.
  29945     - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
  29946       would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
  29947       give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
  29948       exit nodes.
  29949     - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
  29950       hidden service per 15-minute period.
  29951     - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
  29952       the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
  29953       even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
  29954   o Fixes for security bugs:
  29955     - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
  29956       random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
  29957       a trusted dirserver.
  29958   o Other bugfixes:
  29959     - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
  29960       start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
  29961     - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
  29962       didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
  29963       but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
  29964     - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
  29965       will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
  29966     - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
  29967       arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
  29968     - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
  29969       have failed.
  29970     - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
  29971     - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
  29972     - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
  29973       breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
  29974     - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
  29975       we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
  29976       easily.
  29977     - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
  29978       settings too.
  29979   o Features:
  29980     - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
  29981     - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
  29982       now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
  29983     - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
  29984       directory (not that we were anywhere close).
  29985     - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
  29986     - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
  29987       separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
  29988       option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
  29989     - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
  29990       Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
  29991     - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
  29992       to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
  29993     - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
  29994 
  29995 
  29996 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
  29997   o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
  29998     not the previous cells like we'd thought.
  29999     Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  30000 
  30001 
  30002 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
  30003   o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
  30004     onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
  30005     out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
  30006     polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
  30007     Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  30008   o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
  30009     server.
  30010 
  30011 
  30012 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
  30013   o Features:
  30014     - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
  30015       http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
  30016       hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
  30017       Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
  30018     - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
  30019     - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
  30020       if you decrypted them correctly.
  30021     - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
  30022       exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
  30023     - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
  30024       approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
  30025       in-memory directories too.
  30026     - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
  30027     - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
  30028     - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
  30029     - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
  30030       just close the circ.
  30031     - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
  30032     - Better debugging for tls errors
  30033     - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
  30034     - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
  30035   o Bugfixes:
  30036     - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
  30037       the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
  30038     - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
  30039       It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
  30040       happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
  30041       operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
  30042       it tells you about the first error.
  30043     - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
  30044       When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
  30045     - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
  30046     - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
  30047       returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
  30048     - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
  30049       o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
  30050       o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
  30051       o Win32's close can't close a socket.
  30052       o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
  30053   o Portability:
  30054     - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
  30055       <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
  30056 
  30057 
  30058 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
  30059   o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
  30060     torrc. (Woo!)
  30061   o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
  30062   o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
  30063     using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
  30064     This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
  30065   o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
  30066     expect it to have a nickname.
  30067   o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
  30068     early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
  30069   o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
  30070   o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
  30071     the dns farm to do it.
  30072   o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
  30073   o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
  30074     directory.
  30075   o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
  30076     rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
  30077   o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
  30078   o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
  30079     but that aren't warnings
  30080 
  30081 
  30082 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
  30083   o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
  30084     we would crash.
  30085 
  30086 
  30087 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
  30088   o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
  30089   o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
  30090     - include missing header fcntl.h
  30091     - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
  30092     - deal with hardware word alignment
  30093     - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
  30094     - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
  30095   o Preliminary work on reputation system:
  30096     - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
  30097       by kill -USR1 currently.
  30098     - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
  30099       circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
  30100     - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
  30101 
  30102 
  30103 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
  30104     - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
  30105     - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
  30106 
  30107 
  30108 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
  30109   o Bugfixes:
  30110     - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
  30111       now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
  30112     - And fix a few endian issues.
  30113 
  30114 
  30115 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
  30116   o New features:
  30117     - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
  30118       try that circuit again: try a new one.
  30119     - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
  30120     - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
  30121       logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
  30122       accept it even without mail from the server operator).
  30123     - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
  30124     - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
  30125       about as a server.
  30126     - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
  30127     - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
  30128       (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
  30129   o Bugfixes:
  30130     - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
  30131       simply not true.
  30132     - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
  30133       expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
  30134       side isn't reading right then.
  30135     - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
  30136       RecommendedVersions
  30137     - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
  30138     - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
  30139     - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
  30140 
  30141 
  30142 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
  30143   o New features:
  30144     - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
  30145       we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
  30146       e.g. poblano.
  30147   o Bugfixes:
  30148     - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
  30149       crashed.
  30150 
  30151 
  30152 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
  30153   o Bugfixes:
  30154     - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
  30155       a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
  30156     - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
  30157       connection is finished.
  30158     - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
  30159       flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
  30160     - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
  30161     - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
  30162     - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
  30163       will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
  30164     - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
  30165     - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
  30166       rather than warn and continue.
  30167     - Make --version work
  30168     - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
  30169 
  30170 
  30171 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
  30172   o New features:
  30173     - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
  30174       knows it's working.
  30175     - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
  30176       send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
  30177       clearly thwarted.)
  30178     - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
  30179     - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
  30180       so you can collect coredumps there.
  30181  o Bugfixes:
  30182     - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
  30183       didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
  30184       a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
  30185     - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
  30186       dns cache actually gets populated.
  30187     - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
  30188     - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
  30189       end cell down it first.
  30190     - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
  30191       excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
  30192 
  30193 
  30194 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
  30195   o New features:
  30196     - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
  30197     - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
  30198       errors happen.
  30199     - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
  30200       Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
  30201     - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
  30202       501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
  30203     - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
  30204       their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
  30205       it.
  30206     - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
  30207   o Bugfixes:
  30208     - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
  30209       then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
  30210       think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
  30211     - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
  30212     - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
  30213       Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
  30214       dirservers.
  30215     - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
  30216       many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
  30217 
  30218 
  30219 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
  30220   o New features:
  30221     - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
  30222     - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
  30223       tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
  30224       tor. It even has a man page.
  30225     - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
  30226     - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
  30227     - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
  30228       so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
  30229       his/her torrc.
  30230     - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
  30231   o Bugfixes:
  30232     - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
  30233 
  30234 
  30235 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
  30236   o New features:
  30237     - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
  30238       it, apt-getters. :)
  30239     - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
  30240       bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
  30241       BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
  30242       kicks in).  This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
  30243       BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
  30244       performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
  30245     - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
  30246       than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
  30247       may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
  30248     - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
  30249       from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
  30250       to new ones.
  30251     - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
  30252       have them reattach to new circuits instead.
  30253 
  30254   o Bugfixes:
  30255     - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
  30256       after a while.
  30257     - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
  30258     - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
  30259 
  30260 
  30261 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
  30262   o Bugfixes:
  30263     - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
  30264       closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
  30265       inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
  30266       weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
  30267       eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
  30268       open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
  30269     - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
  30270     - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
  30271       logfile so you know it's working.
  30272     - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
  30273     - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
  30274 
  30275 
  30276 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
  30277   o Bugfixes:
  30278     - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
  30279     - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
  30280       AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
  30281 
  30282 
  30283 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
  30284   o Bugfixes:
  30285     - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
  30286     - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
  30287       adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
  30288 
  30289   o Features:
  30290     - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
  30291       to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
  30292     - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
  30293       with MorphMix).
  30294     - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
  30295     - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
  30296       relay cells.
  30297     - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
  30298       messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
  30299       use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
  30300       this hop.
  30301     - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
  30302       breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
  30303       been made so far.
  30304 
  30305 
  30306 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
  30307   o Bugfixes:
  30308     - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
  30309     - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
  30310       counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
  30311 
  30312   o Features:
  30313     - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
  30314       open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
  30315       the circuit and then we open streams at him.
  30316     - Add port ranges to exit policies
  30317     - Add a conservative default exit policy
  30318     - Warn if you're running tor as root
  30319     - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
  30320     - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
  30321     - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
  30322       your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
  30323       exit nodes.
  30324     - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
  30325 
  30326 
  30327 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
  30328   o Robustness and bugfixes:
  30329     - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
  30330       really screw things up.
  30331     - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
  30332       working.
  30333     - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
  30334       handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
  30335       established.
  30336     - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
  30337     - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
  30338     - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
  30339     - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
  30340     - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
  30341     - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
  30342 
  30343   o Documentation:
  30344     - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
  30345 
  30346   o Configuration:
  30347     - Change default loglevel to warn.
  30348     - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
  30349     - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
  30350       ORPort>0.
  30351     - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
  30352 
  30353 
  30354 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
  30355   o Robustness and bugfixes:
  30356     - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
  30357       - to get ownership/permissions right
  30358       - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
  30359     - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
  30360       pull down a directory again
  30361     - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
  30362       causing server crashes
  30363     - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
  30364     - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
  30365     - exit if bind() fails
  30366     - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
  30367     - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
  30368     - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
  30369     - fix minor bias in PRNG
  30370     - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
  30371 
  30372   o Documentation:
  30373     - Wrote the design document (woo)
  30374 
  30375   o Circuit building and exit policies:
  30376     - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
  30377       are down.
  30378     - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
  30379       bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
  30380     - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
  30381       exists, rather than failing
  30382     - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
  30383       which AP connections are standing by
  30384     - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
  30385     - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
  30386     - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
  30387       circuit.
  30388     - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
  30389     - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
  30390 
  30391   o Configuration:
  30392     - APPort is now called SocksPort
  30393     - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
  30394       where to bind
  30395     - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
  30396       hardcoded (for dirservers)
  30397     - Reloads config on HUP
  30398     - Usage info on -h or --help
  30399     - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
  30400 
  30401 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
  30402   o General stability:
  30403     - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
  30404       of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
  30405     - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
  30406     - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
  30407     - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
  30408       to take down the network when I approve a new router
  30409     - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
  30410 
  30411   o Buffers:
  30412     - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
  30413     - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
  30414 
  30415   o Autoconf improvements:
  30416     - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
  30417     - Make install now works
  30418     - create var/lib/tor on make install
  30419     - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
  30420     - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
  30421 
  30422   o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
  30423     - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
  30424     - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
  30425     - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup