Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-??-?? o Major features (performance): - Alter the client path selection to use new consensus-generated weightings to alter bandwidths when selecting Guard, Middle, Exit, and Guard+Exit flagged nodes for entry, middle, and exit positions. This should more evenly distribute the network load across these different types of nodes, and give us the flexibility to globally alter our node selection algorithms in the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in the first implementation of this. o Minor features (performance): - Always perform router selections using weighted node bandwidth, even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use nodes not marked with the Fast flag. o Minor features: - Allow disabling building of the manpages. This speeds up the build considerably. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing descriptors. Bugfix on tor-0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir, fixes bug 1255. - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau. - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore. - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found, and building with asciidoc isn't disabled. Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22 o Directory authority changes: - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden service directory authority) from the list. o Major bugfixes: - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its libraries in a security patch. - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request() that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found by aakova. - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk. - When freeing a cipher, zero it out completely. We only zeroed the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on tor-0.0.2pre8. Discovered and patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237. - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott Bennett and Downie on or-talk. - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting for log messages was already solved from bug 748.) - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by "memcpyfail". - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit. - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed. - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since control-spec.txt said they were. - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore. Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik. - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and produce nicer HTML. - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions. - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the projects directory in svn. - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated high latency links. o Minor features: - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection algorithms. - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes to the circuit build timeout. - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword arguments we do not recognize. - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into open() without checking it. Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-??-?? o Major bugfixes: - When freeing a cipher, zero it out completely. We only zeroed the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on tor-0.0.2pre8. Discovered and patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254. - Avoid a bug that set IPs incorrectly on relays that did't set Address to an IP address, when that address fails to resolve. Fixes bug 1269. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing descriptors. Bugfix on tor-0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir, fixes bug 1255. - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir, fixes bug 1256. - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly. Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo, fixes bug 1257. Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time for sure! o Minor bugfixes: - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need customized patches to run/build. Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory authority. o Major bugfixes (performance): - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry. o Major bugfixes: - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its libraries in a security patch. - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request() that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found by aakova. o Directory authority changes: - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden service directory authority) from the list. o Minor bugfixes: - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore. Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik. o Minor features: - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17. Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26 o Major bugfixes: - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian. Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. o Minor bugfixes: - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost. Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often refuse to listen. Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes, ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options. This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a security breach of some of the Torproject servers. o Directory authority changes: - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1 and gabelmoo. o Major features (performance): - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry. - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris Alexander. - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha, but never per-conn write limits. - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163. o Major features (relay selection options): - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a "StrictExcludeNodes" option. - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before the change. - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it, they get it. - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're all down and b) StrictNodes is not set. - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as the network changes. o Major bugfixes: - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. o Minor features: - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196. - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60. - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command, so the controller can write the file to disk itself. - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages generated while acting as a relay. - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too. - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17. o Minor bugfixes (compiling): - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. o Minor bugfixes (crashes): - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15. o Minor bugfixes (privacy): - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix on 0.1.1.8-alpha. o Minor bugfixes (other): - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1. - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals. - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested by bug 1055. - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m too. o Removed features: - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall hidden service usage. Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors if you make the right directory request. This stable update also rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations. o Directory authority changes: - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1 and gabelmoo. o Major bugfixes: - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an upgrade if you're an exit relay. o Major bugfixes: - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are. - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150. o Minor bugfixes: - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted and fixed by xmux. - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to- trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity Scan. - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to- trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173. Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features: support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design, future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs. o Major features: - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process. Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in multiple flavors". - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries of router information that clients can use in place of regular server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients download consensus + microdescriptors". - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better hash algorithm in the future. - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X), this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root -- if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor. - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas to help Tor build correctly for Android phones. o Major bugfixes: - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc. - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13. - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted and fixed by xmux. - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3. - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote, nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066. - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042. - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113. - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind. Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs. The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia, and switch from Privoxy to Polipo. The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo in the Vidalia Settings window. o Major bugfixes: - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the oldest-bug prize. - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz. o Major features: - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus, and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168. o New directory authorities: - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory authority. - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19. - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem. Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor". Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit. - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported by SwissTorExit. - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being freed. o Minor features: - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them. Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha. o Major bugfixes: - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. o New directory authorities: - Move dizum to an alternate IP address. Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events, and fixes a few smaller bugs. o Major bugfixes: - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108. o New directory authorities: - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses. o Minor features: - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future SSL handshake issues. - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen during the TLS handshake. - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one seems to have removed most US IP addresses. - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network, none of which are very big. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha. - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on, whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1023. o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules. Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. o Major bugfixes: - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103. o Minor bugfixes: - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections, this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does! o Major features: - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance. Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151. We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout. - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167. - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus, and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168. o Major bugfixes: - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem. Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076. - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor". Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit. - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported by SwissTorExit. - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being freed. - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user; and explain our warning about tsocks better. o Minor features: - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them. - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file. Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable, makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators, and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays. o Security fixes: - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix on 0.0.9rc5. o New directory authorities: - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory authority. o Major features: - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL hardware crypto acceleration engines. - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis. o Major bugfixes: - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the oldest-bug prize. o New options for gathering stats safely: - Directories that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics on directory request to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times. - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every 24 hours. - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours. - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24 hours. - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in their extra-info documents. o Minor features: - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the source files Tor was built with. - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available. - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930. - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for AccountingMax. - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should set this option. - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout). o Minor bugfixes: - If any the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator". - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit. - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk. Might help diagnosing bug 1051. o Deprecated and removed features: - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/" or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values. - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors when contacted by older hidden services/clients. - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible controllers. - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users via application-level web tricks. o Packaging changes: - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X installer bundles. See https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3. - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta. - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy. - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard. - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard. - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3. Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18. o Major bugfixes: - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and part of patch provided by "optimist". o Minor features: - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation, and confuse fewer users. o Minor bugfixes: - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc; fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian. - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha; fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr. Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements, adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of other features and bug fixes. o Build fixes: - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent. Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags poorly. The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic failure message (oops). o Major features: - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of proposal 141. o Major bugfixes: - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. o Minor bugfixes: - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha. - The control port would close the connection before flushing long replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016. - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor, fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message. Workaround for bug 1024. - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option. Resolves bug 1027. o Minor features: - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose about the reason that made us change. Should help track down further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses. Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24 o Security fix: - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors. Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing. - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta. o Major bugfixes: - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900. - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957. o Minor bugfixes: - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672. - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either, because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep. Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs. o Security fixes: - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta. o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x): - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50% of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found by Jacob. - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile data. o Minor features: - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses; if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on Windows. - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption when running as a server with a controller listening for log messages. - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it, and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996. - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either, because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x): - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc. - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed. - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point. Fix for bug 984. Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety of more minor bugs. o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage(). Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away. - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930. - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once. Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932. - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of client usage by country. Fixes bug 932. - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the controller. - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy. - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x): - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha. Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP addresses to fall out of the directory. o Major features: - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months ago. This change should significantly improve client performance, especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been a guard for a long time are currently overloaded. o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0): - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900. - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for part of a day if they changed their local config but the authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962; patch by Sebastian. - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors. Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing. o Minor features: - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941. - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443. This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to understand. - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster on average. - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file. o Minor bugfixes: - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha. - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by :, actually use the specified port rather than defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33. - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K. The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959; bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;). - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by bug 959. Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate. o Major bugfixes: - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier): - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions. We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863. - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit, stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752. - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that stream never finished making its connection, it would live forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry. - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle of a circuit. Patch from lark. - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark. - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for bug 929. - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is aligned. Possible fix for bug 604. - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input. - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source path. Patch from Michael Gold. - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address of 0. Suggested by lark. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x): - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878. - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha. o Minor features: - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user is option is set. - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using. - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file. Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway. o Security fixes: - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark. - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33. - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid. Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer. Patch from Matthias Drochner. - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20. Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups. o Security fixes: - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark. - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. o Minor bugfixes: - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha; reported by Matt Edman. - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against 0.2.1.11-alpha. - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden service targets from being at IPv6 addresses. - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6. - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20. - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv: Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing, the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously. Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. o Minor features: - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations, NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner. - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late. o Build changes: - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates the letter of C99's alias rules. Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap. This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.) o Security fixes: - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel. o Major bugfixes: - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha; reported by "wood". - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely identify a connection. - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old, discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887. o Minor bugfixes: - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t. - Compile without warnings on solaris. - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection. Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv. - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status. CID 349. - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691. - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse. - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv. - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested, that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows. Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv. - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian. - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian. - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889. - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug 840. Patch from rovv. - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch from rovv. - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere, do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection. Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv. - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874. o Minor features: - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected differently than the case where there is an error handling the detached set. - When we realize that another process has modified our cached descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten. - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3% of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding" for more info. - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS poisoning. - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or both. Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.) o Security fixes: - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel. o Major bugfixes: - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887. o Minor features: - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug 897 and others. - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA entirely. Patch from coderman. o Minor bugfixes: - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting. Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha. - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your DNS requests. Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0, and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs. o Major bugfixes: - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old, discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit; bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. o Minor features: - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making a difference. - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built without support for deprecated functions. - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF. - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid. Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27. - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address, do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv. - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv. - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709. - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x): - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address. - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis thanks to Karsten. - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit, for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like this later. - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order. - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha. - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha. o Deprecated and removed features: - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to maintain. o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting with log.h on Android. - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now. Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related. o New directory authorities: - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new IP address. o Security fixes: - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor. - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. o Major bugfixes: - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman. - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha; reported by "wood". - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691. o Minor features: - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for users to diagnose. - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address, log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses. - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn. - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory authorities. Fixes bug 366. - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Partial implementation of proposal 157. - Start serving certificates by pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157. - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'. Implements proposal 148. - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the system to do it for us. - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation, or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful. - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses. - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn. - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify Tor that new directory information has arrived. - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial bugfix on bug 891. o Minor features (controller): - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has been fetched and validated. - When we realize that another process has modified our cached descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten. - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration. Fixes bug 856. o Minor bugfixes: - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha. - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805. Spotted by rovv. - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian. - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian. - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874. - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. o Deprecated and removed features: - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha. - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored. o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it belongs. - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment, it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps." - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility. - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit. Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases, builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and fixes a variety of other issues. o Major features: - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html. o Security fixes: - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator. Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. o Major bugfixes: - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. o Minor bugfixes: - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes bug 859. - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired certificates. Partial fix for bug 854. - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862. - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian. - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta. - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the rest, and don't automatically fail. - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t. - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection. Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv. - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861. - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write(). - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status. CID 349. o Minor features: - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete. o Minor features (controller): - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes bug 858. Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a variety of other issues. o Security fixes: - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857. - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv. o Major bugfixes: - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. o Major bugfixes (hidden services): - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel, we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity. - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable correctly. Found by Riastradh. - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam. - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr. - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??). - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default list. It has been gone for many months. - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862. - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta. o Minor bugfixes (controller): - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807. Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a variety of other issues. o Security fixes: - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv. - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848. - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851. o Minor features: - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in. Suggested by Lucky Green. - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3% of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding" for more info. - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks. o Hidden service performance improvements: - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds. - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms). - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much faster after restart. o Minor bugfixes: - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase. - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv. - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug 840. Patch from rovv. - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere, do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection. Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv. - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested, that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows. Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv. - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch from rovv. - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811. - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that have already been marked for close. - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding introduction points. - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve memory performance during directory parsing. - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over. - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it because of a pending download. Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection, and fixes a variety of smaller issues. o Major features: - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Code by Karsten Loesing. - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default, i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service lookups more reliable. - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some refinement to decide what config options should take priority if you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it. - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan. o Major bugfixes: - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel, we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. o Minor features: - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file. - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better locked down these days. - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not simultaneously running with the same datadir. - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it. - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory servers. - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and serving v2 hidden service descriptors. - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to help debug WFU and MTBF calculations. - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768. - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some people find host:port too confusing. - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan. - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Reported by Tas. - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity. - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable correctly. Found by Riastradh. - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix for bug 811. - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x. - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam. - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr. - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??). - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807. - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha. - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes bug 820, reported by seeess. - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default list. It has been gone for many months. o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any actual mistakes we're making here. - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly with unit tests to check for memory leaks. - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory. Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues. o Major bugfixes: - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc. - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested by rovv. - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix pointed out by rovv. o Minor bugfixes: - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows. Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30. - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir. Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743. - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch. Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues. o Major features: - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold IPv6 addresses. - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements. - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses. - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for hidden services"): configure hidden services with client authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next step is to actually access hidden services that perform client authorization. - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every known descriptor before building circuits. o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before): - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely identify a connection. - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested by rovv. - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix pointed out by rovv. o Minor bugfixes: - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message. - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse. - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir. Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. o Minor features: - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen a lot. Resolves bug 748. - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in answer sections match. - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob. Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha. o Major bugfixes: - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. o Removed features: - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21. Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs. o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha): - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down). o Major features: - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early" cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must be sent using an "early" cell. o Major bugfixes: - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743. - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc. o Minor features: - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard, which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654; patch contributed by Josh Albrecht. - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151. - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists. - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509. - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port, and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn. o Minor bugfixes: - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov. - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann. - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor, don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763. Bugfix on 0.0.9.3. - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly, and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms. - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks. Spotted by rovv. o Minor bugfixes (controller): - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch. o Removed features: - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the Tor network. Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15 o Minor bugfixes: - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann. Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs. o Major bugfixes: - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point, and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha. - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point, and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used, so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x. - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers: some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers. Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch. - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19. - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch from coderman. - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug found by Geoff Goodell. Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller. o Major features: - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten. o Major bugfixes: - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests, you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests, and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?) o Minor features: - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants. - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down. This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal 138. - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow fingerprints with or without space. - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches partway through and wants to catch up. - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a state to start out in. o Minor bugfixes: - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/ would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha): - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and some of the connection attempts fail. - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure. - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than ten bridges. - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT". Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits; and adds a variety of smaller features. o Major features: - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't know about. - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements proposal 137. - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable) cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll() at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version. o Major bugfixes: - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger. o Memory fixes and improvements: - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c, to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools. - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously, this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code on a typical directory cache. - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly, and may reduce fragmentation. - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops. - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal buffers. - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution before too long. - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or both. o Minor bugfixes: - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't done that for a long time. - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.) o Minor features: - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings, or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor. - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3, and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under GCC 4.3. - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the output to messages of warning and error severity. - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted. The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134. - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats, DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served directory info to in each country code, how many status documents total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total directory requests we should expect to see. - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser behavior. - Lots of new unit tests. - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through two parallel lists in lockstep. Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs. o Anonymity fixes: - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays, or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug. o Major bugfixes: - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha. o Minor features: - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file. - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so many development snapshots that fail their unit tests. o Minor bugfixes: - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc. - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc. - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc, Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger. - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc. - Fix compile on Windows. Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.) o Major features: - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing. o Minor features: - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681. - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs. - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series on mingw. - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set. - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries. o Minor bugfixes: - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681. - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents from time to time. Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not. o Major security fixes: - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated with an affected version of OpenSSL. o Major bugfixes: - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. o Minor features: - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for authorities to change their identity keys if they have to. Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs. o Major bugfixes: - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging. Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. o Minor bugfixes: - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs. o New directory authorities: - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since it has been down for months. - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory authority. o Major bugfixes: - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652. o Minor features (security): - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in a private address space. Patch from lodger. - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger. o Minor bugfixes (crashes): - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf. - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise, running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha. - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf, bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. o Minor bugfixes (resource management): - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha. - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit platforms. Bug spotted by aakova. o Minor bugfixes (misc): - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix based on patch from Sebastian Hahn. - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn. - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why. - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests. Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663. - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent, by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves. Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646. - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger. Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release. o Major bugfixes: - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also, fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap. Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17. o Major features: - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in certain censored countries by default again. o Major bugfixes: - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x): - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge. - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection, look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network. Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614. - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of a directory. Fix from lodger. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO. - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the RelayBandwidth* values. - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch. - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha CPUs. Fixes bug 625. - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane. - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of get_interface_address6(). - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE. - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and 16k pages on ia64. - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc. - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup. Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. o Minor features: - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed. - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will make "INFO" 75% less verbose. Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug, and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16. o Major bugfixes: - The control port should declare that it requires password auth when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615. - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message. This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy. - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode. o Major features: - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future. - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth, rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes. - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row, stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437. o Major bugfixes: - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors. Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha and 0.2.0.19-alpha. - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609. - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586. o Minor features (performance): - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of RAM overhead used. - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code. - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system include paths. - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from Sebastian Hahn. o Minor features (other): - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS errors. - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available. - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for scriptability. o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems): - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2. - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and Dan Kaminsky. - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode. - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file. Should fix bug 537. - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. o Minor bugfixes (other): - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge. - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c. - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses. - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten. - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606. - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for example, when answering a directory request), reset the time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor" so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears. - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x. - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error" as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected. - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver correctly. o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused, and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far more easily. Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable. o Major features: - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of Tor's x509 certificates. o Major bugfixes: - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point, a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. o Minor features (security): - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(), as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy. o Minor features (directory authority): - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit. - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or bandwidthburst values. o Minor features (controller): - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue processes from running us out of memory. o Minor features (misc): - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range hidden service descriptor/protocol versions. - Make memory debugging information describe more about history of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use. o Deprecated features (controller): - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used. o Minor bugfixes: - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops. Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a private IP address (like 127.0.0.1). - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of connections, tell the controller that the request has failed. - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved type-safety. - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600. - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a needless memcpy() call on each cell payload. Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC, fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with vulnerable-plaintext protocols. o New directory authorities: - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory authority. o Major bugfixes: - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589. - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590. - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially fixes bug 593. o Major features: - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556. - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could handle more, do another bandwidth test. - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23, 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. o Minor bugfixes: - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir listeners. Reported by mwenge. - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported by Kyle Williams. o Minor features: - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if the request isn't encrypted. - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too. - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available; retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we already have a usable v0 rend desc. Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops). o Compile fixes: - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball. Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs. o New directory authorities: - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory authority. o Major performance improvements: - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to memory fragmentation. o Minor features: - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557. - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies when they receive them. - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them. o Minor performance improvements: - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5% of them were actually distinct. - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is interested in a given message. o Minor bugfixes: - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569. - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads: use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222. - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor. - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on 0.2.0.15-alpha. - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583. - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from this country" and "1 person from this country". - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2. - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0. - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions. Bugfix on 0.1.2. - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2. - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix on 0.2.0. - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present but client versions are not. - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had happened. - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0. - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service. - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre error conditions. - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. o Minor features (controller): - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup. - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file. - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly. o Minor features (directory authorities): - New configuration options to override default maximum number of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for running a test network on a single host. - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert. - Add a manual page for tor-gencert. o Minor features (bridges): - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over unencrypted connections. o Minor features (other): - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579. Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues. o Security fixes: - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a relay's public (external) IP address too, unless ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based on network address. o Major bugfixes: - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544. - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry. - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero. - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir" requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are crashing or mis-answering these requests. - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole purpose. Fixes bug 539. o Minor bugfixes: - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to rebuild our server descriptor. - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.) - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define nonstandard integer types. - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves bug 540. - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported by lodger. - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies when they receive them. - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long. This includes some 64-bit systems. - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of router_get_by_hexdigest(). - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had happened. Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha. o Major bugfixes: - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x. - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation. - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.13-alpha. - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example self-reachability and authority-reachability tests. o Minor features: - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang. To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure. Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23 o Major bugfixes: - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported by Zax. - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first time you use a given introduction point for your service, but on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. o Major features: - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who knows that password. Unset by default. o Minor bugfixes: - Make the unit tests build again. - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/" actually work. - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions. - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard the next one as a duplicate. o Minor features: - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3". - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out. Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for upcoming features. o New directory authorities: - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory authority. o Major bugfixes: - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448. - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir" requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are crashing or mis-answering these types of requests. - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x. o Major features: - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval, so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document. - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority, AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type, rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers. - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country. - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users are coming from, and report aggregate information in their extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn where Tor is blocked. - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries to a file periodically. - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely. You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly config option. o Minor bugfixes: - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed in the relevant networkstatus document. - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch by Karsten Loesing. - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc. - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer. - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.) - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. o Minor features: - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory consumers. (We already do this on HUP.) - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents less often, now that v3 is encouraged. - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info, even if your DirPort isn't on. - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/" so controllers can ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge addresses. - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support multiple controller passwords. - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given router based on the router's purpose. - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in the approved-routers file. Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as well as a few minor bugs. o Compile fixes: - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup. - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x): - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to rebuild our server descriptor. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing. - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry. - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running' in the consensus. - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to fall back to asking the bridge authority. - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards, then be flexible about families. o Minor features: - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented), accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for proposal 110. Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list. o Security fixes: - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a relay's public (external) IP address too, unless ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. o Major bugfixes: - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548. Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so, we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha: - We were including instructions about what to do with the src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now. o Minor features: - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there. o Minor bugfixes: - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation, fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and addresses many more minor issues. o New directory authorities: - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority. o Major features: - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit" connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and fetching. - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to implement new hidden service descriptor format. - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default and are reaching it. - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of how long we have known about them, and above the median of those nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime. - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels it doesn't have enough directory info yet. o Major bugfixes: - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by Fabian Keil. - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges no longer work for clients. - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544. o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha): - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers would start complaining after a few days that they don't have enough directory information to build a circuit. - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help. - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it right after. - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending requests for all of them. - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes bug 546. - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly started authority would vote that everyone was down. o New requirements: - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since 2004. o Minor features: - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously, they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes). - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus networkstatuses that we already have. - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way we start knowing some directory caches. - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew. - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message about how skewed they are, and how much this matters. - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that certificate's claims about the authority's IP address. - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log. Good in combination with --hash-password. - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements fix for bug 535. - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful. - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to track down the second incarnation of bug 546. o Minor features (bridges): - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall back to trying the bridge directly. - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns. o Minor features (controller): - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value, report the value as a "minimum skew." o Utilities: - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike Perry. o Minor bugfixes: - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman. - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; reported by tup and ioerror. - Better log message on vote from unknown authority. - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message. o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks): - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536. - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Minor bugfixes (portability): - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5. Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status lists for a few hours each day. o Major bugfixes (crashes): - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451: "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed" Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha. - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from rend_process_relay_cell(). o Major bugfixes (hidden services): - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname. - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically. o Major bugfixes (other): - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day. - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced circuit cannibalization). - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named, Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus consensus. Fixes bug 529. o Minor bugfixes: - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves bug 499. - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Resolves bug 467. - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't a way to trigger this remotely.) - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we were reporting the dir port.) - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17. - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in the future. Fixes bug 434. - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information in the future. - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop the onion key from getting rotated. - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483. - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is fishy. Resolves bug 463. - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration option. Patch from Robert Hogan. - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves bug 540. Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status lists for a few hours each day. o Major features (directory system): - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only download router descriptors listed in the consensus. - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as a different named server, but list them with a new flag, "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122. - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned to a different router: do not identify the router by that name. Partially implements proposal 122. - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility. o Major bugfixes: - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named, Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. o Minor features (v3 directory protocol): - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing the signing key. - Allow certificates to include an address. - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting and download operations. - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet. - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure, and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a failure. - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are more reliable.) o Minor features (router descriptor cache): - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good routers anyway. - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire, and don't expire the descriptor until then. o Minor features (performance): - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should speed startup, especially on directory caches. - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we already have enough directory information to build circuits. - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to OpenSSL. o Minor features (compilation): - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on. o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x): - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them stick around indefinitely. - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as an error. - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a v3 directory authority. - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct the listing. - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to "moria on moria:9031." - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and detached signatures for a divergent vote. - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus. - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote. o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x): - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set. - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice. - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus should exist before trying to replace the current one. - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus downloads than for other types. o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues): - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. o Minor bugfixes (controller): - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman. o Minor bugfixes (misc): - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor" config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman. - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha. - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing bandwidth accounting information in the state file since 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier. - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory. - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c. - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server so that they all take the same named flags. o Utilities - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day). Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working, starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors, and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks. o Major features (router descriptor cache): - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store annotations along with descriptors. - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its source, and its purpose. - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now obsolete. - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command. - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them to blocked users. o Major features (directory authorities): - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries to fetch them. - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections. o Major features (v3 directory system): - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed, and download the descriptors listed in them. - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority certificates, and re-attempt after failures. - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing. o Major bugfixes (crashes): - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha. o Major bugfixes (performance): - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info " string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1. - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha. o Minor features (v3 authority system): - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the current consensus. - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or certificate is requested. - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of certificate requests. o Minor bugfixes (network statuses): - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. o Minor bugfixes (controller): - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system): - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule. - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting schedule, not on our preferred schedule. - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and downloads more sensible. - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and another when serving certificates. o Minor bugfixes (performance): - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly voodoo. - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. o Minor bugfixes (portability): - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483. - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases. Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha. o Minor bugfixes (usability): - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than WARN-severity events. - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is fishy. Resolves bug 463. o Minor bugfixes (anonymity): - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves bug 516. - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced circuit cannibalization). o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code. - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a new module, networkstatus.c. - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use, clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions; thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone. - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more uniform. - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to dirserver_mode(). - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format. The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha. Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues. o New directory authorities: - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design. o Major bugfixes (crashes): - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. o Major bugfixes (bridges): - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort, and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha. o Major bugfixes (hidden services): - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname. - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing. o Minor features (security): - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an address maps to an internal address space. - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and CookieAuthentication at the same time. o Minor features (guard nodes): - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way, if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards. o Minor features (speed): - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e., on big-endian hosts.) o Minor features (controller): - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a hard time generating real Internet newlines. - Add GETINFO values for the server status events "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from Robert Hogan. o Removed features: - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60% (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes implementation of proposal 104. - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py, and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol, and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway. - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on patch from Karsten Loesing. - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages. o Minor bugfixes: - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort. Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode. o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor, meet stdio. - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type. - Move all NT services code into a separate source file. - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc. - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies. Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller) should upgrade. In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people have upgraded. o Major bugfixes (security): - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has become more of a headache than it's worth. o Major bugfixes (load balancing): - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch from Mike Perry. - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention. - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements. o Major bugfixes (stream expiration): - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger. o Minor features (controller): - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119. o Minor bugfixes (performance): - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup. - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad). o Minor bugfixes (misc): - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths. Based on patch from Mike Perry. - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves if we ran off the end of the list. - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit. - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie every time we change any piece of our config. - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and encourage people using them to stop. - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch from tup. - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable servers to choose a circuit. - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly unparseable piece of it. Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important security risks. In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable, rather than just looking at the most recent uptime. o New directory authorities: - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority. o Major features: - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data, use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108. o Major bugfixes (load balancing): - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch from Mike Perry. - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention. - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements. o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing): - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. o Minor features: - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack" GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos. - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible from localhost. o Minor bugfixes: - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x) - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x) - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their address. - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0" in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman. - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman. - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit. Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again; fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs. o Removed features: - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead, authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those versions anyway. o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x): - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types. - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32. - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui Zhou. o Major bugfixes (stream expiration): - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454; reported by lodger. o Minor features (directory servers): - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200. o Minor features (directory voting): - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them on startup. o Minor features (security): - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations. - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and encourage people using them to stop. o Minor features (controller): - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119. - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the cookie authentication file, and config option CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable. o Minor features (unit testing): - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on logging for the unit tests. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x): - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit. - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie every time we change any piece of our config. - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in the future. Fixes bug 434. - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information in the future. - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop the onion key from getting rotated. - Clean up torrc sample config file. - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other programs. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x): - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes try to print a NULL. Patch from tup. - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location. - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code. Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles, TorK, etc. Or worse. o Major security fixes: - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port; do not allow multiple authentication attempts. Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha. o Major security fixes: - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port; do not allow multiple authentication attempts. o Major bugfixes (compilation): - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already defined there. o Minor features (performance): - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too performance-intensive. - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad). - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists. Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features and bugfixes. o Major features: - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities; people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network. See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for details. - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already pick these ports.) - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.) - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.) o Major features (experimental): - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case handling before it's ready for use. o Security fixes: - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x] - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.) - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread. o Major bugfixes (directory): - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x] o Minor features (controller): - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.) - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch from Robert Hogan.) - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch from Robert Hogan.) - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch from Tup.) - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.) - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.) - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated. (Patch from Tup.) o Minor features (misc): - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch from croup.) - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects the authority identity key. - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory free-lists. - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit. - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly if they generate a network status document that is somehow malformed. o Traffic load balancing improvements: - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths. (Based on patch from Mike Perry.) - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x] o Performance improvements: - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the memory free lists. - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing between processes. o Deprecated and removed features: - RedirectExits is now deprecated. - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes. We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time to reject them. (Patch from croup.) o Minor bugfixes (directory): - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha] - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha] - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha] o Minor bugfixes (dns): - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha] - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha] - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha] o Minor bugfixes (controller): - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing. - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events. - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha] - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha] Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other bugs. Everybody should upgrade. o Major bugfixes (compilation): - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops. o Major bugfixes (crashes): - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after an mmap(). Reported by lodger. - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the routerlist while inserting a new router. - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size, don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea from croup.) - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS. o Major bugfixes (security): - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug found by croup. - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't, and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger. - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446. - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list, never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our guard list unless we need to. o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes): - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes don't get overused as guards. o Minor bugfixes (directory): - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1. - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure. Resolves bug 444. o Minor bugfixes (misc): - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar. - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely. Patch from lodger. - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes. - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes. Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha: - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests. Resolves bugs 441 and 442. o Minor features (directory): - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.) o Minor build issues: - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings. - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed in the tarball, not as "x". Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us forward on a lot of fronts. o Major features, server usability: - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst: a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. o Major features, client usability: - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server. The code still only implements a subset of DNS. - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now do all of their connections protected by TLS. o Major features, performance and efficiency: - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors, the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements proposal 104.] - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements proposal 104.] - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write. Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds of traffic. - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient. - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out. o Major features, other: - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without logging information that would be very useful to an attacker. - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities: Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.) o Security fixes: - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy. o Minor fixes (resource management): - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing our allocated connection limit. - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection. Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair() workaround. - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while. o Minor features (build): - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently. - Update deprecated macros in configure.in. - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the warning. - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz. Use this version consistently in log messages. o Minor features (logging): - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug. - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's OpenBSD or Windows or what. - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by buffer type. o Minor features (directory system): - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose not to serve V2 directory information. - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make implementing proposal 104 simpler. o Minor features (controller): - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits preemptively. - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM, so we can exit from the middle of the circuit. - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established". - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.) o Minor features (hidden services): - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by adding limited ad-hoc round-robining. o Minor features (other): - More unit tests. - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes. - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no longer a completely silly thing to do. - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia), now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman. - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb, minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth. o Removed features: - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol. This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send back an error and close the connection. - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new eventdns code. o Minor bugfixes (portability): - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators, try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it makes the log messages nicer. - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE. - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns partial results on small file reads. o Minor bugfixes (directory): - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear more often than they are allowed to appear. - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first. o Minor bugfixes (logging): - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down), don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.) o Minor bugfixes (other): - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address, explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.) - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast". - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar) - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it in Oct 2004.) - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions. - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache, because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when we restart. - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417. - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2. - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely. o Minor bugfixes (controller): - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported by daejees. - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported by daejees. o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are implicit in other procedure arguments. - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue feature, OR conns don't get full any more. - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits properly, so the caller doesn't have to. - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw. - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets. Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services), and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs. o Directory authority changes: - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve or use hidden services. o Major bugfixes (crashes): - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.) - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios. - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.) - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported by lodger.) o Major bugfixes (security): - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.) o Major bugfixes (resource management): - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384. - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422. - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422. o Minor bugfixes: - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with purpose=controller. - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config, we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our network-statuses. - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are having a hard time downloading. - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns partial results on small file reads. - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when the gaps in the store get very large. o Minor features: - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors, authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus documents. - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads. Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11. Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for free speech on the Internet. o Minor fixes: - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we get one we don't recognize. - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417. - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371. Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16 o Major bugfixes: - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess. o Minor bugfixes: - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched' event when we're done, so we follow the spec better. Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees: - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people ask for GUARDS too. Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07 o Major bugfixes (Windows): - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist) just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run on Win98 and friends again. o Minor bugfixes (other): - Clarify a couple of log messages. - Fix a misleading socks5 error number. Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02 o Major bugfixes (Windows): - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400 and maybe also bug 397.) o Minor bugfixes (performance): - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster. This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage. o Minor bugfixes (server): - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first time. o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and bandwidth cutoffs. - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce load on authorities. o Minor bugfixes (other): - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.) - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth to INT32_MAX. - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by Stefan Nordhausen. - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix the last of bug 326.) - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in the 0.2.0 branch. Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26 o Major bugfixes (crashes): - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.) - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha; resolves bug 389.) - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.) o Major bugfixes (hidden services): - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.) o Major bugfixes (accounting): - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.) o Minor bugfixes (controller): - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part 3 of bug 367.) - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them "INTERNAL". - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when we finally get the IP from an exit node. - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very long. o Minor bugfixes (other): - Display correct results when reporting which versions are recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.) - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random: guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth from all known directories, not that it will have the average bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list. - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key. - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the user when cached-routers doesn't exist. - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason other than file-not-found. - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's perfectly fine when starting up for the first time. - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain, in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before. - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.) - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call. - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if we're a cache; drop it if we aren't. - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network comes back online. - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding DNS request. - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends. o Minor features (controller): - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during the next development series, so it's good to give people some advance warning. - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.) - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from mwenge; closes bug 394.) - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and make them generated in every case where we get a successful connected or resolved cell. o Minor bugfixes (performance): - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.) - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured. (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.) o Minor features: - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete. - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.) - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about which are incoming connections and which are outgoing. - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists). - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes, ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes are down. (Fixes bug 348.) - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes bug 373.) - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth. Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting): - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and more directory responses, which can't be good for latency. - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses. - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus request. - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty. - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting buckets go absurdly negative. - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before trying to flush. o Major bugfixes (NT services): - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service will look for its configuration file in the service user's %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that directory.) o Major bugfixes (other): - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we discard them if they are more than 10 days old. - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew Del Vecchio). - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular pointer loops. - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards, ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth to become a guard. - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor, don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have to wait for 0.2.0.) o Minor bugfixes (dns): - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch possible memory-stomping bugs. - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the extra bytes.) - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles in the correct order, and doesn't crash. - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit. This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks. - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups. - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error. o Minor bugfixes (other): - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess). - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what time it is now. - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for days, if the connecting application didn't close them either. - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it. - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like. - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need. - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS connections. (Fixes bug 382.) - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use unstable ones. - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script. - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible. - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug. - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes to the resulting address. o Major features: - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.) o Minor features: - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development versions too. - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1. - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script take arguments rather than require direct editing. - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful. - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router. - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53. - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies. - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command line. o Minor features (controller): - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.) - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor. - Clean up documentation for controller status events. - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress directive. Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09 o Major bugfixes: - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash. - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet. Refuse the connection rather than crashing. o Minor bugfixes: - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we weren't planning to resolve. - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be unnecessarily slow (even for select()). - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent the controller from learning about current events. o Minor features (more controller status events): - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can learn when our address changes. - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers can learn when directories reject our descriptor. - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol to our SocksPort. - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses. - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants. - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly. - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors are accepted by a directory. - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED} server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in deciding whether it's reachable from the outside. - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to be changed. - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED, and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn about changes to DNS server status. o Minor features (directory): - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift too much load to the exit nodes. Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06 o Major features: - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits. - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used to send them. - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch from Matt Edman. - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening. - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns config options if you like. o Minor features (config and docs): - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data: the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha. - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few disk writes as possible while still storing important things in a timely fashion. - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set. - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested). - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options: accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved options files. - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition. - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #. - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing documentation: "make check-docs". - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect. o Minor features (DNS): - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it. - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups. - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5. - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch our tests for DNS hijacking. o Minor features (directory): - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't. The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions. - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1, moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration. - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests. Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic. - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503. - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't count the failure against the total number of failures allowed for the thing we're trying to download. - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're internal. - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers. - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be broken. o Minor features (controller): - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled. - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the actual keys. - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint". - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on entry guard status as it changes. o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces): - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log to set log options. - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1. - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be preceded by "opt". o Major bugfixes (security): - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor. - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file. - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging is set. - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k. - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if we never stay up for a week ourselves. o Major bugfixes (other): - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out after that. - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry. - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported by John Kimble. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an unlisted router. Reported by seeess. - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines. - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from Fabian Keil. - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for it by name. - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line, even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure family lists conveniently. - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves bug 363.) - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies. - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has changed. - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver, raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead. - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable if their identity keys are as expected. - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement. - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD. o Minor bugfixes (controller): - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug reported by Mike Perry. - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth. - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist. Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14 o Security bugfixes: - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor. - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file. - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging is set. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an unlisted router (reported by seeess). Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03 o Major features: - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.) o Minor features: - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect" immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by watching for STREAM events. - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.) - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key operations, for profiling. o Major bugfixes: - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors. - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from Zajcev Evgeny.) - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on startup. o Minor bugfixes: - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor. - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors per day. - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual correctly in the Windows installer. - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia. - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its MIPSpro C compiler. - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion() when we're running as a client. Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04 o Major bugfixes: - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to) an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all. - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all its circuits on demand. - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived connections more stable on average. - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams. o Security bugfixes: - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information. o Minor bugfixes: - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for the first time. - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully. - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input. - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor. - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia. Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29 o Minor features: - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended routers for even longer. - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits. - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires' headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of caching HTTP proxies. - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by address. o Minor features, controller: - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from Mike Perry) - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit. - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields, working much like those for circuit events. - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor about the current status of a router. - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of a router's status has changed. - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers can tell which events and features are supported. - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits. o Security bugfixes: - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information. o Minor bugfixes: - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames. - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden service circuits (reported by mwenge). - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input. - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use long nicknames where appropriate. - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users. - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test chews through many circuits before giving up. - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending esoteric and discouraged hidden service options. - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.) - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events: make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when not requested. - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge). - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time for sure!) - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling. - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems with mmap). This bug was harmless. - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out. - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache (reported by fookoowa). - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler, and reported by some Centos users. - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect. - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more values before failing, and always enables eventdns. - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy. Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions before we check for libevent. Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07 o Major features: - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers, and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads. - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns. - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers. - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes. - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful" redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0" lets you turn it off. - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps us into the directory more quickly. o New/improved config options: - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns. - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with all the machines on the same subnet. - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off the guards list if it stays that way for a long time. - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1" to continue being hidden service authorities too. - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS). o Minor features, controller: - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths. - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname, and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt for more information. - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's best guess to the user. - New controller event to alert the controller when our server descriptor has changed. - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure. o Minor features, other: - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be useful to the network. - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages. - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router; clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed. - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages. For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on its own, and printing the function name only confuses users. - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us. - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it. - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.) o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security: - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we could return an unnamed server instead. - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower(). - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become a more attractive target for compromise.) - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set. o Major bugfixes, other: - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire) - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to) an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer. Previously, the server would give them no answer at all. - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter). - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all its circuits on demand. - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0. - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams. o Minor bugfixes, correctness: - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status documents, we would discard status documents from authorities we don't recognize. - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for the first time. - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully. - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an "extendcircuit" request. - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings" response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails. - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream is detached. - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c. - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y" instead of "X resolved to X". - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers. - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever. - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than 2GB/s total advertised capacity. - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of an address. - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and then ignoring it is a sign of madness. - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same result more than once. - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on non-versioning dirservers. - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address. o Minor bugfixes, performance: - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors. - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n). - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where malloc(0) returns a pointer. - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're a client, so you can become a server more smoothly. - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor. o Packaging, features: - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are now universal binaries. - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting, to distinguish configuration errors from other errors. - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b. o Packaging, bugfixes: - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows. - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again. - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on Debian woody. - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems. - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup). - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again. o Documentation - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and ServerDNSResolvConfFile options. - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated multiple times. Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29 o Major bugfixes: - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter). - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking whether we have enough directory information every time we want to do something, only check when the directory information has changed. This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%. - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while, it can't resolve its hostname. o Minor bugfixes: - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set. - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an "extendcircuit" request. - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings" response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails. - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto* voodoo. - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower(). - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue methods: these are known to be buggy. - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status documents, we would discard status documents from authorities we don't recognize. Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27 o Major features: - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the --enable-eventdns argument to configure. - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care. - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first, 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience. - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections: this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs. - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too. - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same /16 network when constructing a circuit. - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst. o Minor features: - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs. These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec. - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent recommendation system saner.) - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks to Phobos). - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers don't need to guess what it is / will be later. - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings. - Add TestVia config option to the man page. - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs, such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells. - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again you'll use your ancient server descriptors.] - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not your ORPort is set. - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til 0.1.1.x is obsolete. - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells to have the wrong circ_id_type. - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" -- separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn it is. - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too. - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document, and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec. o Major bugfixes: - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx). - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising our DirPort now, etc. - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set. - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it, the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start. - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto* voodoo. - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on whether the config options are bad or good. - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.) - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail. o Minor bugfixes: - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi). - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio). - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname. - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do useless IPv6 DNS resolves. - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down. - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry. - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes. - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor server with connection_add being called with socket == -1. - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller. - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted", as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard of it), is not therefore "up". - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not actually mattered since 0.0.9. - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients: throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them. Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30 o Major bugfixes: - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some bugs still remain here; we're hunting them. - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input. - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable, then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to test reachability, so you won't publish. o Minor bugfixes: - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1. - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published later than now. - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our own server descriptor yet. Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05 o Major bugfixes: - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+ servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically make sure to test via one of these. - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through. - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute. o Minor bugfixes: - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests. - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work. Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20: - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation. - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one directory authority. - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time. - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms. o Other fixes: - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages. - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down right after that. - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard, and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude current guards when picking a new guard. - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them when we had more than one pending. - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing. - Make options->RedirectExit work again. - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again. - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to mapaddress. It's none of our business. - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me debug the reachability problems better. o Log / documentation fixes: - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear about protocol violations by others. - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page. - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file about what happened to our old torrc. Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23 o Bugfixes: - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're invalid. - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD. - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291. - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon more thoroughly when we're running on windows. Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03 o Minor bugs: - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection). - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the old ORPort and receive connections. - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist. Now authorities will include themselves in their directories and network-statuses. - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every directory authority: only try the v1 authorities. - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not registered with the directory authorities. There were too many false positives. - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors. o Features: - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified. Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10 o Major fixes: - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases. - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask v2 authorities too, which would always return 404. o Minor fixes: - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory mirrors. - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity. - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now. - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu. - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work. - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails, rather than not sending anything back at all. - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.) - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.) - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again. - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver could list a recommended version many times in a row to make clients more convinced that it's recommended. - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one. - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long. - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too. Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug. - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status. - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000, so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the default ulimit -n is 1024. o New features: - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server. - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default, for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want to know about even the non-running descriptors. Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28 o Major fixes: - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do* have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing entry guards running these flawed versions. - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers. - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old, because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only include them if they're 20 hours old or less. o Minor fixes: - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc. - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of "-Wall -g -O2". - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore, and it is confusing some users. - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often. - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale. - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what win32 versions it thinks it's found. o New features: - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory server. - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error message in a string and hand it back to the controller. - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard. - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't have to go hunting around their filesystem for it. - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing. - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when dirport is set for now. o New config options rather than constants in the code: - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait unattached before we fail it? - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born at least this many seconds ago. - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born at least this many seconds ago. Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc: - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait or resolve-wait stream. - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is. - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people can automatically check if their torrc will parse. - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to hang up on them. - Let Tor build on Sun CC again. - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network. - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories. - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are given as hex digests. - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he hasn't registered his nickname/key binding. - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers. - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol. - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names at the socks side. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list. - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up our bandwidth allocation before hibernating. - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions. - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of themselves as localhost can work by default. o New features: - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask directly rather than connecting to the dir port. - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this. - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off. Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11 o Bugfixes and cleanups: - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into misreading their logs. - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no valid router descriptors. - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status" command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections. Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections. - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than silently resetting it to its default. - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for a whole month. - Cleaner and quieter log messages. o New features: - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests use clean circuits. - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created. - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet because older Tors do not understand it. - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter Thoenen. Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x: - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly) and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn. - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other fast Tor servers. This time for sure! - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again. - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing had changed. - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request. - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status, meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast" connections. - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file permissions), let the controller know that it failed. o Features: - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME as a server, explain that we'll likely crash. - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory, and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*, without getting overloaded. - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines and remove them. - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable. - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can be forward-compatible. - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can; warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix. - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it makes sense. - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80 and OR conns to port 443. - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the target arch. - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors. - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits). Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation, sometimes they would trigger an assert. o Other important bugfixes: - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems. o Backported features: - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory, and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*, without getting overloaded. - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try once more. This will become important once servers start sending 503's whenever they feel busy. - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes. Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot. - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload from 20 minutes to 1 hour. Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x: - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad. - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me know if the crashes continue. - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults in at least some cases.) - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again: "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed" o Major fixes: - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we try to be a bit more fair. - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat. - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a bug that let it go negative. - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a transparent squid so they don't even realize it. - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems. - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off. o Major features: - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running descriptors. - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden service descriptors. o Minor features: - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping. - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't do anything about. - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make the log message more clear about what the problem is and what versions *are* still recommended. - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full: the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal. - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy. - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?" - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more easily. - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors that must be available else Tor refuses to start. - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON. - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean, "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote on it. Not used by clients yet. - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too. - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB - Only start testing reachability once we've established a circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy. - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have established a circuit. - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure that the controller hears about new and closing connections. Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x: - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit quickly enough. Oops. - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file. Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x: - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16. - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet. - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services. - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname. - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at that moment you dump his server descriptor. - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments. - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel). - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits. The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f. o Major features: - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those. - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better. - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc connections more reliable. o Major fixes: - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable. - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these server descriptors so clients can't get them. - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week, rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot. - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every 20 minutes. o Minor fixes: - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions. - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics need to be uint64_t's. - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked carefully. - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every setconf/reload. - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout". - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant. - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh. - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost connections. - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one. - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing." - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic, meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the descriptor that clients downloaded were different. - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly). - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian). - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas). o Minor features: - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of keeping forward and backward compatibility. - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it: now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443. - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists, not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities to bootstrap. - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too. - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server can answer v2 directory requests too. - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor. - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order of fields. - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports" line. Remove support for the "ports" line. - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file. - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid. - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes. - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet. - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too. - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any are known. - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about. Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.) - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access too -- so detect and avoid this. - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and giving an error). - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c. - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts. - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.) - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory. - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two rendezvous circuits. - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch. o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log messages so the operator knows what to expect. - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing advertising it because of hibernation. - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl. - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it. - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones. - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work. - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ". - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times, reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries. Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.) - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy. - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts. - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory. - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it. - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS connections once a week. - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones. - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN. - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to build with -ldl. - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user, rather than telling them to start chowning random directories. - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams. o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line. - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we don't recognize. Now we just drop it. - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously: . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor. . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our firewall options forbid. . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies can only proxy to certain destinations. - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually aids some statistical attacks. - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately. It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations. o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x: - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new server descriptor sometimes. - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again. - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses, sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address. - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their DirServer lines. - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in case the controller wants to change that too. - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one. - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not be verified. - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the address empty. This matters because controllers got confused otherwise. - Directory authorities no longer try to download server descriptors that they know they will reject. o Features and updates: - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff significantly faster. - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship, rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster. - Many other CPU and memory improvements. - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has already taken care of confidentiality and authentication. - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere. - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies, and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them, since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network. - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list every single internal or nonroutable network space. - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role as authoritative dirserver. - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html, tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball. - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball. Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15 o Usability improvements: - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress, since few of our users know what it means to bind an address or port. - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off by default. - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about. - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages instead of a generic "Servers unavailable". - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize. - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect memory leaks better. - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring their operators to pay close attention. - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries. o Performance improvements: - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.) - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default. - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest() to resolve a performance bottleneck. - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC). - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which translates to 20+ megs of wasted space. - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.) o Security improvements: - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by fingerprint of server. - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows crash bug. It might also slow things down. - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them periodically, so it's not so bad.) - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was already present earlier in the circuit. Oops. - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address), upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too. - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains. - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config option is set by the controller, then don't close it. o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha: - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious. - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject it as obsolete. - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says we do. - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.) - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1 of the controller protocol. - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing it because of hibernation. - Make --hash-password not crash on exit. Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07 o New features (major): - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers, and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors. See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details. - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort. The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and we're using a default DirPort. - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later. o New features (minor): - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning. - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but mirrors still cache and serve it). - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete. - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is useful since currently we automatically list servers as running and usable even if we know they're jerks. - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete. - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section. - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses. - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc responses. - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD). - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits. - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks. o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha: - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it. - If you requested something with too many newlines via the v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor. - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones. - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable. - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against its expected nickname if is_named is set. o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15: - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we try to spawn a dns or cpu worker. - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s, so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor. o Fixes on 0.1.0.x: - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed through privoxy. - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly for this case. - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs. - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us use dmalloc to detect memory leaks. - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname; warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname; don't warn twice about the same name. - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn if we've not heard of the server. - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter. - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either. Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy. - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we try to spawn a dns or cpu worker. - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version. - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to be unreachable and the Address config option is empty. - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s, so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor. - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove(). - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that. - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs. Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha: - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a connection to an address not in their exit policy. - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would cause a segfault. - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by fingerprint but he doesn't know about him. - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them. - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back out and refuse the setconf if it would fail. - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about unreachability. o New features: - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/ It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname) is reachable by you. - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not enabled yet. o Fixes on 0.1.0.x: - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments, we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail. [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.] - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel. It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't. - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if we fail to connect). - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first. - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop that anyway. - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that it was self-testing that told us so. Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha: - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops. - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops. - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string. - Make unit tests run without segfaulting. - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings. - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning. - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his exit policy using him for any exits. - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is at least 0.9.7. o New controller features/fixes: - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it entirely (rather than setting it to its default). - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is. - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty. - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually). - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and other redundant entries to the torrc file. o Start on the new directory design: - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format. - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours"). - Publish client and server recommended versions separately. - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router descriptors. The compression logic here could be more memory-efficient. - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories) from v2 authorities (all trusted directories). - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities. - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set. - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one to see whether caches support v2 stuff. o New features: - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable. - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave, use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it if you can. - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server. - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot. - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings. o Config option changes: - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies. For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443" - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version. - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now. o Fixes on 0.1.0.x: - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since people have started using them for spam too. - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing. - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers. - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster. - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden services faster on the service end. - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give it a fair shake next time we try. - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info. - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling. - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down. - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells. We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be able to discover them. - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers. - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then preferentially resolving them to partition users. - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're testing for reachability. - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes) to the torrc. - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config option. - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor) run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on. Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668", it would silently using ignore the 6668. Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes (CVE-2005-2643). - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages. Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13. o Features: - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows. - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes. - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config options, getinfo keys. Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes. - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist. - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory in the start menu. - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it not-broken. Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha: - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor" function. - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit" function. - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event. - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for circuit events and we go offline. - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points. - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if you don't have enough intro points already. o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha: - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how many bytes we've used in this time period. - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from a small static adversary comes because users pick new random nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not enabled by default yet. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12: - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport, even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable. - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist. Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18 o New directory servers: - tor26 has changed IP address. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress(). - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against pthreads libraries. - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server claims its dirport is 0. - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt Edman for the fix. Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15 o New directory servers: - tor26 has changed IP address. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks: - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from 0.1.0.11. - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon(). - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open ports that have changed. - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress(). o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability: - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable Windows-style errno back. - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they want to make it an NT service. - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages. - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated name, give the full name in our response. - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire. - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed) running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops. - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against pthreads libraries. o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x: - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is being used. o Features: - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway). - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles. Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly. - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't confuse users who invoke it incorrectly. - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo". - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken. Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29 o Bugfixes: - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't confuse users who invoke it incorrectly. - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo". - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers. - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can fix it. - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are temporarily unreachable. - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when culling them. o Features: - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you can use the controller from your applications without caring how our protocol works. - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody test this? Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10): - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process (CVE-2005-2050). Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with libevent before 1.1a. Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09 o Bugfixes: - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat. - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords. - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit. - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as Administrator. - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it, cpuworkers, and reentrant libs. - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots of CPU time plus memory. - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as normal web requests. - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are already established by the time we start logging libevent warns. - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails. - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions. - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option. - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed on FreeBSD) - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy, KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy, HttpProxyAuthenticator - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine. - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless the user asks you to. - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that their descriptors are being rejected. - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will come later. Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23 o Bugfixes: - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors. - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm spec file. - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not reentrant either. - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's ancient. - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again. - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete. - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even keys) from the exit server's process. - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed. - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller), so it doesn't seg fault on error. - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction point at your Tor server. - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that you're not sending a socks reply back. o Features: - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option. - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64, to make it easier to write controllers. Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17 o Bugfixes: - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from installing on Tiger. - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it complain during installation. - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there. - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf, assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful error message. - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to something more reasonable when first installing. - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit. Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14 o Bugfixes: - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver functions. - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken. - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup when using the default exit policy. - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops. - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead. - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py. - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports from getting suppressed in the published descriptor. - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until we fetched a new directory. - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus libevent warning on some Linuxes. o Features: - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging. - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu. - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on clients yet. - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address. - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to save memory on systems that need to fork. - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo. - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc is valid without actually launching Tor. - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit" rather than just rejecting it. Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27 o Bugfixes: - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because we didn't like its cert. o Features: - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer, to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot. - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based on patch from Adam Langley. - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate the fast servers that have been joining lately. - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt, since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve robustness more. - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole directory every time you regenerate it. - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues. Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x: - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc. Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23 o Bugfixes: - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling TLS errors better in other situations too. - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller, and don't log when you are. - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on non-complete success, only say "done" once. o Features: - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB, of advertised bandwidth capacity. - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers. Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc: - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them. - More automated handling for dirserver operators: - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later, now that the the reachability detection stuff is working. - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that nickname+key are allowed. - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port, and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget about all other descriptors for that address:port. - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future. Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could have quite wrong clocks). - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes. - Efficiency improvements: - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell. - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(), since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes. - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to lowercase and be done with it. - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells, if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have to abandon partially built circuits. - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't yell so much. - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default exit policy. - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types. - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR fails. - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors. It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc: - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still obeying the exit policy internally. - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to connection_free(). - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8: - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died. - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they get the nodes. - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process, not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops. - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the descriptors we just dropped. - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them. - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get artificially capped at 500kB. Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x: - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely, cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been busy for more than 100 seconds. Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc: - Fixes on reachability detection: - Don't check for reachability while hibernating. - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable. - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail. - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable DirPort, so the user knows what's going on. - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier and he used that same pipe to extend to us. - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection, since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not already connected to them. - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers" bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes obsolete.) - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor right then. - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller. - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams are in a different state than they actually are. - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious libevent log msgs. - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap(). - Fix newlines on torrc in win32. - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails. o Improvements on 0.0.9.x: - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet. - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work) that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths via addresses like "...path" - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys. Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x: - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting). - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from extending to unknown routers. Oops. - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't creating actual system users. - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more in 0.1.0.x). Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28 o New features: - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are. - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy hidden services better. - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy" config option. - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than rejecting most low-numbered ports. - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features, including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform; redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor; closestream; closecircuit; etc. - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on patch by Matt Edman). - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit required exit node for certain sites. - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry). - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too. - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability. - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc), rather than just "success" or "failure". - A more sane version numbering system. See http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details. - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed addresses/ports. - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default. - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong. - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality. o Robustness/stability fixes: - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too. - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and threadsafeness. - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes: - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose appropriate nodes. - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit, not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime. - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams that will want high uptime circuits. - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity. - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his clock, don't make his published uptime be a year. - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation. - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve and connect streams can use internal circs if they want. - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too). - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs), which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit. - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around when we try to launch one. - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds, rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit. - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option "ShutdownWaitLength". - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when things go bad with edge conns in connection.c. - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons. - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc", and to take errno into account where possible. o Bug fixes: - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then. - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close. - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config file more reasonable. - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion addresses -- it won't. - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice for google.com" problem. - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform". - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel). If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option. - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because they're malformed. - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit they could use instead. - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32. - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series. A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in the same series. - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending the socks reject. o Helpful fixes: - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers. - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver it was. - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers. Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or private-IP addresses. - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there for now. - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients. - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs. - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses. - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's wrong. - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.) - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one, launch an attempt to get a fresh one. - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately. - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks. - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what we're leaking. - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit addresses. - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl. - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer whether the server is hibernating. Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts): - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring. - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash. - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection. - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package inbufs for marked-for-close streams. - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable. - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other): - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message. - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream." - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory because all the directories it gets are too far in the future; yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew. - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite existing torrc files. - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x: - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail. - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery. - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service support is still not compiled into the executable by default. - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under the win32 SYSTEM account. - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32. - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion file descriptors available. - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate. - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list. Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9: - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't freak out. - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors. - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy. - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for logs, etc. - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors. - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann. - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better. - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one. - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used, not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer cut connections when the hard hibernation starts. - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than 800kB/s of capacity. - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in). Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9: - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't need as much processor time. - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back. - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes. - Enable Mac startup script by default. - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas. - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never resetting. - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up the order of reading the lines, making it fail. - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup. - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache. Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts): - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging to a file. - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a style address, then we'd crash. - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from a dirserver is broken. - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers may work better. - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32): - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's name out of the warning/assert messages. - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32. - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not take any away. - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.) - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default DataDirectory. - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init(). o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other): - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again. - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config values at once couldn't work. - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection, if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that. - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory' strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so they can handle any number of routers. - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug. - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers. - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length. - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website. - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know). - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor, now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly. Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9: - Make hibernation actually work. - Make HashedControlPassword config option work. - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller, don't use the stream status code. Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12 o Cleanups: - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file. - Clean up severities and text of log warnings. o Mistakes: - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation. Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc: - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating. - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which ports we need to build circuits to cover. - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app, we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first. - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller. - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is LOG_ERR, leave it implicit. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks. - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32. - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32). - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better. - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open. - Make unit tests work on win32. Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre: - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable we think). - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners. - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather than just chopping them off. - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out right after sending the begin cell. - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as exit nodes too. Oops. o Features: - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up". - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits. - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so the user knows which one it's talking about. - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away, just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally unused Tor client will have no circuits open.) Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug. - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around forever. - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre: - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable, but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for finding it. - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver. Clip rather than rejecting. - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is, authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.) o Features: - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy. - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1. - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch by Geoff Goodell. - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file. Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle win32 socket errors better. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1: - Actually catch the -USR2 signal. Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file", so we don't see those messages days later. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1: - Make tor-resolve work again. - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it. - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves. Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1: - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug. - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes and seconds. - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working. Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year: With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still bytes sitting in the inbuf. - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6: - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken. - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track them too.) - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options. - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in. o Features: - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your hibernation properties by AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM Defaults to "month 1 0:00". - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes, kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks. - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to get back to normal.) - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0, pick it anyway. - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived to fill the last cell completely. - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work. Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests. - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do. - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our write() call will fail and we handle it there. - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5: - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows. - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'. - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt. - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint: it's misleading, because it will never be the same again. - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us down a lot. - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file. - Make kill -USR1 work again. - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better. - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they have it on start-up. o Features: - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe. - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files. - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash. - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink. - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your configuration to torrc. - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working. - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball. - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy. But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes. - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals we catch. - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample. - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username. - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB. - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can log more informatively. - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h". - Refuse application socks connections to port 0. - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified servers and clients to have any clock skew. - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into: - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory, - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers, - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor, - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors. - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset from each other, to hinder linkability. Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4: - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program). - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down. - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical bug). - If do_hup fails, actually notice. - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener. Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because they ran out of file descriptors. - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new enough version of the resolve code to work right. - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers. - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is recent enough. - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash. o Major Features: - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on. - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying, bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working. Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt . - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact with the control port. - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for use in authenticating to the control interface. - New log format in config: "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo" o Minor Features: - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses from their dirserver. - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint and then exit. - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules. - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having them act more like real nodes. - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build. - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation is broken. - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified nickname to its identity key. - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations not on the command line. - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation. - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently 1024) file descriptors. o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja: - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but hey.) - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places. - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead. - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior. Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3: - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default exit policy, not reject *:*. - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all. - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory. - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32. - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete. o Features: - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us. - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit. - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid. Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1: - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress. - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and the ones we find in directories.) - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64 bit platforms. - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped the dirserver. - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and the user would get no response. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2: - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one. - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf corruption. - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too. - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write any more exit policy lines. o Features: - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells. - Make the dirservers file obsolete. - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the parsing entity which key is being used to sign. - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string. - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified, default to moria1,moria2,tor26. - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls will be able to get a directory. - Http proxy support - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will be routed through this host. - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers. This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache. - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work. Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13 o Bugfixes: - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor clients/servers with an open dirport. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in our cpath would expire while we're building the path. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on intermittent connections. - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects. - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and reattaches. - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable) in reporting stats locally. - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently. - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms. Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03 o Bugfixes: - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too. - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header. Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01 o Bugfixes: - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort, if you don't want it open. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works. - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on intermittent connections. - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is happier. - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells. - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue. - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr, which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit. - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through the fingerprint list to see if he's there. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in our cpath would expire while we're building the path. o Features: - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course. - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again. - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete options. - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as appropriate. - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z". We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't specified in HTTP 1.0. - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100. - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often than once per minute. - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating. Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20 o Make it compile on cygwin again. o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about. Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18 o Changes from 0.0.7.3: - Bugfixes: - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0, don't put it into the client dns cache. - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:* until we get our next directory. - Features: - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth. - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points. - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time. - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443) - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop). - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to "GET /". - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as an exitnode. - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry or exit nodes. - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific IP address for outgoing connect()s. - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]". o Patches to 0.0.8preX: - Bugfixes: - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)? - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set. - Fix a race bug in the unit tests. - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new routerinfo's arrive in a directory. - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops. - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a directory. - Features: - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions. Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default. - Add a man page for tor-resolve. Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you ask them to resolve the host "". Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09 o Changes from 0.0.7.2: - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires. - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute snapshots for the past day into our descriptor. - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But clients don't use this yet.) - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL. - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode() function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors for pointing out this bug.) - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have fewer problems with people using the wrong key. - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey, kazaa, gnutella ports. - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename(). o Changes from 0.0.8preX: - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys. - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work. - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget. - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail. - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry wolf unpredictably. - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection that's still handshaking. - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before you'll choose it for your path. - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of end relay cell, etc. - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one. Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04 o Changes from 0.0.7.2: - Security fixes: - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're you're running an obsolete version and should exit. - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers list to decide who's running or verified. - Bugfixes and features: - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space. - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat. - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers, which one day we will use to better detect clock skew. o Changes from 0.0.8pre1: - Make it compile without warnings again on win32. - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you know you might want to get it verified. - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server. Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23 o Bugfixes: - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64. - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second. o Protocol changes: - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we hadn't heard of before. o Features: - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort) without being manually verified by the dirserver operators. - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted by the dirservers, and included in the directory. - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers list; unverified routers are listed as "$". - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility. - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers. But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches. - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet). - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers. - Directory caching. - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers. - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest directory they've pulled down. - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others. - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly. - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other authdirservers, to stay better synced. - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed by hash-of-key). - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately. This isn't used yet. - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to, connect, handshake, and forward the create cell. - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody, and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes. - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit. - File and name management: - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found. - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor as datadir. - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*. - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma). - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname. - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key, to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops. - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived -- it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys to use. - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This should tolerate down dirservers better now. - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check rather than an is-in-the-list check. - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname() locally. - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality. - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols. - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor. - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too. - Write tor version at the top of each log file - New docs in the tarball: - tor-doc.html. - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too. Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully eliminate the remaining related assertion failures. Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve, since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved". Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features. Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1: - Make it build on Win32 again. o Changes from 0.0.6.2: - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config settings too. Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02 o Bugfixes: - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups. - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both. - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a resolving stream, and then the resolve failed. - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more easily. o Features: - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users. Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs: - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing them. - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different exit nodes. - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a hidden service per 15-minute period. - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit, even if the new directory format doesn't parse. o Fixes for security bugs: - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's a trusted dirserver. o Other bugfixes: - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing. - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time; but after that we would correctly switch to a different one. - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys. - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines. - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections have failed. - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers. - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames. - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without breaking other BSD builds. We'll see. o Features: - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables. - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem. - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's directory (not that we were anywhere close). - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges. - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want. - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order. Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it. - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP. Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell, not the previous cells like we'd thought. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw! Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character polyalphabetic cipher. Oops. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw! o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory server. Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02 [version bump only] Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but then dies. o Handle windows socket errors correctly. Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even when they had a stream attached. oops.) o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread) o Better debugging for tls errors o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending. o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor. o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none. o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors. o We were using an array of length zero in a few places. o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP. o win32's close can't close a socket. Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently. It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error, it tells you about the first error. Fun fun. o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!) When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id. 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing. o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them; just close the circ. o check for so we build on NetBSD again (I hope). o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit (this was quite rare). Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys. o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell if you decrypted them correctly. o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor. o Directories now say which dirserver signed them. o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too. Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18 o changes from 0.0.6pre4: - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try a second one and it works. - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept, it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise alice would just have to wait to time out. - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response... - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?). now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later. i'd still like to find the bug though. - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then count it as a nack - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable ones. oops. Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14 o changes from 0.0.6pre3: - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then he retries a couple of times - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly (sometimes they were hanging around forever) - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around too long (they were sticking around forever). - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with a strict glibc. Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14 o changes from 0.0.6pre2: - make hup work again - fix some memory leaks for dirservers - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try again - bob publishes intro points more correctly o changes from 0.0.5: - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!) - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers is flaky). - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the in-memory directories too Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures. Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08 o Features: - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.) Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30 [version bump only] Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your torrc. (Woo!) o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops) o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear but that aren't warnings Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible) o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking the dns farm to do it. o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the directory. o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush, rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed. o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes). o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory. This also means longer startup time; so it goes. o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd expect it to have a nickname. o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop. Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down, we would crash. Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters o Port to Solaris and Sparc: - include missing header fcntl.h - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically - deal with hardware word alignment - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention) - switch from using signal() to sigaction() o Preliminary work on reputation system: - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published by kill -USR1 currently. - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test circuits, even when SocksPort is off. - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many. Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14 o Bugfixes: - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs, now we allow them if they're set explicitly). - And fix a few endian issues. Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14 o New features: - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't try that circuit again: try a new one. - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up. - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to accept it even without mail from the server operator). - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors. - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows about as a server. - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server. - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket (used for rate limiting) becomes empty. o Bugfixes: - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's simply not true. - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other side isn't reading right then. - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined RecommendedVersions - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops. - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address. - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04 o New features: - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns, e.g. poblano. o Bugfixes: - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server crashed. Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03 o Bugfixes: - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the connection is finished. - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early. - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about, rather than warn and continue. - Make --version work - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29 o New features: - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user knows it's working. - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit, send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more clearly thwarted.) - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits. - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/", so you can collect coredumps there. o Bugfixes: - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was a big factor in the random delays we were seeing. - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client dns cache actually gets populated. - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup. - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an end cell down it first. - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes, excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory. Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26 o New features: - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors. - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when errors happen. - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults. Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one. - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy. - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect it. - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with. o Bugfixes: - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives, then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I think this was the one causing recent server crashes. - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky. - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on. Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no dirservers. - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/. Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18 o New features: - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog. - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for tor. It even has a man page. - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now. - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc, so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix his/her torrc. - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy o Bugfixes: - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30 o New features: - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to it, apt-getters. :) - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota. - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see. - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach to new ones. - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll have them reattach to new circuits instead. o Bugfixes: - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated after a while. - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain. - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root. Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07 o Bugfixes: - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos. - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding. - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the logfile so you know it's working. - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary. - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date. Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02 o Bugfixes: - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header. - Fix a potential bug where connections in state AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write. Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30 o Bugfixes: - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work. - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart adversary could force us into an infinite loop. o Features: - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key, to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy. - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility with MorphMix). - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header. - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of relay cells. - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to this hop. - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have been made so far. Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14 o Bugfixes: - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being counted as a failed circuit in counting retries. o Features: - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates the circuit and then we open streams at him. - Add port ranges to exit policies - Add a conservative default exit policy - Warn if you're running tor as root - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred exit nodes. - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03 o Robustness and bugfixes: - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would really screw things up. - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop working. - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is established. - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch. - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed). - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me. - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions. o Documentation: - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options. o Configuration: - Change default loglevel to warn. - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD. - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks ORPort>0. - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers. Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29 o Robustness and bugfixes: - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself - to get ownership/permissions right - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never pull down a directory again - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was causing server crashes - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available - exit if bind() fails - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own) - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections - fix minor bias in PRNG - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory o Documentation: - Wrote the design document (woo) o Circuit building and exit policies: - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them are down. - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8). - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit exists, rather than failing - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and which AP connections are standing by - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended. - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new circuit. - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses. - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits o Configuration: - APPort is now called SocksPort - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure where to bind - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than hardcoded (for dirservers) - Reloads config on HUP - Usage info on -h or --help - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them. Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19 o General stability: - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call. - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have to take down the network when I approve a new router - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn o Buffers: - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M) - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs o Autoconf improvements: - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure - Make install now works - create var/lib/tor on make install - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths o Log files and Daemonizing now work: - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup