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Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
BLURB
Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
- Introducing the KIST scheduler which stands for Kernel Informed
Socket Transport. It is only available on Linux systems. This
comes from a researched and published paper you can find
here: http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044 This is also a major refactoring
of the entire scheduler subsystem in order for it to be more
modular and thus much more easier to add more scheduler type
later. The current scheduler has been named "Vanilla" but we favor
KIST if available in this version. A new torrc option has been
added and named "Schedulers type1,type2,..." which allows a user
to select which scheduler type it wants tor to use. It is also
possible to change it at runtime. It is an ordered list by
priority. KIST might not be available on all platforms so there is
a fallback to "KISTLite" that uses the same mechanisms but without
the kernel support. The current default values are: Schedulers
KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla. Closes ticket 12541.
o Major features (next-generation onion services):
- Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
onion services (v3) features various improvements over the legacy
system: a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024 with
SHA3/ed25519/curve25519) b) Improved directory protocol leaking
less to directory servers. c) Improved directory protocol with
smaller surface for targeted attacks. d) Better onion address
security against impersonation. e) More extensible
introduction/rendezvous protocol. f) A cleaner and more modular
codebase. Furthermore, as part of this update, onion addresses
increase in length and are now 56 characters long:
4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion In
the future, we will be releasing more options and features but we
first need a testing period, so that the current codebase matures
and becomes more robust. Here are some of the features we have
planned: 1) Offline keys for onion services 2) Advanced client
authorization for onion services 3) Improved guard algorithm for
onion services 4) Next-gen onion service statistics Please see our
proposal for more details:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/224-rend-spec-ng.txt
The default version for onion services remains v2 (the legacy
system) until this new codebase gets tested and hardened. Service
operators who want to experiment with the new system can use the
'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc directive along with the regular
onion service configuration options. We will publish a blog post
about this new feature soon! Enjoy!
o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
- Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
controllers can more easily alert users. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix
on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
o Minor features (bug detection):
- Log a warning message, with stack trace, for any attempt to call
get_options() during option validation. Closes ticket 22281.
o Minor features (client directory bandwidth tuning):
- When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list of
descriptors into multiple requests unless there are at least 32
descriptors that we want. Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which
could lead to significant overhead in HTTP request size and
degradation in compression performance. Closes ticket 23220.
o Minor features (client):
- You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the
HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
requests. Closes ticket 22407.
o Minor features (client, entry guards):
- Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the new guard
selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
o Minor features (command line):
- Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
o Minor features (control port):
- If the control port is used as the HTTP proxy, responds with a
meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message, and log the
event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi Chandra Padmala.
- Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when
microdescriptors are in use and router descriptors are not
fetched. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by Kevin Butler.
o Minor features (control):
- Add GETINFO desc/download-enabled and md/download-enabled, to
inform the controller whether try to download router descriptors
and microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
o Minor features (controller):
- Added new GETINFO targets ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available, so
controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
Closes ticket 23237.
- Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
o Minor features (development support):
- Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
"calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
elsewhere too. To run this, install calltool from
https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
"make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
o Minor features (ed25519):
- Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
ed25119 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
- Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
receiving an apparent spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
o Minor features (integration, hardening):
- Added a new NoExec option, to prevent Tor from running other
programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
another program, regardless of the settings of
PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
- If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
o Minor features (logging, UI):
- Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
ticket 20488.
o Minor features (portability):
- Check at configure time whether uint8_t is unsigned char. Lots of
existing code already assumes this, and there could be strict
aliasing issues if they aren't the same type. Closes ticket 22410.
o Minor features (relay, configuration):
- Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
results. Closes ticket 22731.
o Minor features (startup, safety):
- When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
ticket 20119.
o Minor features (static analysis):
- The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
ticket 23054.
o Minor features (testing):
- Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution):
- Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
relays. This avoids spurious address resolutions and descriptor
rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
- Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
Coverity as CID 1415728.
o Minor bugfixes (circuit logging):
- torspec says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log messages that
mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug 18982; bugfix on
0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor. Credit to Xiaofan
Li for reporting this issue.
o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
- Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
- Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
- Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
- Tor would reconsider updating its directory information every 2
minutes instead of only doing it for a consensus that is more than
24 hours old (badly expired). This specific check is done in the
tor main loop callback that validates if we have an expired
consensus. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (correctness, controller):
- Make the controller's write_escaped_data() function robust to
extremely long inputs. Right now, it doesn't actually receive any
extremely long inputs, so this is for defense in depth. Fixes bug
19281; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
- Properly detect and refuse to blind bad ed25519 keys. The key
blinding code is currently unused, so this bug does not affect tor
clients or services on the network. Fixes bug 22746; bugfix
on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (directories):
- Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
directory authorities, so without a Date header the client would
never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
on 0.0.8rc1.
o Minor bugfixes (directory downloads):
- Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download their
consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
- If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
- Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
the bandwidth authority file, and process IDs passed to the
__OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
and 0.2.2.28-beta.
o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
- If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
- Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
o Minor bugfixes (logging):
- Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
- Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
- When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
on 0.1.1.8-alpha.
- When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (portability):
- Stop using the PATH_MAX variable. The variable is not defined in
GNU Hurd which prevents Tor from being built. Fixes bug 23098;
bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (relay):
- When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (test):
- Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (tests):
- Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
- Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
function from the general code to handle channel state
transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
factor of two. Closes ticket 22608
- Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
- Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
from "huyvq".
- Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
ticket 22215.
- Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
and old hidden services to indicate that they aren't suitable for
new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
- Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
- Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
- Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
- Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
o Deprecated features:
- Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
ticket 20575.
o Documentation:
- Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
- Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
Closes ticket 15645.
- Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
- Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
file. Closes ticket 21148.
o Removed features:
- The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
- The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
Closes ticket 21031.
- The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
o Testing:
- The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
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o Minor features (testing):
- Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2
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o Minor features (development support):
- Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
"calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
elsewhere too. To run this, install calltool from
https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
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o Documentation:
- Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers" file.
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o Documentation:
- Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
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o Minor features (control port):
- If the control port is used as the HTTP proxy, responds with
a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message, and log
the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi Chandra Padmala.

