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This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release
of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
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 0.1.2.18 - 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 readable, 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.
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 0.1.2.16 - 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 0.1.2.15 - 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 0.1.2.14 - 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 Major features, client performance:
- 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.)
- Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them 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.
- Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
application connections, we wait only 10 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.
- 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.
o Major features, client functionality:
- Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
- Add support for transparent application 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. (Based on patch from tup.)
- 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 Major features, servers:
- Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
with no hostname or IP address will 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.
- Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
lots of memory.
- Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and 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.) Implements proposal 106.
o Improvements on DNS support:
- Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
- 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 if they don't support eventdns.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
- Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
- When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
our tests for DNS hijacking.
o Improvements on reachability testing:
- Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
- When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
- Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
if their identity keys are as expected.
- Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
chews through many circuits before giving up.
- Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
- 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.
- 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.
o Improvements on rate limiting:
- 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.
- 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.
- Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
- Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
trying to flush.
- Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
o Major features, 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.)
- 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.
- 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.
- When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
o Directory authority improvements:
- Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
bandwidth cutoffs.
- Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
- Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
too much load to the exit nodes.
- 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.
- Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
broken. Not used yet.
- Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. 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.
- Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
non-versioning dirservers.
- 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.
- 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.
o Directory mirrors and clients:
- Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
- 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 no
longer count the failure against the total number of failures
allowed for the object we're trying to download.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.)
o Major fixes, 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 longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
bug 390.)
- Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
- Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
stream is detached.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.)
- Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
- Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
/16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
"EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
Stefan Nordhausen.
- Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
o Major fixes, other:
- If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
uptime in the descriptor.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 New config options or behaviors:
- 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.
- 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.)
- Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
- 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.
- 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 #.
- Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
- 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. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
- Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
- When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
- Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
- 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).
- Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
an address.
- New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
your ORPort is set.
o Docs:
- Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
versions too.
- Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
- Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
o Packaging, porting, and contrib
- "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
whether the config options are bad or good.
- The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
- Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
take arguments rather than require direct editing.
- Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
result more than once.
- Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
- In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
- Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
- Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
- 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.
- Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
- 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.)
- Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
- Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
now universal binaries.
- Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
- Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
for sure!)
- Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
and many others).
- Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
- 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.
- On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
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.)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
o Minor bugfixes, controller:
- When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
- Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
- The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
not requested.
- Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
- Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
- Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
o Minor features, code performance:
- Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
- Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
time.
- 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.)
- Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
operations, for profiling.
- Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
malloc(0) returns a pointer.
- 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.
- Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
- Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
- 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.
- 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.
o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
- Display correct results when reporting which versions are
recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
- Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
- 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.
- Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
- Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
- 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".
o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
- Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
what version a router is running.
- 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".
- Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
to have the wrong circ_id_type.
- Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
actually mattered since 0.0.9.
- Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
changed.
o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
- Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
bug 373.)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
unstable ones.
- 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.
- Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
- Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
get one we don't recognize.
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 0.1.1.25 - 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 0.1.1.24 - 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.
- When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
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 0.1.1.23 - 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 Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
- Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
- 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 Peter
Palfrader).
- 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".
- Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
- If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
- Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
on malicious huge inputs.
o Security fixes, major:
- When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
misreading their logs.
- 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.
Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
- 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.
- Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
. 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.
- Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
- For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
through privoxy.
- Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
each new connection. 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. Now we are.
- Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
- Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
o Security fixes, minor:
- Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
easily.
- Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
- Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
if we've not heard of a server.
- Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
- Refuse server descriptors where 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 that cell.
- 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.
- Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
- 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.
o Packaging improvements:
- Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
- Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
- Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
- On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
"-Wall -g -O2".
- Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
- The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
- Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
target arch.
- Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
- Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
connections.
- Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
- Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
They are useless now.
- Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
is reachable by you.
- Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
Thoenen.
o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
- See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
- Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
- Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
- Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
- Download descriptors by 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.
- Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
- Directory authorities 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.)
- 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 the first set of descriptors.
- When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
are known.
- Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
can answer v2 directory requests too.
- Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
- Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
mirrors still cache and serve it).
- Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
- Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
for clients and for servers.
- Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
- Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
- 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.
- Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
- Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
- If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
o Other directory improvements:
- Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
fifth authoritative directory servers.
- Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
to hang up on them.
- Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
of each server, and only list as running the ones they 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.
- Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
every 20 minutes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
o Controller protocol improvements:
- Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
applications without caring how our protocol works.
- Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
- New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
many bytes we've used in this time period.
- 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. Also
expose guard nodes, config options/names.
- Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
- Add a new signal "newnym" 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. This also occurs on HUP
or "signal reload".
- 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.
- Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
a router in its role as directory authority.
- New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
is enabled.
- 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.
- If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
just tell them to go read their logs.
o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
- Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading 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.
- 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 ever or b) our capacity is low
and we're using a default DirPort.
- 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.
- Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
remove them.
- 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.
- 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.
- Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
- 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
purpose is 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.)
- Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
- Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
- 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.
o Other bugfixes and improvements:
- Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
so we can be backward-compatible.
- If ORPort is set, 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 guess their address.
- Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
initial descriptor forever.
- 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.
- 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 authorities 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.
- Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
- 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.
- When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
- Fix a file descriptor 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.
- Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
- 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.
- 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.
- Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
- Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
- 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.
- Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
want to make it an NT service.
- Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
- We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
- Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
memory leaks better.
- Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
- Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
statistics are now uint64_t's.
- 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.
- Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
- 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.
- Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
and its existence is confusing some users.
o Config option fixes:
- Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
- Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
- Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
- Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
or port.
- 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.
- 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 ignore the 6668.
- 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.
- Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
- Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
will be more likely to learn that it exists.
- Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
- Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
Address config option.
- Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
o Config option features:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
accelerators via OpenSSL. 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.)
- New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
- Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
even if we know they're jerks.
- Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
- 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.
- Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
because older Tors do not understand it.
- Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
o Improved and clearer log messages:
- 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.
- Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
- Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
- Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
temporarily unreachable.
- When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
Windows-style errno back.
- Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
- We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
culling them.
- Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
- We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
exactly for this case.
- Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
don't warn twice about the same name.
- Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
unreachability.
- Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
it was self-testing that told us so.
- If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
- 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?"
- Only start testing reachability once we've established a
circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
- Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
established a circuit.
- Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
- Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We 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.
- Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
- 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."
- Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
- Directory authorities 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.
- When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
- 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.
- 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.
- NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
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 0.1.0.16 - 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.
- One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
- 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 0.1.0.15 - 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 0.1.0.14 - 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 0.1.0.13 - 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 0.1.0.12 - 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 0.1.0.11 - 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 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
o Fixes on Win32:
- Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
- Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
- REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
- Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
file.
- Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
o Assert / crash bugs:
- 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).
- 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.
- Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
o Resource leaks:
- Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. 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.
- Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
threading issues.
- Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
- Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
point at your Tor server.
- Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
Adam Langley.)
- Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
- And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
we're leaking.
o Protocol correctness:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
- Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
o Robustness improvements:
- Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
- Annotate circuits with 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 we 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: keep track of what destination ports
we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. 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).
- 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.
- When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
- 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.
o 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 at least ORPort is reachable (when
DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
- When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
- Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
- Authdirservers don'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.
- Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
or later.
o Dirserver fixes:
- 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).
- 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.
o Efficiency improvements:
- Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
- Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
- 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.
- 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.
- Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
- 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.
- Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
directory every time you regenerate it.
- 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 when you first see them.
o Hidden services:
- Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
hidden services better.
- 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
after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
attempts to build a circuit.
- Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
- Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
normal web requests.
o Controller:
- More Tor controller support. 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.
- Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
to make it easier to write controllers.
- Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
new log event types.
o New config options/defaults:
- Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
- New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
rejecting most low-numbered ports.
- Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
exit policy.
- Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
config option.
- Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
- Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
capacity too.)
- 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.
- Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
- 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.
- 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 from Mike Perry).
- 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.
- Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
servers).
- Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
- New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
private-IP addresses.
- Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
- 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.
- Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
is valid without actually launching Tor.
o Logging improvements:
- When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
- 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.
- 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.
- Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
- Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
- Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
- 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.
- When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
it was.
- 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.
- Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
o New contrib scripts:
- New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
addresses/ports.
- 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
"<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
- New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
- Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
on FreeBSD)
o Misc bugfixes:
- 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.
- 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.
- Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
the socks reject.
- Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
something more reasonable when first installing.
- Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
- When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
get the nodes.
- Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
artificially capped at 500kB.
- Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
addresses.
- If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
- tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
they could use instead.
- Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
- 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.
o Misc features:
- Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
rather than just rejecting it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
- 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.
- Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
for now.
- 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.)
- Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
come later.
- Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
whether the server is hibernating.
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 0.0.9.9 - 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 0.0.9.8 - 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 0.0.9.7 - 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 0.0.9.6 - 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 Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
- Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
write() call will fail and we handle it there.
- When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
- Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
- Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
- Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
- Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
bit platforms.
o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
- Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
win32 socket errors better.
- Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
- win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
- Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
- Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
happier.
- Make unit tests work on win32.
o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
forever.
- 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.
o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
- 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.
- 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.
o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
- Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
- Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
- If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
- When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
- Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
- If do_hup fails, actually notice.
- Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
so we don't see those messages days later.
- Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
bug).
- Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
they ran out of file descriptors.
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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.
- If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
- tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
overflow behavior.
- Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
hey.)
- Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
- Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
o Features (circuits and streams):
- 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.)
- Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
from Geoff Goodell.
- 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.
- Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
- Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
o Features (bandwidth):
- Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
set how many bytes per month (in each direction) 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.
- 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.
o Features (directories):
- New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
nickname to its identity key.
- 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.
- Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
appropriate.
- Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
running-routers.z
- 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.
- Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
o Features (packages and install):
- Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
- Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
- 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.
- Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
- Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
- Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
- Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
is broken.
o Features (ui controller):
- 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.
- Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
configuration to torrc.
- Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
- When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
o Features (config and command-line):
- Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
not on the command line.
- Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
options.
- Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
- Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
- DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
- StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
- DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
- RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
- New log format in config:
"Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
"Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
- DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
from their dirserver.
- "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
and then exit.
- Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
- 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.
- Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
- 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 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
- Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
than once per minute.
o Features (other):
- kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
get back to normal.)
- Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
- Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
- Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
log more informatively.
- Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
servers and clients to have any clock skew.
- Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
from each other, to hinder linkability.
- Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
them act more like real nodes.
- Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
- Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
1024) file descriptors.
- Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
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 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
- Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
- Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
for pointing out this bug.)
- Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
directory.
- 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.
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 "$<fingerprint>".
- We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
- AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
- When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
- 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.
- 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.)
- Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
- Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
- Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just 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)
- Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
should tolerate down dirservers better now.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
- Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
know you might want to get it verified.
- Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
kazaa, gnutella ports.
- Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
- Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
- Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
- 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]".
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 0.0.7.2 - 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 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.
- Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
easily.
- Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
settings too.
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.
- Updated the man page to reflect these features.
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
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.)
- We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
- CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
if you decrypted them correctly.
- Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
- 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.
- Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
- Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
- Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
- Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
just close the circ.
- Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
- Better debugging for tls errors
- Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
- Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
o Bugfixes:
- Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
- 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.
- Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
- Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
- Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
- 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.
o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
o Portability:
- check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
<machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
torrc. (Woo!)
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.
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
o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
but that aren't warnings
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
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