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Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-??
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Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series.
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o New system requirements:
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- Tor no longer includes workarounds for Libevent versions before
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1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes ticket 15248.
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o Major features (controller):
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- Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allows the creation
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and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
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ticket 6411.
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- New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached" to get
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information about hidden services created via the controller.
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Part of ticket 6411.
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- New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service descriptor.
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Closes ticket 14847.
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information about hidden services created via the controller. Part
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of ticket 6411.
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- New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
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descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
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o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
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- Revert commit that made directory authority assign the HSDir flag to
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relay without a DirPort which is bad because relay can't handle
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- Revert commit that made directory authority assign the HSDir flag
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to relay without a DirPort which is bad because relay can't handle
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BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix on tor-0.2.6.3-alpha.
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o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
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- To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
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when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
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cycle it when a random value of introductions is reached thus making
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it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of clients
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that has passed through the introduction point for a specific HS.
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Closes ticket 15745.
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o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
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- Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
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happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
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hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
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fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766. [I'd call this a
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major feature if it actually fixed all of the issues.]
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o Minor features (command-line interface):
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- Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise. Closes
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ticket 15542.
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- Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
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Closes ticket 15542.
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- Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
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as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
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- The "--hash-password" option now implies "--hush" to avoid
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needless noise. Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
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o Minor features (controller)
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- Controllers can now use GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/... to
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retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor
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cache. Closes ticket 14845.
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o Minor features (controller):
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- Controllers can now use GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/... to retrieve
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items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache. Closes
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ticket 14845.
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o Minor features (controller):
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- Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to output
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of the GETINFO config/defaults controller command if not already
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present. Implements ticket 14840.
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- Implement a new controller command "status/fresh-relay-descs" to
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fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on demand
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just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
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o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
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- Make it harder for attackers to overwhelm hidden services with
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introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
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same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
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o Minor features (geoip):
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- Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
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- Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
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Country database.
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o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
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- To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
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when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
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cycle it when a random value of introductions is reached thus
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making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
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clients that has passed through the introduction point for a
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specific HS. Closes ticket 15745.
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o Minor features (logging):
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- Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
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tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
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ticket 15026.
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o Minor features (pluggable transports):
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- When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open stdin
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in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has terminated.
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The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" enviornment variable can be used by
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implementations to detect this new behavior. Resolves ticket 15435.
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- When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
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stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
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terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" enviornment variable
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can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
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Resolves ticket 15435.
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- When launching managed pluggable transports on linux systems,
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attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if
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the pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
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attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
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pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
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ticket 15471.
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o Minor features (testing):
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- Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes files.
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Closes ticket 15180.
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- Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting().
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Add a compile-time check that the number of events doesn't exceed
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the capacity of control_event_t.event_mask.
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Closes ticket 15431, checks for bugs similar to 13085.
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Patch by "teor".
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- Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
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files. Closes ticket 15180.
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- Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
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time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
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of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
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bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
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- Commandline argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
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- Integrate the ntor, backtrace and zero lengths keys tests into the
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automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
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- Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
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memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
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o Minor features (controller):
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- Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to output
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of the GETINFO config/defaults controller command if not already
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present. Implements ticket 14840.
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- Implement a new controller command "status/fresh-relay-descs" to
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fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on demand
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just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
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o Minor features (command-line interface):
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- Print a warning whenever we find a relative
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file path being used as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
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- The "--hash-password" option now implies "--hush" to avoid needless
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noise. Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
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o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
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- Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
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happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
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hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
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fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
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[I'd call this a major feature if it actually fixed all of the issues.]
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o Minor features (geoip):
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- Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
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- Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
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o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
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- Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
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not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
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being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
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when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay. Fixes
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bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
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o Minor bugfixes (build):
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- Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and clean up
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additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix on
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0.2.7.0-alpha.
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- Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
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clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
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on 0.2.7.0-alpha.
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o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
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- When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
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write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix on
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0.2.3.3-alpha.
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write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
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on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
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- When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
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stderr, not stdout.
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o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
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- Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
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AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
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are set to their defaults.
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The default fallback directory list is currently empty, this fix
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will only change tor's behaviour when it has default fallback
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directories.
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Includes unit tests for consider_adding_dir_servers().
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Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
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Patch by "teor".
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are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
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currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behaviour when it
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has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
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consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
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90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
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o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
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- Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
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because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
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unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
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and 0.2.0.10.
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- For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
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handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
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on 0.1.1.16-rc.
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o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
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- Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
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@ -135,61 +137,55 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-??
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o Minor bugfixes (interface):
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- Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
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an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
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and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
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and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
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on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
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o Minor bugfixes (logs):
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- When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
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parentheses in log messages that include function names.
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Fixes bug 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when
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compiled with recent enough Clang.
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o Minor bugfixes (test networks)
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- When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses
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to determine if local/private addresses imply reachability.
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The previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
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ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configs where
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ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is not.
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Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
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Patch by "teor", issue discovered by CJ Ess.
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o Minor bugfixes (testing):
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- Set the severity correctly when testing get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs()
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and get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
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instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
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0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
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- Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py.
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Fixes bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
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by "joelanders".
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o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
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- Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
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because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
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unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36, and
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0.2.0.10.
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- For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
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handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix on
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0.1.1.16-rc.
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parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
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15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
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recent enough Clang.
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o Minor bugfixes (network):
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- When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
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lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
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unsuitable for public communications.
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o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
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- Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
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not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
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being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
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when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
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Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
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o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
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- When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
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determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
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previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
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ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configs where
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ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is not.
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Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor", issue
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discovered by CJ Ess.
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o Minor bugfixes (testing):
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- Set the severity correctly when testing
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get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
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get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
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instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
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0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
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- Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
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bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
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by "joelanders".
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o Code simplification and refactoring:
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- Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6()
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into separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
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- Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
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separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
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ticket 14710.
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- Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
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report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
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involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
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- Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more control
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over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
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o Removed code:
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- Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code and
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always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder has been
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part of tor since tor-0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should be using the
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OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
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- Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
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control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
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o Documentation:
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- Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
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Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
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and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
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o New system requirements:
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- Tor no longer includes workarounds for Libevent versions before 1.3e.
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Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes ticket 15248.
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o Removed code:
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- Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
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and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
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has been part of tor since tor-0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
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be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
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- Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
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Closes ticket 14922.
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o Removed features:
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- Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For
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anti-fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for
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forward-secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group.
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Closes ticket 13736.
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- Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
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fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
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secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
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- Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
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complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues
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on multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
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complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
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multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
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including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
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- Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
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super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
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