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o Minor features (command line):
- Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.

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o Minor bugfixes (directory downloads):
- Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download their
consensus from an authority.
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o Minor bugfixes (circuit logging):
- torspec says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log messages
that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts.
Fixes bug 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha
and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.

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o Minor bugfixes (correctness, controller):
- Make the controller's write_escaped_data() function robust to extremely
long inputs. Right now, it doesn't actually receive any extremely
long inputs, so this is for defense in depth. Fixes bug 19281;
bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.

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o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
- If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the minimum
heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes bug 19476;
bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.

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o Minor bugfixes (logging):
- When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
directory request, do not log a number higher than then the
number of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648;
bugfix on 0.1.1.8-alpha.

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o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.

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o Minor features (ed25519):
- Add validation function to checks for torsion components in ed25119
public keys, used by prop224 client-side
code. Closes ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.

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o Minor features (portability):
- Check at configure time whether uint8_t is unsigned char. Lots
of existing code already assumes this, and there could be strict
aliasing issues if they aren't the same type. Closes ticket 22410.

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o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
- Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and SOCKS4a
requests that contain IP address strings, even when SafeSocks in
enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to known IP addresses
without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks still rejects SOCKS
connections that connect to IP addresses when those addresses are _not_
encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461; bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.

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o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches
to allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.

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o Documentation:
- Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
kernels. Closes ticket 22677.

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o Minor features (relay, configuration):
- Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is set.
Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-changing step
of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing results.
Closes ticket 22731.

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o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
- Properly detect and refuse to blind bad ed25519 keys. The key blinding
code is currently unused, so this bug does not affect tor clients or
services on the network. Fixes bug 22746; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.

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o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
- Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2
library. Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
from "cypherpunks".

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o Minor features (client, entry guards):
- Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the
new guard selection code for picking our guards. Closes
ticket 22779.

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o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
- Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in the
bandwidth authority file, and process IDs passed to the
__OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or octal
as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha, and
0.2.2.28-beta.

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o Minor bugfixes (relay):
- When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.

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o Minor bugfixes (tests):
- Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.

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o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in
TAP and old hidden services to indicate that they aren't suitable
for new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.

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o Minor features (static analysis):
- The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
ticket 23054.

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o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
- Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
Found by Coverity as CID 1415728.

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o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
- Tor would reconsider updating its directory information every 2 minutes
instead of only doing it for a consensus that is more than 24 hours old
(badly expired). This specific check is done in the tor main loop
callback that validates if we have an expired consensus. Fixes bug
23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.

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o Minor bugfixes (portability):
- Stop using the PATH_MAX variable. The variable is not defined in
GNU Hurd which prevents Tor from being built. Fixes bug 23098;
bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.

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o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
- Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit
value. Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the
same on all the platforms we support, but which isn't really
correct. Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.

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o Minor features (client directory bandwidth tuning):
- When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list of
descriptors into multiple requests unless there are at least 32
descriptors that we want. Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which
could lead to significant overhead in HTTP request size and
degradation in compression performance. Closes ticket 23220.

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o Minor bugfixes (test):
- Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.

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o Removed features:
- The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has
been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.

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o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution):
- Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities()
on relays. This avoids spurious address resolutions and
descriptor rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789.
Fixes bug 23470; bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.

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o Minor bugfixes (logging):
- When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the actual
name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log the name
of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.

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o Minor bugfixes (directories):
- Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
directory authorities, so without a Date header the client would
never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.

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o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
- Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
controllers can more easily alert users. Fixes bug 23506;
bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.

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o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
- If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without checking
if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than crashing.
Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.

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o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
- Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock
skew detection; this was preventing clients from reporting
NETINFO clock skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on
0.2.4.4-alpha.

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o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
- Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
receiving an apparent spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.

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o Minor bugfixes (logging):
- Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local SocksPorts
upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup. Fixes bug 4019;
bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.

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o Minor features (control port):
- Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when
microdescriptors are in use and router descriptors are not fetched.
Closes ticket 5847. Patch by Kevin Butler.

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o Minor bugfixes (logging):
- Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user they've
excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix on
0.2.2.25-alpha.

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o Documentation:
- Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.

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o Minor features (controller):
- Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".

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o Minor features (startup, safety):
- When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable to
do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes ticket 20119.

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o Minor features (client):
- You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the HTTPTunnelPort
option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT requests.
Closes ticket 22407.

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o Minor features (integration, hardening):
- Added a new NoExec option, to prevent Tor from running
other programs. When this option is set to 1,
Tor will never try to run another program, regardless of
the settings of PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin,
or ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be
disabled without restarting Tor.
Closes ticket 22976.

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o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
- If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that their
kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.

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o Minor features (controller):
- Added new GETINFO targets ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available, so
controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
Closes ticket 23237.

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o Major features (next-generation onion services):
- Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for clients
and services! As part of this release, the core of proposal 224 has been
implemented and is available for experimentation and testing by our
users. This newer version of onion services (v3) features various
improvements over the legacy system:
a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
b) Improved directory protocol leaking less to directory servers.
c) Improved directory protocol with smaller surface for targeted attacks.
d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
Furthermore, as part of this update, onion addresses increase in length
and are now 56 characters long:
4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion
In the future, we will be releasing more options and features but we
first need a testing period, so that the current codebase matures and
becomes more robust. Here are some of the features we have planned:
1) Offline keys for onion services
2) Advanced client authorization for onion services
3) Improved guard algorithm for onion services
4) Next-gen onion service statistics
Please see our proposal for more details:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/224-rend-spec-ng.txt
The default version for onion services remains v2 (the legacy system)
until this new codebase gets tested and hardened.
Service operators who want to experiment with the new system can use the
'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc directive along with the regular onion
service configuration options.
We will publish a blog post about this new feature soon! Enjoy!

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o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.

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o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
- Introducing the KIST scheduler which stands for Kernel Informed Socket
Transport. It is only available on Linux systems. This comes from a
researched and published paper you can find here:
http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044
This is also a major refactoring of the entire scheduler subsystem in
order for it to be more modular and thus much more easier to add more
scheduler type later. The current scheduler has been named "Vanilla" but
we favor KIST if available in this version.
A new torrc option has been added and named "Schedulers type1,type2,..."
which allows a user to select which scheduler type it wants tor to use.
It is also possible to change it at runtime. It is an ordered list by
priority. KIST might not be available on all platforms so there is a
fallback to "KISTLite" that uses the same mechanisms but without the
kernel support.
The current default values are: Schedulers KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla.
Closes ticket 12541.

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o Minor features (logging, UI):
- Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes ticket 20488.

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o Deprecated features:
- Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They only
applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your directory server,
which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes ticket 20575.

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o Removed features:
- The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
Closes ticket 21031.

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o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes ticket
22215.

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o Minor features (bug detection):
- Log a warning message, with stack trace, for any attempt to call
get_options() during option validation. Closes ticket 22281.

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o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old variants
directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch from "huyvq".

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o Removed features:
- The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.

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o Testing:
- The default chutney network tests now include tests for the
v3 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest
version of chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.

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o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes
ticket 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.

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o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
function from the general code to handle channel state transitions.
This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the size of the largest
strongly connected component by roughly a factor of two.
Closes ticket 22608

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o Minor features (control):
- Add GETINFO desc/download-enabled and md/download-enabled, to
inform the controller whether try to download router descriptors
and microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.

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o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.

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o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
- Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.